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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

Over the past decade we’ve had high-profile exits at many companies that pioneered monetization techniques now used across the web including Commission Junction, Value Click, ShopZilla, Price Grabber, LowerMyBills and a newer breed including Invoca, Burstly, Shift, Rubicon Project, Gravity, Convertro, Retention Science and so forth.

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

You may also want to consider Crowdfunding at Seedups which is an innovative online matching service that allows entrepreneurs to raise up to £250,000 in seed capital from Business Angels. View More » Jobs Director of Marketing and Retention a. Seedups Hi Jeremy. MTV Launches Interactive Visualizatio.

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Here’s How to Do PR on a Budget

Both Sides of the Table

In that article I talked about how PR drives: recruiting, employee retention, biz dev deals, funding and even M&A and that often “attribution” to your PR activities is unknown. Contrary to popular opinion I actually believe crowd-funding is best used after seed capital or venture capital.

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Pitch Deck Month: “Is It Working?” (aka the “Traction” Slide)

View from Seed

For consumer companies this is usually around user acquisition, engagement, and retention. So these startups should look to raise seed capital either before launch or once they can show early revenue for proof points. Once you cross the chasm of launching v1.0,

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Is the Lean Startup concept of MVP dead?

VC Cafe

But when it comes to launching a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) these days, as incremental and iterative prototypes, things have changed significantly: Capital abundance: There’s never been more seed capital in the market. Capital resources alone don’t do the trick. Cash (alone) isn’t king.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

Product/Metrics (70%/30% time) * Get your product activation (sign-up + meaningful action) to 60% * then, Get your product retention to 20% weekly. Press is something you should do once you know your activation / retention metrics are good. We are raising seed capital, but would like to have a US tech investor.

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Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

Startup Lessons Learned

We had to raise some seed capital. So we had managed to provide a really modern healthcare experience with very high NPS score, very high retention, while still having a very strong provider experience. And then we came to Silicon Valley, and we launched the first version of a SpeedDate, I think in seven days total.