ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Product marketing informs strategic positioning and ensures alignment across the company. It partners with sales to close more revenue, informs product teams to deliver better products, and in some cases, co-owns demand generation activities with marketing teams. Product marketing uncovers where to play and how to win.

Marketing 110

Marketing Product Audience Equity 110

Up and Running

MARCH 24, 2021

This requires you to take what you’ve learned during your market analysis to develop a market penetration strategy for your business. So, what exactly is a market penetration strategy and how do you develop one? By using your research to develop a market penetration strategy. Market penetration definition.

Software Review 146

Software Review Marketing Campaign Forecast 146

David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

This structure offers some of the benefits of traditional equity VC, without some of the negatives of equity VC. I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. We have a special program if you are pre-seed and need product development.

Revenue 60

Revenue Technical Review Software Review Equity 60

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2021

Angel investors and venture capitalists are looking for startups with real products and a proven business model, ready to scale. Yet I still get too many business plans that clearly are looking for money to do research and development (R&D) on a new and unproven technology. Specialized VCs start to jump in at this stage.

Early Stage 412

Early Stage Angel Investor Incubator Government 412

View from Seed

MARCH 24, 2021

” Below are our favorite pieces from the past few years, divided in to a few key categories: fundraising, company building, product development, industry trends, and the life of a VC. 7 Common Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make in VC Pitches and How to Fix Them “Different partners in a VC firm are different.

Seed Stage 177

Seed Stage Hiring IPO Analytics 177

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

This term refers to an initial venture-capital investment, often wrongly sought to seed early product development. In fact, most often, it is limited to seeding a startup business rollout or scale-up after development is completed from friends and family. Sweat equity. Equity crowdfunding. Seed-round investment.

Software Review 120

Software Review Sweat Equity Accredited Investor Angel Investor 120

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

Understanding where your VC partner sits in their respective fund and where their fund is in the cycle of its investment lifecycle will help you understand your VCs behavior. You may know how much to pay in cash or equity for your new VP Engineering. What Rob wrote in his post is right. Send Text messaging for rapid responses.

Advisory Board 365

Advisory Board CTO Hire Fractional CTO Los Angeles 365

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2015

In fact, an entrepreneur friend of mine, who made millions on her marketing expertise, asserted recently that most inventors fail in business because they refuse to believe that any business expertise or experience is worth more than 5 percent in partner equity. Most founders bootstrap product development.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Intellectual Property Cofounder Bootstrapping 120

Steve Blank

MARCH 16, 2016

But startups require money upfront for product development and later to scale. Risk capital takes equity (stock ownership) in your company instead of debt (loans) in exchange for cash. At its core Venture Capital is nothing more than a small portion of the Private Equity financial asset class. The Deal With the Devil.

Liquidity Event 120

Liquidity Event Founder Liquidation Preference Venture Capital 120

blog.nahurst.com

JULY 19, 2010

This covers one of the most common situations I encounter: For a pre-funding web startup whose team includes only a non-technical cofounder, how much equity should an incoming technical cofounder get? This is an area that varies widely and can significantly impact how much equity a technical cofounder receives (if they take more salary).

Technical Cofounder 43

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Equity Salary 43

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2022

By establishing a company dedicated to inventive and speedy product development, I am able to use cutting-edge technologies and consistently innovate faster than competitors. I'd want to emphasize that you can develop a business but, if you want to be known long after you've passed away, you can build a brand that lasts generations.

Entrepreneur 112

Entrepreneur Technical Review Software Review Non-Compete 112

blog.aparttimecto.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Unless you’re fortunate to have one or more technical founders, you’ll quickly be faced with this simple question: Do we hack out a prototype somehow, find a developer or outsource the development? Flexibility - You won’t need to commit to something, either cash, equity or involving other people, upfront.

CTO Hire 40

CTO Hire Fractional CTO Equity Vesting 40

The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 10, 2020

See below for a good description of what we like to see in deals at Forward Partners and what makes us different from other VCs. An interview with Nic Brisbourne, Forward Partners. At Forward Partners, we’ve invested massively in a team of people to support our portfolio companies – a bigger investment than any other fund in the UK.

Partner 68

Partner Early Stage Portfolio Metrics 68

Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2018

by focusing on products and platforms, it has forgotten about people. Advocates for diversity and inclusion (D&I) want to see a greater commitment to inclusion in product development and diversity in global employment and hiring practices. Capital Factory hosts D&I related meetups, pitch contests, and hack-a-thons.

Technical Review 61

Technical Review Technology LLC Texas 61

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 12, 2018

Aristotle saw the potential in this $100 billion industry, and teamed up with business partner Ravi Patel. Together, they set out to build a company that was based on creating a social driven, high-quality product, with each telling a unique story. . Handmade in Greece. At its core, Ellison is a company with roots in Greece.

Greece 48

Greece Iowa Nicaragua Chicago 48

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. s helpful to find an developer tool that allows you to write html/css and renders the view in real time, so you donâ??t Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? s easier to use/develop with. Mobile Tools: If you are a web developer, you donâ??t Codeacademy.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

David Teten

MAY 1, 2013

Andrei Zimiles, President of Doctor.com (a World Accelerator domain) said, “From day one, the Doctor.com brand has been invaluable to our growth and has opened doors with many players in the market which we are now proud to call partners. Root Orange has developed a particularly innovative method for exploiting valuable domain names.

Naming 114

Naming Semantic Venture Capital Startup 114

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

This week’s guest was David Travers from Rustic Canyon Partners. The investment will be used for product development initiatives. What I found strange about this funded was the fact that it was led by Summit Partners. Investors: Summit Partners (lead), Jeff Clavier, Aydin Senkut, Gary Vaynerchuk. ShoeDazzle.

