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> tenuous at best for hybrid tech/real world companies Worked just fine with Amazon, Tesla, SpaceX, Sun, Intel, Apple, Cisco, Nvidia, Network Appliance, Junipe
by adventured 6y ago
> tenuous at best for hybrid tech/real world companies
Worked just fine with Amazon, Tesla, SpaceX, Sun, Intel, Apple, Cisco, Nvidia, Network Appliance, Juniper Networks, Ciena and numerous other prominent tech / real world companies. There is a long list of successful hardware companies that took venture capital spanning many decades.
A certain amount of margin is ideal if you're going to deal with VC, however it's not strictly necessary. You can also compensate with high top line growth and lower margins - Amazon was a low margin retail business for the first 12 years and produced an epic return for its early investors from 1994-2006.