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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 1) Manage the firm .

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How Much Do SaaS Companies Spend on Their MVPs?

ConversionXL

Running comparative calculations, Arsenault figures that “two senior engineers plus a product manager/marketer for 40 hours per month, times 6 months, would be 720 hours to get to our MVP. now has 350+ customers who spend between $6k to $17k a year to use their software, depending on the size of the company. Qualified.io

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Options about your Options – How to think through your company’s option program

VC Adventure

The data change over time and, frankly, I’m less interested in debating what % grant your Director of Product Management should receive given your stage of company and capital raised, and more interested in the structure of your program. I’m also not going to give option bands for various positions.

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue. Vlad is also the CEO at DarwinApps , a software development shop.

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How Much Do SaaS Companies Spend on Their MVPs?

ConversionXL

Running comparative calculations, Arsenault figures that “two senior engineers plus a product manager/marketer for 40 hours per month, times 6 months, would be 720 hours to get to our MVP. now has 350+ customers who spend between $6k to $17k a year to use their software, depending on the size of the company. Qualified.io

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Organizational Debt is like Technical debt – but worse

Steve Blank

But over time code/hardware written/built to validate hypotheses and find early customers can become unwieldy, difficult to maintain and incapable of scaling. You fix technical debt by refactoring , going into the existing code and “cleaning it up” by restructuring it. Organizational debt was coming due. the company had.

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5 UX Hacks That Can Immediately Increase Revenue

ConversionXL

Managing shopper experience for medium-sized eCommerce businesses presents a lot of opportunities for conversion testing, and the ability to see real and immediate revenue results when tests are successful. to Zip, City and State.

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