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Kaustubh Bhatter

Founder, Sharpener |... • 9m

Got a VC offer! Hey everyone! We got our first VC offer - FINALLY! Having said that, we rejected it. Feel free to ask me any questions you would want, except the VC name for confidentiality purposes! You can follow me as I share more in this jour

Zen Mehta
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SKL Shipping • 9m

why rejected ? valuation?

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Kaustubh Bhatter

Founder, Sharpener |... • 9m

Valuation was a smaller reason. A bigger reason was that the investor wanted us to stay to B2C with a sales driven operating architecture while we wanted to venture into B2B partnerships and wanted an investor who could help us there

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