Genuine VC

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

The famed business strategist Michael Porter described a set of successful general strategies which firms employ to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage: differentiation strategy and cost leadership strategy for those firms with a broad market scope, and a segmentation strategy for those with a narrow market scope.

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Genuine VC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

To top it off, there was a dispute about the final cost given the scope of work. And not surprisingly, the most salient reasons that these items are given more consideration are that the cost are higher, they often take up more space in a person’s life/house, and they’re experienced over a longer duration.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 13, 2014

On top of it, there are coordination costs in communicating and politicking internally, especially in the larger firms, which can delay things further. Partners who would be interested in a potential investment are distracted by other new investments, portfolio companies, and personal matters.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 24, 2014

The five conditions for a Series A financing which he enumerated are: a core team ready to scale, demonstrable market size, repeatable cost effective customer acquisition, metric momentum, and plausible monetization. But unfortunately these are neither necessary nor sufficient for raising that round, and are instead merely guideposts.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 3, 2013

Look back to the reasons why there was a Cambrian explosion of seed funding in the first place – a dramatic reduction in the initial capital requirements to launch a new company because of cloud hosting infrastructure, social graph distribution platforms, open source and low-cost development tools/methods, etc.

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Genuine VC

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

With recruiting especially, it is important to sell reality amplified , not sell at all costs. But earlier in a startup’s life there exists a real delicate balance in setting expectations for new people joining the company.

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Genuine VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

And not surprisingly, the most salient reasons that these items are given more consideration are that the cost are higher, they often take up more space in a person’s life/house, and they’re experienced over a longer duration.

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