David Teten
AUGUST 19, 2019
In addition, I’ve noted a few multi-product lending firms, e.g., Kapitus and United Capital Source , which provide RBI as one of many structural options to companies seeking capital. . We have a special program if you are pre-seed and need product development. Our wheelhouse is bootstrapped (or lightly capitalized) SMB SaaS.
Hippoland
AUGUST 8, 2018
As a result, second time founders very often shy away from ad-based consumer ideas, but when they do, they think about what viral mechanisms you can implement *first* and engineer the product around that mechanism. Product second. Marketing first. Here is a good case study on LinkedIn (scroll down to see how they grew).
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Hippoland
AUGUST 8, 2018
As a result, second time founders very often shy away from ad-based consumer ideas, but when they do, they think about what viral mechanisms you can implement *first* and engineer the product around that mechanism. Product second. Marketing first. Here is a good case study on LinkedIn (scroll down to see how they grew).
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 5, 2009
It should go without saying that this post is not advice, nor is it recommendation of what you should do, it’s simply my observation of how companies using Customer Development positioned themselves to successfully raise money from venture investors. Is there a profitable business model? Can it scale?” Great post!
Up and Running
MAY 13, 2015
We are bootstrapping. Draw one line down the middle vertically, and then another across horizontally, so that you make your paper into four quarters. I find it again and again that when we start out as entrepreneurs, oftentimes we’re solopreneurs. We are doing it all ourselves. That is a normal way to start. Do you remember?
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