Making Hard Decision Easier

Equidam Weekly 7th July

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Jul 10, 2017 · 3 min read

The Equidam Weekly is a curated collection of readings delivered weekly to bring you the most informative articles on growth companies, early stage funding and generally on how to build businesses in the motherland.

Understanding Investors’ Required Return

In order to successfully negotiate a deal, the most important thing is to understand what the person in front of you is looking for. With investors, that is the return they get from the deal. Read on to jump into their shoes and learn how to successfully carry out a valuation discussion and increase your chances of closing the round.

On Developments

Alida Miranda-Wolff of Hyde Park Angels discusses the major trends in IOT since its inception and how this will radically affect our lives with Hardik Bhatt, Chief Digital Officer and State CIO for Illinois in “How IOT is Growing and Why We Need to Adapt to Its Changes”

Louis Coppey of Point Nine Capital reveals key success factors based on 70 companies that have raised at least $7M in “Winning Strategies for Applied AI Companies”

Pawel Chudzinski of Point Nine Capital claims that it is possible to build a really large tech company in Europe in “From Seed to IPO — 9 learnings by an early Delivery Hero investor”

Ashley Minogue of OpenView carried out a survey based on more than 500 Saas marketing professionals and shares the results in “The State of SaaS Marketing”

On Growth

Nick Grossman of Union Square Ventures talks about the importance of purpose, mission, and strategy and how to connect them in your company in [Video] “Making Hard Decisions Easier”

Tomasz Tunguz of Repoint Ventures points out that when the technology limits growth and revenue of software companies, it’s time to embark on refactoring in “Prioritizing Your Startup’s Roadmap”

Nathan Bashaw of Hardbound explaines how he learned to accept responsibility for a pretty big failure — without hating himself in “A Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Hardbound Update”

Cerina Bezuidenhout of Techstars says that one of the greatest gifts you can give your employees is letting them fail without making them feel like failures in“Creating the Right Culture for Your Startup”

Christoph Janz of PointNine Capital outlines an overview of the most important factors that VCs look at when they try to assess the degree of PMF of a SaaS company “WTF is PMF? (part 2 of 2)”

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Originally published at www.equidam.com on July 10, 2017.

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