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Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

So you’re interested in raising capital from a Revenue-Based Investor VC. A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors (“RBI”) are emerging. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. We have a special program if you are pre-seed and need product development.

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FullContact Continues Its Journey To Solve The Contact Management Problem

Feld Thoughts

When we invested in FullContact in 2012, they were a small team with a big vision to create One Address Book To Rule Them All. They followed this up with two acquisitions – first Conspire and then Profoundis. At the essence of the approach is a focus on two things – acquiring people and product.

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How to Build a Product Launch Strategy

ConversionXL

In this article, we’ll explain how to build a resilient product launch strategy that survives a non-linear journey. We’ll also share when to transition to the growth stage in the product lifecycle so you can drive conversions and revenue off your momentum. Maturity: The height of your product’s adoption and profitability.

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Freemium vs. Free Trial: Which Gets You More Paying Customers (Not Just Freeloaders)?

ConversionXL

Freemium and free-trial signups have one thing in common: Neither generates revenue. This post details the freemium and free-trial models and considers the key questions—about your business, your market, and your product—that guide you toward the best option. To generate that financial support, a SaaS product needs mass appeal.

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Don’t Mess Up Tumblr: Five Lessons Learned from YouTube

Hunter Walker

Being one of the first Googlers to join YouTube after the acquisition taught me a lot about what works, and doesn’t work, when you bring a fast growing community property into a larger entity. I don’t know David Karp but we share a number of mutual friends and at a 2012 group dinner he passed me the salt, so we’ve got that.

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Common Growth Hacking Myths (and How Growth Actually Works)

ConversionXL

” April, 2012 – Andrew Chen writes Growth Hacker is the new VP Marketing , which goes viral (2.4K September, 2012 – Andrew Chen, who currently does growth at Uber , writes You don’t need a growth hacker , which encourages companies to really consider whether they have product-market fit before hiring a growth hacker.

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A budget discussion with an entrepreneur - Startups and angels.

Tim Keane

(Of course, it goes without saying that no one would bottom-up an expense budget then fill in revenue to make it “come out,” right?). Growth involves, in many businesses, more customer service, product development, support, marketing and so forth – in addition to more R&D. October 2012. Signup for email updates.