15 Essential Podcasts for Entrepreneursby Sarah HumphreysFor startup founders embarking on the entrepreneurial journey for the first time, or even for the serial entrepreneur, we've compiled a list of various entrepreneur podcasts that can support you in whatever stage your startup may be in.Continue
Customer Segmentation: A Step by Step Guide for Growthby The Startups TeamIn this section of our Funding Series, we will show you how to use customer segmentation to improve customer service, customer experience, customer relationships, customer retention, and customer feedback.Continue
Operating Modelby The Startups TeamA good Operating Model focuses on showing that you’ve thought carefully about how your processes will handle critical costs and streamline operations across business units. In this section of our Funding Series, we cover everything you need in your Operating Model.Continue
Revenue Modelby The Startups TeamYour revenue model can be broken down into two areas — how you will make money and how that plan will scale. In this section of our Funding Series, we'll dig into how you’re going to talk about the mechanism of how your revenue model works.Continue
Startup Market Sizeby The Startups TeamThe Market Size explains just how much potential for growth your startup has. Investors want to know you're solving a painful problem in a giant market. In this section of our Funding Series, we are going to unpack how to go about estimating and presenting market size.Continue
What's a Startup Pitch?by The Startups TeamIn this section of our Funding Series, we’re going to walk through each element one at a time, to give you the best way to truly understand the full anatomy of a business plan, and by way of that, every other type of investor document you will need to create successful pitch decks.Continue
13 Best Books on Entrepreneurshipby Sarah HumphreysWhy go at it alone, when you can learn straight from the source? Business books that have already helped millions of entrepreneurs can guide you along the way to obtaining a sustainable business. Here are the 13 best business books that will help "lead" you on your path. Continue
The Solution Slide — Pitch Deck Perfectionby The Startups TeamThe Solution Slide in an investor deck explains exactly how our startup company will solve the issue we set up in our Problem Slide. In this section of our Pitch Deck series, we'll walk you through the formula of the best decks in a single slide you can easily replicate.Continue
How to Contact Investorsby The Startups TeamYou’re now ready to conquer the final frontier: actually engaging with potential investors. But how exactly to go about it? In this section of our Funding Series, we break down the investor outreach process at every turn so you can tackle this head-on in the wild with confidence.Continue
How Much Equity do You Give Away in a Seed Round?by Sarah HumphreysThere are many different areas of startup funding to understand before diving into a funding round. In this article, we hope to demystify how much equity should be given away in a seed round and instill confidence in startups embarking on their early funding rounds.Continue