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How to Build a Successful Subscription Business Model

Up and Running

Gartner predicted that “By 2020, all new entrants and 80% of historical vendors will offer subscription-based business models.” For the information and technology industry, subscription models are now a core business model. How to develop a subscription service.

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Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic – Pivoting the Business Model

Steve Blank

The Search for the Business Model. A startup is an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. Investors bet on a startup CEO to find the repeatable and scalable business model. They may draw their business model formally or they may keep the pieces in their head.

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Cutting Through the AI Noise: How Startups Can Stand Out in a Crowded Market

VC Cafe

However, this challenge also presents an opportunity for those who can strategically differentiate themselves and capture the attention of their target audience. App developers, and game developers know this problem well and there’s something we can learn from them. By the way, this not just about marketing or PR.

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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Commercial open source companies – being open source is a powerful way to gain developer adoption and sell to enterprises a lot sooner. New enterprise resource planning software (ERPs) – new startups that build software that helps businesses run. Looking for startups solving practical use cases that go beyond gaming.

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Product Design for SaaS Startups: Best Practices and Examples

ReadWriteStart

It makes the product more user-friendly and can also help build trust with customers and differentiate the product from competitors in the SaaS market. A visually appealing and consistent design can help create a strong brand image and differentiate the product from competitors. Your brand identity is more than just a logo or a name.

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Pitch Deck Month: The “Where Are You Going?” Slide

View from Seed

The other aspect of the people roadmap is org-level team building necessary to unlock or accompany certain stages of the business. Enterprise SaaS/B2B software – account executives (AEs) and sales developement reps (SDRs). Businesses with a geo/city-based operations – city GMs/on-the-ground ops teams.

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The Startup Copycat Fallacy

View from Seed

As a seed stage VC, I have a unique privilege of confidentially spending time with a number of entrepreneurs throughout their company formation and initial product development process. Sure, network effects provide clear competitive advantages in many markets, but it hardly guarantees success without other differentiation.