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Value Inflection Points for Seed-Stage Startups

View from Seed

Often, when I speak to very early-stage founders, the conversation around value focuses on achievements. Launch a successful Kickstarter campaign. ” You might find that you can actually invest a lot less time and engineering resources to get to some of these answers and to get a step or two higher on the value creation stairs.

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Should You Consider Replacing Yourself as CEO?

Both Sides of the Table

He talked about how we were going through a period of time in which people were measuring “likes” and “followers” but not the real value of social media conversion by tracking what actually converts into business and that few people understood the catalyst of what drove a successful campaign in the first place.

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Why I Like Our Investment in Triple Lift

Genuine VC

So rather than going into the details about how the combustion engine works (which you can begin to read about on their product page ), better to share what they’ve already powered: Triple Lift has delivered successful campaigns for brands like Gucci , Martha Stewart, and Puma just to name a few.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

Seed-stage investors are learning the metrics of traction, and are getting better at identifying those companies that are really achieving validated learning about customers. Each new campaign is a startup where Lean principals can be applied to maximum effect. September 7, 2009 4:28 PM akibalogh said.

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You Can’t Spell Hardware without H-A-R-D

K9 Ventures

In fact, in college I used to joke that Electrical and Computer Engineers could write better code that Computer Scientists (not something I would argue about as voraciously now). And 2 seed stage companies that haven’t launched yet. Launch/Pre-order/Crowdfunding: Do you do a Kickstarter campaign for crowdfunding?

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

You make elaborate plans for a product, hire a team of engineers to develop it (people who do this tend to use the term "engineer" for hackers), and then find after a year that youve spent two milliondollars to develop something no one wants. Usually you get seed money from individual rich people called"angels."

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Why Launching a Startup Is More Expensive Than You Think

mashable.com

While all of these factors are true to an extent, the truth of the matter is that the reduced costs of hardware and software are easily offset by the expense of engineers and experienced business people. Nearly all of your costs will be headcount, primarily in the engineering department. million in venture financing. .&#

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