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Don’t Let Investors Conclude Your Startup Is A Hobby

Gust

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Product development process. Billing and revenue collection. Funding process. It all has to be written down and maintained.

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Don’t Let Investors Conclude Your Startup Is A Hobby

Startup Professionals Musings

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Product development process. Billing and revenue collection. Funding process. It all has to be written down and maintained.

Startup 268
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8 Key Processes Distinguish a Business From a Hobby

Startup Professionals Musings

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Product development process. Billing and revenue collection. Funding process. It all has to be written down and maintained.

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‘Out of Control’ Startups Fail on 8 Key Processes

Startup Professionals Musings

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Product development process. Billing and revenue collection. Funding process. It all has to be written down and maintained.

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

David Teten

An investor had few hard metrics other than the actual financials, and little technology to make the process scaleable. Over the past few decades, better metrics became available, and investors could take a more analytical, data-driven approach. ” Historically, investing was a manual, artisan process.

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Eight Business Processes Every Startup Must Have

Startup Professionals Musings

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Product development process. Billing and revenue collection. Funding process. It all has to be written down and maintained.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine. IPO markets had burned an entire cycle of retail stock investors and many institutional investors to boot.