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7 Ways To Preclude The Most Common Investor Rejection

Startup Professionals Musings

Traction is evidence that your product or service has started that “hockey- stick” adoption rate which implies a large market, a valid business model, and sustainable growth. A graph that shows a hockey-stick “up and to the right” curve with at least three data points per key indicator is a great visual assist.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. Flexible VC 101: Equity Meets Revenue Share. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad. “Too Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5% raised from angels.

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How Much Traction is Enough for Investors?

Startup Professionals Musings

Traction is evidence that your product or service has started that “hockey- stick” adoption rate which implies a large market, a valid business model, and sustainable growth. A graph that shows a hockey-stick “up and to the right” curve with at least three data points per key indicator is a great visual assist.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? All things being equal, of course, you’d rather have more revenue rather than less. And yet revenue alone is not a sufficient goal. More on that in a moment.

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ProfessorVC: Waah.Do I have to build a financial model?

Professor VC

The objections range from "its hard", "nobody believes them" to "all hockey sticks look alike". To that last one, there is certainly some truth as the standard time vs. revenue chart in most business plans looks like this: Im not teaching Entrepreneurial Finance this semester for the first time since Fall 2007.

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Webinar Recap: 14 Tips on How to Pitch and Get Funded

Up and Running

Now you’re going to move into your revenue model. Okay, so now your revenue model, so this is—. Every model, it doesn’t matter what you are. Food, technology, bioscience, services, you need to know the metrics for your model. These are the metrics for the SaaS model that we have.

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CXL Live 2019 Recap: Takeaways from Every Speaker

ConversionXL

There are tons of metrics you can monitor: Conversion rate; Bounce rate ; Click-through rate ; Pageviews; Lead captures; Purchase conversion rate. Setting up your experiments for success: Define success metrics. million; Total revenue: $97.5 Try out different tactics, tools, offers, and designs. Do your research!