View from Seed

APRIL 30, 2015

In many instances, you raise an institutional round to either fulfill a product strategy or go-to-market strategy or you’re increasing sales and marketing hires, so you have better visibility into what needs to happen in the next six, 12, 18 months. Business model? Traction and revenue? Previous capital raised?

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Term Sheet Equity Startup Seed Stage 120

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2010

3M acquired Attenti, which is expected to have about $100 million in sales in 2010, to get into electronic monitoring devices, which leads to large savings for correctional authorities. Attenti’s two principal investors, Francisco Partners and the Israeli branch of the U.S. AOL INC BUYS ISRAEL’S 5MIN MEDIA START UP FOR $65 MLN.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. She is a model for us all! Many VC funds rely on general-purpose CRM and sales funnel solutions like Copper , Pipedrive, Salesforce , Streak , and ZenDesk. We can use technology to make sales far more efficient. .

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

With SEM, the goal is for the search user to not only see your ad, but to click on it to get to your website (click-through), and buy your widget (conversion to sale). That business model doesn’t compute in the startup stage, but that’s another story. Both have the same end goal of getting people to your website. Marty Zwilling.

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Search Engineer SEM Widget 225

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 27, 2010

The long tail theory was that global interconnectedness would enable the sale of a large number of unique items in relatively small quantities. Among other things, adherents to the theory predicted that thousands of micro-businesses would flourish. Only big scale enables business models like these.

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Mobile Syndicate Syndication Austin 74

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

And then I think in a lot of ways it’s become air for every sort of channel and element and, even as you suggest in your last book, a business model in itself. We think there’s something bigger, as Robert talked about and you talked about, this is a business model change. Joe Pulizzi: We’re all for sale.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

These elements focus on the micro level of your business, for example, things you can do to market with social media like facebook or digg, or plugins you can get for your wordpress blog, or scripts you can use to help syndicate your content or do keyword research, or different website graphical elements and which convert better.

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Syndicate Syndication Video Web 83

Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

The rason d’etre for LevelUp (like most other firms) is to tap into the retailer’s marketing budget (10-20% of sales potentially) rather than reduce interchange. ” I think the crux of SQUARE’s business model is obviating the need for merchants to have an acquirer account with a bank.

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Tim Keane

APRIL 12, 2006

If the investors ideal size is smaller than your need, you ought to ask about syndication. If they don’t like to syndicate, or don’t have a track record of doing it, you will want to consider your options. If the investors ideal size is smaller than your need, you ought to ask about syndication. past round one. past round one.

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Transformify

DECEMBER 7, 2019

Although the concept to build a hiring tool around popular G Suite solutions like Gmail, calendar, Docs, Hangouts, Search seemed to be a viable business model, it appears that it was not enough to compete and sustain. Are the job listings syndicated with external job boards? Total cost per month= USD 3500.

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