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Which Fundraising Round Should You Skip?

View from Seed

Hopefully, by bringing on strong partners early, you will get great advice and support to minimize your overall dilution down the road. They find weak pre-seed investors or angels who are almost predatory in their early stage pricing and add no value. Experienced founders: B2B. Experienced founders: Consumer.

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Rob Stevens & Rob Go B2B GTM AMA Recap

View from Seed

He has experience in B2B, supply chain, robotics, SaaS, and IoT spaces. He helps early-stage startups with sales, marketing, and general “go to market” topics. Understand Your Customer and Their Timelines. If you’re early enough, you’ve still got options and you haven’t quite placed your bets yet.

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Pitch Deck Month: “Is It Working?” (aka the “Traction” Slide)

View from Seed

You’re obviously not showing charts of user growth, number of customers, or revenue. But even as a concept stage company there are ways to show progress with your business. 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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Tale of Two Valleys: LA and the Bay Area from an Investor’s Perspective

Mucker Lab

It’s probably not too controversial to say that the median level of sophistication of early stage entrepreneurs in Los Angeles is lower than that of Bay Area. Oftentimes they see a market need and simply want to serve those customers. That number in the Valley might be closer to 10%.

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How to Run Your Company Based on Metrics: What, Why, How, Who, and When

David Teten

For early stage companies, the metrics that matter might typically center around activation, engagement and retention. Users/Customers. Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). Customer Lifetime Value (CLTV). Customers, MRR and key activities are the firewood to keep us going.”. Gross Profit. Available Cash.

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Product-Led Growth (PLG) For Startups

Mucker Lab

If you go back to thinking about what kind of company is a great fit for PLG, there are two important criteria: The first one is your target segment, your customer size. Obviously if you target enterprise customers, you usually have a very large ACV (Annual Contract Value) and the product usually is complex. Think about Adobe.

Product 78
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Cornerstone OnDemand CEO Adam Miller shares how he built a $2 billion cloud startup from LA

The Next Web

The company has a 98 percent voluntary retention rate (which doesn’t count terminated employees), and Miller attributes part of that success to not having to deal with the poaching that goes on in the Valley. The company has managed 95 percent retention of clients. We were essentially funded by our clients…in an indirect way.”

Cloud 118