View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Depending on the composition of the founding team, you might or might not have near-term holes in certain functions at the exec level – e.g. you’ll most likely need to bring on a CTO/VP of Engineering shortly after the seed round if you don’t have a technical co-founder.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

by Marc Pitart, founder and CEO of onlineresume.us. Acceleration and incubation programs are on the rise and have helped start and scale many successful businesses over the past 10 years. Pitch it to someone with a startup or business related background, but who doesn’t have experience in your industry. It was all hypothetical.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 29, 2021

As part of our Founder Interview series, The Startup Magazine caught up with entrepreneur Ola Sars, Founder and CEO of music-tech leader, Soundtrack Your Brand. Ola Sars, Founder and CEO of Soundtrack Your Brand. The initial product MVP was called Spotify Business and was only made available in Sweden, Norway and Finland.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2021

Yet there are big challenges to hyperlocal, at least for consumer-focused hyperlocal startups, according to Sean Barkulis, Founder of UPlanMe, whose initial consumer-focused business model was an early casualty, writing in Street Fight : Every site requires real curated local content to engage users. This is not just a fad.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 5, 2021

In my experience founders usually fall into one of three types: mercenaries, missionaries, and crusaders. In fact we’ve backed founders I’d categorize as all three types here at NextView. But sometimes they’re the founders most motivated to build a successful company.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 9, 2012

From Lean Startup Machine , Lean LA and San Diego Tech Founders , to countless speeches and workshops, I have seen the impact that their leadership has had first hand. Market segments drive your business model. The market segment you pursue is inextricably linked to the other aspects of your business model.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2019

This is the realm of the angel investor, who wants to own a piece of the new business, and probably knows how to run it and wants a seat on the Board.For B2B startups, every investor expects to see a proven business model, with a working prototype, and preferably a real customer or two.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

GrowthHackers founder and former Head of Growth at Dropbox, Sean Ellis , coined the term: “A growth hacker is a person whose true north is growth. In his course on Growth Mindset (part of CXL’s Growth Marketing Minidegree ), WeTheFuture.org founder John McBride describes three key components of a successful growth marketer: 1.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

She found her audience and her business model and focused on scaling her concept and she made it work. Our intrepid founder, Tomas Gorny, has a classic immigrant entrepreneur story. She was a visionary who was undeterred and in 2011 she sold to AOL for more than $300 million. She is the ultimate turnaround success story for me!

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2018

Through all of those posts, we’ve received one common question from founders: Are all Everyday Economy startups consumer-facing? We think there are two main categories of Everyday Economy B2B startups: enabling layers and pervasive tools. Types of B2B Everyday Economy Companies. The answer is no. Let me explain.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JUNE 1, 2023

In Founder Focus we introduce entrepreneurs and innovators working on our next generation of new business startups, social enterprises and small businesses. At a glance Founder: Helen Mackay Business: Juno Legal Founded: 3 April 2017 HQ: Wellington Can you tell us a bit about your business?

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Pre-launch customer development data is another way, sometimes in the form of user surveys for consumer companies or interviews with potential beta customers for B2B businesses. One of our portfolio investments, a B2B SaaS company, was a pre-product startup at the time of the seed round. B) Post-Product Companies.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

According to Demand Gen Report, 56% of B2B buyers say that a web search is their first resource, and 79% say the winning vendor’s content significantly impacts their buying decision. As CXL founder Peep Laja notes in his CRO agency masterclass : “…it’s permission-based marketing. My experience is true for many others.

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

But for B2B sales, meeting people in person is often mandatory. In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. We market to four populations: High-potential founders. Harbinger – B2B Sales & marketing. Plus, my wife doesn’t let me date celebrities. .

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 30, 2020

The relationship between a founder and their startup is a unique one?—?we’re We ran a series of experiments to see if we could move the needle in a more sustainable way with our current core business model - 1) Change the consumer interaction point: we rolled out a consumer facing app to streamline payment and bookings.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. It was also beneficial because I got some good experience with both B2B and B2C business models.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2022

It’s a tough time for a lot of startup founders right now. This is not meant to be a negative post, but rather a temperature check of today’s market environment and the levers founders can pull on to survive this period. What is a founder to do? The later the stage, the bigger the impact.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

At Hustle Fund, we back both first time founders as well as repeat founders. One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. 2) B2B startups have high margins. B2B companies can have great unit economics.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

At Hustle Fund, we back both first time founders as well as repeat founders. One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. 2) B2B startups have high margins. B2B companies can have great unit economics.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 15, 2017

What seems to be the best way to create customers and revenue may result in a business model that is out of vogue with the investment world and shortchanges you on enterprise valuation. But, it is likely the major differentiator between a win and a loss whether you are selling B2B or B2C. No further conversations ensued.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 13, 2018

The brick and mortar industry is constantly faced with challenges of high costs involved in the business which can be a challenge to many entrepreneurs. We are a market-based platform that connects businesses in NYC with couriers to deliver to their customer. Tell us about your products and services. How do you help clients?

