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How NextView Thinks About Pre-Seed Rounds as VC Investors

View from Seed

It creates focus and discipline and instills pressure to remain lean and not expand the team too quickly. The second was a B2B SaaS company with a particular product thesis that needed to be tested prior to their building out a larger team or a commercial-grade product. This was accomplished with $250K of funding in about 6 months.

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7 Examples of Effective Cross-selling (and Why They Work)

ConversionXL

That B2B sales are built on relationships. Kajabi highlights the benefits of podcasts from the off, with a subject line that leans into three top priorities for businesses: leads , growth, and revenue. B2B buyers engage in an average of 27 interactions with a vendor before making a purchase decision, Forrester research shows.

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Transcript of How to Turn Marketing Costs Into Profit

Duct Tape Marketing

The one side, I think it’s a really interesting point you bring up, which is does it immediately lean toward to creating new products and services? Robert Rose: You know that’s a really interesting question because there’s two sides to that. They wanted to do a show daily. I mean, that stuff happened from just an idea.

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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. I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking.

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How We Think About Pre-Seeds at NextView

Rob Go

It creates focus and discipline and instills pressure to remain lean and not expand the team too quickly. The second was a B2B SaaS company with a particular product thesis that needed to be tested prior to their building out a larger team or a commercial-grade product. This was accomplished with $250K of funding in about 6 months.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

So, I’ve had about 4 years on the “inside” of a fast-growing, venture-backed B2B SaaS startup. should have leaned on them a lot more, but I didn't, or at least not in the right ways. The process is called mass syndication, or a party round. The “official” date is June 9 th , 2006 — for those that are curious about such things).