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NextView’s Greatest Hits

View from Seed

” Below are our favorite pieces from the past few years, divided in to a few key categories: fundraising, company building, product development, industry trends, and the life of a VC. Why Do Consumer IPOs and B2B IPOs Get Treated Differently? So, we decided to aggregate NextView’s “greatest hits.”

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Freemium vs. Free Trial: Which Gets You More Paying Customers (Not Just Freeloaders)?

ConversionXL

As Wes Bush details, you have three options for a SaaS go-to-market strategy : sales led, marketing led, or product led. Both freemium and free-trial programs are product-led strategies: they show instead of telling. If you haven’t committed to a product-led strategy, you can stop reading now. So what should you do first?

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When It Comes To Entrepreneurship, Age 40 Is The New 20… And Always Has Been

YoungUpstarts

There, he would be showered in venture capital, build a team of similarly brilliant twenty-somethings, acquire millions of customers seemingly overnight, and steer his startup to an IPO and himself to the cover of Inc magazine well before his 30th birthday. People in big companies see innovation through the lens of new product development.

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Case Study: Using an LOI to get customer feedback on a minimum.

Startup Lessons Learned

But other times, the right way to learn is actually to show a product prototype to customers one-on-one. This is especially useful in situations, like most B2B businesses, where the total number of customers is likely to be small. We got instantaneous feedback on the validity of the idea and started our sales process concurrently.

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Startup Resources

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Startups for startups – the top B2B tools used by Startups – Includes the list of top 50 startup vendors in 2012 by Vendorstack , a reviews and Q&A platform on enterprise vendors for startups and mid-market companies. turn customer feedback into sales and relationships. SaaS Sales Team Compensation â??