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

The Startup Magazine

The fundamental objective and aim of seed investment is to assist a company in launching its operations successfully. Seed capital is a component of the initial investments made in young businesses. During the pre-seed fundraising stage, investors need a viable business plan to base their investments on.

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The Virus Survival Strategy For Your Startup

Steve Blank

With the Covid-19 virus a worldwide pandemic, if you’re leading any startup or small business, you have to be asking yourself, “What’s Plan B? Here are a few thoughts about operating in uncertainty in a pandemic. But next the question is, ‘What happens to my business?”. What does your new business model look like?

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

ReadWriteStart

In the case of Freshdesk, their main competitor, Zendesk, is operating with a San Francisco - Copenhagen cost-structure and will find it harder to compete with this strategy. The company already has paying customers and a validated business model. You can read more about Freshdesk on the 1M/1M Incubation Radar today.

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Marketing Your Startup: A Billion-Dollar Company’s First Marketer Reflects Back

View from Seed

It’s so important to line up the type of marketer and leadership that fits the business model, the product, or even the founder’s philosophy or early attempts at marketing. When do you start to double-down or evolve the playbook into a way of operating? EM: My rule of thumb is to look at the length of the sales cycle.

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Strategy Roundtable: Do Not Spray and Pray

ReadWriteStart

Today she is operating at a 30,000 feet level, and I am concerned that unless she gets down to earth and develops more granular and specific strategies, she will not get anywhere. With enterprise customers, this would result in tremendous exit barriers, making sales cycles long and involved, which a small startup will find hard to withstand.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

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. Reasons: cost of sales executives, long sales cycles, deep functional requirements.

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Sensitivity Analysis key in startup financial projections

NZ Entrepreneur

The statistics show that even though most founders bet their time and resources that their startups will be the best in the world, 90% of those new startups won’t be in operation in 10-15 years. Some common drivers of sales underperformance include product-market fit challenges, slow/low sales channels, and poor execution.

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