{"id":23832,"date":"2015-04-09T09:37:07","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T07:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=23832"},"modified":"2015-04-09T09:37:07","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T07:37:07","slug":"what-did-billion-dollar-companies-look-like-at-the-series-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2015\/04\/09\/what-did-billion-dollar-companies-look-like-at-the-series-a\/","title":{"rendered":"What did Billion Dollar Companies Look Like at the Series A?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here is an interesting look at some of the well-known companies –\u00a0What did Billion Dollar Companies Look Like at the Series A?<\/a><\/p>\n

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The article gets into some of the common criteria, which I’ll briefly list here:<\/p>\n

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  1. Easy-to-Dismiss Ideas<\/li>\n
  2. Competitive Markets<\/li>\n
  3. Reinventing Existing Consumer Behavior<\/li>\n
  4. Untested Founders<\/li>\n
  5. Zero Monetization<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Here is an interesting look at some of the well-known companies –\u00a0What did Billion Dollar Companies Look Like at the Series A? The article gets into some of the common criteria, which I’ll briefly list here: Easy-to-Dismiss Ideas Competitive Markets Reinventing Existing Consumer Behavior Untested Founders Zero Monetization  <\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"What did Billion Dollar Companies Look Like at the Series A? #startup #business #tech","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62,1334],"tags":[1968,1224],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-23832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-business","tag-startups"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24748,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2015\/09\/18\/billion-dollar-club\/","url_meta":{"origin":23832,"position":0},"title":"Billion dollar club","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"September 18, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The Wall Street Journal compiles a list of venture-back private companies, valued at $1 billion or more. \u00a0There's a table with the list of 120+ companies and an interactive chart to navigate it. 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