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Four Major Startup Stages That You Should Know About

YoungUpstarts

Further Customer Acquisition. You need to improve your customer acquisition process. An app will have different maturity stage, an IoT product will have a different maturity stage, and similarly, an ecommerce business will have a different maturity stage. There is a complete process to go for an IPO. Acquisition.

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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

Both Sides of the Table

I find it amusing when a journalist writes an article about a prominent startup (either privately held or preparing for an IPO) and decries that, “They’re not even profitable!” Many eCommerce companies are in fact, middle men. There are certain topics that even some of the best journalists can’t fully grok.

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The Boston Consumer Tech Year In Review

Rob Go

IPO’s/Exits. Kayak: Registered for an IPO but on hold. Raised $174M in its IPO in April, current market cap ~$550M. in its IPO, current market cap of $282M. Ebay’s third largest acquisition in the last 3 years. Tripadvisor: An amazing entrepreneurial story. market cap. 61M in Q3 revenue, up 28% YoY.

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Foodtech Trends That Are Here to Stay

View from Seed

Beyond Meat’s successful IPO last year proved that plant-based meat companies can thrive in the public markets, leading to massive funding rounds in other alternative animal product companies. alternative seafood), action from large incumbents (pivots or acquisitions), and other types of technology-driven innovations.

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The Final Edition

thebarefootvc

acquisition of Plaid by Visa, in a highly competitive deal, shows how even the largest incumbents are feeling pressure to innovate and need to think outside of their current business models. Along those lines, I have been spending time thinking of the the continued digitization of the financial services sector. The recently announced $5.3B

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Announcing NextView Operator Guilds

View from Seed

We are not an AR/VR, blockchain, AI, or ecommerce fund. He was previously VP Product at Runkeeper (sold to Asics), a General Manager and Director of Product at Zynga (IPO), and Director of Product at Conduit Labs (sold to Zynga). Reforge provides master classes for experienced practitioners around growth and customer acquisition.

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Y Combinator growth benchmark

The Equity Kicker

Growth is the main driver of value in our companies and it is what makes them exciting to IPO investors and acquirers. It is mostly ecommerce companies I’ve seen suffering from this problem. I share the view that growth is critical, and that without very high growth rates early on a business will never grow big. Sometimes not.