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What Investors Ask At Every Stage
1. Idea Stage
No MVP
- ●Why this problem?
- ●Why you?
- ●Target customer?
- ●Market size?
2. Prototype / MVP
Working MVP
- ●Got a prototype?
- ●User feedback?
- ●What's used most?
- ●Scale plan?
3. Early Traction
First Users
- ●How many users?
- ●CAC?
- ●Retention?
- ●Biggest challenge?
4. Revenue Stage
Monetization
- ●Monthly revenue?
- ●Pricing?
- ●Gross margin?
- ●Growth rate?
5. Seed Stage
Funding
- ●Why raise now?
- ●Milestones?
- ●GTM strategy?
- ●Competitors?
6. Series A
Scaling
- ●Proven model?
- ●Growth metrics?
- ●Competitive moat?
- ●New markets?
7. Growth
Market Leader
- ●How to win?
- ●Intl strategy?
- ●Maintain profit?
- ●Exit strategy?
Bonus
Always Asked
- ●Why now?
- ●Why this market?
- ●Why you?
- ●Why can't BigTech copy?
Every giant faced extinction.
Behind every trillion-dollar valuation is a story of bankruptcy, rejection, and sheer survival. Don't quit.
Amazon
Jeff Bezos
Run from a cramped garage. Stock crashed 94% in 2001. Wall Street called it 'Amazon.bomb'.
💡 He cut costs to the bone, built AWS internally to survive, and proved every single analyst wrong.
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Apple
Steve Jobs & Wozniak
Started in a suburban garage building circuit boards by hand with almost zero capital.
💡 Jobs sold his VW bus, Wozniak sold his HP calculator — together they raised just $1,350 to start.
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Mark Zuckerberg
Coded in a Harvard dorm room. Faced massive lawsuits from day one.
💡 Turned down a $1B acquisition offer from Yahoo when the company had almost no revenue.
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Airbnb
Brian Chesky & Gebbia
Renting air mattresses in their apartment to pay rent. Rejected by 15 investors.
💡 Maxed out credit cards. Sold 'Obama O's' cereal boxes just to keep servers alive.
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SpaceX / Tesla
Elon Musk
Tesla was bankrupt. First 3 SpaceX rockets exploded. Both companies near death.
💡 Split his last $30M between two dying companies. The 4th rocket launch was do-or-die.
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Disney
Walt Disney
Fired for 'lacking imagination'. His first studio went bankrupt. Ate dog food to survive.
💡 His first hit character (Oswald) was legally stolen by his own distributor. He started over.
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