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Startup Financing: The Investor vs. Founder Gap

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Featuring Howard HartenbaumWatch the full video
The takeaway

Venture Capital is a specialized asset class that only fits a tiny percentage of startups—those with the potential for billion-dollar valuations and immense scale. Founders must treat fundraising as a matching exercise of incentives rather than a validation of their business's existence.

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