Feedough

JANUARY 20, 2021

Seed funding, also called seed money or seed capital, is the initial investment a startup requires to start its operations or to launch itself as a full-fledged business. Technically, seed funding aims to help the founders get the business up and running as it is structured in the business model canvas and business plan.

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StartupNation

MARCH 31, 2021

Structuring your business is one of the first—and most important—decisions you make in your entrepreneurial journey. Your business entity impacts everything from taxes to daily operations. But if you’re just starting out, you might not know what to look for in a business structure, and that’s OK. Choosing a business structure?

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

connects startups to experts in building new businesses. Typically you’ll share your expertise in 5 main ways: phone calls, presentations/in-person meetings, surveys, white papers, and in-depth consulting projects. Ensure that you’re putting your best, digital foot forward on Linkedin and your personal website by: .

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Y Combinator

JULY 24, 2020

While most of the news covering the pandemic’s impact on commerce has highlighted the growth in business to consumer (B2C) e-commerce, little has been said about how business to business (B2B) commerce has changed. million in 2017, driven by growth in health & personal care, clothing, and e-commerce 7.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

So one problem often not talked about is that if LPs don’t get money back and accumulate more cash outflows, eventually they will either have to pare back investments into venture or they’ll have to increase the percentage of dollars they allocate to venture (at the expense of other asset types).

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Besides businesses that operate with negative working capital like cable TV?—?where The following offers 5 common reasons why sales cycles stretch and a rule of thumb for each to diagnose whether this is affecting your business. where you pay before receiving the service?—?I

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

“Our AI technology writes personalized invitations to ideal customers with personalized decks — inviting them to take a meeting,” explains founder and CEO Ravi Vadrevu. LinkedIn is a personal network, and most business interactions usually happen, and more effective on a business email.”

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 8, 2021

Think eBay vs Craigslist for crypto and you’ll have the gist. For a public globally distributed database to function, computers must perform complex and computationally expensive math to ensure the transactions are consistent and accurate across all the database nodes. There are many chains.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In the Endel app, you can hear how the sound is quite different if you’re in “deep work” mode vs. “trying to relax” mode. Spotify has been making strides toward personalized, auto-generated playlists. Endel has also partnered with creatives to produce soundscapes based on their work, like a generative album.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 14, 2024

Can expenses be put off until the next period to increase income, or accelerated into this period by prepayment to decrease net income? But the corporation that pays you accrues the expense and takes the deduction in the year in which the income was earned or expense actually incurred.) Where do we draw the line here?

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accelerator 62

The Zapier Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

The best AI chatbots The leader: ChatGPT The runner-up: Google Bard Internet-connected: Microsoft Bing AI , Perplexity , YouChat , KoalaChat For content writing: Jasper Chat , Chat by Copy.ai , ChatSonic , ZenoChat For messaging: Personal AI For tinkering: OpenAI playground , Poe For fun: AI Test Kitchen , Character.AI Learn more.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

It’s pretty simple math, but the repercussions for a business are significant. Either way, understanding churn gives you a clear picture of where your business stands. In short, churn is a metric that reveals customer satisfaction, the effectiveness of your customer service, and the overall health of your business. That’s churn.

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Hunter Walk

JANUARY 16, 2022

Even before my Jarrod Dicker starting tweeting in his “web2 vs web3” style, I gave him s**t about his thought leadership which seemed to be 80% “that’s smart” and 20% “what did you just smoke because I have no idea what this means?” He’s an expressive, passionate, principled person who cares deeply about his family and his community.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Here are 10 factors to consider when evaluating the potential success of a new marketplace opportunity: New Experience vs. the Status Quo. That capability never existed before, and as a result the delta of the new experience vs. the incumbent experience (dialing restaurants one by one) is extremely high. Much easier said than done.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Many of us are still caught up in the “pinch me this is real” thrill of a skyrocketing business. The company says goodbye to dear teammates, rallies around its new vision as a multiproduct company, and invests in becoming a long-term sustainable business. Personally, I’m excited about this next chapter, as many others are as well.

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Feedough

APRIL 8, 2021

Price – It determines a price for the offering, making it affordable for the customers and profitable for the business Place – Itchooses the right and efficient distribution channels to reduce sales barriers. It is generally conducted over phones but can also involve personal visits such as door-to-door selling.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

That’s the promise and the core differentiator that Solar Foods claims vs animal-derived proteins. Since the Ukraine war started, Europe has been facing an exacerbated supply vs demand issue. What if humanity could feed itself and stop consuming the planet in the process?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

(Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be construed as a recommendation or advice to engage in investment transactions.) Should your attention slip for just a moment, you might find yourself playing the age-old game of man vs. tree.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 25, 2022

When hiring engineers, we looked for people who were amazing technically but also understood our business, were customer focused, were passionate about entrepreneurship—and understood how they needed to work. To test for this, I would ask questions like: “Give me examples of how you or your team impacted the business.”

