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Pipe is in the business of creating Business-Funding Fit. Its skills -- pulling in companies’ financial data via APIs, assigning ratings based on that data, attracting investors, providing liquidity, and managing seamless ongoing financial transactions -- will be extensible to many more subscription-based business models over time.
Packy McCormick • Pipe: Business-Funding Fit
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Making it free instead of $3.99.
Martina Lauchengco • Loved: How to Rethink Marketing for Tech Products (Silicon Valley Product Group)

One thing that seems to have been forgotten over the past few years: venture capital isn’t a fit for every company. It’s not a fit for *most* companies.
Venture is structurally built for the moonshots. The asset class is predicated on the power law, on high loss ratios, on what… Show more
PEHub’s PE Week Wire and Dan Primack’s Term Sheet are great ways to get tipped on when VC firms are raising new funds.
John Gannon • Road to a Venture Capital Career: Practical Strategies and Tips to Break Into The Industry
“That’s a post-money valuation of one hundred fifty to one hundred seventy-five million, depending on how much we raise.” I was worried that this price was unrealistic, and that the offering might not fly when it hit the street. “I just can’t see how our business plan supports that valuation,” I said. “It’s enough to make a sane investor toss his c
... See moreJerry Kaplan • Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure
