About this deck
Funding stages, growth metrics, and the hard parts — an honest tour of how the modern startup ecosystem actually works. Key sections include: STARTUPS / How small firms become large ones.; A startup is a temporary organization searching for a repeatable, scalable business model.; Pre‑seed → seed → A → B → C+ → exit; Pre‑seed & seed: idea, founders, conviction.; Series A: product‑market fit — or you don’t raise it.; Series B and beyond: scale the thing that already works.; Unit economics: LTV , CAC , and the payback period.; The pirate funnel: five stages of customer life.; The graveyard: most startups die.; Network effects: each user makes the product more valuable for the next..