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Startup Benchmarks

VC Cafe

When you start with an honest and diligent effort to determine the truth of your situation, the right decisions often become self-evident.” — Jim Collins , author of Good to Great. Benchmarks are typically specific to stage/business model/geo. Software as a Service (Saas) benchmarks. What should our MRR growth be?

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

David Teten

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. They read reviews of the products of target investments.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading. Sebastian Soler recently launched Knowledge.vc , which uses software and machine learning to enhance deal sourcing and diligence for VC firms.

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Does Your VC have an Investment Thesis, or a Hypothesis?

David Teten

A typical VC thesis: “we invest in tech startups in Europe at an early stage” However, our experience shows that in many cases: . Thirty-four VC firms in OpenVC call themselves “early-stage” Yet, 30% of those don’t actually invest in pre-revenue startups. 2) Business model-defined funds.

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How to Build a Product Launch Strategy

ConversionXL

For example, by evaluating Buffer’s pricing page, we can determine their product is built for small businesses and marketing teams: This, coupled with a basic understanding of this audience, allows us to determine that pricing is a key factor when these segments make a decision to invest in software.

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8 Simple Steps to Start an Online Business With No Money

Kodorra

Many people have a presumption that it is difficult to start an online business due to lack of money. Whether it is advertisement model, B2C (Business to Consumer) ecommerce, affiliate or subscription, picking the right choice could determine the rise or fall of your business. Open source software or clone script is also available.

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Startups: It’s not Thelma & Louise

Austin Startup

And, there were unexpected delays and conflicts from some incredible innovation partners committed to childcare and early childhood education (ECE). swing for the fences category-building B2C software capital?—?wasn’t We have the consumer market, but not investor market for what I’m selling : B2C software.)