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Red Rocket

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

But, the business world, is not the boxing world. But, these brands appeared to be more expensive than many others, for very similar products, and I wanted other options. I guess that was to be expected from a major brand, being a little more expensive. But, I still said that it felt too high vs. the others.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But in business, you want a lot of partners. This is a great example of why data businesses have substantial moats. Crystal guides you in how to influence a particular person, based on their online presence. I use FullContact to import business cards and sync other data sets with my CRM. I personally use Salesforce.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 10, 2013

Founders have to live with the day-to-day consequences of their decisions and are closer to the nuances of the business. Taking the extremes: 3 months vs. 1 month was about $25,000. Or are we merely buying off our own personal guilt from the economic and societal consequences of the hard choices we make? So I fight.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

But in business, you want a lot of partners. This is a great example of why data businesses have substantial moats.). Crystal guides you in how to influence a particular person, based on their online presence. I use Contacts+ to import business cards and sync other data sets with my CRM. 6) Due diligence.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

Having street smarts with no inspirational ability to build teams can yield a great small business but will be difficult to scale into a large VC-backed business. I know it sounds trite to say that entrepreneurs are risk takers so let me describe the normal, rational person who I meet on a regular basis. Few people have it.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 9, 2019

Because it’s hard to predict how much space you’ll need as you expand (or, gulp, downside) startups have increasingly turned to shared spaces like WeWork, which act a bit like cloud hosting in that they allow you scale up or scale down as your business expands or slows down.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Also, if you’re paying the person on a success basis, they need to be a registered broker-dealer. The person doing outreach should have a title as senior as possible, e.g., “Acting COO”. Any good business school will have dozens of current students who fit these criteria. Everyone would love lower expenses, duh.

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investment investing consulting VC 49

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

via a higher price) for produce that can claim to have taken less of an toll on the planet prior to arriving on the plate vs conventionally farmed alternatives. At the same time, food is of course cultural, personal and, at times, political — what we eat (or don’t) can often be incredibly polarizing. . “Why?

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 24, 2013

When the time vs money calculus changes. Recruiting is expensive and fees can range from $10k to $100k+ depending on the role and the firm. Every firm and each person within that firm will have an expertise. The person managing the process must also commit to prioritizing the search. Reference the firm. Screen for ethics.

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Reforge

JULY 12, 2022

These responsibilities, alongside managing their personal career ambitions, require entirely different skills, yet most lack proper training to succeed across the stack. Managers often don’t support the growth of their reports because they are too focused on business tasks. As a result, they lead disempowered teams.

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peer-to-peer support leadership construction 52

David Teten VC

JANUARY 19, 2021

This translates less directly to company performance compared to a revenue or profit share, but offers uniquely personal alignment. The founder retains full control over whether she wants to optimize for hyper-growth (usually at the expense of profitability) or for organic, profitable growth. Equity VC is a “get rich slow” business.

VC 45

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 19, 2021

This translates less directly to company performance compared to a revenue or profit share, but offers uniquely personal alignment. The founder retains full control over whether she wants to optimize for hyper-growth (usually at the expense of profitability) or for organic, profitable growth. Equity VC is a “get rich slow” business.

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VC venture capital capital investment 45

Y Combinator

APRIL 26, 2021

They had applied for a business credit card to help fund software and other expenses and were denied. Business credit is traditionally underwritten based on the founders’ FICO scores. Over time, Stripe has expanded to support more business models (e.g., ecommerce, SaaS, marketplaces) and verticals.

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Unvalidated Learnings

JUNE 8, 2017

Personally, I would hire a vet. I wouldn’t be able to recognize a good technology person?—?anyone Engineering Vs. Craftsmanship In Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance , Robert Pirsig contrasts the narrator’s classical approach to life (and motorcycling) to his artist friend John Sutherland’s romantic stance. “Why

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Feedough

APRIL 12, 2021

Acquiring new customers is an expensive task when compared to retaining existing ones. A business may use transactional marketing strategies to acquire a new customer. But to retain customers and ensure recurring sales, businesses have to engage in relationship marketing. Relationship Marketing Strategies.

strategy 98

strategy sustainability media development 98

StartupNation

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

However, even the most successful businesses don’t always have a pile of cash on hand to supplement its cash flow—that’s where a business line of credit or a business credit card can come in handy. If you’re an established business, do you even need one? What is a business line of credit?

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financing finance capital opportunity 119

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

But as a public company, the reality is that a low or volatile stock price sucks and can hurt your business. Can you accurately forecast your business within +/-10% 4 quarters out—and meet or beat it? You know best what drives your business. This doesn’t mean a company has to wait until they’re profitable to go public.

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sustainability networking frameworks financing 113

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Gross Burn vs. Net Burn. That is why these businesses are often valued more highly than other types of businesses. Growth vs. Profitability. The answer is more complex than just Gross vs. Net Burn. In these kinds of businesses I’m on the record as advising “ Ring the Freakin Cash Register.”

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