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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

The culmination of this bootcamp is a “demo day” where all startups in the cohort have a few minutes to pitch their companies to venture capitalists and angel investors. (In They then transfer the IP and build the startup inside the venture studio. But these look for founders who have a technical or business model insight and a team.

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Crushing It With Competitive Intelligence Analysis: Best Metrics, Reports

Occam's Razor

. + Traffic Trends Key Metrics Analysis. Onsite Behavior Key Metrics Analysis. I tend to use Hitwise a lot less, or not at all, because it is a very hard to use, it is slow, the UX/UI, metrics and reports have not really evolved over the years. Traffic Trends Key Metrics Analysis. Visitor/Audience Type Profile Analysis.

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The Four Main Things that Investors Look for in a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

Imagine the “typical&# deal – somebody comes into a VC’s office, they’ve never met, they’re highly referred by a friend and they’re pitching a product demo and a PPT. And make sure you have some metrics or some way of demonstrating why you believe this is going to be a really big market.

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Is This Startup Ready For Investment?

Steve Blank

However, accelerator Demo Days are a combination of graduation ceremony and pitch contest, with the uncomfortable feel of a swimsuit competition. Other than “I’ll know it when I see it”, there’s no formal way for an investor attending Demo Day to assess project maturity or quantify risks. Medical Devices.

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A Quick Primer on B2B Conversion Optimization

ConversionXL

What Are Your Goals, and What Are Your Metrics? What this means depends on the company, but it can take into account different metrics like pathing, time on site, video engagement, company size, role, etc. They converted like 60% of demos into customers once the demo was activated. What are you trying to sell?

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A Complete Guide to Account-Based Marketing: Win Over Your Ideal Customer

ConversionXL

Does your company clearly understand current CAC , LTV, CAC payback period, and other core growth metrics? They haven’t completed a form, joined a webinar, or requested a demo. Tools for IP-targeted ads: MRP ; Terminus. Are you on a trajectory to meet your mid-term and long-term growth targets?

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The Lean LaunchPad – Teaching Entrepreneurship as a Management Science

Steve Blank

Dave McClure, “Startup Metrics for Pirates”, [link]. What are the key financials metrics for your business model? Any IP you need to license? What are the key financials metrics for costs in your business model? ——————– March 11 th 1-4pm Demo Day at VC Firm (Location TBD).

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