Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 6, 2024

Cultural leaders—athletes, entertainers, and executives—have evolved beyond mere financial backers to highly-engaged strategic partners and advisors for a company’s growth. We saw this happen with Lionel Richie and the cofounders of Devoted Health, Ed and Todd Park. Assessing your risk tolerance is key before making an investment.

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Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

Establishing relationships with advisors and/or mentors. If you seem to be gaining traction, now would be a good time to solve the problem of recurring billing, which most SaaS business models rely on. After all, that monthly recurring revenue is the engine that makes a SaaS business work. Scaling prematurely.

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Kellblog

JULY 18, 2019

While the sales-and-marketing types will emphasize “its proven-ness” you will want to know how much technical debt there is associated with this old architecture. Great startups are lead by strong technologists who ensure that technical debt is continuously addressed and retired via, e.g., trust releases. Clean cap table.

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Underperforming Technical Team Startup Software Technical Cofounder 81

ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

our good pal Hiten Shah, a master in the startup community—who shaped FYI, Crazy Egg , and Kissmetrics into the successes they've become, not to mention an advisor to 120 additional startup endeavors. In this segment, he advises we avoid the traditional sales model in our voyage to greatness. Pagely drops a podcast episode feat.

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