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Anne Dobree

Sep 14, 2026

14:30
But is that enough for Parkwalk? I mean, if they come along and say, here's our sort of demo thing, it's on a, you know, Does that give you enough confidence to say, well, let's continue the conversation or do you really want to see the chip at the end?
14:45
I think it depends on the use case and the team, because, of course, a startup is more than just the tech.
14:52
Most startups across all technologies will pivot, you know, something like 80% of them pivot from the original IP environment.
15:00
So it has to be a credible investment team.
15:03
And obviously, that's not just the academics who will probably have a wonderful history in this research area, but also having the commercial experience alongside them, you know, to help them get through the journey.
15:18
Because, you know, it might be in a use case that we just don't have any kind of, you know, Not enough understanding in to really see the merit in it.
15:26
Or, you know, it's just there's a lot of gut feel involved because most investors at VC level will only invest in kind of one in a thousand deals.

19 MINS LATER

34:44
But would you not have done the product market fit test up front? Are you saying that you did and everybody, best effort basis, it turned out it didn't fit?

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