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How to Communicate Impact Metrics to Investors

StartupNation

Effectively communicating your startup’s impact metrics to investors can make or break your funding opportunities. Post-round, the same metrics framework became our quarterly board template, saving hours of prep. Outcome: Oversubscribed round (+40% over target) closed in six weeks. Tips for other founders: 1.

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The Complete Guide to SaaS Pricing Strategy

Tomasz Tunguz

They change with time as your marketing team builds a brand, develops reference customers, and creates ROI case studies. The best way for a startup to ensure its price is reasonably optimal is to create a framework for evaluating price and revisit the data a few times per year. Push for it as early as possible.

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SBA Announces Community Navigator Model and Funding Opportunity

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While it appears the SBA will be applying this approach to the existing SBA-funded national network such as SBDCs, SCORE and Women Business Centers, the announcement indicates a new funding opportunity will soon open for states, tribes, units of local governments and other nonprofit organizations. What is the SBA Community Navigator Model?

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EO Global Speakers Academy grads share transformational results

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Michèle Hecken : I had sold my business and was writing a book, which made me curious about public speaking. I wanted GSA to give me a framework for a signature talk and help me understand what topic and how best to present on it. I’ve worked with many, shared the stage with a couple, and referred several others.

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10 Ways to Boost Your Startup’s Customer Acquisition

StartupNation

It provides the framework to grow your business by helping you to gain new customers while you retain the ones you have. First, it provides potential customers the opportunity to try your product or see what it’s like to work with you, at no cost to them. Once you have happy customers, make it easy for them to refer you.

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Sanity, a platform to build and manage content flows on sites, raises $9.3M from Ev Williams, Threshold and more

TechCrunch

But all that opportunity also has a flip side: how can you say what you want, just how you want to say it, without technical hurdle after hurdle getting in your way? These days, the medium, as they say, is the message, and in that regard “publishing” has taken on a new meaning in the digital age.

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The New Business Preservation Act and the Tradition of U.S. Federal Government Support for Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital

Ian Hathaway

No one tells this story better than Harvard Business School professor Tom Nicholas in his recent book VC: An American History. This post summarizes the parts of his book that deal with U.S. Later, Nicholas refers to SBIR as a program that encouraged “technology prototyping.” government policy.