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Post by codegeek »

user_7832 wrote: post #76
codegeek wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The thing with Funding is that you shouldn't really need it but it's more of a fuel when there already is fire (aka PMF). Once you have the fire (most people fail to get to this point anyway), then you decide if fueling that fire with VC dollars make sense or not for your goals. The problem is that lot of entrepreneur need funding to even start because they don't have enough resources to start something (may be they…

Thank you, that makes sense. Btw is PMF = product market fit in this context? > They fund because you are able to convince them somehow that you are building a unicorn. I'm admittedly very naïve about this, but do they really expect this all the time? (Especially in physical and non-digital markets?) If you have a healthy growth and projection but no plans to say exceed 100M are you limited by how many VCs are intere…

"do they really expect this all the time"

This is an interesting question. I don't know if they believe but they def want to believe because without unicorns, they won't survive as most startups fail or have mediocre returns which is not enough for VCs to justify to their own investors/LPs.

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Post by jagged-chisel »

theyinwhy wrote: post #88

Founders keep playing the investor's game with investors when they should play the founder's game with investors.

It’s about the power dynamics. Who comes calling first? The founder, needing money, or the investor wanting to invest?

The first caller wants something. The other has it. The founder can only play that game if the investor calls first.

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Post by its-summertime »

Solvency wrote: post #87
urbandw311er wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This seems like a rather pedantic objection in my opinion. “Simulation” here likely refers to a potential scenario such as a raise or an exit, or even an entire hypothetical venture.

Not really pedantic to me. Am I the only one here old enough to remember "Drug Wars" on the Ti calculators? That was an actual sim game. This is not that.

https://www.geekhideout.com/druglord2.shtml "modern" version.

I feel many would object to "simulator" being applied to something that doesn't represent a pre-existing thing with any faithfulness, however.

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Post by pfista »

risenshinetech wrote: post #70

This is a calculator, not a simulator. What exactly are you simulating? This takes a number of fixed inputs and produces a fixed output over some very coarse, manually controlled time steps. It's like saying using a calculator to add up the last few months of income/expenses is a "financial simulator".

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Post by madacol »

risenshinetech wrote: post #70

This is a calculator, not a simulator. What exactly are you simulating? This takes a number of fixed inputs and produces a fixed output over some very coarse, manually controlled time steps. It's like saying using a calculator to add up the last few months of income/expenses is a "financial simulator".

I disagree, The UI feels more like a simulation, you have an initial position (100% equity) and you start adding events sequentially, and you can see the partial results after each event that you have added.

Sure, you could have done the same thing in a spreadsheet, but I think the UI is what differentiates a simulation from a calculator

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Post by LeonB »

risenshinetech wrote: post #70

This is a calculator, not a simulator. What exactly are you simulating? This takes a number of fixed inputs and produces a fixed output over some very coarse, manually controlled time steps. It's like saying using a calculator to add up the last few months of income/expenses is a "financial simulator".

It is both!

Yes there are some common simulator features that it doesn’t have (there’s no ‘prediction’ or randomness involved) but that doesn’t mean it’s not in the category of simulation.

It helps simulate, or model, specific scenarios. Lawyering about words is unwarranted.

“All models are wrong some models are useful.” This is a very primitive model but from the comments here I can see that some people find it useful, so that’s a win.

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