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10 Rosh Hashanah Resolutions for Startup Founders

VC Cafe

It doesn’t matter if your company is B2B or B2C, as Y Combinator puts it, you need to build stuff people want, and obsess about making it as user friendly, friction free and smooth as possible. ValuatIon should be a function of value, not ego. 2022 VC Market Update Median valuations January through April Pre-seed: $7M ? $9M

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What’s a better return on investment: Enterprise or consumer tech?

VC Cafe

A look at the overall exits for both enterprise (B2B) and consumer (B2C) companies from 1995-2022 shows that both categories can produce power law returns, but they vary substantially: The top five enterprise companies with the largest exits account for $188B in value creation, or 12% of the $1,609B generated in the enterprise category since 1995.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Coalesce address the more general problem of searching through large data sets for best fits. The majority of funds are using the popular B2C websites and services for basic due diligence, e.g., Linkedin, Twitter, HackerNews. Pacer is useful to search prior litigation, bankruptcies, etc. If you have one, please contact me.

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CXL Live 2017 Recap: Optimization & Growth Insights from 20+ Experts

ConversionXL

Search dropdown. Jakub Linowski: Searching for Repeating Conversion Patterns: What Can Multiple Tests Tell Us? The CEO doesn’t care about his website, he cares about his valuation (i.e. Sell CRO by calculating the valuation increase. Valuation increase? Start typing a search term. Show progress. ROI on CRO?

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. Coalesce address the more general problem of searching through large data sets for best fits. But beyond that, not much. 6) Negotiate deal.

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Raising Money Using Customer Development

Steve Blank

This post describes how companies using the Customer Development model can increase their credibility, valuation and probability of getting a first round of funding by presenting their results in a “Lesson Learned&# venture pitch. Reply Curtiss Middlebrooks , on November 11, 2009 at 5:23 am Said: Great stuff Steve.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

A new tool that will help the entrepreneur in the trademark issue is Markify – a trademark search that finds all similar trademarks. This kind of search normally costs more than $500… Test your name [link] so you don’t end up with a name that is confusingly similar to an existing trademark.