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𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟖 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐩𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐰? 🚀 Out of 𝟒,𝟑𝟔𝟗 startups that sought VC funding in 2018 (Carta data): ✅ 56.4% raised a seed round ✅ 36.4% made it to Series A ✅ 14.8% reached Series B ✅ 4.4% got to Series C ✅ 1.1% advanced beyond Series D 🔹 Only 0.34% went public 🔹 5.5% were acquired 🔹 1.3% are private unicorns 🔹 32.2% are still running 🔹 61.9% have shut down Startups are a tough game—we KAARIA respect to the founders still pushing forward! 🙌 ✅ 👉 Are you fundraising? 📊 🏦 📈 𝐆𝐞𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐭 𝐧𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐭! https://app.kaaria.ai/ Pitch better and get funded 🤝 with a valuation Try KAARIA 🚀 Credit, kudos & thanks to Peter Walker over Carta #startups #founders #venturecapital #venturefunnel

Ben Horowitz on the 𝐛𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 make when pitching VCs: "𝐓𝐫𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐕𝐂𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐮𝐬 𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐳𝐲—𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢-𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞." Stay true to your vision. Investors back conviction, not just persuasion. 🚀 ✅ 👉 Are you fundraising? 📊 🏦 📈 𝐆𝐞𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐭 𝐧𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐭! https://app.kaaria.ai/ Pitch better and get funded 🤝  with a valuation Try KAARIA 🚀 #Startups #VentureCapital #StartupValuation

🚀 The 3 Fits That Make or Break a Startup 🚀 Founder-market fit. Message-market fit. Product-market fit. Nail these, and your startup thrives. Miss them, and even the best ideas struggle. Too many founders focus only on the product—forgetting that belief, communication, and customer obsession are just as critical. Are you the right person for this problem? Can you make people instantly get it? Do customers truly need what you built? 👇 #Startups #ProductMarketFit #Growth

What the LEGO Group Mastered in 1974 - Brands Still Struggle With Today Back in the '70s, LEGO included a simple note inside their boxes—not about the product, but about imagination. Instead of telling kids what to build, they told parents: 𝒍𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒆. Here’s why this approach was genius and what brands can still learn from it today: 1️⃣ They understood their real audience. LEGO wasn’t selling to kids—they were selling to parents. And they spoke directly to them. 2️⃣ They built an emotional connection. Rather than focusing on the product, they emphasized creativity, independence, and play—values that truly matter to parents. 3️⃣ They kept it simple. No marketing fluff. No flashy ads. Just a clear, compelling message that resonated. 50 years later, brands still overcomplicate things. LEGO got it right by being human, emotional, and simple—and that’s why they remain one of the world’s most beloved brands today. At KAARIA, we make 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐞 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞 because we want to 𝒍𝒆𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒆. W𝐞 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚-𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲, so they can 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐞. ✅ 👉 Start your free valuation now: https://app.kaaria.ai/ 🚀.

AI Startups: What's Good, Better, and Best for Investors When evaluating AI startups, a structured framework is essential to identify winners. Bessemer Venture Partners outlines the critical pillars of Value and Defensibility to determine whether a startup is "Good," "Better," or "Best." Here's the breakdown: 🔹 Good: These startups introduce a feature that demos well and delivers a productivity boost, competing with SaaS incumbents or weak AI upstarts,  leveraging speed of execution as your edge. 🔹 Better: Companies in this tier tackle core business workflows, showing hard ROI and driving operational cost reductions (OpEx). They outpace adjacent competitors or disrupt sleepy incumbents with early or weak data moats. 🔹 Best: The highest tier leverages LLM magic to transform entire workflows, enabling breakthroughs that were impossible without LLMs. They create significant revenue or productivity gains for high-value tasks and operate in markets with no legitimate modern incumbents, often securing their position with strong data moats or best-in-class multimodality. 🌟 Takeaway: The most investable AI startups don’t just solve problems—they redefine what’s possible, defend their territory with robust data, and thrive where competitors can't. If you're an AI founder, consider where your startup fits within this framework. Are you solving the right problem? Is your competitive moat strong enough? These are the benchmarks shaping the future of AI investment. 🚀 If you need a valuation for yuor AI startup be sure to get a free trial of KAARIA at https://app.kaaria.ai/. 🚀 #AIStartups #VentureCapital #Innovation #InvestmentFramework #AIRevolutio Thanks to Bessemer Venture Partners for the IF for AI Statups

