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If you have an ecommerce or B2C product you should be investing in using paid social advertising and influencer marketing strategies to gain brand awareness, traffic or sales. MORE
StartupGrindStartups Best Practices Education StrategyAre you thinking about building the next big thing in EdTech? Well, I have to say that the journey is really amusing but extremely challenging at the same time! Many have tried to revolutionize education and failed. MORE
In the last blog, the importance of a “Grow Your Own” strategy was discussed. But, which entrepreneurial support model is the best one to deploy when pursuing a “Grow Your Own” strategy and aiming to start and retain homegrown businesses? Incubation (in an incubator facility) is the best model (versus accelerators). Basically, a combination of the incubation process and the length of time that a company spends in an incubator help to retain homegrown businesses. MORE
In 1986, Amar Bhide wrote “ Hustle as Strategy ” for the Harvard Business Review. It’s not a powerful new strategy that a new leader infuses into the organization. What differentiates the best banks from the middle of the pack aren’t differentiated financial products or novel go-to-market strategies or new insights into the market. Great execution is a winning strategy. MORE
Strategy In large part, strategy is such a financially rewarding focus of study in the United States because the most prestigious consulting firms are actively seeking candidates who have expertise in this specialization. Education Management Strategy Technology MORE
Locate the nearest exit angel investment angel investors entrepreneurs entrepreneurship equity exit strategy initial public offering IPO liquidity shareholders startups VC venture capitalIn the “good old days,” angels invested in seed-stage startups and teed up promising companies for subsequent venture capital financing. If the company was successful, this quickly led to an IPO – a very happy ending for the entrepreneur, the angels, and the venture capitalists. MORE
The post New Ways to Leverage Innovation: Activate CSR Strategies appeared first on UBI Global. How to support Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) We know that innovation is top of mind for businesses looking to stay competitive. MORE
What role do foundations play in entrepreneurship—and how do they measure success? Entrepreneurial Communities Best Practices MORE
I hope they are useful for anyone designing or redesigning a content marketing strategy. Content marketing is one of the most powerful marketing tools startups can employ. Blogs are powerful drivers of awareness and creators of purchasing intent which ultimately lead to new customers, new employees or other new opportunities. This is doubly true as buyers are educating themselves before contacting sales teams to a far greater extent than ever. MORE
Strategy. I’m a stickler for focus, being efficient with capital and building out operational excellence, so our strategy initially was very constrained. MakeSpace , the leading provider of next-generation storage for consumers, today announced an additional $17.5 MORE
The most dangerous strategy for any platform company is to price too high – to charge a greedy and overzealous rake that could serve to undermine the whole point of having a platform in the first place. MORE
Marketing strategy actually is quite important to most investors. The bottom line is that if no one shows up to buy or use your product, it doesn’t matter one whit how cool or great or innovative it is. And investors do not like top-down projections (“we’ll get a 10% market share…”). They very much want to see how you are going to get your first customer, and your second, and your third. original post can be found on Quora @ [link] *. MORE
I believe this strategy has paid off in spades. 5 years ago I sat at our annual meeting bored beyond belief. It wasn’t just that I have ADD making boring meetings excruciatingly painful – it was that the format was tired, unimaginative, uninspiring and not very useful. MORE
Healthy living strategy comes with a smart plan too, you just need to focus on your pain points. But, once again - healthy living strategy is something that we all should focus on. Why Should Healthy Living Strategy Be Your Call To Action? Health Healthcare Strategy MORE
We recently teamed up with HubSpot and Agathos ( Dreamit HealthTech F2018) to host a webinar focused on teaching startups how to develop an effective enterprise sales strategy. MORE
Irrespective of your point of view, the crucial lesson in all this - whether you’re a venture capitalist, crypto-buying Uber driver, or billionaire private equity buyer - stick to your strategy. At Redpoint’s annual investor meeting earlier this year, I quipped, “The day-trading taxi drivers of the dotcom era have been replaced by crypto-trading Uber drivers.” MORE
