After dominating the news over the last year, SPAC IPOs have cooled off recently. Many companies that went public through the SPAC process have since performed poorly. PIPE money, required additional capital for SPAC IPO, has dried out. SEC has added rules and compliance measures complicating the SPAC process. There is still $100B of SPAC …
The prevailing myth is that deep tech startups need loads of capital and require a long time horizon to create value. Yes, there are some deep tech startups that are building new market categories requiring patient long-term capital. But most of the deep tech startups run into capital and time issues because they don’t address …
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Product-Market fit is now a well understood term in startups. Will the dog eat the dog-food is a question that startup founders ask early and often. Companies today have several templates to assess product market fit. Technology-Market fit, whether a technology meets the performance and cost requirements to provide a solution for a specific market …
Deep tech startups derive their identity and competitive advantage from the unique technology IP they develop. The products the company builds to solve market problems have this technology IP at its core. But how do we know the startup’s technology is the right one for the market problem they are solving. Would their technology of …