I'm interested in the topic in two different hats - as a manager in a VC-backed late-stage startup, and as someone who will start one someday.
The info about founder teams and background was especially interesting to read - age, team size, academic knowledge, and so on. Expertise distribution inside the team is also very interesting - for example, whether it's only-developer teams who are successful, or in most cases there is also an founder with different background - product/sales/marketing.
This information is interesting also in the context of industries - I'm sure that in the tools-for-developers or Cyber industries the founding teams are very developer-oriented.
Hiring is also interesting - the expertise of the first employees, and the timing of hiring. Is it based only on Capital raised, or also on revenue increases? Is the revenue-per-employee metric an indication for success?
Salaries for founders / first employees - how critical it is to have competitive salaries versus equity? Do founders who start to pay themselves hefty salaries after the seed/A rounds have more chance to success, as they are less 'desperate', or the other way around?
I would also be interested in data about the VCs themselves - do general VCs have higher returns, or do specific-industry VCs (or funds) perform better, due to higher expertise? I'm not sure how much of that data is publicly available though.
Continuing the theme of industries, I'm curious to know which industries have higher success-rates and returns, and which are more 'stable' (may be it's the same industries?). I'm working in AgTech, which is notorously hard to penetrate, and I wonder if climateTech startups have lower chance of success, but also higher chance to survive in years like 2023-4, as the 'mission' can increase the chance for goverement funds (or kind-hearted VCs 🙃).
Definitely enjoyed it! Waiting for synthesize #1 :)
Working on it. Any particular startup topics top of mind where you'd appreciate a deep data-driven resource surfacing all available research?
I'm interested in the topic in two different hats - as a manager in a VC-backed late-stage startup, and as someone who will start one someday.
The info about founder teams and background was especially interesting to read - age, team size, academic knowledge, and so on. Expertise distribution inside the team is also very interesting - for example, whether it's only-developer teams who are successful, or in most cases there is also an founder with different background - product/sales/marketing.
This information is interesting also in the context of industries - I'm sure that in the tools-for-developers or Cyber industries the founding teams are very developer-oriented.
Hiring is also interesting - the expertise of the first employees, and the timing of hiring. Is it based only on Capital raised, or also on revenue increases? Is the revenue-per-employee metric an indication for success?
Salaries for founders / first employees - how critical it is to have competitive salaries versus equity? Do founders who start to pay themselves hefty salaries after the seed/A rounds have more chance to success, as they are less 'desperate', or the other way around?
I would also be interested in data about the VCs themselves - do general VCs have higher returns, or do specific-industry VCs (or funds) perform better, due to higher expertise? I'm not sure how much of that data is publicly available though.
Continuing the theme of industries, I'm curious to know which industries have higher success-rates and returns, and which are more 'stable' (may be it's the same industries?). I'm working in AgTech, which is notorously hard to penetrate, and I wonder if climateTech startups have lower chance of success, but also higher chance to survive in years like 2023-4, as the 'mission' can increase the chance for goverement funds (or kind-hearted VCs 🙃).
That's what comes to mind right now
Fantastischer Content!! Danke dafür
Key Takeaway boxes are a super valuable add on!