After reading a deck or hearing a pitch, can you easily articulate who their perfect customer is and how they’d interact with the company’s product/service in a perfect manner?
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After reading a deck or hearing a pitch, can you easily articulate who their perfect customer is and how they’d interact with the company’s product/service in a perfect manner?
VCs back businesses that have yet to be fully de-risked so learning matters. If the assumptions around the key drivers of a business prove to be true then an investment should produce great returns.
Why this matters: The more a company can learn between capital raises the better the investment opportunity.
Great investments typically ride external waves of innovation/emerging mega trends. The best investments appear to have timed their launches perfectly.
Financial models can be very complex and are chock full of assumptions, but back of the envelop math can cut through the clutter and help you understand what you’re being asked to believe.
Spending time with the leadership team of a startup (especially the Founders) helps you get a sense of who they are. Remember: Yellow flags during diligence will often turn into red flags post investment.
Every startup has to overcome obstacles on their journey so it’s important to find signs that they know how to accomplish challenging tasks.
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Viruses and other pathogens are often studied as stand-alone entities, despite that, in nature, they mostly live in multispecies associations called biofilms—both externally and within the host.
https://t.co/FBfXhUrH5d
Microorganisms in biofilms are enclosed by an extracellular matrix that confers protection and improves survival. Previous studies have shown that viruses can secondarily colonize preexisting biofilms, and viral biofilms have also been described.
...we raise the perspective that CoVs can persistently infect bats due to their association with biofilm structures. This phenomenon potentially provides an optimal environment for nonpathogenic & well-adapted viruses to interact with the host, as well as for viral recombination.
Biofilms can also enhance virion viability in extracellular environments, such as on fomites and in aquatic sediments, allowing viral persistence and dissemination.
