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MARCH 11, 2020

This includes things like: Making intros to portfolio companies that are potential customers. In a way, customer intros are always good, so this could also be done earlier in the process. These are people who would vouch for you, but you only want to lean on for a small handful of high priority investors.

Technical Review 279

Technical Review Due Diligence Term Sheet Seed Stage 279

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MARCH 19, 2015

He’s dubbed the approach “ pretotyping ,” and it shares many of the same principles as both its similar-sounding (if later-stage) cousin, prototyping, as well as the more well-known lean startup movement. NVV: Lots of entrepreneurs reading this will think about the lean startup movement when they hear about pretotyping.

Product 120

Product Technical Review Marketing Lean 120

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OCTOBER 24, 2019

Some very early dollars may be required to assemble the early team, in which case I’d lean towards bringing on some angels who are willing to invest in a company at a very favorable price.

Dilution 149

Dilution B2B Burn Rate Early Stage 149

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JULY 19, 2022

Stelios has a compelling vision for nudgem that allows ecommerce merchants to gather data across the entire user journey and unify those data points to build enriched customer profiles for robust personalization.” RH: Who are your customers? ” – Melody Koh. Get to know the business.

eCommerce 156

eCommerce Greece Early Stage SMS 156

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MARCH 1, 2016

That story is how you recruit employees, convince customers to give you a shot, and secure funding. Because then, when you go back to the same capital market for your Series A, and say, “We are raising this A to do Y,” you’ll have a lot of folks leaning in. The story of your company is a major piece of what the company itself is.

Founder 120

Founder Technical Review Cofounder Non-Compete 120

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JULY 24, 2015

bijan : there’s a danger in leaning on pattern recognition. It’s about hits that can generate customers, not just hits on popular sites for the sake of ego-stroking. Like raising children, you can’t build every company the same way #BostonB2C. — Ben Yudysky (@BenYudysky) July 21, 2015.

Boston 120

Boston Cofounder B2C PR 120

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JULY 21, 2022

RH: Who are your customers? Every day we’re tasked with a new challenge to tackle, and whether it’s spending time researching on our own, brainstorming together, or leaning on the wisdom of our brilliant and expanding network, we get to be scrappy and shape an idea that we deeply believe will make the world a better place.

Early Stage 156

Early Stage San Francisco Michigan Portfolio 156