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11 Signs To Predict If a Venture Investment Will or Won’t Work Out

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My learnings: What Works — That You Might Think Wouldn’t Work: High employee/VP churn. 5+ cofounders can work (I think of that as too many cooks, but now I see it can work). Some of my best investments had zero revenue the first 2 years or even longer. Cofounder conflict. Great CEO But Mediocre CTO.

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

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Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big!