View from Seed
OCTOBER 22, 2015
It doesn’t need to be extremely granular with all the minutiae of your expenses, but since employees are most often the overwhelming cost-drivers — and there aren’t too many early on in a company’s life — it’s prudent to build the expense lines on an employee by employee basis. The post How Much Seed Capital Should You Actually Raise?
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 6, 2013
Nobody wants to leave their loved ones in a cold, impersonal dog kennel not to mention the costs of doing so. Their business model was to help young companies accelerate their launch by helping assemble a team, do initial marketing, provide seed capital and help them raise financing. Supply and demand. “Oh s**t.”
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Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 8, 2014
He presented a system where your search results would be ranked based on companies bidding for placement and where merchants would be charged on a “cost per click” basis (CPC). He built & IPOd Demand Media. What was Bill Gross’s heretical idea as portrayed to the tech elite? for $565 million to Excite.
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. Showing eye-opening demand, even if it’s just a proxy for the eventual business, helps alleviate those concerns.
View from Seed
OCTOBER 21, 2014
As the seed-stage startup fundraise process has received more transparency in recent years, ranging from published advice on how to raise seed capital to increased availability through AngelList, Funders Club, and various accelerator programs, I’ve noticed another trend emerging.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 12, 2016
Most businesses – online or offline, need seed capital to get established and without access to these funds, launching a business can seem like an improbable dream. For instance, let us assume that you want to launch an Uber-like on-demand app for commercial trucks. Find marketing opportunities that does not cost money.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 1, 2014
The second is that the retailers were constrained by their high costs of local real estate and service staff relative to the costs of centralized warehouses where goods could be stacked high, sorted by robots, managed by RFIDs and then shipped via overnight to eager, cost-conscious customers across the US.
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