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Selling into Startups 101: What You Need to Know to Find a Unicorn

Sales Hacker

For example, Lyft’s mission statement is, “ improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation.”. In order to execute on this mission, founders can bootstrap their company, raise outside money ( venture capital is the most popular), or use a combination of both to help build their business.

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Solving Hard(ware) Problems

Point Nine Land

In any case, meaningful progress on any of them involves going much lower than the cloud to manufacture, measure, transport, cultivate, etc before we can even start to build software on top. These teams have special development flows, security concerns, observability needs, etc. on IoT devices and very small chips).

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Funding in the Time of Coronavirus with Mark Suster (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So people were paying people to take their futures contracts. That happens in venture capital, and that’s happening right now. Every venture capitalist is stress testing his or her own portfolio. When uncertainty passes, VC funds have plenty of dry capital to put to work. Why is financing hard right now?