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Pricing determines your business

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Your product is designed with natural tripwires to trigger other pricing ( Freemium model ), or not (business model left as an exercise to your future self). Requires venture funding because you have no income, and if you’re successful you’ll need lots of people and tech to run the business. . $1/mo

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5 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

She found her audience and her business model and focused on scaling her concept and she made it work. But, his tenacity is impresive: he pulled himself back up by the bootstraps, and founded Nextiva which today generates more than $100M ARR. She is the ultimate turnaround success story for me! 2- Flickr and Slack.

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Trials and Tribulations of the New Uncover

Spencer Fry

As a bootstrapped company, we cannot afford to have so much time between releases. Why Bootstrapping is Good and Bad. Why Bootstrapping is Good and Bad. Bootstrapping Uncover has been both good and bad. Where bootstrapping has helped us is that it has given us time to design, build and experiment. Never again.

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Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. According to Brian Parks, “Bigfoot provides RBI, term loans, and lines of credit to SaaS businesses with $500k+ ARR. Our wheelhouse is bootstrapped (or lightly capitalized) SMB SaaS. Bigfoot Capital.

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

Hippoland

In other words, if you can get 1000 people to come to your website consistently for under $5, then this business model works for you. For example, if you are running affiliate ads for hotels, you might get 3-5% on a sale. 2) B2B startups have high margins. Sales cycles matter though.

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

Hippoland

In other words, if you can get 1000 people to come to your website consistently for under $5, then this business model works for you. For example, if you are running affiliate ads for hotels, you might get 3-5% on a sale. 2) B2B startups have high margins. Sales cycles matter though.

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How I invest as a pre-seed investor?

Hippoland

V4: Helping directors of marketing at series B B2B SaaS companies who have previously bought ads in email lists get customers profitably. 2) What is the business model and the potential unit economics? Certain investors tend to gravitate towards certain business models. This one is pretty investor-specific.