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Latka: VCs promote 12-month CAC payback to force startup dependency
“You'll anything that a VC touches or like tech crunch, which they basically use to lobby, they'll articulate and say, yeah, you want a 12 month payback period. Why? Well, if you don't focus on getting your money back instantly, guess whose money you then need …”
ThriveCart's Acquirer Publicly Announced the $35M Buyout as a Funding Round
“A thirty-five million dollar transaction the fund that acquired it, raised money, acquired Thrivecart as part of the deal, announced as a raise.”
Hunt: TechCrunch only covers startups with large funding or novel tech
“Getting written about on TechCrunch doesn't happen unless you have like a lot of investment or you have some really exciting new technology.”
FounderPath saw 80x demand spikes in an hour after media appearances
“Every time we would, you know, we'd have, like, Nathan would be on TV, or, like, he would get, like, a TechCrunch article, and all of a sudden we would have, like, 80 times the demand for one hour that we had before”
Hurt: Data.world has over 2.1 million free community contributors
“Those are people contributing to the learning model.
That's just dated because that's an old TechCrunch article.
But yeah, that's now over 2.1 million.”
Lemkin: TechCrunch profile drove 20% of EchoSign's first-year customers
“I mean, I got him to profile Adobe sign echo sign the day we launched, and that's still probably got us. 20% of our customers our first year.”