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VCs love _technical_ risk. Outside of the very unusual circumstances of the Zero to One capital-funded-monopoly-theory era, they have considered _business_ risk quite toxic.


Hum... Quickly investing all your money into product development creates what kind of risk? I'm having a hard time separating them.

Anyway, that can quite possibly be perfectly aligned with your company's goals. It's not a bad or good thing. It's just a thing.


My point is that you state "VCs love risk" and I'm trying to help you clarify the way you think about this. VCs don't love _risk_ at all, they love _things that are an technical execution risk but would sell immediately if they can be done_.

Business risk stuff - does the market exist? is a new pricing model possible? etc. - is not at all on the list of risks that VCs like.




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