Learn more about moneyandinvestments with this collection
The impact of opportunity cost on personal and professional life
Evaluating the benefits and drawbacks of different choices
Understanding the concept of opportunity cost
PRE-SEED
A typical pre-seed round sees a founding team (often pre-product) receive a small investment to hit one or more of the milestones they’ll need to ready themselves for “true” seed investment: from hiring a critical team member to developing a prototype product.
Led by many of the same investors that lead seed rounds, pre-seed financing is often used to bridge the gap to the next round.
45
243 reads
MORE IDEAS ON THIS
SERIES B
In Series B, investors are looking for the next stage of growth: the ability to take everything you’ve learned, and make it work at scale.
In practical terms, Series B investment might allow a startup to make expansive hires (across business development, strategic accounts,...
43
161 reads
SERIES C+
Series C rounds are raised to fuel large-scale expansion, like moving into a new market (commonly international expansion), or to fuel acquisitions of other businesses.
After Series C, there’s theoretically no limit to the number of investment rounds a star...
43
151 reads
SEED
Capital from a seed round often fuels a startup’s move beyond its founding team, funds product development, and in some cases, even facilitates early revenue generation.
Wrapped-up within seed investment are expectations that strong signs of Product/Market Fit and some degr...
45
204 reads
SERIES A
Revenue growth is the name of the game in Series A. By this point, a startup is expected to have clear and growing evidence of Product/Market Fit, translating into significant revenue growth from new customers and increasing ARPA (Average Revenue per Account).
Angels (often...
43
186 reads
Why modern-day investment looks the way it does
- INVESTMENT HAS INCREASED MASSIVELY: the overall growth trend for fundraising is hugely positive:
- IF THERE’S A BUBBLE, IT HASN’T BURST: The escalation of company valuations and ever-increasing round sizes has led many to speculate about an investment ...
46
314 reads
CURATED FROM
CURATED BY
Read & Learn
20x Faster
without
deepstash
with
deepstash
with
deepstash
Access to 200,000+ ideas
—
Access to the mobile app
—
Unlimited idea saving & library
—
—
Unlimited history
—
—
Unlimited listening to ideas
—
—
Downloading & offline access
—
—
Personalized recommendations
—
—
Supercharge your mind with one idea per day
Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.
I agree to receive email updates