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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

The downside is that with so much venture and angel capital available, investors have been willing to fund the 10 th Groupon clone. For the last few years, there really hasn’t been a demand to innovate on top of the ecosystem that’s been built. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

The downside is that with so much venture and angel capital available, investors have been willing to fund the 10 th Groupon clone. For the last few years, there really hasn’t been a demand to innovate on top of the ecosystem that’s been built. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital.

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

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . 3) Raise capital. Fund/SPV management services specifically are provided by Assure Services and Proteus Capital. ff Venture Capital hired two full-time engineers to build out Totem.

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The Most Important Time of Year Just Started.

Growthink Blog

Simply identify four components of your deal-making process - for example 1) marketing-to-lead conversion 2) lead-to-proposal conversion 3) proposal-to-sale conversion and 4) repurchase rate, and then work to improve each by just 20%. I run through the math here , with the net result of revenue increasing by 2.4X

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Coffee With Startups

Steve Blank

Some of the conversations went like this: Startup 1 Entrepreneur -“I’m competing against Company x and have been following the Customer Development process and I’ve talked to lots of customers.” Do you know how they create demand? Me – “Have you used Company x’s product? Do you know have they distribute their product?

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

So I generally feel right at home in these conversations. The other revels in the world as we all know it will be someday: limitless distribution enabled by new technologies, the importance of collaborative filters, and on-demand availability of all content for end-users. Gatekeepers are overloaded.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

www.chubbybrain.com

If you are an entrepreneur seeking funding, try our free Funding Recommendation Engine to identify a list of angels, venture capital and state grant programs that best match your business. If I tell someone I’m the mayor of a spot, I’m in an instant conversation: “What makes you the mayor?” It’s free. Get started here.