Venture Capital 270

Venture Capital Cofounder Spain San Diego 270

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

" Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea. Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life? " => I have not bothered to put up a landing page, survey to test customer demand, or done any customer development whatsoever. This person does not exist.

Developer 42

Developer Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder 42

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Over the long term, this results in numerous partners with different expectations on returns and performance. Your venture capital partners will, of course, have your company’s best financial interests at heart. Focus on Product Development First. This approach is not possible when venture funded. .

Early Stage 85

Early Stage Venture Capital Bootstrapping Pre-Money Valuation 85

The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 20, 2014

My partner Dharmesh Raithatha wrote the post below on the Forward Partners blog earlier this week. With no team and no technical expertise Matt was planning to find a team and build out some product before starting to raise some seed money. —————————-. USER RESEARCH.

Cofounder 95

Cofounder Founder Technical Cofounder Technical Review 95

The Equity Kicker

MARCH 26, 2018

In our experience, structured customer development work is right up there amongst the most valuable things a founder can do in the early days of their startup. But good customer development is tough to do. Let me use the Jobs To Be Done (JTBD) framework for product development to explain why. That’s a bad decision.

Customer 75

Customer Framework Differentiation Customer Development 75

The Next Web

OCTOBER 3, 2012

I have heard many founders — even in the first few months of product development — expect to raise seed rounds, pay themselves salaries, etc. You may not have even discovered whether a product or market is worth pursuing, but you will have already invested in scaling that pursuit.

Cofounder 155

Cofounder Technical Cofounder Technical Review Software Review 155

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

Steve is the CEO of Founders Space, one of the world’s leading startup accelerators with over 50 partners in 22 countries. One of the world's leading startup accelerators with over 50 partners in 22 countries, founder space was ranked number one, the number one incubator for overseas startups by Forbes and entrepreneur magazines.

San Francisco 97

San Francisco Technical Review Incubator Silicon Valley 97

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform. Lighthouse – Issue Tracking Tool.

Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

The company will use the funds to invest in product development, aggressively grow sales and marketing, and expand its business to new markets. Steve Murray, a partner at SoftBank Capital, will join the Bigcommerce board. The financing was led by SoftBank Capital, a venture firm affiliated with SoftBank Corp.,

Affiliate 67

Affiliate Equity eCommerce Finance 67

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 30, 2010

“We wanted to check with you in advance to let you know that we are working on development of our latest. First off, when you have a product launched, even something raw, it's so much easier to keep a product conversation going versus a fundraising one. A lot of startups, however, don't seem to realize this.

Technical Review 106

Technical Review Due Diligence Venture Capital Later Stage 106

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

List key partners and resources you will need, and then list your core team as well as their roles. List key partners and resources you will need, and then list your core team as well as their roles. Another great way to test your idea is to create a minimum viable product, or MVP. Brand to clarify your vision.

Software Review 74

Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

bhargreaves.com

MARCH 7, 2010

Many capable founders aren’t developers, and I frequently meet with entrepreneurs that have taken a very different path. Most disturbingly, I’ve occasionally found myself agreeing with an entrepreneur’s decision to hire a development shop to build their product. Sometimes, it just makes sense.

Hiring 40

Hiring Technical Review Agile Software Review 40

infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Instead of hearing from your long lost third-cousin, you will be inundated with an avalanche of ‘congratulatory’ emails, calls and letters from people who want to relieve you of the burden of your hard-earned equity round. Such positions include: PR, Sales, Product Development, Lead Generation, Strategic Planning, Fund Raising, etc.

Equity 40

Equity Silicon Valley Cofounder Technical Review 40

YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2016

Most of the startups we talk to have invested a lot of time and most, if not all, of their funds developing prototypes, but they still need a lot of help to get to market. Or maybe your smart device has had a successful launch on a crowdfunding site, thanks to your IoT supply partner.

Artificial Inteligence 100

Artificial Inteligence China Incubator Startup 100

Up and Running

JANUARY 30, 2014

My partner is a full-time developer and math teacher, and I’m an engineer. Marketing the site and creating a business behind the product proved much more challenging. An accelerator usually offers a small amount of capital, office space, and mentorship in exchange for a small amount of equity, usually less than 10 percent.

Incubator 105

Incubator New York City Venture Capital Startup 105

The Startup Toolkit

JANUARY 10, 2017

Partners can break their contracts. A friend had an amicable breakup with a cofounder who wanted to leave and gave him a full extra year of vested equity as a token of goodwill for all his hard work. But because they have equity, cofounder screwings are different. Two thoughts: First, they’ve earned that equity.

Cofounder 20

Cofounder Technical Review Vesting Ratchet 20

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

After graduating college, I spent several years on Wall Street, first at a large investment bank working on M&A for large corporate clients, then as a private equity professional helping invest hundreds of millions of dollars in private companies. My partner and I also have daily check-ins to discuss more immediate matters.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Acquisition B2B Partner 60

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

TinyTap , an Israeli start-up that has developed an educational app platform based on user-generated content, was one of three top-prize winners at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The report suggests dramatic increases in venture capital-backed exits, in average deal size, and in average return-on-equity ratios.

Las Vegas 92

Las Vegas India San Francisco 92

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

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?

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

3d - developer, designer and distributor. You can argue that the DNA created by Microsoft's over emphasis on distribution (Steve) and development (Bill), has ultimately cost it $50bn or more in lost revenue, market share and market capitalization. They are many more examples. They are indispensable and the foundation for success.

Technical Review 51

Technical Review Startup CTO Hire Cofounder 51