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How Early-Stage Startups Can Utilize the SVB Collapse as a Wake-Up Call

The Startup Magazine

As a founder, ask yourself – does your business actually warrant VC funding? During his six years at AxleHire, Sokolovsky worked to push AxleHire into new verticals and sustainability partnerships. Be honest with yourself VCs are now going to be looking closer at margins, cost structures and true sales, and product market fit.

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For VCs, “What Could Go Right” Is More Important Than “What Could Go Wrong”

Hunter Walker

A richer unpacking would be around whether the bull case actually warranted the capital – was it a reasonable risk to take, not, was there risk. ” I’m positive many firms do versions of this internally, comparing back to their investment memo for the deal and updating their frameworks for the vertical.

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Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

Like other RBI firms, Decathlon does not require warrants, governance involvement, or the types of financial covenants that are often associated with other venture debt type solutions. His description: “We announced a new $500 million fund in Q1 of 2019, in our 10th year.

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How to Design Mobile SaaS Pricing Pages that Don’t Suck

ConversionXL

The back-and-forth vertical scrolling to compare just two plans is already challenging. These solutions are warranted only in special use cases, but they certainly provide a better UX specific to mobile tables. For instance, companies that stacked their cards on mobile had an average of 3.4 plans on their pricing page.

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Growing Your Audience (And Your Revenue) With A Book

Duct Tape Marketing

And in many cases, that was warranted. And it's really all opened up now to, obviously Amazon probably forced a lot of it, but it certainly opened up to it now where anybody, especially working with a, an organization like yours that's established in the industry is, you know, gonna see their book in Barnes and Noble maybe if it warrants it.

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The curse of prevention

Startup Lessons Learned

If not, maybe an investment in that direction would be more warranted. It could be fixed by refactoring the code itself, or by partitioning the data horizontally or vertically, or by adding additional capacity at the point of the bottleneck, or by shaping end-user demand, or even by removing the feature itself.

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10 Essential PR Tips for Startups

mashable.com

Then research which journalists at that publication cover the vertical in which your startup or its news would fall. In fact, an interesting study, infographic or other data sometimes warrants its own pitch. Determine which demographic — and therefore, which publication — would be interested in your startup.

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