Customer Finance Liquidation Preference Product 
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 11, 2022
Sure, we built SaaS products before the term even existed but at 31 it was hard to delineate reality from what all of the monied people around us were telling us what we were worth. In those years I learned to properly build product, price products, sell products and serve customers. Until we weren’t.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 23, 2015
Even when you do sign-up initial customers it’s still not clear that your company will be a success and you’re still likely paying yourself under market rates. But if you’re the Director or Product or VP of Marketing – you don’t get to make that decision. the standard 4-6% for a hired-gun CEO).
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Up and Running
AUGUST 17, 2015
Between my experiences as a management consultant, as well as my product and marketing roles at multiple tech companies, I felt that I had enough operational experience to make that leap sooner than later. Additionally, I had already studied Economics and Finance during undergrad, making the academic part of an MBA seem a little redundant.
Spencer Fry
APRIL 17, 2017
It’s a great conference with about 150 attendees for the “Starter Edition” -- lots of online course creators, info product folks, SaaS people, and others. It wasn’t enough at the end of 2015 to have a working prototype and a handful of customers to somehow take over the market. I had a fabulous time at MicroConf last week.
Venture Chronicles
AUGUST 23, 2013
To recap, here is the series thus far: 1) Hiring 2) Dynamic Org Structures 3) Product First 4) Marketing. An example of this is having a board member say “well you should just charge more” without first considering the competitive dynamics of a market, or the product and customer perspective on value.
SoCal CTO
JULY 13, 2010
Pivoting - Chris Dixon , June 14, 2010 My Hunch cofounders and I frequently ask ourselves: “If we were to start over today, would we build our product the same way we had so far?&# Just because a product has a patent, deep complexity and an obvious competitive advantage does not mean that it can fly by itself into the market.
abovethecrowd.com
MAY 20, 2013
There are many synergies – different geographic strengths, different core customer bases, and different product strengths. There are common stock, common options, and as many as three to five different layers of preferred stock, each with a specific liquidation preference.
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