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9 Things That Tell You To Pivot

YoungUpstarts

Pivoting’ is spoken about a lot in the tech world. and also being involved in other startups I have seen a number of pivots, some of them worked well and others in hindsight probably needed some more thought, but all have been a learning experience! However, it is worth reviewing your content and message you are sending to your users.

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How Much Funding Should You Raise?

Up and Running

An early stage startup will want to access funds to help further validate its business proposition. The primary issue is a technical one. Consequently, in order to maintain a 50 percent equity position when raising $3 million, the valuation of the business will have to increase from $2 million to $3 million. Not necessarily.

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Create Structure out of the Gate and You’ll Thank Yourself Later

Feld Thoughts

One of them used to be a lead developer at [insert hot consumer tech company here]. They need to raise money before building anything substantial after determining that they needed a little dough to follow the Lean Startup methodology. In startup time, that feels like forever.

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How to Write a Business Plan for a Subscription Box Service

Up and Running

The operations section includes the logistics, technology, and other behind-the-scenes pieces of your business. Startup costs. Your startup costs will include acquiring your initial inventory, or the products you plan to include in the first edition of your box service. Operations. Sourcing, fulfillment, and distribution.

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Fog Creek Compensation

www.joelonsoftware.com

Our official titles will be: (8) Technical Intern (9-12) Member of Technical Staff (13-15) Fog Creek Fellow "Member of Technical Staff", a.k.a. After that, every six months, Fog Creek management will review the performance of everyone in the company with the goal of making sure that people are at the right level.

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a16z Podcast: Growth in Turbulent Times

Ben's Blog

At some point, some percentage of those users end up actually then leaving reviews. And then those reviews get indexed by Google, and then they end up in Google’s listings, and then more people find it. And so, planning against that and using this as a launching platform, I think, is a big question for startups.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

The top performing SaaS companies typically achieve annual customer renewal rates above 90% - with most of the churn due to death (bankruptcies) or marriage (acquisitions) - and over 100% renewals on a dollar value basis due to up-sells into this installed base. Cashflow is the other key metric.