Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

When you’re an early-stage startup that hasn’t raised any institutional money you end up doing almost every job function of the company yourself. I had an MBA, had done a few years of strategy consulting and knew all of the management theory. We had 6 developers, 1 head of product management, 1 QA in India and me.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 5, 2016

For early stage companies, the stakes are even higher, and finding a great country manager is the single most important element of a successful launch. Making an acqui-hire successful If successfully executed, combining resources from an acqui-hire will save years of work while broadening the technical and talent bench.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2018

However, you’ll also need a steady flow of funds, especially in the early stages, to turn those ideas into reality. Funding is crucial for improving technology, hiring the right people, and launching a comprehensive marketing strategy to get a foothold in the market. Spend wisely on tech. Finding the right funding option.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Jacqueline asked an important question: how do you mitigate your working capital challenges in an e-commerce company at the very early stages without raising financing? First, there are two primary aspects that have to be managed: inventory financing and customer acquisition costs. Well, there are multiple nuances to the answer.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Brad has had some success in working with retailers as well, but I advised him to be careful about the cash flow management. Then Dhana Cohen pitched TheNextBigZing.com where she has collected various merchants with video reviews of products. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

She writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In over 100 roundtables, I have personally coached more than 400 early-stage entrepreneurs.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Cloud-based legal records management, digitization, archival, retrieval. Charge-back accounting solution for large enterprises deploying cloud technologies. Jim Dunlap, CIO of Alaska Telecom discussed with me the increasingly serious problem that telecom vendors are facing due to bandwidth consumption skyrocketing.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Well, I have coached early stage entrepreneurs for a couple of years now - diligently, patiently - and have learned a few things. The first step is to develop some reference customers, something all early-stage startups should do. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley.

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Scalable Startup

JANUARY 15, 2015

I’m a startup growth consultant who started a digital marketing + web development agency due to such high demand from my startup clients. I’ve found the best way to do this is to manage the projects daily. Hire them 8 hours at a time and review daily by skype, g hangout.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

I still wanted K9 to be the first institutional money in a company and work with “frighteningly early-stage” companies. Your early stage investment portfolio may no longer really be early stage. The management fee structure provides a perverse incentive to GPs to increase the size of their funds.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

At today's roundtable we had some interesting companies and a lot of fundraising discussions, and I will review them shortly. Bottom line, early stage equity is very, very expensive. Then Liana Thompson pitched Trendy Loot , a very early stage deal site for low-end jewelry. We will work on that with her.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. Task Management. Project Management Tools. Girls in Tech. Subscription Payments / Management. Managing APIs. Seed Startups.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Then Kristen Becker presented Kir Devries , an e-commerce site that offers a well-edited collection of unique goods for practical everyday living that have been sourced due to their impeccable craftsmanship, unique design and style, and their "good factor" in the moderate price range. Kir Devries. Photo by takatuka.

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David Teten

APRIL 6, 2015

The industry standard metric for tracking the severity of disease is disability-adjusted life years ( DALYs ), i.e., the number of healthy life years lost due to the disease or risk. Thanks also to an anonymous friend in the healthcare research industry for thoughtful review of this article. Diseases with strong lobbies (e.g.,

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

This time around, there has been an explosion at the early stages, and the very late pre-IPO growth stages. “The tech industry creates roughly 10 awesome companies per year,” he says. “Founders don’t think their problems are due to trends. In fact, if anything, there are fewer.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

If you are in the very early stages with your company and there are no major reasons (e.g. Not literally, but one big surprise to me was that in the 40 odd investor meetings I had, I managed to open the deck probably only 5-10 times. Start with a short (a few weeks) trip to SV and attend all the tech events there.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tech Gadgets Mobile Enterprise GreenTech CrunchBase TechCrunch TV Disrupt SF More TechCrunch TV Beta Invites Crunchies Elevator Pitches Gillmor Gang Podcasts TechCrunch Europe TechCrunch Trends TechCrunch France TechCrunch Japan Whats Hot: Android Apple Facebook Google Microsoft Twitter Yahoo Zynga Subscribe: From Nothing To Something.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013. until the late-stage go-to-market phase may be too late. as early as a year or two after founding. We think so.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I have the knowledge in tech to implement it. If you’re looking for technical talent – go to the dev meetups. 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?

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Non-Technical Co-Founders Co-Founders Technical Co-founders Finding Co-Founders Startups & "How Important Are Ideas?" Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? " Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

The top performing SaaS companies typically achieve annual customer renewal rates above 90% - with most of the churn due to death (bankruptcies) or marriage (acquisitions) - and over 100% renewals on a dollar value basis due to up-sells into this installed base. Cashflow is the other key metric. Philippe Botteri.

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Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Through the Entrepreneur Journeys project, I have come to conclude that the most vulnerable phase in an entrepreneur’s life is the pre-$1 million revenue stage. In my roundtables, the vast majority of entrepreneurs I work with are in this rather vulnerable pre $1 million revenue stage. This is where numerous ventures fail.

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