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Minimum Viable Team

This is going to be BIG.

You have a million things to get done at your startup, yet you only have a handful of people to do them. What is the Minimum Viable Team, if you will, for a startup? I can break down all the things a startup needs to do into three ideal people. Now we’re down to nine core business functions on a small startup team.

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Free Report: Planning and Navigating Financing for Business Success

Entrepreneur - VC

From startup to IPO to going public, each growth stage has pitfalls to avoid and best practices to consider.

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How to Get into Venture Capital - An Update

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And no, analyzing startups is not a portfolio company benefit. To the company, as a recently minted MBA with no startup experience who wants to run the 4th year numbers, you''re just a pain in the ass. That''s a benefit to the VC firm. Christina Bechhold didn''t forget that--and so she co-founded her own angel group.

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Everything I didn’t learn about startups as a VC (…or why VCs don’t make good entrepreneurs)

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The financing plans are largely in their court, whereas, as an entrepreneur, you deal with what you have and you always have the uncertainty of a future financing affecting your plans. 3) VCs plan out the future of a company and what it needs —and are basically willing to support it if you continue to execute.

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Questions from Hunter #MondayMailbag

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Turns out that not only is he real, but he''s one of the most genuine, thoughtful, and egoless people I''ve met in the startup world--a real breath of fresh air. Blogging is a great place to find best practices and I feel fortunate that I have a network where I can go straight to the source and talk to people 1:1.

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A blueprint for scaling Go-to-Market: Insight Partners’ SaaS Growth Acceleration Framework

Insight Partners

They know all of the necessary parts (product, sales, marketing, customer success, HR, finance, IT, etc), and they have a vision of what their company will become, but without that step-by-step guide, their dream may not be nearly as successful as their vision. If any element of the framework is unstable, it impacts all of the other elements.

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A blueprint for business growth: Insight Partners’ Revenue Acceleration Framework

Insight Partners

They know all of the necessary parts (product, sales, marketing, customer success, HR, finance, IT, etc), and they have a vision of what their company will become, but without that step-by-step guide, their dream may not be nearly as successful as their vision. If any element of the framework is unstable, it impacts all of the other elements.