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Customers are a great way to finance a business for many reasons. First, customer financing is typically non dilutive. They want something from you other than equity in your business. Customers also help you fit your product to the market. And customers will help debug and improve the quality of the product.

~Fred Wilson

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The most common way customer financing is done is you sell the customer on the product before you've built it or before you've finished it. The customer puts up the money to build the product or finish the product and becomes your first customer. Usually the customer simply wants the product and nothing more.

~Fred Wilson

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It takes great salesmanship to convince a customer to buy something from you that isn't built or isn't finished.

~Fred Wilson

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Equity capital is expensive. Every time you do a raise, you dilute.

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There are so many startups out there raising money. I don't think this is a bad thing. It's a good thing. Entrepreneurship is in vogue. Innovators are innovating. Makers are making.

~Fred Wilson

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Being an entrepreneur is hard. Having supportive and caring investors helps.

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Skyping with your spouse works well enough, but apparently it is hard to get the kids to hang out on Skype for long.

~Fred Wilson

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When my dad was in Vietnam, we lost a parent for a year. Thank God we didn't lose a parent for good.

~Fred Wilson

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Not only do you have to put yourself in harms way in service of your country, you have to leave your families at home. It is a great sacrifice.

~Fred Wilson

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Startups are rapidly changing systems. If you use an annual review cycle, you aren't getting feedback at the same pace that you need to adapt and change the business.

~Fred Wilson

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: August 20th, 1961

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