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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

Funds which fill out the survey will get access to the detailed results of what technology their peers are using. In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading. 2) Raise capital.

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Marketing Your Startup: A Billion-Dollar Company’s First Marketer Reflects Back

View from Seed

Initially, we promoted it to a list that we’d already developed through Website Grader, the free app our CTO Dharmesh Shah had built before we even had a product. So we had those two assets: Website Grader and the resulting email list. ” What were the advantages of doing these aytpical, non-scalable things?

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How to Use Growth Hacking to Increase Revenue 20x in Just 12 Months

Up and Running

If you’re building a startup, you’re likely to be in one of these two situations: Launching and selling a new product that nobody’s ever heard about, and probably don’t even know they need, or… Improving an existing product or service, which means that you’re going head on against someone with more traction, people, and money than you.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

Both Sides of the Table

We spent the first 45 minutes or so talking about industry trends (in this order): The history and background of True Ventures, one of my favorite early-stage VC’s (and the one with whom Om is a venture partner). An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

But, most of use raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . Point Nine Capital’s website is now powered by Contentful ; they use Unbounce for landing pages ; and Typeform for surveys and other data collection. Most of us want one spouse and we’re done.

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5 Effective Ways for Startups to Lower Customer Acquisition Costs

Up and Running

Having an excellent product and demand for that product is one thing. It’s not enough that your business has product/market fit. Especially in the early stages of growth, standing up to competition means that your business also needs to minimize the cost of acquiring new customers.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. Try charging customers for your product when you have 12 competitors giving the product away free finances by $20 million of VC. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! The Exit Problem. And the future?