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APRIL 13, 2016

Today, he spends most of his time writing and speaking and is arguably the best source on the planet for learning about how startups can create landing pages that convert, whether you’re drumming up pre-launch demand or trying to keep growing meaningful revenue. unthinkablefm , or at soundcloud.com/unthinkablepod. nvsubscribe.

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JULY 19, 2022

On average, an eCommerce retailer spends 15-30% of their revenue on paid marketing channels, but in recent months, new privacy regulations, iOS 14 tracking changes and the phase out of 3rd-party cookies, have increased the cost to acquire a new customer by 155% , a trend that is expected to continue in the coming years. And your least?

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FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Since joining NextView, we’ve talked often and excitedly about the New York startup ecosystem. And it was these conversations that I believe led to the team’s decision to add their own stubborn presence to stand up for seed-stage startups in NYC … me. Buzzfeed, Vox, Vice acquired 14 startups and raised $1.5B

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FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Below, he gives an honest take about what he’d do differently and what he’d do again as a startup CEO. Rob,” he said, “no offense, but you aren’t going to get a world class, been-there-done-that CEO into a company with less than $1 million in revenue. Startups are incredibly hard. and sold to Datto in late 2014.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

As the venture capital industry has evolved, more and more seed investors are passing on traditionally “seed stage” startups because there isn’t enough traction. Belief #1: The best time to invest is early. And by early, we mean pre-traction. Of the last 15 investments we’ve made, 8 have been pre-product or pre-seed style rounds.

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MARCH 19, 2015

If you’re in the tech startup industry today, you get the sense that every one of your peers wants to take on the entire world. ” Startups launched around seemingly mundane, insular problems glow about their abilities to change the world. ” So I left Google to do another startup, Agitar Software.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2020

One of the most highly anticipated startup IPOs of recent years, we now get a peek inside Airbnb’s business. You can read various articles out there which will give you the cursory facts about Airbnb like their overall revenue or profitability or how their business has faired here in 2020 in the COVID environment.

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JANUARY 20, 2015

The startup ecosystem is often full of hyperbole, which is perfectly understandable when you think about it. Not every startup is going to “crush” their original milestones and financial projections. This is the vernacular of today’s startup ecosystem, for better or worse. Do No Harm. Don’t Blindside Them.

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JULY 22, 2020

Sometimes, the idea that growth solves all (or most) problems is widely accepted as the startup north star. Personally, it’s obvious that traction is a necessary, but not sufficient condition for startup success. Other times, growth at all costs is touted as the root of all evil. For example: Traction creates more traction.

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JULY 8, 2021

They quickly ramped to seven figure recurring revenue just a few months after that. Matthew & Michael had decided in early 2020 to build Lula in Miami, and it was interesting to watch the rapid progress of Lula in parallel with the increased prominence of the Miami startup ecosystem.

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AUGUST 30, 2016

For those of us that have been working in the startup and technology space for at least the past 10 years, these addresses mean two things. Despite that data, we don’t compete in one of the largest opportunities (in terms of sheer number of people using the product) that the startup and technology world has to offer. 1 Hacker Way.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Below, Josh talks about designing features from nothing and how to make important design choices during the pre-seed and seed-stage phases of startup growth. NVV: If a startup’s product or feature isn’t sticking, how can they tell if it’s the feature itself or if it’s the design of that feature?

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Usually, startups tend to start with a more narrow wedge that they dominate, and then move into the broader industry over time. Many startups however, are going after markets that don’t really exist, or are small but growing. Illustrating this visually can be helpful. This ties into the second topic around “why now?”.

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OCTOBER 11, 2022

And I’ve been fortunate enough to witness their startups scale from ideas to $1B+ businesses (and even an IPO in the case of Poshmark). Simply put, we can flex our check size from $400K to $4M to invest anywhere along the pre-traction to post-revenue spectrum — an abnormality and an advantage in today’s market.

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MARCH 22, 2016

However, as someone who’s spent the past several years covering startups, I can tell you absolutely what not to do. Even if you’re in the pre-revenue, pre-seed or seed stage, there are still ways to get on a reporter’s radar. That means avoiding a pitch to a software-centric publication about your biotech startup. Pitch late.

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DECEMBER 6, 2018

This was back in January 2012, a simpler time… when there was only one kind of seed round, when Series A firms invested pre-revenue, etc. The number of seed investors has increased in the last 5 years and the median startup now raises multiple chunks of seed stage capital before raising a “Series A” round.

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JULY 24, 2015

Wayfair got to $250M revenue (7 yrs) without a very good idea which products were in supplier inventory and which weren’t. Investing in first-time founders, or startups where biz model is not clear yet: “I tend not to worry about that.” Galen Moore (@galenmoore) July 21, 2015. We had a plan.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

It will become extremely apparent to entrepreneurs (and investors) when it’s happening, so that if you have to ask where you are on the curve, it’s likely a signal that the startup isn’t on the right trajectory. On absolute terms, Startup A is twice as large. Go read his post here. First, the contour.

