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End of the year startup checklist

Tom Tunguz

I call the last working week in December Board Week because it’s packed with board meetings. These board meetings are often the most important of the year. By virtue of their place on the calendar, everyone in the room is thinking more strategically, less tactically. These meetings set the tone and strategy for the company for the upcoming year. I’ve assembled a checklist below of top 5 things I’ve seen founders do in and around the end of the year that position their companies for success in th

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The $27 million SaaS NDA

Aber Law Firm

There are some great lessons here regarding SaaS confidentiality agreements (aka NDAs). Background : A startup SaaS company disclosed its confidential consumer electronic buyback program information when trying to win the business from a ‘prospective customer’ = Best Buy. Best Buy gave all the right buying signals and Techforward went even further and disclosed its trade secrets (internal workings of its proprietary analytical model) to Best Buy.

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Great startup management teams are built with interlocking parts

Tom Tunguz

Great teams accomplish amazing things. But it’s rare for any founding team to have all the constituent parts on the day they start the company. Most startups will need to build a strong management team whose strengths and knowledge complement the founding team. Finding the right people to help starts with being honest. As Swizec of Zemanta wrote yesterday, there simply isn’t enough time in the day for founders to manage all the key parts of a startup: BD, hiring, fundraising, goal setting, produ

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The software customers don’t see

Tom Tunguz

Tech startups write a ton of code. Broadly speaking, most of that code base is customer facing. But to be successful, the product must be supported by a litany of great “invisible” technology - the internal tools and products that help a company scale. They are the skeleton of the startup. At Google, there were hundreds if not thousands of small internal tools built to solve problems.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Performance marketing for startups with R

Tom Tunguz

Performance marketing is a skill every startup should hone as a core competency as quickly as possible. Performance marketing creates a process where $1 invested in the business creates greater than $1 in output - a growth machine. Building a growth engine. The goal of performance marketing is simple: to determine, as precisely as possible, the expected value of every current and potential user.

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The $27 million SaaS NDA

Aber Law Firm

There are some great lessons here regarding SaaS confidentiality agreements (aka NDAs). Background : A startup SaaS company ( Techforward ) disclosed its confidential consumer electronic buyback program information when trying to win the business from a ‘prospective customer’ = Best Buy. Best Buy gave all the right buying signals and Techforward went even further and disclosed its trade secrets (internal workings of its proprietary analytical model) to Best Buy.

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The $27 million SaaS NDA

Aber Law Firm

There are some great lessons here regarding SaaS confidentiality agreements (aka NDAs). Background : A startup SaaS company ( Techforward ) disclosed its confidential consumer electronic buyback program information when trying to win the business from a ‘prospective customer’ = Best Buy. Best Buy gave all the right buying signals and Techforward went even further and disclosed its trade secrets (internal workings of its proprietary analytical model) to Best Buy.

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The $27 million SaaS NDA

Aber Law Firm

There are some great lessons here regarding SaaS confidentiality agreements (aka NDAs). Background : A startup SaaS company ( Techforward ) disclosed its confidential consumer electronic buyback program information when trying to win the business from a ‘prospective customer’ = Best Buy. Best Buy gave all the right buying signals and Techforward went even further and disclosed its trade secrets (internal workings of its proprietary analytical model) to Best Buy.

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The $27 million SaaS NDA

Aber Law Firm

There are some great lessons here regarding SaaS confidentiality agreements (aka NDAs). Background : A startup SaaS company ( Techforward ) disclosed its confidential consumer electronic buyback program information when trying to win the business from a ‘prospective customer’ = Best Buy. Best Buy gave all the right buying signals and Techforward went even further and disclosed its trade secrets (internal workings of its proprietary analytical model) to Best Buy.

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6 Reasons Why Your Integrated Payments Strategy Could Fail

If you're in the software industry grappling with integrating payments into your business model, understanding where others have stumbled can be a game-changer for your revenue goals. Discover 6 key reasons behind the struggles many face. The challenge goes beyond the technicalities of integrating a payment system; it delves into the strategic oversight of revenue shares, negotiations with payment providers, and the full exploitation of potential revenue streams.

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The $27 million SaaS NDA

Aber Law Firm

There are some great lessons here regarding SaaS confidentiality agreements (aka NDAs). Background : A startup SaaS company ( Techforward ) disclosed its confidential consumer electronic buyback program information when trying to win the business from a ‘prospective customer’ = Best Buy. Best Buy gave all the right buying signals and Techforward went even further and disclosed its trade secrets (internal workings of its proprietary analytical model) to Best Buy.

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