Dear Founder Building Your Dream Product, I saw you minimize that sales email to work on your UI. We need to talk. Remember when you were 6 and spent hours making the perfect lemonade stand? Premium lemons. Artisanal sugar. Hand-painted signs. Then your neighbor's kid made $50 with Kool-Aid and a cardboard box. That's literally your startup right now. Let me introduce you to the "Cockroach Theory of Startups": The uglier it starts, the longer it lives. Here's a dirty secret: Uber started as "tap a button, get a ride." No maps. No ratings. No surge pricing. Just some guy named Travis with a few car drivers on speed dial. Now he's a billionaire, and you're debating hex codes for your login button. Let's get psychological for a moment. You're not "perfecting the product." You're hiding. Building features is safe. Talking to customers is scary. Code doesn't reject you. Prospects do. I know because I was you many years ago. I spent three months making my first startup's app pixel-perfect. Meanwhile, my competitor made $100K with a Google Sheet and a Gmail account. The Most Valuable Startup Metric Nobody Talks About: It's called the "Embarrassment Quotient." The more embarrassed you are by your first version, the more likely you are to succeed. Think about it: - Reddit looked like a geocities site - Amazon was just a list of books - Facebook was basically "Hot or Not" for Harvard Your product isn't your baby. It's a brick. Throw it through enough windows (metaphorically, please), and eventually someone will pay you to solve their problem. Launch your startup backward: 1. Get paid first 2. Build later 3. Feel deeply uncomfortable throughout the entire process Here's a challenge: 1. Take your current product. 2. Delete half the features. 3. Double the price. 4. Launch tomorrow. "But what about..." - Quality? McDonalds makes billions - User experience? Have you used Craigslist? - Competition? They're probably overbuilding too Want to know if your product is ready to launch? Ask yourself: "Would I be mortified if this went viral?" If the answer is no, you've waited too long. Remember: Every unicorn startup started as a donkey with a party hat. Your job isn't to build the unicorn. It's to find someone willing to pay for the donkey. The perfect product is like the perfect relationship - it doesn't exist. But unlike relationships, in startups, you can start ugly and get prettier once you're rich. So here's what you're going to do: 1. Save that feature for later 2. Close your laptop 3. Call a customer 4. Take their money 5. Figure out the rest tomorrow Because let's be honest: Would you rather be the founder with the perfect product and empty bank account, or the one with the ugly baby and yacht? Choose wisely. The world needs fewer perfect products and more profitable companies. P.S. If you're reading this while coding, you've missed the entire point. Go sell something. What did you work on today? Drop a comment.

90% of startups fail. (Venture Studios even the odds) Common reasons include: - No product-market fit - Running out of cash - Weak founding teams - Scaling too soon - Poor execution But this is where Venture Studios are rewriting the rules. What makes them different? 1. Built-in expertise Venture studios bring in seasoned operators who’ve built and scaled before. 2. Shared resources From legal to HR to marketing — everything is ready to go. 3. Data-driven validation Ideas are pressure-tested before they hit the market. 4. Founder support Founders aren’t starting alone. They’re co-building with experts. 5. Reduced risk Failures are anticipated early, minimizing time and financial loss. Thanks Credit & Kudos to Matthew Burris

