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Hauser: Startups should only use venture debt for proven marketing channels
“My number one takeaway on that is only use it for Things you know are working. Marketing channels you know are working. It's not for testing. It's not for hiring. It's not for growing product. It's none of those things. It is, I know that if I spend a dollar h…”
Hauser: Scaling past $10M revenue requires transitioning to autonomous thinkers
“So from one to ten million dollars in revenue, you can have a lot of doers on the team, which means, hey, do this, come back, do this, come back. To get from 10 to 20, you need a lot of thinkers, which is people that come to you and say, David, Here's what I'm…”
Hauser: Market trajectory matters far more than total addressable market size
“Addressable market is really one that's interesting to me because a lot of people think about size of addressable market. And I think quite honestly, that doesn't matter for most of us in the room, right? Unless you're doing hundreds of millions of dollars, th…”
Hauser: Maximize acquisition value by leaving unoptimized growth for the buyer
“Leave some meat on the bone. If you want to get the most value for the company, you don't want to have optimized the shit out of everything, right? Because then the acquirer is like, well, I can't really do much with it. And the only acquirers that are left th…”
Hauser: Top-line synergies drive the highest M&A valuation multiples
“The least valuable from an acquisition standpoint is cost savings. Right. I buy this company. I get cost savings, least valuable. The next kind of down that line is I buy this company to speed up my market development. And then the most valuable is I increase …”
Hauser: Small acquisitions are riskier because high revenue cushions operational mistakes
“So revenue, the higher the revenue, more importantly, and it's not just because it's the number, it's because it gives us cushion, right? It means if we make mistakes after we acquire things, we have more chances to make another mistake to correct it or kind o…”
Hauser: Radio advertising drives customer orders for weeks after campaigns end
“The most important thing to understand is the way radio advertising works and why it's successful is because of the long tail. So when you run ads, when you stop running ads, For three to six weeks after you stop running ads, you still get orders in the DMAs t…”