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JULY 8, 2021

They quickly ramped to seven figure recurring revenue just a few months after that. Matthew & Michael had decided in early 2020 to build Lula in Miami , and it was interesting to watch the rapid progress of Lula in parallel with the increased prominence of the Miami startup ecosystem.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

A few potential slides which can be included in the Appendix: Exit Analysis: Not always as important during the early startup stage since an exit event is presumably in the distance away. Other Questions: Every startup is different. Which is why each investor pitch is going to yield questions which are specific to that company.

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JULY 7, 2015

If you want another me-too “Bob talks to Mary about startups,” this isn’t your show. His company is a bootstrapped startup (for now, he says) that helps other software companies price their products based on what customers will actually pay — and essentially avoid leaving revenue on the table.

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JUNE 13, 2019

Chewy has rapidly grown from a startup to a multi-billion commerce company, establishing itself as the leader in pet e-commerce. revenue business still growing >50% YoY? Chewy now has over 10 million customers, repeat purchases by existing customers account for approximately 90% of their revenue today.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The flood of seed-funded companies coupled with proliferation of seed funds willing to underwrite incremental capital into new and existing portfolio companies, has yielded a broad backlog set of “seed startups” with wild variations across the following three dimensions: 1. Seed stage startups are now graded on a curve.

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MARCH 16, 2016

Most impressively, there seems to be a thriving startup of every flavor, with many more joining the list of Pillar Startups on the Guide in 2016 compared to 2015. Look out for bootstrapped CarGurus , one of the leading used-car properties, targeting over $150M in revenue this year. To name a few: 1.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Given the common challenges encountered by founders as they navigate through this hiring decision, I thought I’d outline some of my thoughts below that can hopefully serve as a simple framework when it comes to making the first Analytics hire at your startup. Analytics vs. Finance?—?what’s what’s the difference (and what do you need)?

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

Over the summer, based on feedback from our portfolio and the broader startup community, NextView created pre-formatted board deck templates for seed-stage startups — part of our Growth Guides series. A seed-stage mobile startup’s housekeeping section might look something like this: Section 3: Core Metrics.

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MARCH 29, 2018

We wanted to learn more about the nuanced industry market forces before applying the same hands-on investing model we do with tech startups in other verticals. The venture capital market in this category is fairly concentrated among series A and expansion-stage funds that prefer to invest in companies with substantial revenue.

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JANUARY 24, 2018

Prior to joining Oscar she was involved in building products at many e-commerce startups in NYC in industries ranging from food delivery to leisure activity ticketing. 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). Back to Top).

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JUNE 23, 2022

To my surprise, people actually watched my channel and several years later I launched an eCommerce website to better monetize my channel, which became my top revenue stream. legal, bank accounts, government filings, etc) behind setting up a startup. Great documentary with so many parallels to high-growth startups and founders.

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MARCH 26, 2015

It all depends on the type of startup, the types of investors, the structure of rounds, and so on. Even if a startup needs to raise a seed extension, regardless of whether it already raised seed, some businesses need to pivot or take time to hit their stride and can still be very successful. Often, things just take time to click.

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OCTOBER 22, 2015

So fundraising time needs to be taken into account, as well as potential offsetting of expenses by revenue, though here, the most conservative of estimates is best. I suspect that the 18-month rule originated because that’s the approximate average time it takes for startups to reach an important value-inflection milestone.

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JANUARY 26, 2016

It’s become increasingly common for startups to raise several seed rounds, and this has led to a bifurcation in the seed stage between what are known as “pre-seed” (or “genesis”) and institutional seed rounds. The entire funding progression of startups pushed out to the right.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Like many things in life, the VC/startup ecosystem is one of cycles. But let’s look back at the last decade in VC-backed startups… it’s easy to forget how predominant mindsets change throughout the cycle. VC funding for startups is drying up quickly. Year over year revenue growth rates are measured in multiples not percentages.

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MARCH 15, 2017

VC evaluation of seed-stage startups can seem arbitrary or imitative at times. Internally, the scarcity of tangible business metrics – product usage or revenue multiples for example – can make an investment decision feel daunting. Any seed stage company’s strategy is a constant work-in-progress.

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MAY 27, 2015

Everyone likes to say that startups should do things that don’t scale. So, given the general topics of most startup podcasts and our goal to be more narrowly focused, here are examples of what we WON’T discuss: What’s the latest trend in drones? How do you even build a brand as a startup? So we wondered – what ARE those things?

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Most startups don’t have the luxury of hiring an experienced PM early in their journey. growth/revenue target) to get to the next stage/financing round. This is a common challenge for companies of all sizes/stages, but the tradeoff could be especially tricky for early-stage startups given the extremely limited engineering resources.

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AUGUST 27, 2014

The best writer I ever hired at a startup wasn’t a former journalist. The best writer I ever hired at a startup didn’t have a resume. The best writer I ever hired at a startup is trying to work at your startup all the time, but 99 out of 100 times, you pass. I should know — I almost did.

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