Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Intellectual property is also often the largest element of early-stage company valuations for professional investors. If this is your first time around, find a partner who has “been there and done that” to balance your passion and bring experience to the team. Even viral marketing costs real money and time.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

As I ask questions to understand the thinking, what usually comes out is something vague along the lines of web marketing, and/or viral growth with no numbers attached. A quick look around all the B2C startups shows that, although viral growth is often hoped for, in reality it is extremely rare.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Intellectual property is also often the largest element of early-stage company valuations for professional investors. If this is your first time around, find a partner who has “been there and done that” to balance your passion and bring experience to the team. Even viral marketing costs real money and time.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 26, 2014

He mentors young startups at Singapore Management University and True Incube Thailand , a 500 Startups Partner. Rely on cheaper forms of marketing : Blogging, email, viral tactics etc. Getting your app’s content posted through a major distribution channel exposes more people to your app and results in more users trying your app out.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

One question that keeps coming up when speaking with early stage entrepreneurs when it comes to funding, is what metrics the company needs to hit to raise seed/series A/B etc: What’s a good conversion rate? Deep tech is harder to measure/compare, especially in the early stage. What should our MRR growth be?

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The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

This post is about choosing the right sales strategy and channels for your startup from the start. Being an engineer, I built myself a kind of algorithm that helps determine an early-­stage startup’s sales channels, and that’s what I’m sharing with you today. Step 2: Choose your sales channels.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But in business, you want a lot of partners. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. A tool like Quuu identifies relevant, shareable content to keep your social media channels active. .

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

This is a little harder to do for channel sales, but still extremely valuable. Like you I believe, that businesses who deliver information rich (highly configurable OR customizable) products & services via online channels REQUIRE the understanding of their KEY LEVERs if they are going to be successful.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 26, 2021

If that’s the case, it’s essential that that founder and the CEO have a very tight relationship and coordinate closely to avoid allowing members of the organization to use that alternate channel to the board to get around the CEO’s decisions. In both cases, the correct goal is to partner with the CEO to help the company achieve its goals.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

This episode explores how to think about growth in turbulent times, according two growth experts: a16z general partner Andrew Chen, who previously led the growth team at Uber, and Brian Balfour, formerly the VP of Growth at HubSpot, now the founder and CEO of Reforge, a masterclass in growth strategies.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Mastering your pitch to a VC, prospective customers, new hires or partners is part art and part science. For this type of model, I would like to understand how the number of inbounds is scaling with the activities and how much virality there is in the model as the word spreads out in the community SMB door to door sales (e.g.,

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Growth Hacking isn’t viral marketing (although viral marketing is part of it). and answers with A/B tests, landing pages, viral factor, email deliverability, and Open Graph. If a startup is pre-product/market fit, growth hackers can make sure virality is embedded at the core of a product.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

In the tactics section, list your sales channels and describe how you will be selling your products. List key partners and resources you will need, and then list your core team as well as their roles. List key partners and resources you will need, and then list your core team as well as their roles. The business model.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, March 13, 2009 Dont launch Heres a common question I get from startups, especially in the early stages: when should we launch? This is the usual reason given for a marketing launch, but for most early stage startups, its a failure. Establish credibility with potential partners.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 19, 2021

On many boards, both the CEO and CFO have direct channels with the board so that they can provide the yin and yang (in a well-coordinated way). They might both be accomplished writers or editors, but for a particular project, each partner focuses on a single role, and their different foci make the partnership stronger.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

No doubt early-stage companies can be started on a shoestring by low-paid entrepreneurs, but when financing a scalable, sustainable product, a free application server won’t make much of a difference. In fact, it’s barely even the beginning for most companies in their seed stage financings.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Luckily, I teach with two great VCs, Mar Hershenson of Pear Ventures and Jeff Epstein of Bessemer Venture Partners who both put together presentations unraveling the mysteries of how and why startups raise money. For startups the early stage funding landscape looks like this: Step 1: The Pre-seed round – you raise $100-$750K.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Now more than ever, social media channels are increasingly the norm, so further investing in community activities like meet-ups and workshops can add a face-to-face element — one that is extremely valuable. Also consider an area for its potential business partners (software integrators, resellers, etc.) All Rights Reserved.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Not to mention, early-stage startups usually only employ a few people focused on product and development. Subscribe to the Business channel. viral video. Global Syndication Partners. Therefore, marketing and public relations are often tackled piecemeal by whomever has time. Public Relations. 227 followers.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

While the CAC ratio helps SaaS businesses at scale to manage their Sales and Marketing spend, the SLC is a helpful framework for early stage businesses before you have meaningful data. Ramping up too quickly will burn precious cash reserve and could sink the business. Philippe Botteri. Bessemer SaaS Law #5.

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mashable.com

MARCH 24, 2011

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Mashable Mashable reached out to angels, seed stage investors and VC firm partners and asked them to share their wisdom with the rest of us. Here’s an overview: Mitch Kapor: Kapor is founding partner of Kapor Capital , a firm that invests in seed and early stage startups.

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sharkseo.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

While those initial links will be very useful in sending traffic your way in the early stage, they can be massive useful later by allowing search engines to find your site and gain authority and link value. Aaron Wall, SEO Book Add a free feature which is accessible, useful, and spreads virally. Pure brilliance.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

simply arent crucial to success or failure, and for an early stage startup that means they were wastes of time — you could have done 10x more with that same amount of time and resources." — Jonathan Wegener , Founder, Timehop and ExitStrategy. Assuming Virality. "A Services dont spontaneously go viral.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Naming can be one of the most difficult challenges in the early stages of a startup. ” The name is important for discoverability , whether in Google searches (10% to 50%+ of site traffic, depending on the category), the App Store (especially painful in iOS6) and other text-based discovery channels. Top From Our Partners.

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