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4 Definitive Ways To Deal With Outages

YoungUpstarts

Their Happiness Heroes got into action in minutes, and posted real time updates on all of their official channels. Buffer’s nimble, distributed team came together on Hangouts on a Saturday afternoon and live-blogged developments as their engineers worked behind the scenes to fix the hack and restore services.

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AI, Blockchain, Web 2.0, and Self Driving Cars

View from Seed

If nothing else, it definitely gave me pause and made my think that I might be missing something profound. Is there a means of efficient distribution amidst the noise? Will new, native distribution channels emerge? However, it was hard to ignore the volume of technical talent gravitating towards blockchain projects.

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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

Both Sides of the Table

Traditional video had very high costs of distribution due to limited time slots of broadcast TV (we only had enough spectrum to support 3-4 channels). The number of channels grew with cable & satellite TV but we still have limitations that makes distributing content high. But distribution is now unlimited.

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9 Business Model Components For New Business Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

Channels have to be identified through which a startup creates awareness, induces evaluation, enables purchase, and executes the delivery of the value proposition. Investors will demand clear channel definitions. Secondary assets, such as desks and computers, can be ignored at the funding stage. Customer relationships.

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2023-2024 B2B SaaS Benchmarks

VC Cafe

This post explores the most important benchmarks VCs look for in B2B SaaS with data brought to you by 20VC/La Famiglia, Serena Capital, Emergence Capital, and Openview Ventures, providing definitions and insights into the most critical metrics for SaaS companies. User Activation : Defining and measuring activation metrics is crucial.

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6 “Shark Tank” Questions Every Business Owner Should Be Able To Answer

YoungUpstarts

No shark wants to invest in a company that has no definite marketing plan–no marketing, no business! Shark Question #6: How does your product get from origin to destination? Perform a thorough review of your company’s supply chain management (SCM) system. This can improve operations, lower costs, and reduce wasted time and effort.

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Why Build, Measure, Learn – isn’t just throwing things against the wall to see if they work

Steve Blank

Learning could be about product features, customer needs, the right pricing and distribution channel, etc.) These hypotheses span the gamut from who’s the customer(s), to what’s the value proposition (product/service features), pricing, distribution channel, and demand creation (customer acquisition, activation, retention, etc.).

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