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Shark Tank Season 4 week 4 breakdown

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Week three’s breakdown covered topics like how hard momentum is to turn around, and how participating preferred stock works. I’ve been writing up reviews of this season’s Shark Tank pitches from a silicon valley VCs perspective. This time I’ll break down week four of this season. BACK 9 DIPS.

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Positioning Your Brand in the Covid Era

ReadWriteStart

55-65-year-olds were the most drawn to historied and trusted branding, with almost twice as many participants preferring this option compared to innovative brand names. Men were found to have little to no preference in siding with trusted brand names compared to those that are innovative. They’ll become your customers.

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9 Things to Know About Influencing Purchasing Decisions

ConversionXL

What about when the product matches the customer’s needs and wants, and they trust the seller? Even though social media and internet rule, customers make purchase decisions using a combination of old media, new media, and old-fashioned conversations with friends and family. People don’t often know why they prefer something.

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Sustainable startup growth and venture capital

The Equity Kicker

That means much less blitzscaling (whatever the heck that ever was), and lots more heads-down quality thinking to build products that customers actually want and will eventually pay for. And so long as there’s a bigger fool out there focusing exclusively on scale often works out just fine.

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Purchase Decisions: 9 Things to Know About Influencing Customers

ConversionXL

But what about when the product matches the customer’s needs and they trust the seller? Here are 9 things you should know if you want to win over customers as they make a decision to buy. More reviews can help insulate your reputation from the inevitable impossible-to-please customer. Image Source).

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Should Founders Be Allowed to Take Money off the Table?

Both Sides of the Table

I took money with a 3x participating preferred liquidation preference with 8% compounded interest annually. Coupled with my participating preferred from 1999 and 2000 I had more than $55 million of liquidation preferences. I know because I’ve been there. year old boy and another one due in 1 months.

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Pari Passu or F.U.little guy

Professor VC

I''m a strong believer in fairness (although my daughters may not agree) and investors and entrepreneurs working together as a team to create something valuable to all stakeholders (customers, employees, founders, investors). Their response was that we should be happy they didn''t ask for a participating preference on top of the seniority.