# §Startup Constraints * [[Startups need to make a lot of money or have a lot of users]] * [[Startups need to conform to investor timescales]] * [[Venture capital doesn’t work for things that only realize their value on long timescales]] * [[Startups need an exit strategy]] * [[Startups need a great story]] * [[Startups need to produce a scalable product]] * [[Startups need to break development into correctly sized stages]] * [[Startups need specific growth curves]] * [[If a project has massive possible upside and low enough risk it is venture fundable]] * [[Scalability and venture fundability happens when you turn a process innovation into a tool innovation]] * [[Startups are good at point changes]] * [[Startup Constraints - essay]] [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/§Startup+Constraints) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/§Startup+Constraints)