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Four Winning Strategies from Series Seed to Series A

Genuine VC

A couple years ago, my partner Lee penned a blog post about the milestone benchmarks for startups raising a Series A round of financing. Showing eye-opening demand, even if it’s just a proxy for the eventual business, helps alleviate those concerns. For B2B startups especially, revenue is the best signal of product-market fit.

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Why Startups Die

The Next Web

I have heard many founders — even in the first few months of product development — expect to raise seed rounds, pay themselves salaries, etc. It can be very tempting to take in a little bit of seed capital, and start to operate as if you’re a big company. This simply is not the right attitude.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

What is the best advice you can give for finding a business partner? Don’t quickly choose any business partner. what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project?