VC Cafe
JULY 26, 2020
But when it comes to launching a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) these days, as incremental and iterative prototypes, things have changed significantly: Capital abundance: There’s never been more seed capital in the market. Capital resources alone don’t do the trick. Cash (alone) isn’t king.
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). What was Bill Gross’s heretical idea as portrayed to the tech elite? Many of the early winners sold for north of a half a billion dollars.
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View from Seed
SEPTEMBER 11, 2019
For consumer companies this is usually around user acquisition, engagement, and retention. If in the long run your B2C business is likely to have an ad-based revenue model, the ability to acquire a large number of users at zero or extraordinarily low cost is critical. Once you cross the chasm of launching v1.0,
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 25, 2021
A provider of low-cost health clinics across the country, Carbon Health was also on the frontlines when the COVID pandemic hit--and even understood what was coming long before most people in the U.S. Carbon Health is a provider of low-cost health clinics across the country. We had to raise some seed capital.
maplebutter.com
JANUARY 8, 2013
Product/Metrics (70%/30% time) * Get your product activation (sign-up + meaningful action) to 60% * then, Get your product retention to 20% weekly. Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost. It all depends on where you’re at. They care about real product.
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