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	<title>Comments on: Critical Factors for Obtaining Venture Funding</title>
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		<title>By: Ata Roboubi</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ata Roboubi</dc:creator>
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		<description>Bill, please help me understand the following paradox.

You say, &quot;Brilliant new companies create big markets, not the other way around.&quot; Clearly the case with many iconic startups including Nvidia. Jen-Hsun Huang says that at the start all the market research reports put the market size at &quot;approximately zero, a non-market.&quot;

At the same time you say, &quot;If the idea of developing credible financial projections makes you wince or wail, or if you think it’s a meaningless exercise, you are not an entrepreneur and you shouldn’t ask investors for money.&quot; How can you come up with credible predictions when the market does not exist yet? How people adopt your technology is clearly much based on psychology. How do you put a to-be-converted customer&#039;s psychology into a quantitative formula?

Thanks in advance.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bill, please help me understand the following paradox.</p>
<p>You say, &#8220;Brilliant new companies create big markets, not the other way around.&#8221; Clearly the case with many iconic startups including Nvidia. Jen-Hsun Huang says that at the start all the market research reports put the market size at &#8220;approximately zero, a non-market.&#8221;</p>
<p>At the same time you say, &#8220;If the idea of developing credible financial projections makes you wince or wail, or if you think it’s a meaningless exercise, you are not an entrepreneur and you shouldn’t ask investors for money.&#8221; How can you come up with credible predictions when the market does not exist yet? How people adopt your technology is clearly much based on psychology. How do you put a to-be-converted customer&#8217;s psychology into a quantitative formula?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>
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