Each strategy requires different levels of investment but achieves similar results. These strategies are often deployed in addition to a customer success team , which require their own investment. For each strategy, I show the investment required to offset revenue churn. Strategy 1: New Customer Acquisition. Strategy 2: Account Growth. Strategy 3: Organic Growth. The Organic Growth strategy is likely most efficient but necessitates tradeoffs. MORE
You’re building a company from your vision and a passion, and lots of people are going to tell you that you have this or that wrong, and that it just won’t work. Business plans rarely survive market contact. MORE
biometrics business-strategy venture-capital transportation securityIn 1989, the second part of the blockbuster Back to the Future trilogy introduced a version of 2015 where individuals could use fingerprints to unlock doors, pay for taxis, and make donations to save broken clock towers. MORE
The post [Kenna Security in Forbes] How To Choose The Right Tech Vendor: 13 Strategies For Small Businesses appeared first on OurCrowd. MORE
One-half of angel-funded companies fail, which is why a winning Investment Strategy for Angels includes diversification. Some enlightened angels have adopted the following strategy for these companies: They sell their shares (acquired for $25,000, $50,000 or more) to an acquaintance for $100 (or $10, or $1000), with full verbal disclosure that their ownership position is unlikely to have substantial value. MORE
I recommend you read Fred Wilson’s recent blog post about the need for a well articulated business strategy before pushing a particular business model. I guess this is the ultimate definition of implementing a business model when you’re not clear on strategy! MORE
You’re building a company from your vision and a passion, and lots of people are going to tell you that you have this or that wrong, and that it just won’t work. Business plans rarely survive market contact. MORE
Invested Interests angel investment angel investors crowd funding deal terms due diligence entrepreneurs entrepreneurship equity exit strategy fundraising initial public offering IPO pitching shareholders startups structure tactics venture capitalThe U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, section 12(g), generally limits a privately held company to fewer than 500 shareholders. MORE
It is mind-boggling how much time and money is invested in “strategy” at many companies—with some larger organizations even hiring a full-time person or team to oversee “strategy and innovation.” Leadership Women Entrepreneurs culture Empower Limited EO Tanzania miranda naiman strateg MORE
Invested Interests angel investment angel investors Antone Johnson AVC AVC.com convertible notes David Hornik deal terms entrepreneurs entrepreneurship equity execution exit strategy Fred Wilson fundraising pitching terms valuation valuations venture capitalEntrepreneurs: if you’re looking seriously at angel investment, and you have the kind of product-market fit and management experience investors will like, you need to take a good look at convertible notes. MORE
In past weeks, we explored the need for a tangible goal and strategies that are measurable as steps toward achievement of your goal. Today, we explore how to create tactics to accompany each strategy, and even suggest a number of tactics to consider for each strategy. MORE
If I were asked to create a content marketing strategy for a person or a business from scratch, I would craft a strategy with three dimensions: customer segments, customer lifecycle stage and content type. Content marketing efforts must reflect the core strategy of the business and prioritize the most important few segments. Content Types: Great content marketing strategy should leverage all of the available tools to maximize success. MORE
Pivotal Moments name name differentiation naming strategies startup naming startupsOne reason is that because of rapidly changing nature of business, today’s competitive advantage can easily become tomorrow’s disadvantage…or at least irrelevancy. Think about how useful the name Tote.com would be for a shopping site developing a social-sharing universal shopping bag/cart. Pretty cool, huh? MORE
What is the optimal pricing strategy for a start up? Price - Expensify employs a penetration pricing plan, using freemium strategy to build groundswell within organizations and ultimately close the entire company as a customer. Product The product is built with this strategy in mind, and differentiates itself in the market with the friendliest user experience in the market, which is how the product will initially be evaluated by these ultimate evangelists. MORE
The post [OurCrowd in Calcalist] Strategies, Opportunities, and Challenges the Israeli Tech Industry Faces appeared first on OurCrowd. MORE
