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6 Awesome Tools To Make Your Startup Smarter In 2020

YoungUpstarts

We’ve conducted extensive research and compiled a list of the 6 must-have tools and resources that can make your startup smarter in 2020. It is a task organizer tool that helps you sort your team’s development efforts efficiently. This can include code components, product specs, marketing plans, etc. But that’s where we come in!

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Airbnb S-1 (Part 1): So How Profitable Is This Thing Really?

View from Seed

You can read various articles out there which will give you the cursory facts about Airbnb like their overall revenue or profitability or how their business has faired here in 2020 in the COVID environment. Let me start with the obvious… Airbnb is a remarkable company which is redefining the hospitality industry in a number of ways.

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8 Keys To Real Innovation Outside of Silicon Valley

Startup Professionals Musings

Silicon Valley’s conventional model is to integrate local experienced engineering, product development, and marketing people for the big push. Marty Zwilling First published on LinkedIn on 04/14/2020. It’s also a good defensive move, to preempt competition, which is bound to come world-wide.

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How to Optimize SaaS Development Costs

Up and Running

In the last decade, SaaS (Software as a Service) has become a very popular model for new software product development. According to Blissfully’s report, overall spend per company on SaaS has increased by 50% in 2020 as compared to 2018. The largest cost component of establishing a SaaS company is product development costs.

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How the pre-seed round made a comeback in 2024

VC Cafe

Pre-seed rounds accounted for 14% of all seed stage deals in 2023, up from just 5% in 2020 according to Pitchbook data and I predict it will be even higher in 2024. While the answers are somewhat semantic, the pre-seed funding round is making a comeback in 2024 startup financing.

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Q2 2020 Quarterly Update

Version One Ventures

Here we are, halfway through 2020 and what an unprecedented year it has been. The funding will be used for product development and to continue their geographic expansion (more in Europe and eventually Asia). Happy Canada Day & Happy (early) Fourth of July! At the end of every quarter, we publish a quick recap.

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Support Your Fellow Entrepreneurs, Vote in SXSW 2020 Panel Pickers!

Austin Startup

This past month, SXSW called on the community to enter proposals for conference sessions at all SXSW 2020 events— and so the buzz begins. With your help, they’ll get the opportunity to present their ideas through educational panels, presentations and workshops for attendees to discover at SXSW 2020. Deadline to vote is August 23.