ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2024

In a progressively saturated market, these startups need to reevaluate their strategies and wisely distribute resources to remain competitive and sustainable amidst the demands of investors and well-established competitors.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 30, 2018

Many VCs will have a distribution curve where they’ll do a small number of early-stage deals (say $1.5–3 3 million invested at a $6–10m pre-money), a larger number of “down the fairway” deals ($4–5 million at a $15–25 million pre) and a few later-stage deals (say $8–10 million at a $30–40 million pre).Of There are some simple reasons.

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

A much better analysis would be ‘if we do not secure this distribution agreement, the market share we can achieve by this date will be halved.’. To identify sensitivities here, you need to comprehensively challenge your assumptions about demand, sales cycles, etc. Define ‘Expected Case’, ‘Worst Case’ and ‘Best Case’.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. The Customer Development process (and the Lean Startup) is one way to do that.

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