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Product-Led Growth (PLG) For Startups

Mucker Lab

Hila Qu joined Mucker’s Tony Yang for an Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) conversation about Product-Led Growth (PLG) for Startups to kickoff the 2023 Mucker Growth Series. The success of the foundation is can you get to the first PLG conversion and actually have a user or prospective customer without talking to sales? That’s the success.

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An Alternative to Board Decks Some Seed VCs Actually Prefer

View from Seed

Over the summer, based on feedback from our portfolio and the broader startup community, NextView created pre-formatted board deck templates for seed-stage startups — part of our Growth Guides series. As Rob Go wrote , board decks and board meetings can waste loads of time at the seed stage.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.

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Keep It Under Your Hat: Valuation Caps and the $650 Million Sale of MySpace for $125 Million

Gust

Entrepreneurs and investors who have spent any time dealing with convertible debt seed financing transactions are likely to have encountered the subject of valuation caps. Valuation caps can come into play in settings other than seed-stage convertible note financing rounds. of MySpace, Inc. of MySpace, Inc.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

So I generally feel right at home in these conversations. 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. In other words, they are facing conditions of extreme uncertainty, just like startups.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

customer retention, churn reduction, lifetime value. GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers. find/hire freelancers. hire low-cost international engineering talent. VWorker -Â find/hire freelancers. Seed Stage Valuation Guide. SEO Keyword Analysis Tool. Online Marketing Suites.

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Now, Next, and At Exit: The Three Ways To Evaluate Compensation Before Accepting That New Startup Job. Salary Benchmarks Are Just a Single Piece of Data.

Hunter Walker

That’s what a conversation between a job candidate and a VC are called. Now, I LOVE these conversations with possible new team members, but take a very different approach. Basically, do they think there’s room for promotion and ongoing recognition/retention compensation? ‘Sell calls.’ I don’t sell them.

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