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Revenue = Product Market Fit

Agile VC

We invest in internet enabled companies at NextView and our portfolio is roughly equally split between consumer and B2B businesses. Potential customers’ willingness to pay will help you segment your target market (by customer size, vertical, geography, etc) more effectively than simply “researching” your market in abstract.

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Our Investment in One Jackson: Fresh, Yet Familiar

Genuine VC

The company’s familiarity is along what we consider to be the three most important criteria for an investment in a seed-stage startup – team, market, and product: Team – Two of the co-founders were well-known to the NextView partnership years before a line of code was even written.

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Advice for CTO Founders: Don't Let Business Kill the Business

www.informationarbitrage.com

And from my perspective as an engaged seed stage venture investor, this makes them unfundable. And if this business partnership doesn't work out, the CTO / Founder, the engine of value for the company, is stuck in a bad, bad place. And from my perspective as an engaged seed stage venture investor, this makes them unfundable.

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The Leading Cause of Startup Death – Part 1: The Product.

Steve Blank

We’ll look at the model stage-by-stage. Concept and Seed Stage In the Concept and Seed Stage, founders capture their passion and vision for the new company and turn them into a set of key ideas, which quickly becomes a business plan, sometimes on the back of the proverbial napkin.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

And thanks to the radical transparency enabled by the internet, the quality of these proposals is actually constantly rising, to the point that it’s almost impossible to judge the quality of the final product – because all the proposals look polished and professional, even the terrible ones.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

This video should be the gold standard in explaining contract terms.