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It’s Time to Raise Your Debt Facility: Execution Tactics for Founders

Andreessen Horowitz

However, if a company has backing from a venture capital firm, we would recommend that they meet with their venture firms first to review the firm’s existing relationships and/or to get recommendations for lenders based on the company’s stage and preference. For corporate debt, normal venture counsel (e.g.,

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The Funnel is Dead. Long Live the Flywheel. With Hubspot CEO Brian Halligan (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We were both in business school, and my aha was I was spending some time at a local venture capital firm helping with them just thinking about how do we grow these companies, saying, “What’s the plan? Then we both became savvy to this idea of market segmentation. I had an aha and Dharmesh had an aha.

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The Funnel is Dead. Long Live the Flywheel. With Hubspot CEO Brian Halligan (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We were both in business school, and my aha was I was spending some time at a local venture capital firm helping with them just thinking about how do we grow these companies, saying, “What’s the plan? Then we both became savvy to this idea of market segmentation. I had an aha and Dharmesh had an aha.

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