Small Business: Disqualify companies with >$1m in investment #2
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This PR adds language addressing a point of feedback that came up for the Big Time License: companies that don't have large headcount or revenue, but have received lots of external financing in the recent past. Functionally, I've added another way to disqualify a company as "small": if it has had more than $1m in financing in the last five years.
Other good feedback pointed out that there isn't much comparability in the different metrics for "small", even just revenue and headcount. It's certainly the case that carrying 100 headcount implies a minimum or either revenue or financing. But most readers and potential license adopters seem to look for these definitions for a good, intuitive reflection of big versus small. I think the important questions are whether the metrics we use as proxies for bigness will be easy to measure, or measured for some other purpose already. I think that's just as true of outside investment as headcount or revenue.