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Growthink Blog
DECEMBER 27, 2017
Demonstrate your team’s unique unfair competitive advantage, whether it is technology, stellar management team, or key partnerships. Be prepared for due diligence. It’s critical that the data you present is verifiable, since any serious investor will conduct extensive due diligence. Don’t just list competitors.
Steve Blank
APRIL 10, 2019
A version of this article first appeared in the Harvard Business Review. In tech startups stock options were here almost from the beginning, first offered to the founders in 1957 at Fairchild Semiconductor , the first chip startup in Silicon Valley. VC’s have just changed the ~50-year old social contract with startup employees.
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Ben's Blog
MAY 24, 2021
The value of mutual fund investments in private tech companies was estimated at just north of $7 billion in 2016, or about.05% Before offering some suggestions about how we might improve capital formation, I’d like to review the current state of the IPO market. 1999-2000 51.6% 05% of total US mutual fund assets. 1990-1998 13.3%
ConversionXL
APRIL 30, 2019
In an experiment conducted to study the effects of product expectations on subjective usability ratings, participants read a positive or a negative product review for a novel mobile device before a usability test. Positive product reviews primed users to have a more positive experience, even when they failed to complete an assigned task.
abovethecrowd.com
OCTOBER 17, 2013
Despite Benchmark’s strong association with ecommerce during the late 1990’s due to the success of companies like eBay, we have not been particularly active in ecommerce in the past several years. In addition to market concerns, I had the unique experience of working with Dan Nordstrom and the team at Nordstrom.com in August of 1999.
SVPG
SEPTEMBER 30, 2016
I’ve had the opportunity to work with many impressive teams and product managers from a broad range of leading tech companies, and this has helped me to get a better sense of the what is essential to the role, and to success. Even worse, DVD sales were starting to lag, and a Hollywood backlash further muddied the situation.
David Teten
JANUARY 13, 2015
Fundraising is always difficult for all founders; the median PE/VC fund sources and reviews 87 companies before investing in 1. That sales process is harder when strangers are biased against people like you. Technically yes. You can accelerate your sales process by leveraging potential candidates’ digital footprints.
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