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Finding new Market Opportunities in Food Business: A Case Study of GOPA Pakistan

Where to Play

The post Finding new Market Opportunities in Food Business: A Case Study of GOPA Pakistan appeared first on Where to Play. Here is the case of a local catering business from Pakistan, applying the Market Opportunity Navigator to find new market opportunities in light of a changing environment. Step 1: Market Opportunity Set.

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Top Hat Raises $22.5M Series C in a Tough Vertical: What Can We Learn from their Success

Version One Ventures

Our portfolio company Top Hat just closed a $22.5M (USD) Series C round. And selling to institutions requires a long sales cycle. So Top Hat decided to flip their sales strategy and market/sell directly to university students and teachers. They focused on revenue early on.

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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

With COVID, we’re getting into a world with tighter budgets and likely longer sales cycles. How can a product-led sales motion help in the current environment, and how important is a freemium model to drive product-led growth? It took us longer to get into revenue, but the freemium was a real accelerator for us.

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Flyability: safe drones for inaccessible places

Where to Play

That is exactly where the Market Opportunity Navigator comes in handy. Step 1: Generating a Market Opportunity Set. Worksheet 1 – Generating the Market Opportunity Set. Their Market Opportunity Set included five options. Worksheet 2 – Evaluating market opportunity attractiveness.

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Serve It Up

Austin Startup

Is third-year revenue of $10M good or bad? Those are investments they can easily add to their portfolios. Those investors will have terms sheets at the ready, and most of them will have some pesky MBA’s who will grind through all your assumptions, models, and market data. A price of $2 per share means nothing in itself.

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Cracking The Code: Impact of the recession on SaaS.

Cracking the Code

Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing productivity. This strong recovery has highlighted the resiliency of the recurring revenue model in a downturn as well as the stength of the shift to soaftware-as-a-service and cloud computing. equivalent to a one year payback on your sales&marketing investment.

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How To Lose Fat And Gain Muscle With Venture Capital

David Teten

It also shows market white space for the smart entrepreneur. There are multiple reasons for that, but a major one is that both VC and research funding is concentrated in areas where there appears to be short-term revenues, as opposed to areas that will save more lives and quite likely generate both long-term revenues and savings for society.