Typically, VCs adopt primarily one of three strategies with a fund [1]: Small fund , small ownership positions, many investments in markets that will consistently generate sub-$100M acquisitions. But at the core of the venture business are these three fundamental investment strategies. MORE
The structure combined the listing of the goal with a series of strategies and then tactics, each designed to support each other, each measurable and made public throughout the organization. What is a strategy? MORE
No optimization of fundraising strategy or timing can obviate that requirement, especially not in today’s environment. About one third of US startups that raise a seed round raise a Series A. The larger the seed investment, the greater the odds the company successfully raises the next round. A $500,000 seed round results in a series A 20% of the time, while $1.5M seed increases the chances to 30%, an increase of half. MORE
Precisely because seed stage investments in private startup companies are NOT Warren Buffet’s types of investments. Early venture and angel investments are much, much riskier than Buffett’s, with more than half of them typically failing completely and losing the entire investment. As such, the returns on an early stage portfolio typically come from only one or two investments out of every ten. MORE
The post Building a Better Startup Ecosystem: Strategies for Success appeared first on VentureWell. We highlight ways to establish and sustain a healthy startup ecosystem, from coordinating regional assets to accessing capital. MORE
It’s important in aligning internal strategy, communicating with others, talking with partner, recruiting and, yes, raising VC. We have followed this strategy for 15 years. Our next fund will follow the same strategy. So make sure you have a solid PR strategy. MORE
Or any question that instills less confidence than, “How did you derive your pricing strategy?” ” Many times, startups replicate and tune competitors’ pricing strategies. A partner at Simon-Kucher partners, the pre-eminent pricing consultancy, he argues in Monetizing Innovation that there are only three pricing strategies startups should pursue: Maximization, Penetration and Skimming. A bottoms-up strategy lends itself to penetration pricing. MORE
OODA was a technique coined by John Boyd, one of the leading military thinkers of the last 100 years, based on the German’s Blitzkrieg-style warfare which prioritized speed and surprise over the traditional win, hold and grind attrition techniques of trench warfare. After @pmarca tweeted about the concept, I read one of the books on the topic called Certain to Win. MORE
Starting in late 2015 through the first quarter of 2016, founders have shifted their seed fundraising strategies toward a single investor. Seeds led by a single investor have increased by 50% in these trailing six months. How much of this trend is due to greater participation of venture capitalists investing in the seed market? The chart above plots the number of seeds rounds by year. Rounds with VC participation are marked in blue, and those without VCs in red. MORE
The post [CrediFi in Yahoo Finance] CrediFi Launches CRE Strategy Dashboards for Risk, Competition and Opportunities appeared first on OurCrowd. MORE
The post 4 Strategies to Integrate Ethics into Entrepreneurship Education appeared first on VentureWell. We interviewed three leaders in entrepreneurship education about several ways to teach tomorrow's entrepreneurs about ethics. MORE
The post In-House vs. Outsource: What’s the Best Accounting Strategy for Your Startup? Guest Post: Justin McLoughlin is the Founder of airCFO. Under no circumstances should any of the below content be construed as legal, tax or investment advice from 500 Startups or any of its affiliates. The early days of any company are all about resource management. Life as a startup is perilous. The companies who survive and thrive are usually the ones who find ways to do more with less. MORE
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Entrepreneurs' Organization
JUNE 14, 2019
It is mind-boggling how much time and money is invested in “strategy” at many companies—with some larger organizations even hiring a full-time person or team to oversee “strategy and innovation.” Leadership Women Entrepreneurs culture Empower Limited EO Tanzania miranda naiman strateg
Venture Well
JULY 16, 2019
The post 4 Strategies to Integrate Ethics into Entrepreneurship Education appeared first on VentureWell. We interviewed three leaders in entrepreneurship education about several ways to teach tomorrow's entrepreneurs about ethics.
Venture Well
JUNE 11, 2019
The post Building a Better Startup Ecosystem: Strategies for Success appeared first on VentureWell. We highlight ways to establish and sustain a healthy startup ecosystem, from coordinating regional assets to accessing capital.
