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Conversion, retention and churn benchmarks

VC Cafe

In a contracted venture capital environment, where external funding is more difficult to raise, founders know that they need to make due with less, and extend the runway further. Lenny Rachitsky’s post ‘ what is good retention ‘ is a couple of years old but goes deeper into consumer subscription benchmarks.

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

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund and mutual fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. Sebastian Soler recently launched Knowledge.vc , which uses software and machine learning to enhance deal sourcing and diligence for VC firms. But we’re doing it slowly.

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Riches in Niches

VC Cafe

Not all businesses are a fit, or require venture capital. But for fast scaling tech startups, to attract venture capital, they will need more than greeat tech and a strong founding team. Venture Capital investors look for ‘Big markets’, ideally multi billion Dollars in size and growing.

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The Courage to Monetize

Austin Startup

However, that is wishful thinking if your customer decision makers have budgets for percentage payments and software buying is handled by a different group and a different procurement process. Heck, there was no venture capital in Dixie in that era. There was no thought of enterprise value.

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Is the Lean Startup concept of MVP dead?

VC Cafe

“After the crash, venture capital was scarce to non-existent. Single users can test enterprise software using a credit card. With the risk of sounding too conservative, what matters for startups now, as venture capital becomes less available and consumer spending tightens, is adaptation and survival.

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How we can improve the odds of finding unicorns

Version One Ventures

There has been a lot of focus on B2C marketplaces, but there are still tremendous opportunities left in the B2B space. Now to get back to looking for unicorns… The post How we can improve the odds of finding unicorns appeared first on Version One Ventures. We are interested in platforms that power this space. Mobile marketplaces.

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Founder Interview: Richard Lavina Innovating Accounting Services with Taxfyle

The Startup Magazine

TSM: Describe Taxfyle’s product or service in 10 words or less: Richard: Taxfyle is a Service-with-a-Software company that matches taxpayers with licensed CPAs and Enrolled Agents. Here are Richard’s insights and startup advice he shared with us about his entrepreneurial journey…. TSM: With a bit more detail, what does Taxfyle do?

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