View from Seed

APRIL 6, 2021

You have a point of view on emerging technology and business models, and you are not afraid to voice your conviction. You resonate with the NextView mission to “design the future that we want to live in” You enjoy meeting new people and have a healthy appetite for conversation. What Will The Job Be Like.

Technical Review 317

Technical Review Software Review Seed Stage Cofounder 317

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Nail the business model. Leverage your customer conversations to predict and validate your business model. Don’t forget a viable financial model of costs, margins, customer acquisition, and break-even. Do real tests with real pricing to see if customers will pay you, without being pushed.

Startup 296

Startup Angel Investor Technical Review Incubator 296

TechEmpower

JULY 31, 2023

Proving your Business Model Works - Build, Define, and Review But how do you prove your numbers? Then use what you’ve learned in this blog post to decide if the numbers validate your business model, or if you need to rethink your approach. Be sure to check out the entire presentation.

Metrics 260

Metrics Startup Retention Acquisition 260

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Nail the business model. Leverage your customer conversations to predict and validate your business model. Don’t forget a viable financial model of costs, margins, customer acquisition, and break-even. Do real tests with real pricing to see if customers will pay you, without being pushed.

Startup 286

Startup Angel Investor Technical Review Incubator 286

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2014

Nail the business model. Leverage your customer conversations to predict and validate your business model. Don’t forget a viable financial model of costs, margins, customer acquisition, and break-even. Do real tests with real pricing to see if customers will pay you, without being pushed.

Entrepreneur 283

Entrepreneur Startup Angel Investor Technical Review 283

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc. 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? . -

Silicon Valley 378

Silicon Valley Startup Term Sheet Venture Capital 378

View from Seed

JULY 6, 2020

You have a point of view on emerging technology and business models, and you are not afraid to voice your conviction. You have a deep desire to learn the venture capital business and are ready to hustle to meet the next great founder. . You enjoy meeting new people and have a healthy appetite for conversation.

Technical Review 257

Technical Review Software Review Hiring Seed Stage 257

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2019

Nail the business model. Leverage your customer conversations to predict and validate your business model. Don’t forget a viable financial model of costs, margins, customer acquisition, and break-even. Do real tests with real pricing to see if customers will pay you, without being pushed.

Startup 245

Startup Angel Investor Technical Review Incubator 245

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Friends and family will likely not expect the same level of sophistication on the business model and financials as a professional investor, but they do expect to see certain things. On the other hand, if you open every conversation with “I need money,” you won’t have any friends or any money. Be upbeat and respectful.

Technical Review 338

Technical Review Elevator Pitch Due Diligence Angel Investor 338

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Your product is designed with natural tripwires to trigger other pricing ( Freemium model ), or not (business model left as an exercise to your future self). Requires venture funding because you have no income, and if you’re successful you’ll need lots of people and tech to run the business.

Bootstrapping 294

Bootstrapping Technical Review B2C Sales Cycle 294

SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

I actually think you can push the conversation pretty far with most investors and a few good mockups. As Steve Blank likes to say: A Startup Is a Temporary Organization Designed to Search for A Repeatable and Scalable Business Model The unfortunate reality is - an MVP is not the above! Investors demand more than that.

Algorithm 264

Algorithm Metrics Viral Venture Capital 264

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

Friends and family will likely not expect the same level of sophistication on the business model and financials as a professional investor, but they do expect to see certain things. On the other hand, if you open every conversation with “I need money,” you won’t have any friends or any money. Be upbeat and respectful.

Technical Review 273

Technical Review Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch Due Diligence 273

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 19, 2014

Friends and family will likely not expect the same level of sophistication on the business model and financials as a professional investor, but they do expect to see certain things. On the other hand, if you open every conversation with “I need money,” you won’t have any friends or any money. Be upbeat and respectful.

Technical Review 266

Technical Review Elevator Pitch Due Diligence Startup 266

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

While it’s true that at no other time are customers in as much of a shopping mood, SMBs cannot afford to sit back and follow a “Field of Dreams” business model. Facebook, specifically, is a strong lead-generation channel that allows advertising through promoted content that can yield better conversion than traditional ads.

Customer 176

Customer Social Media eCommerce Campaign 176

VC Cafe

MARCH 16, 2025

Digiday reported conversations with media executives, with one publisher seeing a more than 50% decline in its search referral traffic since AI Overviews rolled out last year. Conversational commerce is rising with AI chatbots and voice assistants becoming integral to customer journeys. Personalisation is increasing across the board.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review B2C Generative AI IPO 78

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Friends and family will likely not expect the same level of sophistication on the business model and financials as a professional investor, but they do expect to see certain things. On the other hand, if you open every conversation with “I need money,” you won’t have any friends or any money. Be upbeat and respectful.

Early Stage 247

Early Stage Technical Review Elevator Pitch Due Diligence 247

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Optimizing your site for search engines can attract more visitors and improve your chances of conversion. Understanding The Business Model of a B2B Marketplace. A business model describes how your company makes money and is essential to developing an effective business plan. Research Keywords: .

B2B 131

B2B Developer Technical Review Business Model 131

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

business models. There is a huge difference between the Chinese who have never left and those who went to school abroad, even for a few months – at least a difference in their ability to relate to me and have a conversation on the same wavelength. business models. Of course “copy” is too strong a word.

China 328

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 328

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 4, 2014

It either needed to get more aggressive in pricing, pivot to a new business or business model or raise more capital (and take the dilution) in order to have more time to figure things out. It’s hard to be open with your co-founders without somebody helping to broker the conversation.

