by Adre's IT | 28 August, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, downtime, electric mobility, Jessica Jackley, startup prices, Startups
When investors look at a startup slide deck, they are looking for something very specific. Yes, they want to know if the team is great and the market is huge and the problem is worth solving and the solution makes sense. Of course. But another thing they are looking...
by Adre's IT | 26 August, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, Apps, orba 2, pharmacy, startup prices, Startups, subsea cable
On-demand grocery delivery giant Instacart has finally dropped its much anticipated S-1. The company, actually named MapleBear, is one of the best-known unicorns on the IPO shortlist. Instacart’s public-offering filing has been long awaited due to not only its...
by Adre's IT | 21 August, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, Bezos Expeditions, Brit Morin, Market Share, real estate agents, startup prices, Startups, Venture Capital
Venture capital is the business of hitting home runs. But must a startup have the potential to capture the vast majority of market share in its category to earn an investment? I don’t think so. A few weeks ago, the co-founder and CEO of Thumbtack, Marco...
by Adre's IT | 18 August, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, artificial intelligence, Asana, One America News Network, startup prices
I recently wrote about DeckMatch’s $1 million seed round. Given that the tool evaluates pitch decks, it’s only fair that I offered to evaluate its pitch deck, too. The founders saw the irony in that and offered its pitch deck as a sacrifice to the teardown...
by Adre's IT | 18 August, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, Aris Xenofontos, DNA testing, expectful, Jeff Richards, mark goldberg, real estate agents, rogue vc, startup prices, Startups, Theresia Gouw
At the height of the funding boom in 2021, no single sector enjoyed as much VC money as fintech startups did. But in 2023, it appears that fintech companies have to work harder to get funding. Global funding in the space hit a six-year low in the second quarter,...
by Adre's IT | 17 August, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, devops, real estate agents, startup prices, Startups
Venture capitalists look at businesses from many angles. Is the market big enough? Do the founders have good founder-market fit? Is the problem worth solving, does the solution make sense, and is the product a half-decent implementation of the solution? The diligence...
