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In Q4 2022, founders face tough choices

VC Cafe

But even in the seed market the bar could get higher: I wouldn’t be surprised to see valuations drop and for VCs to have rising expectations about the level of traction they expect to see before funding. Two weeks ago in San Francisco, a conversation with tech lawyers from the US and Europe was a confirmation of what I read in the news.

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How To Keep Your Company Alive – Observe, Orient, Decide and Act

Steve Blank

Others are cutting their valuations. ” Board members gave her a wakeup call: there was either going to be a much more realistic assessment tomorrow based on her first-hand customer conversations, or a new CEO. B2B – cloud services, online meetings, virtual workforce management, collaboration tools.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. It sounds simple; however, very few asset managers actually do it.”

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My Thoughts on the Current Market: on 20-Minute VC

Both Sides of the Table

Topics we covered: B2B Companies You haven’t seen the full extent to how the correction is going to affect you. Other companies have only seen a slight decline and may be expecting demand to return to normalcy later in the year. The reality is that when unemployment sinks in demand is likely to get worse. That may happen.

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B2B Marketing Attribution: Models, Tools, and Processes

ConversionXL

Talk to any B2B marketer about attribution and they’ll either roll their eyes or rant about how it’s important but hard to get right—long lead cycles, multiple contacts from a single organization, etc. Conversions (e.g. The critical touchpoints in B2B are the transition stages in the customer journey: First Touch.

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Raising Money Using Customer Development

Steve Blank

This post describes how companies using the Customer Development model can increase their credibility, valuation and probability of getting a first round of funding by presenting their results in a “Lesson Learned&# venture pitch. What are Early Stage VC’s Really Asking? If they’re not busy looking at their Blackberry’s/iPhone’s.)

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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

www.forentrepreneurs.com

This is going to show you the dependency on several critical variables: Cost per lead Conversion rates at each stage of your sales process Level of touch required Then compare this to your expected monetization. Some of the early B2B pioneers in this space were companies like JBoss ( story here ), SolarWinds, ConstantContact, HubSpot, etc.