Here's 7 ways for you to better understand your audience: (1) Surveys to collect scalable insights. (2) Competitor Analysis to identify gaps and opportunities. (3) Social Listening to stay aligned with trends. (4) Search Trends to uncover hidden needs. (5) App/Web Data to map the customer journey. (6) CRM Analysis to segment and track engagement. (7) Customer Interviews for empathy and deep understanding. I've ranked them from surface level source to generators of DEEP insights. After 15 years of design thinking work, I can CONFIDENTLY tell you, NOTHING can beat customer interviews. Deep empathy moments where you talk to customers in the discovery phase to uncover gems. So do yourself a favor, and schedule 3 empathy sessions with customers today. (And tell them Majd says hi). This will reward you tenfold in: 👉 A better product roadmap. 👉 A better acquisition strategy. 👉 A better positioning and messaging approach. Thanks, credit and kudos to Majd Alaily

Harsh truth: You won't hit PMF as a founder. Unless you deal with these 7 traps. Here's how. By ⚡️⚡️Harvey Lee & Majd Alaily There's ONE thing EVERY founder obsesses about: PMF. When I was building ستوديو الفنكوش in 2021, trying to drink from the proverbial startup "firehose" Every resource I went through zeroed in on ONE concept: "Have you hit PMF?" PMF orchestrated the entire lifecycle of a startup. Having now worked with 20+ ventures, I can tell you confidently, There are MANY reasons you won't hit PMF. Well actually... 7. Harvey & I sat down to flesh these out, to help you overcome them in our guide below. So ask yourself: 🔹 Are you targeting the right audience? 🔹 Are you addressing a critical enough need? 🔹 Is your positioning strong enough to win customers? 🔹 Do you understand the customer journey? 🔹 Are you measuring what matters? 🔹 Are you paying attention (& adapting) to market shifts? 🔹 Are your teams working well together? Run this crucial diagnosis today, and make SURE you address these blindspots. Not hitting PMF can make or break a product, your entire investment strategy, and any form of go-to-market plan. So friendly advice friends, don't sleep on this. What's the biggest PMF trap in your experience?

Jeff Bezos on US Etrepreneural Success The difference in risk capital between the US and Europe has historically influenced startup success. However, as foreign investment in Europe grows, European startups have more opportunities to secure funding—provided they showcase global scalability and ambition. Taking calculated risks and focusing on market expansion are critical for replicating the US success model. Takeaways ✅ Risk Capital in the US vs. Europe: 👉 The US stands out for its high-risk appetite in venture capital (VC), where investors are willing to bet millions even with a low success probability (e.g., 10%). 👉 This risk tolerance has been instrumental in the rise of tech giants like Amazon, Google, and Meta. ✅ European Landscape: 👉 European startups traditionally face more conservative investment environments, but this is shifting as foreign investors increasingly recognize their potential. Successful European startups like Revolut and Wise demonstrate the importance of capturing global markets. 👉 Global Expansion as a Strategy: European startups looking to attract risk capital must demonstrate their ability to scale and dominate markets beyond their home region. Expanding to neighboring regions and entering the US market are pivotal steps toward unicorn status. ✅ Takeaways 👉 Risk Capital Drives Innovation: High-risk investment strategies enable startups to achieve exponential growth. 👉 Global Scalability is Key: To attract significant funding, startups must prove they can capture markets beyond their home region. 👉 Opportunities in Europe: Foreign investors are increasingly looking to Europe for high-potential startups, creating new opportunities. Action Items ✅ Action Items 👉 For European Startups: Develop a clear strategy for scaling into global markets, including the US. Highlight scalability and international market potential in investor pitches. 👉For Investors: Explore European markets for startups with strong global growth potential. Encourage calculated risk-taking to unlock innovation and growth. 👉 For Ecosystem Builders: Foster programs and partnerships that help European startups expand internationally. Promote risk-taking and resilience as part of the entrepreneurial culture. ✅ 👉 Fundraising? Try KAARIA 🚀 Industry-leading valuation methodologies. 🚀 Reliable market data with PitchBook 🚀 Simple & transparent startup valuation 🚀 Accessible for founders and investors 🚀 Free Trial available here: https://lnkd.in/gvwD7SrF #Startups #VentureCapital #RiskCapital #USvsEurope #StartupGrowth #GlobalScalability #TechInnovation #EuropeanStartups #Unicorns #Entrepreneurship #ForeignInvestment #MarketExpansion