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Tomasz Tunguz on Venture Capital - The Intercom Blog
Tomasz Tunguz, a partner at Redpoint Ventures, discusses the key metrics he looks for in potential investments, including sustainable competitive differentiators and revenue benchmarks. He identifies three types of sustainable competitive advantage: a founder’s market discovery, difficult-to-replicate technology, or a new distribution mechanism. For Series A investments, he typically partners with companies at $50,000-100,000 MRR, but also invests in pre-revenue ideas, noting that 27% of Series A rounds had no revenue. He looks for short sale cycles under 45 days and negative net churn as signs of product-market fit, and advises founders to always have a plan to reach profitability on current cash. Investors view businesses as collections of risk, and founders should address how they will mitigate major risks in their pitch.

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1 post about Series A. Every summary links to the original.

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Tomasz Tunguz on Venture Capital - The Intercom Blog
Tomasz Tunguz, a partner at Redpoint Ventures, discusses the key metrics he looks for in potential investments, including sustainable competitive differentiators and revenue benchmarks. He identifies three types of sustainable competitive advantage: a founder’s market discovery, difficult-to-replicate technology, or a new distribution mechanism. For Series A investments, he typically partners with companies at $50,000-100,000 MRR, but also invests in pre-revenue ideas, noting that 27% of Series A rounds had no revenue. He looks for short sale cycles under 45 days and negative net churn as signs of product-market fit, and advises founders to always have a plan to reach profitability on current cash. Investors view businesses as collections of risk, and founders should address how they will mitigate major risks in their pitch.

The best engineering reads, once a week.