Startup Grind
AUGUST 13, 2018
Healthy living strategy comes with a smart plan too, you just need to focus on your pain points. But, once again - healthy living strategy is something that we all should focus on. Why Should Healthy Living Strategy Be Your Call To Action? Health Healthcare Strategy
Source Link
JUNE 3, 2019
What role do foundations play in entrepreneurship—and how do they measure success? Entrepreneurial Communities Best Practices
Tomasz Tunguz
APRIL 8, 2019
In 1986, Amar Bhide wrote “ Hustle as Strategy ” for the Harvard Business Review. It’s not a powerful new strategy that a new leader infuses into the organization. What differentiates the best banks from the middle of the pack aren’t differentiated financial products or novel go-to-market strategies or new insights into the market. Great execution is a winning strategy.
500
MAY 31, 2019
The post In-House vs. Outsource: What’s the Best Accounting Strategy for Your Startup? Guest Post: Justin McLoughlin is the Founder of airCFO. Under no circumstances should any of the below content be construed as legal, tax or investment advice from 500 Startups or any of its affiliates. The early days of any company are all about resource management. Life as a startup is perilous. The companies who survive and thrive are usually the ones who find ways to do more with less.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 30, 2016
I believe this strategy has paid off in spades. 5 years ago I sat at our annual meeting bored beyond belief. It wasn’t just that I have ADD making boring meetings excruciatingly painful – it was that the format was tired, unimaginative, uninspiring and not very useful.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 16, 2012
It’s important in aligning internal strategy, communicating with others, talking with partner, recruiting and, yes, raising VC. We have followed this strategy for 15 years. Our next fund will follow the same strategy. So make sure you have a solid PR strategy.
Startup Grind
AUGUST 26, 2018
If you have an ecommerce or B2C product you should be investing in using paid social advertising and influencer marketing strategies to gain brand awareness, traffic or sales.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 4, 2013
I recommend you read Fred Wilson’s recent blog post about the need for a well articulated business strategy before pushing a particular business model. I guess this is the ultimate definition of implementing a business model when you’re not clear on strategy!
Berkonomics
JANUARY 10, 2019
You’re building a company from your vision and a passion, and lots of people are going to tell you that you have this or that wrong, and that it just won’t work. Business plans rarely survive market contact.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 24, 2016
Strategy. I’m a stickler for focus, being efficient with capital and building out operational excellence, so our strategy initially was very constrained. MakeSpace , the leading provider of next-generation storage for consumers, today announced an additional $17.5
Berkonomics
JANUARY 10, 2019
You’re building a company from your vision and a passion, and lots of people are going to tell you that you have this or that wrong, and that it just won’t work. Business plans rarely survive market contact.
OurCrowd
JUNE 12, 2019
The post [OurCrowd in Calcalist] Strategies, Opportunities, and Challenges the Israeli Tech Industry Faces appeared first on OurCrowd.
Gust
NOVEMBER 23, 2013
Marketing strategy actually is quite important to most investors. The bottom line is that if no one shows up to buy or use your product, it doesn’t matter one whit how cool or great or innovative it is. And investors do not like top-down projections (“we’ll get a 10% market share…”). They very much want to see how you are going to get your first customer, and your second, and your third. original post can be found on Quora @ [link] *.
Startup Grind
SEPTEMBER 24, 2018
StartupGrindStartups Best Practices Education StrategyAre you thinking about building the next big thing in EdTech? Well, I have to say that the journey is really amusing but extremely challenging at the same time! Many have tried to revolutionize education and failed.
abovethecrowd.com
APRIL 17, 2013
The most dangerous strategy for any platform company is to price too high – to charge a greedy and overzealous rake that could serve to undermine the whole point of having a platform in the first place.
Dream It
APRIL 24, 2019
We recently teamed up with HubSpot and Agathos ( Dreamit HealthTech F2018) to host a webinar focused on teaching startups how to develop an effective enterprise sales strategy.
