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Evaluation Rubric for a Seed-Stage Consumer Social App.pdf
- They’re often vertical-specific.
Bessemer Venture Partners • Roadmap: B2B Marketplaces
The benefit of building for a particular vertical is focus. Startups are able to align execution to a particular type of work and provide greater value for workers in a specific industry. A vertical approach also means more focused marketing, sales, and user acquisition strategies. Given that the online creative economy is growing at nearly 20% per... See more
Li Jin • Unbundling Work from Employment
Most are somewhere in between, focusing primarily on early-stage, high-growth companies with scalable business models. These are typically Internet-enabled, or consumer products or medical devices. Finally,
David S. Rose • Angel Investing: The Gust Guide to Making Money and Having Fun Investing in Startups
- They focus on “day 1” value.
Bessemer Venture Partners • Roadmap: B2B Marketplaces
Venture capital firms and angel groups would like to see the most developed product possible, but at this time in a company’s history—the seed stage—typically the company has little-to-no customers, little revenue and may not have reached the minimum viable product, or MVP stage yet where they have a lean but substantial version of their product.
Bradley Miles • #BreakIntoVC: How to Break Into Venture Capital And Think Like an Investor Whether You're a Student, Entrepreneur or Working Professional (Venture Capital Guidebook Book 1)
factors that products within the same category compete on, such as price, features, and design. Then evaluate to what degree your competitors fulfill these factors. This creates the industry value curve,