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7 Ways To Preclude The Most Common Investor Rejection

Startup Professionals Musings

Traction is evidence that your product or service has started that “hockey- stick” adoption rate which implies a large market, a valid business model, and sustainable growth. As an investor, I would like to see one month of sales, and see how that compares to your projections. Free and freemium products need a solid base.

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How Much Traction is Enough for Investors?

Startup Professionals Musings

Traction is evidence that your product or service has started that “hockey- stick” adoption rate which implies a large market, a valid business model, and sustainable growth. As an investor, I would like to see one month of sales, and see how that compares to your projections. Free and freemium products need a solid base.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. Try charging customers for your product when you have 12 competitors giving the product away free finances by $20 million of VC. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! The Exit Problem.

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RingRevenue Creates A New Performance Marketing Revenue Channel

InfoChachkie

Messenger : Rob Duva , Co-Founder, COO RingRevenue, prior Director of Customer Acquisition, CallWave. Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. But consumers don’t always want to buy that way.

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How To Make Freemium Customers Generate Revenue For Your Startup

InfoChachkie

Unfortunately, there was a contingent within Expertcity, which believed that BuddyHelp should remain a free service, even after we launched DesktopStreaming (the genesis of DesktopStreaming’s terrible name is described in, Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You ).

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