The Startup Magazine
AUGUST 11, 2023
These investments are a tremendous help to your startup because they will serve as a stepping stone to reach your target eventually. Some return value must be offered to the investors for startup seed funding to be considered acceptable. When considered, “seed funding” describes the initial sums of funds a startup raises.
Steve Blank
MARCH 17, 2020
With the Covid-19 virus a worldwide pandemic, if you’re leading any startup or small business, you have to be asking yourself, “What’s Plan B? If you’re running a startup or small business, your first priority (after your family) is keeping your employees and customers safe. What does your new business model look like?
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Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2013
Over the last three years our Lean LaunchPad / NSF Innovation Corps classes have been teaching hundreds of entrepreneurial teams a year how to build their startups by getting out of the building and testing their hypotheses behind their business model. The next customer segment we tried was startup founders.
View from Seed
MARCH 3, 2015
Ellie Mirman was the first marketer hired by the CMO of HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing software startup that IPOed in 2014. Below, she shares lessons learned from the earliest days of marketing the company and how this has translated to her second startup role as VP of Marketing at Toast. Where do you start?
ConversionXL
JUNE 2, 2022
There are other factors involved in making your decision, such as: The complexity of the buying cycle. Account-based sales cycles are more complex than a sales cycle targeting one person. The sales cycle will be longer than that of a small business owner deciding for themselves.
ReadWriteStart
JUNE 16, 2011
During today's roundtable, we had four Microsoft BizSpark Startup India Challenge grant finalists present. Freshdesk First, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, pitched Freshdesk , a SaaS company that provides small and medium businesses with on-demand customer support software that offers multi-channel social support.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 17, 2013
The critical key at this stage is to remember that the more credible and demonstrable your claims are to your potential customer, the shorter your sales cycle will be and the higher your close percentage will be. Build a business model that scales. As you build your business model, dig deep to find the “what ifs.”
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