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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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broad definition, but the the the rounds we join are usually a 3 to $45,000,000 round at a 20 something valuation. There's, of course, lots of bars around that. But that usually means the company has a product, five to 10 customers POCs that's going
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...the startup realm going through companies that are, you know, all the way up through I don't know. We just had, a company on that raised another $300,000,000 series d. But, like, how long until you're ready for the the oldest companies? And then broa
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...a startup company is hard, and anything you can do to put the odds slightly in your favor makes your odds of success that much more likely. There are certain founders who are good at fundraising, certain founders who are not good at fundraising. The
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startups companies solves the whole market timing issue. I love that in terms of the phrasing, the shifting of, like, favor for them, not favor for you. How many of those conversations do you have before you find a discernible pattern which you're wi
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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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that's been through that journey before, that understands the process of obtaining product market fit, that understands you have to go in and land small and then expand in accounts and and things of that nature. In terms of the actual hiring process
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external facing messaging, especially as we start spinning up the equity education part of our business again, we're gonna have the ability to write a lot more content and spend our expertise and time editing it as opposed to writing it from scratch,
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So kind of don't be scared of of a small market just to start. Let's talk about that. TAM not big enough. There is a very simple way to address that when talking to investors. And remember, you're building your business. You're not building a perform
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fit first, product first, fundraising second. I think it's an a fine way to put it. Yeah, Will? I think there's you've you've 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, whe
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why are they using it and getting very clear on your ICP. And the value that the product is giving to customers, the more you can expose there. And I think then there's more opportunity to, like, okay. I see this level of excitement in founders that,
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...your startup. Twist listeners can get a thousand dollars off Circle's professional plan by going to circle.so/twist. That's circle.so/twist. What stage do you invest in typically? So currently, we typically start from pre a or a kind of stage. Okay.
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in the later stages just to fix an intuition on why that is. Series a is usually your first scaling round. You don't have a lot of employees, but also nobody's leaving. Series f plus, those are the companies that are more likely to have proper second
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The common advice is actually it's too early. Do one well. Understand the customer type. The product type is very different. How do you do both from the very earliest days? So I will say that for an early stage business, just finding its footing, dev
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...at different phases. Like, I think, you know, again, like, the early early stage, it's more about the micro, about the product and and and, distribution. Then there's sort of this continuum. So, like, then it's about, like, your business model, and m
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