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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

Both Sides of the Table

In his tenure as CEO of DataSift we have never missed a monthly revenue figure. He has grown our US operations from 1 employee (him) to a global organization of 75 employees that will finish the year with 8-digit revenues (90+% recurring) and more than 350% year-over-year growth. Between Board Meetings. The Agile Board.

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The Traction Gap Framework: Four Pillars Of Startup Success

YoungUpstarts

At Wildcat, we recommend benchmarking your startup against the four core architectural pillars of the Traction Gap Framework: product , revenue , team and systems. Revenue Architecture. A comprehensive revenue architecture should be designed to enable a startup to generate and monetize awareness, engagement and usage.

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The Traction Gap Framework: Four Pillars Of Startup Success

YoungUpstarts

At Wildcat, we recommend benchmarking your startup against the four core architectural pillars of the Traction Gap Framework: product , revenue , team and systems. Revenue Architecture. A comprehensive revenue architecture should be designed to enable a startup to generate and monetize awareness, engagement and usage.

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5 Preconditions for Success in Spawning a New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

There is no point incubating an innovative new venture if you don’t have the funds to launch and expect quick self-sustaining revenue. Assemble an engaged new venture advisory board. Don’t let early success dilute your focus, or demand that the new venture quickly meet your mainline financial and growth metrics.

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Traction Metrics Seed Real Startup Funding And Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

That should make you wonder - how do you measure traction in a metric? While thinking about the parameters of traction, and how to measure it, I was impressed with a new book, “ Scaling Lean: Mastering the Key Metrics for Startup Growth ” by Ash Maurya, a serial entrepreneur, and creator of the one-page business modelling tool Lean Canvas.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. Flexible VC 101: Equity Meets Revenue Share. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad. “Too Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5% raised from angels.

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Endeavor Miami Takes on Scaleup Challenge

The Startup Magazine

The business models not only have to have the potential to scale, they also need to have demonstrated product acceptance, be post-revenue, be innovative within their space, and meet timing criteria for broad market acceptance. Led by former Apple project manager Brian Brackeen, Kairos set up an Endeavor-facilitated advisory board.

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