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...startups because they're bound by the rules of p and l. New startups represent very little in the form of new revenue for incumbents, but they cost money to serve in terms of marketing spend or sales or building out a new product. As a new startup yo
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...early stage, the founding stages of these companies. And the next is selling a product. Oftentimes, v one of these products are like these half assed, broken, glitchy things that no one would pay for, but these founders are able to go out and find in
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about each of those cities, and what founders in year zero are most often asking you about as mentors in our program? Well, I think the experience in Saudi and here is the entrepreneurial spirit is is invigorating and kind of reminds me of being back
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Anytime, but as early as possible. So one of the things you won't be surprised by this, we're pretty obsessed with our entire portfolio, so we have an ongoing sort of entire portfolio going on in the background. Two years in, when we reviewed it, the
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...more free for early stage startups because they shouldn't have an extra, spending because they, know, they don't have too much money. Now even though our sweet spot is the c to series a, that growth phase, scalable phase, you know, we have, series b,
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...stage. Okay. So seed and series a? Pre a kind of. Oh, okay. Yeah. So we would like to see a team and a product. You don't have to have a massive traction, but enough traction so that we can get a glimpse of
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...very early stages of a company formation. For that first group where someone has worked at well known company, the general thesis is usually that, hey. I worked at Airbnb, and I think Airbnb will be a big startup factory going forward, and therefore,
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...it is too early, we have all the systems to nurture and monitor them
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...got to stage it, and it depends on your life situation whether or not you can, you have a lot of the time and, you know, whether you've got some savings. But I think there's a lot that you can do before you start spending a lot of money or certainly
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...capital early. They're going, you know, into accelerators. There's a a 16 has a speed run accelerator. So, like, two or three of our founders from the launch accelerator, I think, have gotten admitted to that. Sequoia has the ARC program. Our friends
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...use startups as their first customers, because startups will actually use the product. Whereas, if you go after the big enterprise clients, they take a long time to sell, they're gonna need SOC two, you know, so you're gonna need to get in touch with
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...between early stage seed investing and kind of what we're pursuing here. Founders, when you're building a tech startup, your domain should signal that from day one. That's why hundreds of thousands of startups are choosing dot tech domains. Whether y
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with technology that works in production, where few of those customers already paid few $100,000 for the solution. And that's the point we go and and raise series a. To get to that point, it takes about $5,000,000. So it's not bad that you have $7,00
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...maybe startups have outgrown a simple solution that they have in place like moving from QuickBooks to NetSuite. And AI companies like Rillit are doing exactly this. You also don't have to be constrained by the existing categories of enterprise softwa
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...stage, I I don't think about markets, and I don't think about market timing, and I don't think about all of that. I make a very simple decision. Do we like to partner with those individuals? Do we like to be their partners? The way at CyberStart we d
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...on a school stage or turning in a blockbuster science fair exhibit and think, I should invest in that kid. I should pay for his baseball glove or her acting lessons in exchange for future revenue. That's a pretty good analogy for what Alice Banting d
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...tend to come to us a little bit later. So they've gone a little bit further into a bit of their product and they say, okay, now we want to see how we're going to monetize this. And actually, it is important to engage as early as possible because the
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