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Starting Up In Singapore (Part I) – Product/Market Fit

YoungUpstarts

It is harder to raise capital, you need to execute fast and choose the largest market with highest achievable revenue potential as your beach head market] E.G. BuzzCity, Mig33, TMGamer, ImpulseFlyer, Reebonz etc. Consumer Facing B2C. Global from day one (GD1). E.G. Reebonz, BuzzCity, Groupon Singapore etc.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. The majority of funds are using the popular B2C websites and services for basic due diligence, e.g., Linkedin, Twitter, HackerNews. 6) Negotiate deal.

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7 Incredible Web Design, Branding, Digital Marketing Experiences

Occam's Razor

There is a lot any business — B2C, B2B, A2Z — can learn from Songza. by creating a great experience, reassuring me with clear pricing, and they won't even have to pay a bounty to their aggregators! Don't you love happy customers and big revenues? I love the social nature of sharing playlists.

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Denouement

View from Seed

Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. Year over year revenue growth rates are measured in multiples not percentages. We’re only a few months past Sequoia’s famous “R.I.P. Good Times” presentation (Oct 2008).

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. Farming is also often overlooked, but can help grow customer accounts and revenues from 30% upwards (if successful). Great list! Philippe Botteri.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

The majority of funds are using the popular B2C websites and services for basic due diligence, e.g., Linkedin, Twitter, HackerNews. Lighter Capital, a Revenue Based Investing VC, offers a Cost of Capital Calculator. TruthFinder and Intelius provide basic background vetting. Pacer is useful to search prior litigation, bankruptcies, etc.

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8 strategic hacks for building marketplace liquidity

The Next Web

By the end, 99 percent of the B2B marketplaces had cratered and only B2C eBay was left standing and thriving. it’s really a software business, not liquidity driven) and that B2C marketplaces could not be built under the giant momentum of eBay’s “ network effect. Start with aggregating scarce and in-demand inventory.

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