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Knowing When It’s Time To Sell Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

by Christopher Wallace, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Amsterdam Printing. A volatile stock market and economic recession have since changed much of this thinking. When Amazon came knocking in 2009, they had been modestly profitable for only two years. Large market share, limited competition and high barrier to entry.

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The Pre-Seed FAQ

K9 Ventures

It is what Seed used to be from 2009-2013, until the Seed rounds got fat and bloated and the bar for raising a Seed round became a lot higher. Seed is the new Series A. (~$2M used get for building product, establishing product-market fit and early revenue). Q: How are most Pre-Seed deals structured? Q: Define Pre-Seed?

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

Labels: SaaS , sales and marketing , software. For example, you can provide a solution to automate marketing, but if the customer doesnt know some key best practices for how to effectively market online, then its unlikely that theyll get a lot of value out of a marketing automation solution. Posted by Philippe Botteri.