Tomasz Tunguz
AUGUST 1, 2013
Typically, VCs adopt primarily one of three strategies with a fund [1]: Small fund , small ownership positions, many investments in markets that will consistently generate sub-$100M acquisitions. But at the core of the venture business are these three fundamental investment strategies.
Tomasz Tunguz
APRIL 21, 2016
Or any question that instills less confidence than, “How did you derive your pricing strategy?” ” Many times, startups replicate and tune competitors’ pricing strategies. A partner at Simon-Kucher partners, the pre-eminent pricing consultancy, he argues in Monetizing Innovation that there are only three pricing strategies startups should pursue: Maximization, Penetration and Skimming. A bottoms-up strategy lends itself to penetration pricing.
Tomasz Tunguz
APRIL 18, 2016
Starting in late 2015 through the first quarter of 2016, founders have shifted their seed fundraising strategies toward a single investor. Seeds led by a single investor have increased by 50% in these trailing six months. How much of this trend is due to greater participation of venture capitalists investing in the seed market? The chart above plots the number of seeds rounds by year. Rounds with VC participation are marked in blue, and those without VCs in red.
Carol Lauffer
APRIL 10, 2018
In the last blog, the importance of a “Grow Your Own” strategy was discussed. But, which entrepreneurial support model is the best one to deploy when pursuing a “Grow Your Own” strategy and aiming to start and retain homegrown businesses? Incubation (in an incubator facility) is the best model (versus accelerators). Basically, a combination of the incubation process and the length of time that a company spends in an incubator help to retain homegrown businesses.
Revolution
FEBRUARY 7, 2019
biometrics business-strategy venture-capital transportation securityIn 1989, the second part of the blockbuster Back to the Future trilogy introduced a version of 2015 where individuals could use fingerprints to unlock doors, pay for taxis, and make donations to save broken clock towers.
Tomasz Tunguz
JANUARY 30, 2014
OODA was a technique coined by John Boyd, one of the leading military thinkers of the last 100 years, based on the German’s Blitzkrieg-style warfare which prioritized speed and surprise over the traditional win, hold and grind attrition techniques of trench warfare. After @pmarca tweeted about the concept, I read one of the books on the topic called Certain to Win.
OurCrowd
AUGUST 20, 2019
The post [Kenna Security in Forbes] How To Choose The Right Tech Vendor: 13 Strategies For Small Businesses appeared first on OurCrowd.
Berkonomics
MAY 18, 2017
The structure combined the listing of the goal with a series of strategies and then tactics, each designed to support each other, each measurable and made public throughout the organization. What is a strategy?
Tomasz Tunguz
MAY 5, 2018
Irrespective of your point of view, the crucial lesson in all this - whether you’re a venture capitalist, crypto-buying Uber driver, or billionaire private equity buyer - stick to your strategy. At Redpoint’s annual investor meeting earlier this year, I quipped, “The day-trading taxi drivers of the dotcom era have been replaced by crypto-trading Uber drivers.”
Startup Grind
AUGUST 18, 2018
Strategy In large part, strategy is such a financially rewarding focus of study in the United States because the most prestigious consulting firms are actively seeking candidates who have expertise in this specialization. Education Management Strategy Technology
Tomasz Tunguz
APRIL 6, 2016
No optimization of fundraising strategy or timing can obviate that requirement, especially not in today’s environment. About one third of US startups that raise a seed round raise a Series A. The larger the seed investment, the greater the odds the company successfully raises the next round. A $500,000 seed round results in a series A 20% of the time, while $1.5M seed increases the chances to 30%, an increase of half.
Tomasz Tunguz
JANUARY 29, 2015
I hope they are useful for anyone designing or redesigning a content marketing strategy. Content marketing is one of the most powerful marketing tools startups can employ. Blogs are powerful drivers of awareness and creators of purchasing intent which ultimately lead to new customers, new employees or other new opportunities. This is doubly true as buyers are educating themselves before contacting sales teams to a far greater extent than ever.
