View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Amidst the rise of new funds, new technologies, and potentially disruptive late stage players, I thought it was important to share what we consider to be our core operating principles here at NextView. . It’s been an interesting several years in the early stage venture eco-system, and the sands have shifted considerably.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 28, 2021

To give you some context, my co-founder and I operate a website called Solitaired , which ties classic card games to brain training. But our business doesn’t operate in that manner, which is just one of many reasons that we explored the possibility of pausing our email marketing. Here’s how we’ve done it. Conclusion.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 17, 2017

Check out which Capital Factory startups are looking for you to join their team! To Apply: Email your resume or detailed LinkedIn profile & short description of why you’re interested in startups, particularly JustLegal, to rc@justlegal.com. To Apply: Please send your resume to admin@visualsemantics.io

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Investment Criteria: B2B SaaS or tech-enabled services with proven, recurring contracts. The average monthly operating expenses is $70,335. 30% have been operated by females, 70% have been operated by males. 40% have been operated by “visible minorities”, 60% have been operated by “non-visible minorities”.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 10, 2022

The journey of every startup is so different. Startups pioneering the future of remote work. No startup relocation, temporary or permanent, is necessary or requested for NextView’s 100% virtual accelerator program. All startups receive $400K for 10% of the company upon acceptance into the program. Who we are.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2016

For those of us that have been working in the startup and technology space for at least the past 10 years, these addresses mean two things. Despite that data, we don’t compete in one of the largest opportunities (in terms of sheer number of people using the product) that the startup and technology world has to offer. 1 Hacker Way.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Most startup-lore is focused on lightning fast growth or striking out, but what about slow-growth businesses? along with the contributions of dozens if not hundreds of founders, entrepreneurs and investors, to build out the canon for the startup. The proverbial tortoise to the blitzscaling hares? Stanford’s CS183c?—?Blitzscaling

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Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

Hila Qu joined Mucker’s Tony Yang for an Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) conversation about Product-Led Growth (PLG) for Startups to kickoff the 2023 Mucker Growth Series. Hila Qu has been the Head of Growth or VP of Growth at a number of different companies and startups, most notably Acorns and GitLab. That is the nature of this thing.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 15, 2017

As is often the case in startups, the desire to create may be outweighing the motivation to monetize, particularly if there are no hungry investors expecting venture returns. That last sentence gets at the heart of the primary monetization tension in a startup. What is your Customer Acquisition Cost?

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 24, 2020

gross revenue) and then subtract your business’s operating expenses and cost of goods sold from that number. How much time investment is necessary for operations. Variation of customer acquisition channels. The post The Secrets Behind Determining the Value of eCommerce Sites appeared first on The Startup Magazine.

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View from Seed

JULY 9, 2015

As an operator, not an investor, I’m amazed at how many casual, throwaway comments that happen inside a VC’s office would be genuinely useful to entrepreneurs building their businesses. And given my marketing background (Google, Dailybreak Media, HubSpot), I often get this question directly: When should startups announce seed funding? .

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David Teten

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Operations should focus relentlessly on the latter.”. Josh Gebhardt, CEO, MetricStory , observes that horizontal spread across and within an organization’s functional siloes is a good metric for B2B products. Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). Metrics for Certain Categories of Startups. Users/Customers. Sales Pipeline.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. But, if they are not, it’s very hard to use paid acquisition to generate that type of traffic for under $5. 2) B2B startups have high margins.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. But, if they are not, it’s very hard to use paid acquisition to generate that type of traffic for under $5. 2) B2B startups have high margins.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 23, 2013

I wish the modern startup community would understand the mindset that gets a company to this point, and resist it. But, a growing SaaS company will be landing new customers, and in increasing numbers, which means piling up more and more unprofitable operations. Drastically reduce the cost of customer acquisition.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Amidst the rise of new funds, new technologies, and potentially disruptive late stage players, I thought it was important to share what we consider to be our core operating principles here at NextView. . It’s been an interesting several years in the early stage venture eco-system, and the sands have shifted considerably.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 1, 2020

So here’s a five-day playbook to help CEOs of cash-flow negative startups, or ones about to go negative, assess the new normal and respond with speed and urgency. For companies burning cash, such as startups, how much cash do you have? Operating Numbers. For startups: source of VC money? Those that don’t may not survive.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

In normal times, every company operates against some hypothetical growth model—a data-driven framework that describes how your product grows and how you acquire new users. In normal times, every company operates against some hypothetical growth model—a data-driven framework that describes how your product grows and how you acquire new users.

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Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

We recently announced at Hustle Fund that we will start investing in Southeast Asian software startups, and my new business partner Shiyan Koh, who just moved back home to Singapore, will be leading the charge on that. B2B, for example, hasn’t even even really started as a category yet. more on this below).