Founder 340

Founder Cofounder Sacramento Technical Review 340

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2017

Nail the business model. Leverage your customer conversations to predict and validate your business model. Don’t forget a viable financial model of costs, margins, customer acquisition, and break-even. Do real tests with real pricing to see if customers will pay you, without being pushed.

Startup 161

Startup Angel Investor Technical Review Incubator 161

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

One question that keeps coming up when speaking with early stage entrepreneurs when it comes to funding, is what metrics the company needs to hit to raise seed/series A/B etc: What’s a good conversion rate? Benchmarks are typically specific to stage/business model/geo. What should our MRR growth be?

B2C 141

B2C Technical Review Startup Retention 141

VC Cafe

JUNE 26, 2023

Challenges galore Like any tech advancement at scale, to succeed in this endeavour requires deep pockets: cloud resources and costly GPUs, expensive AI engineers and a working business model, all of which Google already has. Some companies, like Neeva.com, the first gen AI powered search experience, shut down earlier this month.

Generative AI 174

Generative AI Search ChatGPT Technical Review 174

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The conversation also touches on the risks AI poses in cybersecurity and the necessity of implementing two-factor authentication and VPNs. Zach emphasizes that adequate security doesn’t require a large budget and offers practical steps businesses can take to enhance their security posture. So that's like bit warden LastPass.

Software Review 80

Software Review Security Distribution IP 80

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Pricing for better conversion and margin. Although 2020 was a slow start, due to the precarious climate of the world, business started picking up towards the end of the year. Her business model is built around RevOps-as-a-Service (RO-aaS), which has allowed her to scale to a monthly recurring revenue of 30K+.

Congo 158

Congo Technical Review Africa Netherlands 158

ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2021

Various business models in an on-demand courier delivery app. Business to Consumer (B2C) – It is the most common type of business model. Unquestionably, they continuously track the number of clicks, conversions, impressions, likes, leads, and shares for all the posts and videos.

Technical Review 163

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Demand Social Media 163

Hunter Walker

APRIL 17, 2025

Were you already engaged in a sales process with multiple parties, or was it really more of an opportunistic conversation between your company and them? In 2-3 days, you can have dozens of conversations where you get to socialize your company and get a sense of what buyers might be looking for and how you fit. Its not necessarily bad.

Covenant 77

Covenant Acquisition IPO Artificial Inteligence 77

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 16, 2020

For example, a rapidly growing business is often purchasing lots of inventory, investing in fixed assets, and not managing their accounts receivable. If your business model is profitable but you’ve mismanaged one of the above categories, you need to build a 13-week cash forecast to manage your short-term crisis.

Recapitalization 200

Recapitalization Forecast Software Review Finance 200

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Same with my current company in the WordPress hosting business , started just last year. How did I get those initial fifty conversations with WordPress bloggers ? It doesn’t matter how I started Smart Bear — even I can’t copy it.

Customer 279

Customer Software Review SEM Technical Review 279

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 17, 2021

Further education courses are usually home to a wonderful mix of individuals from countless different cultures and nationalities, and as you will probably be aware off if you own a business, networking is essential. This is partly down to the great number of resources that institutes of higher learning will often possess. Is it Worth it?

Analytics 179

Analytics Technical Review Social Media Software Review 179

VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Eliminating middlemen in healthcare – from using AI to automate repetitive human jobs to exploring new and better business models for providing care. Social Hybrid AI x human communities – messaging & social apps where bots are treated as equal citizens.

Artificial Inteligence 176

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review Generative AI 176

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

A few tips to choose a first-rate payment gateway like Powercash are: See if it’s compatible with your business model. The first thing to do when selecting an online payment gateway is to check its compatibility with the business model you have. Also, ensure they offer a decent conversion rate.

Technical Review 127

Technical Review Security Global Business Model 127

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Well I couldn’t ask for a better conversation to kick off a conference. Our conversation also had me thinking about our other clients, potential clients and the firms that decided to go a different direction. Entrepreneurs are understandably gratified to hear customer success stories.

Iowa 113

Iowa Investment Bankers Cloud Software Review 113

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Conversely, relationship funnels concentrate on establishing long-term connections with clients through establishing trust and providing value. There are five quality actions that enhance client relationships rather than depending on metrics like sales and conversions. Why do you need a relationship funnel?

Sales 152

Sales Audience Social Media Email 152

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Roy Dekel believed that the clients are the key to success, and he resonated this in their company business model. They are good and affordable alternatives but having a live human to converse with is better since he or she can understand your concerns more than premade responses.

Mobile 113

Mobile Cloud Software Development Software Developers 113

ConversionXL

JUNE 14, 2021

Use these conversations to understand the needs and desires your customers are struggling to fulfil. When inviting them to a conversation, tell them you want to hear both the good and the bad. If not, no worries—we wish you all the success and conversions in your future landing page journey! Uncover gaps that are being unmet.

Software Review 158

Software Review Audience Differentiation Framework 158

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

But, I am fascinated by the new “cloud kitchens” type models that are being formed and am hopeful that maybe they will crack the code on this. Have you seen companies that you thought would make it burn out because they didn't have enough time or funding to get their business model right? No need to name names.

Lean 108

Lean Venture Capital Conversion IPO 108

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

LESSON #1: Equip your business with a portfolio map and a 21st century org chart. With industries from banking to transportation being transformed and, in some instances, undermined by new business models and technology, executives are smart to wonder, “Are we next?” The first MVP was “a shoebox and a doll.”

Lean 245

Lean Startup CTO Hire Cofounder 245