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Don’t drink your own Kool-Aid (surviving TC50)

Both Sides of the Table

I’m not going to cover in this post the obvious post-show marketing tasks such as following up on all those business cards you grabbed, communicating with all those people who registered at your site and leveraging your new found fame to score venture capital. We were it in Europe: B2B. Don’t drink it.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. --> The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. The National Venture Capital Association estimates that 25% to 30% of venture-backed businesses fail. Deutschland.

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Does Your VC have an Investment Thesis, or a Hypothesis?

David Teten

Public theses are often inconsistent with how firms actually deploy capital. A typical VC thesis: “we invest in tech startups in Europe at an early stage” However, our experience shows that in many cases: . “Europe” means a handful of countries, for instance, France, UK, and Germany. 1) Industry funds.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

As a private company, you have a VERY high cost of capital (well above 10%), whether you raise venture capital, angel money, friends and family investments, bank financing, or all of the above. This is a clear example where business-to-business (B2B) marketers need to learn from their business-to-consumer (B2C) counterparts.

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10 challenges investors face in Metaverse and Web3

VC Cafe

Over the past few weeks, we’ve witnessed the launch of ginormous new venture funds focusing on the space. Venture capital firms poured more than $32 billion into digital-asset startups last year and there’s plenty more dry powder out there: Haun Ventures – $1.5 Source: Visual Capitalist.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

I know that in B2B world you are dead in the water without CRM tool… We are using our own stuff – [link] Reply Josh , on February 28, 2011 at 12:12 am said: Thank you for all the great links, how can i get an invite to quora? It covers both Europe ant the US, it is easy, fast and free.