This XSeed blog was written by Venture Partner, Jeff Thermond, and originally appeared on Forbes.
I remember my first Board of Directors meeting. It was a disaster. I made the naïve mistake of laying out several different business model options for our startup and then asked for the board’s opinion without first putting forth my
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This XSeed blog was written by Venture Partner, Jeff Thermond, and originally appeared on VentureBeat.
You are running your first startup. You are starting to build your team and gain customer traction. You have taken advantage of a wealth of blogs about the right hygiene for starting and building a company. It is starting to
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This XSeed blog was written by XSeed Capital Partner, Robert Siegel, and originally appeared on Forbes.
One of my favorite writers, Rick Reilly, penned a great column in 1995 entitled, Unwritten Rules. The piece laid out many of the great “known” rules of sports –things that athletes know to
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This XSeed blog was written by Venture Partner, Jeff Thermond, and originally appeared on Forbes.
In a previous article, I described many unappreciated risks in competing in a crowded market. This article explains when to try and how to succeed in attacking a crowded market.
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This XSeed blog was written by Venture Partner, Jeff Thermond, and originally appeared on Forbes.
One of the first things venture capitalists consider when they see a new pitch is, “How crowded is the market space in which the startup wants to compete?” If the investors express concern that the market is crowded, this should
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This XSeed blog was written by Venture Partner, Jeff Thermond, and originally appeared on Forbes.
Life is good: You’ve got an enterprise SaaS startup that is getting a lot of buzz. You have scores of customers, and some of them look ripe for upgrades which could deliver a 100% increase in bookings. Your VP of
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This XSeed blog was written by Venture Partner, Jeff Thermond, and originally appeared on Forbes.
LinkedIn and other companies draw hundreds of millions of users every day in large part thanks to their ability to acquire, transform and leverage many types of data. The use of a data roadmap, which is a disciplined way to
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This XSeed blog was written by XSeed CapitalPartner, Robert Siegel, and originally appeared in The Accelerators blog of the Wall Street Journal.
One of the biggest challenges of technology businesses is maintaining a consistent focus on the critical activities that will help grow a company as quickly and sustainably as possible.
When a
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This XSeed blog was written by XSeed Capital Partner, Robert Siegel, and originally appeared on Forbes.
Working relationships between startup cofounders are very much like the personal relationships of couples — at times wonderful, draining, magical, frustrating, intimate and stressful. Similar to a long-term committed relationship, cofounders enter into their journey together with the hope
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This XSeed blog was written by XSeed Capital Partner, Robert Siegel, and originally appeared on Forbes.
On January 5, 2014, Hunter Walk of Homebrew published a good blog post about how he spends his time as a VC. I enjoyed the column because it gets to the crux of how to be a
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