Tech for Business so 2019, Tech As Business is for 2020!
Investor cares about the Top Line (Revenue) and the bottom line (CAC; LTV; Profits if any) Together they define the fate of the product, its cost of capital, and valuation. The relationship between an investor and your company's CEO can be seen as the relationship between Tom and Jerry. Although they often fight, they always get together at the end and turn up for the next episode. Trust and Respect All jokes aside, the relationship between the investors and the CEO is driven by an ability to have mutual best interest, validated by trust and respect in their own domains. Need for Valuation leads a CEO to return to the investors with a User base, representing certain cash flow, an estimate of the growth potential given the risks to be undertaken, and finally, capital estimates of funding required to run the business. In a pre IPO stage startup, starting from the valley of death where bootstrapping and Jugaad are the modus operandi, once the business shows signs of breaking even, i...