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Avichal - Electric ϟ Capital twitter.com

your beachhead is the smallest customer segment you can target that serves as a point of attack into the main market you want to break into. This niche has a set of characteristics that make it an ideal place to focus your initial effort.

Jaryd Hermann • How Canva Grows

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Danny Kit • 3 cards

Indo tech founders, this is one gold mine you can amati-tiru-modifikasi, please build a competent founding team and launch a comparable product 🙏🏻 If we can go from 0-to-1 building a voice-to-voice rich context AI app with only 3 senior Indo devs, you can do as well 🔥 LFG 🚀🦄

Ibrahim Arief x.com

In Chapter 5, I discussed the critical first part of angel investing: seeking exciting potential companies in which to invest, and building your top-of-the-funnel deal flow. We went through a host of places you could visit proactively to find investment targets, from personal connections and meetups to angel groups and Demo Days. But while the worl

David S. Rose • Angel Investing: The Gust Guide to Making Money and Having Fun Investing in Startups

By purposely limiting your customer throughput batch size at the earlier stages, you can focus on finding the best early adopters for your product and on delivering the best possible high-touch experience to validate your value creation hypotheses. Your perspective on what you need to build (your solution) also changes. For instance: ■ If you are b

Ash Maurya • Scaling Lean

That said, like a hermit crab that has outgrown its shell, the company crossing the chasm must scurry to find its new home.

Geoffrey A. Moore • Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers (Collins Business Essentials)

Then, in March, Covid-19 hit. As shelter-in-place orders tore throughout the country, Yeti closed its new fleet of stores. Many of its primary wholesalers, including Dick’s Sporting Goods, laid off staff. In a matter of weeks, Yeti’s sales plummeted by 25%, and its share price tumbled almost 60% from February when it was about $38.

Cheryl Wischhover • How Yeti Survived a Pandemic—and Private Equity

Sometimes as an entrepreneur you have the hard job of positing the creation of a market that develops as a result of a new technology. For example, we were seed investors in 2010