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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Is it pay-to-play? How will we address these without significant cost? Discount support? Free-trials? Often this ties to marketing support. In other words, you want to offer a discount to a given group to provide incentive. Do you transact immediately or on delivery of some product or service? Do you have a payment gateway?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Is it pay-to-play? How will we address these without significant cost? Discount support? Free-trials? Often this ties to marketing support. In other words, you want to offer a discount to a given group to provide incentive. Do you transact immediately or on delivery of some product or service? Do you have a payment gateway?

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Why LP’s Passed on Seed Funds 10 Years Ago (And What’s Happened Since)

View from Seed

It’s that when things go south, seed funds will have a hard time defending themselves against larger funds that might do a recap or put in a pay-to-play. When we have been converted to common or very deeply diluted from a pay-to-play, the companies have either failed anyway or were not blockbuster outcomes.

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The Great VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) – Part 1 of 3

Both Sides of the Table

While the company continues to perform well it has come at a cost. But they were the lucky company because there was an investor that believed in the high-growth scenario and was willing to continue funding at any cost. (disclosure: I am thankfully no longer on this board). I only had one board with this problem.

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9 No-Nonsense Social Media Tips Your Business Can’t Ignore

YoungUpstarts

Accept that you will probably need to “pay to play” if you want to expand your reach significantly. Fortunately, options like Facebook Ads and advertising on Instagram offer a comparatively cost-effective way to boost your brand and accomplish reaching a more extensive and l targeted audience.

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Open Angel Forum and The Amazing Disappearing Funding Gap in New York City

This is going to be BIG.

Well, remember the dust up a while back with the backlash against “pay to play” pitch events where startups had to pay to meet angels? Jason Calacanis came up with a solution—creating an event where angel investors and startups get to know each other in a casual environment without a cost to the entrepreneur.

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The Power Of Play In Business Culture

Duct Tape Marketing

Key Takeaway: Finding a way to integrate fun and play at work is a powerful asset that benefits the employees and the company itself. It pays to Play: How Play Improves Business Culture. Like there are so many ways to play. What kind of guitar do you play? So welcome to the show, Kristi. So la last question.