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Trials and Tribulations of the New Uncover

Spencer Fry

Anyone who works in product development will know that ten months is an eternity. Unfortunately, it’s just the nature of product development — and especially so when you’re working with part-time people —that deadlines are missed and work takes much longer than you expected. Why Bootstrapping is Good and Bad.

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Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

In addition, I’ve noted a few multi-product lending firms, e.g., Kapitus and United Capital Source , which provide RBI as one of many structural options to companies seeking capital. . We have a special program if you are pre-seed and need product development. Our wheelhouse is bootstrapped (or lightly capitalized) SMB SaaS.

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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. The reason I like deer-hunting businesses is that from my own experiences, I can see a clear path to bring in sales profitably. You charge a high enough (i.e.

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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. The reason I like deer-hunting businesses is that from my own experiences, I can see a clear path to bring in sales profitably. You charge a high enough (i.e.

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Smart glasses, 3D content and the ‘iPhone moment’ for AR

VC Cafe

In this post I wanted to touch on the companies who are making the biggest impact in the AR space, both in terms of product development and the developer ecosystem tools they are releasing to power the next generation of AR experiences. The companies making the biggest impact on the future of AR.

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Raising Money Using Customer Development

Steve Blank

It should go without saying that this post is not advice, nor is it recommendation of what you should do, it’s simply my observation of how companies using Customer Development positioned themselves to successfully raise money from venture investors. Is there a profitable business model? Can it scale?” Great post! Progress is the same.

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

Hippoland

In particular, one thing to consider if you’re trying to make money off affiliate ads is to think about how unique the product/service is in the ads you’re running. 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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