Sun.Dec 08, 2019

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Why would an investor invest in a pre-revenue company?

SaaStr

Q: Why would an investor invest in a pre-revenue company? This is an important question to understand. If you don’t understand it, it’s hard to understand how early-stage venture capital works. If you are a start-up investor, in a perfect world, you would wait. As long as you could. To get more data, more information, more traction. To see if the team can really do it.

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What’s hot for Cisco in 2020

IT World

As the industry gets ready to gear up for 2020 things have been a little disquieting in networking land. That’s because some key players – Arista and Juniper in particular – have been reporting business slowdowns as new deals have been smaller than expected and cloud providers haven’t been as free-spending as in the past. [Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters.].