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The Post Money Value: More favorite VC phrases
Topic: Miscellaneous 7:42 am EST, Nov  4, 2007

Come back when you've got some traction.

Yeah, this makes sense, eh? As soon as I remove all risk, I'll put on my extra large knee pads and pucker up. Okay, a bit graphic, ignore the visual in your head right now. The real point I'm making is you should never put yourself in a position where you hear this. If you go to a firm which doesn't do seed/early stage, you will get something that is close to this phrase. The VC shouldn't have taken the meeting in the first place but since they did, you should at least know and all agree it is a conversation to establish a dialog for a future transaction when the company is more mature and looking for growth/expansion capital. If you are seed/early stage VC and you say this to an early stage/seed company, uh, please don't.

With the exception of a very small group of individuals you probably don't know (who want to start companies in specific areas and then take such an active role in funding companies they are basically founders as well as angels), or if you are out of Georgia Tech's Venture Labs, or if you are lucky enough to be one of a couple companies a year funded by the angel local groups... this is the only thing you will ever hear in Atlanta while seeking funding for your startup.

There is no such thing as pre-revenue funding in this town. Accept it and adjust, or move.

Period.

One of the guys who led one of the round tables at the ATDC one week said the key to getting investment was to build your business to $1 million a year in revenue, and then someone would find you. I thought he was a major dick. But he was just telling the blunt truth.

If you are a business seeking funding in Georgia, you need to generate $1 million in revenue to do so.

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