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For Entrepreneurs

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The videos are provided courtesy of WebSummit: 9 Secrets for Startup Success, A roadmap for B2B Founders Lean Startup taught the world how to find product/market fit, but in the. I presented on two topics at WebSummit 2018 in Lisbon on November 6th. The slides and videos of those two presentations can be found below.

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View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

NVV: Lots of marketers are under pressure to come in and generate demand right away, whether because sales is asking for leads or founders are demanding PR or user growth. Even identifying as a demand-gen marketer or branding or B2B or B2C leaves a lot of decisions still on the table to actually execute. Where do you start?

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For Entrepreneurs

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Lean Startup taught the world how to find product/market fit, but in the B2B world that isn’t enough. B2B founders must then find a way to build repeatable, scalable and profitable growth before they are ready to step on … The post Matrix Growth Academy – Zero to 100 Videos appeared first on For Entrepreneurs.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures, posted a brilliant analysis on why VCs have to look for billion dollar companies (“unicorns”) to deliver acceptable returns, and how rare it is to invest in one: “The odds are somewhere between catching a foul ball at an MLB game and being struck by lightning in one’s lifetime.”. B2B marketplaces.

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2011

I recently had the opportunity to interview Jesse Katz, entrepreneur and founder of www.efbuys.com. We've already offered small business owners discounts on Starbucks, Moo business cards, StumbleUpon Ads, logo design, online computer backup, etc. Here's what he had to say: 1. What is EF Buys? What makes your site different?

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 4, 2017

by Chris Low, founder of MyTeamPlan. Should you launch your business in an industry that has little to no competition? Or should your business take on an industry that already has a mature customer base? Even outside the gifting industry, businesses have been able to benefit off the personalization strategy.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Flugauto Co-Founders (left to right): Frank Noppel , CEO, Gerrit Becker , CCO, and Alexander Xydas , COO. The Forrest Four-Cast: February 27, 2020 A B2B tech company, Flugauto is developing a world-class UAV platform for aerial delivery of industrial cargo for the energy industry. What the Flugauto system looks like.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 9, 2017

by Tina Hay, founder and CEO of Napkin Finance. Define Your Business Model. There are numerous types and will determine how you grow and run your business. Some of the most common include: B2B: Business to Business – Selling a product or service to other businesses.

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Version One Ventures

AUGUST 25, 2015

With help from the Marketplaces Facebook Group , we have curated a list of recommended B2B tools by marketplace founders. The bottom line is if you’re building a marketplace, leverage good tools wherever you can, so you can focus on more valuable tasks like making connections and refining your business model.

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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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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 11, 2017

by Karla Friede, CEO, co-founder, and member of the Board of Directors at Nvoicepay. Earlier this month, my co-founders and I raised our sixth round of venture capital funding for Nvoicepay. In fact, I found that if they didn’t like something about our business model, they usually didn’t say anything.

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

Before this occurs, the sales process is a craft or an art - custom-made by the founder or evangelist sales VP. Across our portfolio and in my own entrepreneurial experience, I have seen three main sales models work successfully in scaling B2B sales: 1) Enterprise; 2) Telephone; and 3) Developer-driven. 1) Enterprise Sales.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 5, 2012

“The Internet is the first place most people turn to find information and learn virtually anything, but there’s no sense of organization — you have to stumble through, often running into dead ends along the way,” says Kris Chinosorn, who started MentorMob with fellow University of Illinois graduate and co-founder Vince Leung. “At

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Yet there are big challenges to hyperlocal, at least for consumer-focused hyperlocal startups, according to Sean Barkulis , Founder of UPlanMe one of the early casualties in this space: Every site requires real curated local content to engage users. Much of this is still evolving, and I think it has great potential. This is not just a fad.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Catherine Mandungu is the founder of Think RevOps , a company that began as the pandemic was brewing. RevOps, or “Revenue Operations”, is a B2B function that uses automation to help teams make the right decisions to grow their business.

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