Tomasz Tunguz
FEBRUARY 16, 2015
If I were asked to create a content marketing strategy for a person or a business from scratch, I would craft a strategy with three dimensions: customer segments, customer lifecycle stage and content type. Content marketing efforts must reflect the core strategy of the business and prioritize the most important few segments. Content Types: Great content marketing strategy should leverage all of the available tools to maximize success.
Gust
SEPTEMBER 6, 2014
Precisely because seed stage investments in private startup companies are NOT Warren Buffet’s types of investments. Early venture and angel investments are much, much riskier than Buffett’s, with more than half of them typically failing completely and losing the entire investment. As such, the returns on an early stage portfolio typically come from only one or two investments out of every ten.
Forward Cities
AUGUST 27, 2018
The post In All Its Forms: Ford’s VP of Inclusive Economies Talks Strategy appeared first on Forward Cities. Instagram
Tomasz Tunguz
OCTOBER 30, 2013
Each strategy requires different levels of investment but achieves similar results. These strategies are often deployed in addition to a customer success team , which require their own investment. For each strategy, I show the investment required to offset revenue churn. Strategy 1: New Customer Acquisition. Strategy 2: Account Growth. Strategy 3: Organic Growth. The Organic Growth strategy is likely most efficient but necessitates tradeoffs.
Tomasz Tunguz
JUNE 19, 2016
What is the optimal pricing strategy for a start up? Price - Expensify employs a penetration pricing plan, using freemium strategy to build groundswell within organizations and ultimately close the entire company as a customer. Product The product is built with this strategy in mind, and differentiates itself in the market with the friendliest user experience in the market, which is how the product will initially be evaluated by these ultimate evangelists.
Berkonomics
MAY 25, 2017
In past weeks, we explored the need for a tangible goal and strategies that are measurable as steps toward achievement of your goal. Today, we explore how to create tactics to accompany each strategy, and even suggest a number of tactics to consider for each strategy.
OurCrowd
JUNE 11, 2019
The post [CrediFi in Yahoo Finance] CrediFi Launches CRE Strategy Dashboards for Risk, Competition and Opportunities appeared first on OurCrowd.
Gust
NOVEMBER 1, 2012
Pivotal Moments name name differentiation naming strategies startup naming startupsOne reason is that because of rapidly changing nature of business, today’s competitive advantage can easily become tomorrow’s disadvantage…or at least irrelevancy. Think about how useful the name Tote.com would be for a shopping site developing a social-sharing universal shopping bag/cart. Pretty cool, huh?
Gust
JULY 31, 2012
One-half of angel-funded companies fail, which is why a winning Investment Strategy for Angels includes diversification. Some enlightened angels have adopted the following strategy for these companies: They sell their shares (acquired for $25,000, $50,000 or more) to an acquaintance for $100 (or $10, or $1000), with full verbal disclosure that their ownership position is unlikely to have substantial value.
Gust
DECEMBER 28, 2011
Locate the nearest exit angel investment angel investors entrepreneurs entrepreneurship equity exit strategy initial public offering IPO liquidity shareholders startups VC venture capitalIn the “good old days,” angels invested in seed-stage startups and teed up promising companies for subsequent venture capital financing. If the company was successful, this quickly led to an IPO – a very happy ending for the entrepreneur, the angels, and the venture capitalists.
Gust
JANUARY 5, 2012
Invested Interests angel investment angel investors crowd funding deal terms due diligence entrepreneurs entrepreneurship equity exit strategy fundraising initial public offering IPO pitching shareholders startups structure tactics venture capitalThe U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, section 12(g), generally limits a privately held company to fewer than 500 shareholders.
Gust
JANUARY 4, 2012
Invested Interests angel investment angel investors Antone Johnson AVC AVC.com convertible notes David Hornik deal terms entrepreneurs entrepreneurship equity execution exit strategy Fred Wilson fundraising pitching terms valuation valuations venture capitalEntrepreneurs: if you’re looking seriously at angel investment, and you have the kind of product-market fit and management experience investors will like, you need to take a good look at convertible notes.
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