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Seed Stage Funding 101: What it Is & How it Works

The Startup Magazine

How to evaluate New Businesses at Their Infancy, Their Early Stages, and Their Growth Stages Evaluating a new business venture involves elements of both art and science. One needs to evaluate their go-to-market strategy, distribution channels, scalability, execution team, and so on at this time.

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How Pertino is reinventing the future of business networking

Lightspeed Venture Partners

From a business model perspective, the Pertino team observed how the shift to the cloud was enabling an entirely new class of IT services that could empower the little guy. Instead of selling to the CIO (which could have long, costly sales-cycles), Pertino has focused on marketing and selling their services directly to the end-user.

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A new field guide for entrepreneurs of all stripes

Startup Lessons Learned

From Lean Startup Machine , Lean LA and San Diego Tech Founders , to countless speeches and workshops, I have seen the impact that their leadership has had first hand. Market segments drive your business model. The market segment you pursue is inextricably linked to the other aspects of your business model.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. Distributed version control model – first in the industry like ours and we are filing patents. Page 4: Business Model. I had planned a balance of large companies and SMB/divisional sales but have changed my thinking. Free product.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

What matters is proving the viability of the company’s business model, what investors call “traction.&# It should be even more important to the founders themselves, because it demonstrates that their business hypothesis is grounded in reality. They are busy too, but they are not creating value for the company.

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