David Teten
APRIL 1, 2021
This typically includes: Relationships with relevant service providers in your vertical, often with pre-negotiated discounts: coaches, lawyers, accountants, common software vendors, consultants. A well-organized library of best practices for founders in your vertical, which you can share as appropriate. AskAnything.VC
Steve Blank
APRIL 23, 2018
If you’re following Tesla, you might be interested to know that Sloan wasn’t the founder of GM. Where are the charitable foundations, business schools, and hospitals named after the founder of GM? The founder of what became General Motors was William (Billy) Durant. And a founder of Neuralink a brain-computer interface startup.
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ConversionXL
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
They are so named for their acronym coined by Dave McClure, AAARRR : Acquisition (generating leads and gaining new users); Activation ( getting customers to use the product more often); Revenue (crosses over into pricing strategy); Retention (reducing churn and influencing repurchasing); Referral (influencing customers to refer others).
Version One Ventures
SEPTEMBER 19, 2012
Generally speaking, there are two ways (and only two ways) to scale a business to hit that $100 million threshold: Your business has a high Life Time Value (LTV) per user, giving you the freedom to spend a significant amount of money in customer acquisition. High LTV can usually be found in transactional or subscription businesses.
Steve Blank
MAY 11, 2021
Jeff Decker is a co-instructor of the Hacking for Defense class and the Stanford program director. Anduril founder Palmer Luckey has sardonically noted that the only defense companies to reach unicorn status in the past 30 years have all been founded by billionaires able to endure long gaps in funding. He’s a former U.S.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 13, 2011
Revolution is a “stage agnostic&# fund (means they invest early or late) funded entirely by Steve Case , the founder of AOL and co-founded by two other individuals, Tige Savage (yes, pronounced like the golfer, minus the “r&# ) and Donn Davis. A contemporary analog to this type of vertical integration is Comcast/NBC-U.
ConversionXL
MARCH 17, 2021
Last September (2020), six months after the 1st lockdown, my co-founder Vladimir Blagojevic and I decided to run market research to figure out what challenges B2B companies face and how they solve them. Here is what their founder Leo Mirsky told us in the early beginning of the collaboration: Marketing was a mystery to us.
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