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JANUARY 24, 2018

For this reason, we’ve partnered with Guild members who have experience across different kinds of customers, business models, and distribution channels. Fareed Mosavat is the product lead for Upgrades and Expansion at Slack, focused on revenue growth for Slack’s small business customers. Back to Top).

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Operations Cofounder Technical Review Angel Investor 176

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

In two cases, these businesses were doing significant early revenue ($500K/month+), so could be considered “post-seed”, although both of these companies had not raised significant institutional capital before we led their rounds. Of the last 15 investments we’ve made, 8 have been pre-product or pre-seed style rounds.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Any of those changes would require a wholesale revolution in the way we distribute and measure value and work. Because our economy is now so vast, up to 19 trillion dollars, up 4 Trillion in the last 10 years alone, a value added tax would generate almost a trillion dollars in revenue.

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Conversion Alaska Dividend El Salvador 196

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APRIL 23, 2015

However … An unfortunate side effect of this particular POTAJ is that, in many startup pitches, entrepreneurs focus so much on product or tech that they leave out one crucial, deal-making-or-breaking detail: distribution. ” Founders must address distribution in their pitches both overtly and succinctly.

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Founder Distribution Viral Seed Stage 120

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AUGUST 27, 2014

” Instead of “repackage long form pieces into smaller projects to be distributed around the web,” you should say “find creative ways to produce related pieces across many mediums and channels.” ” These subtle differences focus on the process itself , rather than the end result.

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DECEMBER 6, 2018

But increasingly, seed and series A rounds are raised for companies that have some product in market, if not significant revenue. Without traction, this is some combination of team, distribution, and some collection of unique assets that give you an unfair advantage. This is different if you are a pre-launch company, obviously.

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JUNE 30, 2015

Over a third of our investments happen pre-product (so by definition, before PMF), and two-thirds are pre-revenue. For a marketplace or ecommerce business, you need to be doing well north of $5M in annual revenue or GMV to get an A round done. FWIW, at NextView, we invest from inception to strong PMF.

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