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Demand Generation vs. Lead Generation: Integrating To Drive Growth

ConversionXL

Bootstrapped startup Omnisend carved out a $19 million niche in an already saturated vertical. With a tactical understanding of two different marketing strategies: demand generation and lead generation. Demand generation vs. lead generation: Critical differences. Demand generation is about creating demand.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

According to a recent interview with Founding Partner Andrew Oved, Reformation invests in SaaS (vertical and application software) and consumer product businesses that have achieved $1M-$5M in annualized revenue, while operating capital efficiently. 20% initial ownership. One third of them are growing over 50% y-o-y.

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Exclusive: AfterDownload, The Israeli Ad Network that Serves 15 Million Ads Daily [Interview]

VC Cafe

A little startup that with less than 10 people and no VC funding was able to bootstrap its own ad server and 15 million daily ad impressions. Liron – I’ve been in the online marketing scene since 1999, in the last six years has been involved in the online software vertical in the context of affiliate marketing.

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Exclusive: AfterDownload, The Israeli Ad Network that Serves 15 Million Ads Daily [Interview]

VC Cafe

A little startup that with less than 10 people and no VC funding was able to bootstrap its own ad server and 15 million daily ad impressions. Liron – I’ve been in the online marketing scene since 1999, in the last six years has been involved in the online software vertical in the context of affiliate marketing.

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Exclusive: AfterDownload, The Israeli Ad Network that Serves 15 Million Ads Daily [Interview]

VC Cafe

A little startups that with less than 10 people and no VC funding was able to bootstrap its own ad server and 15 million daily ad impressions. Liron – I’ve been in the online marketing scene since 1999, in the last six years has been involved in the online software vertical in the context of affiliate marketing.

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The Three Types of “Second Seed” Rounds: Too Cold, Too Hot and Just Right

Hunter Walker

But for most it’s a lumpy mixture of bootstrapping, friends and family, hackathon prizes, angels, incubators/accelerators and venture capital which combine over a period of months or years. Operationally they sought to ensure they could scale supply to meet the demand they were seeing.

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The #1 thing successful founders think about for their next startups

Hippoland

Or second time founders focus on lucrative verticals that pay more per eyeball or focus on ad formats that pay more (such as email newsletter sponsorships). In some sense, their moat is capital, because most people will not be able to access enough capital (either by raising or by bootstrapping) to go after a similar opportunity.

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