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Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

We have a special program if you are pre-seed and need product development. In 2019 we partnered with several revenue-based lending providers, effectively creating a marketplace. “. Our wheelhouse is bootstrapped (or lightly capitalized) SMB SaaS. Alternative Capital. “ You qualify if you have $5k+ MRR. Bigfoot Capital.

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Raising Money Using Customer Development

Steve Blank

It should go without saying that this post is not advice, nor is it recommendation of what you should do, it’s simply my observation of how companies using Customer Development positioned themselves to successfully raise money from venture investors. Did the partner have a good or bad day, etc. Is there a profitable business model?

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The #1 thing successful founders think about for their next startups

Hippoland

As a result, second time founders very often shy away from ad-based consumer ideas, but when they do, they think about what viral mechanisms you can implement *first* and engineer the product around that mechanism. Product second. Marketing first. Here is a good case study on LinkedIn (scroll down to see how they grew).

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The #1 thing successful founders think about for their next startups

Hippoland

As a result, second time founders very often shy away from ad-based consumer ideas, but when they do, they think about what viral mechanisms you can implement *first* and engineer the product around that mechanism. Product second. Marketing first. Here is a good case study on LinkedIn (scroll down to see how they grew).

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Lara Galloway’s Time Management Tips and Productivity Hacks [VIDEO]

Up and Running

We are bootstrapping. Draw one line down the middle vertically, and then another across horizontally, so that you make your paper into four quarters. In a relationship sometimes, that’s one of those things when we operate differently from our partner or our spouse. God bless them. We are doing it all ourselves.