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Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

We recently announced at Hustle Fund that we will start investing in Southeast Asian software startups, and my new business partner Shiyan Koh, who just moved back home to Singapore, will be leading the charge on that. B2B, for example, hasn’t even even really started as a category yet. more on this below).

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 17, 2018

I actually did a study on this a few years ago, and I looked at 351 B2B companies with 50 to 1000 employees, and there was a huge difference between the software companies and the non software companies. And then the third thing about the customer is to focus more on customer retention and growth and not so much on new customer acquisition.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 28, 2020

We had built the world’s largest open-data community but—like so many startups—didn’t have a clear product-market fit. . It wasn’t quite a flip from B2C to B2B, but it was close. But since we were still a young startup, we deferred customer expansion tracking. . Honorable mention: SiriusDecisions Demand Unit Waterfall (2017).

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techcrunch.com

MARCH 8, 2012

So, should people who can’t write code do a startup? The process of iteration is far easier if you, the person with the idea, can actually code it and that’s what ultimately makes a startup turn into a successful business: iterating to get to product/market fit. Enterprise. CrunchBase. Hot topics. Editor’s Picks. Disrupt NYC.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Click-Through Rate Definition The Conversion Rate Formula: How to Calculate Conversion Rate Bounce Rate: Everything You Want to Know and More How To Calculate and Increase Customer Lifetime Value PPC Click-Through-Rate: What it Means and How to Use It (and Improve It) How to Track and Improve Ecommerce Customer Acquisition Effectiveness.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

A few months ago, VC Cafe launched a series on startup engagement and outreach programs of large tech companies. After covering Google startup outreach and support (from first hand experience), today I’m happy to add Amazon and AWS, by looking into the variety of ways startups can engage with the commerce and cloud giant.

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Agile VC

MAY 16, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Thematic investing is where VCs research a macro trend or specific market, form a thesis around why this trend/market will serve as a good basis for building great startups, and then pursue as many exceptional investments in this theme as appropriate for the VC’s strategy. May 16, 2012.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

My service startup quickly grew and became a platform to identify new problems we could solve for clients. Today, Grizzle is a full-service content marketing and SEO agency that provides B2B and SaaS companies end-to-end services. These days, many agencies start as a lean operation. Most B2B buyers know this.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Leveraging our financial skill sets, my partner and I started Harper Partners, a tech-enabled factoring company that helps innovative B2B businesses and startups fund their working capital. Customer acquisition will be harder than expected. They were not operating experience.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

And when you finish the demo you can bring in the other important components such as competition, team, customer acquisition strategy, etc. Powerpoint can be especially useful for platform businesses or B2B. I find this is more often an ex operator VC and often somebody who deep down is a product guy, like Bijan. Mobile app?

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Kodorra

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

I personally started my first startup with merely $3,000, so being cheap was the only option I had. Since this virtue served me well throughout my entrepreneur journey, here I’d like to share the same money-saving tricks that helped grew my company to its acquisition. Almost every B2B business extends a credit term to their clients.

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Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. The secondary wave of VC-backed IPOs has also come to fruition… both consumer facing (Yelp, Demand Media, Pandora, Carbonite, HomeAway, Angie’s List, et al) and B2B (Jive Software, Brightcove, Imperva, Responsys, etc). What’s the impact for early-stage startups?

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 10, 2021

You could be a victim of identity theft: Most of the businesses that sell Instagram followers or engagement are fly-by-night operations. The culture they foster is entrepreneurial and community-driven—traits that are reflected in their startup and small business target audience. Use your customer journey map to inform your strategy.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

We tried, and opted out of, potentials for pivots; we pitched for game-changing partners and acquisitions that did not ultimately convert. Even though most of this message was already drafted, we also had a Hail Mary of a final acquisition conversation that closed the following morning. Obviously, it did not convert.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2023

We wholeheartedly believe in the potential of each company we select; the smaller batch size allows the NextView partners, who possess deep operating and founding experiences at companies like LinkedIn, PayPal, eBay, and Blue Apron, the space to spend meaningful one-on-one time with each founder every single week. Let’s do this! . Who We Are.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Ed Fry – Customer Data Operations: Unleashing your hidden growth engine. Optimize for retention, not just acquisition. To understand acquisition you must understand lifetime value. Renee Thompson – How to Win at B2B Optimization. What makes B2B different? Frequent users : key to your growth.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

His professional career has been substantially dedicated to building high-value technology-powered B2B marketplaces where many thought they couldn’t exist. Daniel Confino, Founder, MergerID Is a qualified lawyer who has 30 years of experience in mergers and acquisitions with a strong international element.

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