YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Today, Sferra leads Hillcrest Merchant Partners, a Toronto-based merchant bank and venture capital firm focused on early stage and mid-market growth companies, which he co-founded with fellow managing partner, Mark Attanasio. It all helps to kickstart the brain.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

The backbone for my contribution to our effort is the best practices work “for practitioners by practitioners” that I have developed in the area of venture capital through the multiple articles and three white papers that I’ve written.

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Venture Capital China Technical Review Due Diligence 44

View from Seed

APRIL 8, 2020

He helps early-stage startups with sales, marketing, and general “go to market” topics. Not a dull white paper, but something that shows why your products are awesome and actually helpful in a way that is relevant to your brand. He has experience in B2B, supply chain, robotics, SaaS, and IoT spaces.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 31, 2014

They’re part of the top three platforms for effective marketing—creating audio/visual content, white papers and article/blog content. Blogs naturally support the early stage of research, since they are informative. There’s heated debate over which platform is best for converting readers to buyers.

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Marketing Social Media B2C Audio 90

Professor VC

MARCH 10, 2009

Kennet has a white paper on that summarizes why bootstrapped businesses are the best. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. The best way to describe my work is probably start-up CFO guy.

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Bootstrapping San Jose Silicon Valley Software Review 28

The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

In Conversocial’s case they published a series of white papers and case studies , maintain an active blog , and are active on Twitter and Facebook. Those of you who have read Geoffrey Moore ’s Crossing the Chasm will be familiar with the importance of educating potential customers when markets are in their early stages.

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Leadership Marketing PR Social Media 117

Pascal's View

OCTOBER 9, 2013

If you are an investor in very early stage companies, this video provides useful perspective on risk and portfolio management. This video is Chapter 2 of the Entrepreneur Essentials Video Series.

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Angel Investor Video Dilution Venture Capital 28

Eric Friedman

MARCH 10, 2009

More than you might think as explained in the new white paper linked below. What does trail mix have to do with online advertising? Trail Mix by sylvainleprovost.

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Advertising Disintermediation Early Stage Algorithm 60

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Back in March, Andreessen Horowitz and Fenwick & West, LLP published a series of documents that would help structure early stage investments in startups. What are good examples of white papers written for startups? Eze Vidra , I've had a long romance with Venture. PDF in email?

Term Sheet 41

Term Sheet Startup Angel Investor Wiki 41

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Even if you’re at a very early stage, if you’re reading this, it’s safe to say that research tasks are below your pay grade, and conducting them will leave you time for little else. Should you direct your prospects to a sales page, a white paper, a tripwire product, a calendar widget, a webinar? End: Call to Action (CTA).

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Curation Lead Generation Technical Review Email 44

Small Business Force

AUGUST 24, 2013

For early stage entrepreneurs, generating revenue is the most critical part of getting your enterprise solidly underway. It could be a white paper; it could be a free webinar. Even when you've got some evidence of a track record and staying power, you still need to make sure you stand out against competition.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

After poring through stacks of reports, white papers and position papers, I’ve come to a couple of conclusions. In addition, the Israeli government originally funded 23 early stage incubators but turned them over to the VC’s to own and manage. 1) They sure killed a ton of trees. lesson of using SBIC funds.),

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Government Silicon Valley Startup Venture Capital 335

Small Business Force

AUGUST 24, 2013

For early stage entrepreneurs, generating revenue is the most critical part of getting your enterprise solidly underway. It could be a white paper; it could be a free webinar. Even when you've got some evidence of a track record and staying power, you still need to make sure you stand out against competition.

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Sales Early Stage Revenue Customer 24

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

For example, they might have attended a webinar, downloaded a white paper, taken advantage of a free trial, and responded to an email promotion. Before a customer makes a purchase, especially a large purchase, they are likely to have interacted with the company via several campaigns.

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Metrics Design Entrepreneur Startup 55

Pascal's View

APRIL 19, 2009

color:#000090"> Seed and Early stage investing fell 45 percent in terms of. Seed/Early stage. The quarter, which saw double digit declines in every. major industry sector, marks the lowest venture investment level since 1997. dollars and 40 percent in terms of deals in the first quarter of 2009. billion into 338 deals.

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Venture Capital Early Stage Washington California 31

Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

And, there were unexpected delays and conflicts from some incredible innovation partners committed to childcare and early childhood education (ECE). On the other side, I lament the budgets and detailed explanations of ECE wonks working to sell a white-paper vision in a smartphone world. But, this is simply where we’re at, now.

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Silicon Valley Startup B2C Sweat Equity 54

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

If you are interested in learning more about the Bessemer 10 Laws of SaaS, you can listen to the webminar we did earlier this week with Salesforce by clicking on the picture below: You can also download the full white paper on the SaaS section of the Bessemer website or browse quickly through the slides on slidehsare. at 11:09 AM.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 9, 2010

To conclude on this question, I’d like to emphasize that, in my view, for early stage companies with little or no revenue, valuation models driven by public equity or option inspired equity models simply make no sense. Share and Enjoy:

Government 31

Government Private Equity Institutional Investors Venture Capital 31

Cracking the Code

JULY 6, 2007

David Cowan , the Bessemer Managing Partner who pioneered early stage investments in automated subscription services ( Verisign , Postini , Netli.), developed a white paper on performance metrics for Technology service Vendors (TSV) and this post present the key elements of his reflexion adapted for SaaS companies. , a??? , ??a?

Software Review 66

Software Review Metrics Valuation Technical Review 66

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2020

If you look at the history of some of our autonomous drone systems, it was Congress poking the Pentagon to get over their intransigence at the early stages. You can Google “ Bob Work LCS “, he wrote a great white paper on how the Littoral Combat ship went awry.

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