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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

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They charge $9, $29 and $59 per agent per month and I am eager to see bootstrapped, scrappy Freshdesk morph their pricing structure to aggressively compete with them. We see Bizosys as a promising niche vendor with demonstrated capabilities in creative bootstrapping. RightNow's per agent price starts at $110 per agent per month.

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Why an investor rejection isn't a knock on you

Hippoland

A business like that will just have a really hard time raising money at the early stages, and if that’s feedback you are getting from at least 2 people, you may want to consider adjusting your plan and raise from angels and/or bootstrap for a long time. It just means VCs will shy away from it. But that’s not Hustle Fund.

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The #1 thing successful founders think about for their next startups

Hippoland

One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. But, if they are not, it’s very hard to use paid acquisition to generate that type of traffic for under $5. Sales cycles matter though.

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The #1 thing successful founders think about for their next startups

Hippoland

One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. But, if they are not, it’s very hard to use paid acquisition to generate that type of traffic for under $5. Sales cycles matter though.

Founder 48
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Why an investor rejection isn't a knock on you

Hippoland

A business like that will just have a really hard time raising money at the early stages, and if that’s feedback you are getting from at least 2 people, you may want to consider adjusting your plan and raise from angels and/or bootstrap for a long time. It just means VCs will shy away from it. But that’s not Hustle Fund.

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How I invest as a pre-seed investor?

Hippoland

When you’re talking with an investor, I’d say in general, he/she has biases towards the customer acquisition methods that has made him/her money before. But, it’s not so high such that only a small number of people can pay for it, so you don’t have to get the sales process perfect as a first-time entrepreneur or be a super salesperson.

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How I invest as a pre-seed investor?

Hippoland

When you’re talking with an investor, I’d say in general, he/she has biases towards the customer acquisition methods that has made him/her money before. But, it’s not so high such that only a small number of people can pay for it, so you don’t have to get the sales process perfect as a first-time entrepreneur or be a super salesperson.