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Four Winning Strategies from Series Seed to Series A

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Generate Real Revenue. For B2B startups especially, revenue is the best signal of product-market fit. We’ve seen that exceeding a $1M revenue run-rate – however (liberally) defined – seems to be a magic threshold to attract serious Series A attention.

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Two Decade-Defining Acquisitions? Then (Google) & Now (Apple)

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Obviously this moniker lives on in Google’s ad network, Adsense for Content, which serves as a base for a significant chunk of Google’s revenue today. This startup had a little technology called AdSense which allowed for the presentation of contextually relevant ads on a set of distributed publisher sites.

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Two Decade-Defining Acquisitions? Then (Google) & Now (Apple)

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Obviously this moniker lives on in Google’s ad network, Adsense for Content, which serves as a base for a significant chunk of Google’s revenue today. This startup had a little technology called AdSense which allowed for the presentation of contextually relevant ads on a set of distributed publisher sites.

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How to Find the Perfect Startup Job: Part I "Start with 'When'"

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Yet the company hasn’t figured out product-market fit yet, hasn’t figured out its customer proposition, doesn’t have revenue… it doesn’t have traction. And that derisking is only for 12 +/- 6 months.

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Our Investment in tapCommerce is the Real Deal

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Our latest investment at NextView Ventures , tapCommerce, is dedicated to helping mobile brands to deliver customers, revenue, and ROI across mobile devices. And it’s further exasperated by technical obstacles (e.g. lack of cookies) and unique decision tradeoffs (e.g.

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The Swinging Pendulum Between Distribution and Monetization

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After the crash at the end of the last decade, web startups clamped down to focus on their core value proposition and were forced out of necessity for survival to hone their revenue models. The stories of tremendous growth in adoption with the promise of revenue later on has been enough to excite both entrepreneurs alike.

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The Swinging Pendulum Between Distribution and Monetization

Genuine VC

After the crash at the end of the last decade, web startups clamped down to focus on their core value proposition and were forced out of necessity for survival to hone their revenue models. The stories of tremendous growth in adoption with the promise of revenue later on has been enough to excite both entrepreneurs alike.