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Seed Stage Funding 101: What it Is & How it Works

The Startup Magazine

The fundamental objective and aim of seed investment is to assist a company in launching its operations successfully. It is necessary to cover the early stages of product development, thorough market research, and other processes during the initial step.

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Selling to the enterprise: “Sell to few” vs. “sell to many”?

Version One Ventures

These are long sales cycles, often with multiple departments and stakeholders involved. And often, enhanced business services – such as custom product development or professional installation and consulting – are involved to complete the sale. CTO, VP of HR) in the customer organization. Final thoughts.

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Not Making Sales? Is Your Product, Sales Team, or Sales Process the Cause?

Small Business Force

During this initial period, not one sales person was there longer than seven months and most had less than four months on the job. The company didn’t have great results over this time, with only two sales, generating minor revenue. The CEO and founder, who hired and fired the staff, blamed the lack of sales on two things.

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The #1 thing successful founders think about for their next startups

Hippoland

At Hustle Fund, we back both first time founders as well as repeat founders. One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. Product second. Sales cycles matter though. Marketing first.

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The #1 thing successful founders think about for their next startups

Hippoland

At Hustle Fund, we back both first time founders as well as repeat founders. One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. Product second. Sales cycles matter though. Marketing first.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

It should be even more important to the founders themselves, because it demonstrates that their business hypothesis is grounded in reality. Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. In fact, this company hasn’t shipped any new products in months.

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It’s Not a Conversion Problem, It’s a Customer Development Problem

conversionxl.com

The product or website (be it software, e-commerce, or a service) might be awesome , but if it puts itself in front of the wrong market, or packages itself so the right market can’t figure out why it’s awesome, the startup will fail. So What is Customer Development? The Problem With Traditional Product Development.