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The evolution of early stage investing in the UK

The Equity Kicker

Two developments have changed the face of startup investing in the UK in recent years. The first development is increased capital efficiency. The second development is SEIS and EIS. However, finding and assessing investment opportunities is still a difficult and time consuming business.

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Snyk: How Freemium Can Help Your Start-up Grow from Series A to $2.6B in 30 Months

Cracking the Code

Snyk was founded with the mission to help developers make their code secure, providing a platform to automatically assess and remediate open source vulnerabilities. The company’s success has been largely driven by its developer-led freemium model, going from Series A funding to a valuation of $2.6B in just 30 months.

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The Stealth Mode: Trada’s Position on Staying Stealth

trada.com

He noted that Chris Dixon ( @cdixon ) of Hunch tweeted, “New early-stage start up trend: get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors.&# Once you’re doing this you’re not optimizing your own strategy anymore, you’re optimizing against the market’s current valuation of the strategies it sees.

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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

www.forentrepreneurs.com

Think about your own behavior: if you are like me, you hate having to deal with sales people, and greatly prefer to do your own research starting with search engines, and leveraging free trials, on-line videos, blogs, reviews, and your social network. We're basically using 1 developer to make the product happen and its just a mess.

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The Playbook for Scale Up Nation

Seeing Both Sides

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. Only a handful of so-called unicorns — companies that have achieved a valuation of over $1 billion in the last 10 years — come from Israel, and only one Israeli firm, Teva, ranks in the world’s 500 largest companies by market capitalization.