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The longest shortest 2 years

Austin Startup

Since then, we’ve served 500+ unique customers, worked with 10+ space partners, pivoted our business model from B2C to B2B, signed on advisers, and have raised money from outside investors. Your partner matters To all those solo-founders out there?—?kudos Our biggest example of this was our pivot from B2C to B2B.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #17: On failure and resilience

Austin Startup

Bob Fabbio was the founder and CEO of eRelevance and he was the man in the arena here?—?and For all of us Austin fans, I’m talking about Cotter Cunningham, the founder and CEO of RetailMeNot. Who says Austin can’t do B2C now ? But I digress?—?this and I bet he’ll be back. This wasn’t his first rodeo, as we say in Texas.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. It was also beneficial because I got some good experience with both B2B and B2C business models.

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6 Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make During the Nascent Stage of Their Startups

ReadWriteStart

As a co-founder myself, I have come to realize a few points where most of the mistakes are made while building a startup. The success of a startup or any business is directly proportional to the market opportunity for their products or services. Making your startup thrive is all about how efficient your business model is.

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Pitch Deck Month: “Is It Working?” (aka the “Traction” Slide)

View from Seed

But the CEO was able to talk not only about his co-founders and vision in his pitch, but also presented detailed pre-launch interviews with a handful of prospective customers who indicated they’d participate in a paid beta once the product was ready. Once you cross the chasm of launching v1.0,

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The Ultimate Guide to Choosing a Pricing Strategy for Your SaaS Startup

Up and Running

Different sources define freemium as a business model or a pricing strategy. I talked to Adam Hempenstall, founder and CEO at BetterProposals , who has been using freemium for three years for his SaaS product: “Honestly, I think it was a mistake. It’s mostly popular with B2C markets. Freemium isn’t free. Youtube ads. $1

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How we can improve the odds of finding unicorns

Version One Ventures

Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures, posted a brilliant analysis on why VCs have to look for billion dollar companies (“unicorns”) to deliver acceptable returns, and how rare it is to invest in one: “The odds are somewhere between catching a foul ball at an MLB game and being struck by lightning in one’s lifetime.”. Be thesis-driven.

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