View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

When we create new platform initiatives, our team tries to think about how we can be the most impactful with our portfolio companies. Today, we’re thrilled to announce a new program that we hope will help our portfolio companies with two of these bullets. Building a great product. We want to talk to you!

Operations 177

Operations Cofounder Technical Review Angel Investor 177

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Equally, hoping to unseat TripAdvisor without understand their SEO strengths and how much it would cost to knock them down would be naïve. In the early days of every business the incumbents tend not to respond because you’re too small and insignificant. But not doing basic research makes no sense. Market Structure. Competition.

Startup 150

Startup Seed Money DC Software Review 150

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

The best drivers apply the brakes just ahead of the curve (they take out excess costs), turn hard toward the apex of the curve (identify the short list of projects that will form the next business model), and accelerate hard out of the curve (spend and hire before markets have rebounded). Progressive. Image source ).

Marketing 121

Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 25, 2013

Running a SaaS business? The Right Way to Hire Your Customers | Bill Lee – Harvard Business Review – [link]. “A solid business model and a great story will at best have 10% chance of succeeding” – [link]. PR Nudges Its Way to the Content Table | by Josh Sternberg – [link].

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 27, 2011

Unlike Lean startups, their priority isn't to learn in order to create a scalable business model. Every startup needs PR, but this is even more true of flips. Consider it a type of SEO investment! You have a limited fund, bandwidth for deals you can work on, and a portfolio of existing code and skills. Create Buzz.

Lean 144

Lean Startup Agile Coder 144

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

You validated our business model and added huge value to our efforts. However, as we know from the cable industry, subscription businesses can be very profitable over time. For a direct, enterprise sales business model, these thresholds are likely to be around $80,000-100,000 CMRR (approx. $1-1.2M Michael Kassing.

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

It is our go-to SEO tool for doing audits, for tracking position and ranking, for really getting ideas on how to get more organic traffic for our clients, competitive intelligence, backlinks and things like that, all the important SEO tools that you need for paid traffic, social media, PR and of course SEO.

Arizona 55

Arizona SEO Curation Portfolio 55