Nov 8, 2020

Id4 Founders tips #102 : Getting from Seed to Series A, Product Manager, Enterprise Sales Pipeline

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Hi,

We hope you are all safe and well,

Seed stage is a crucial stage, somewhat like Teenage. Pre-seed and Seed are our focus, helping founders to prepare for scalability, much needed for Series A and beyond is what we do all day long. We will try share more articles to help you succeed at Seed stage and get a great Series A with a top tier investor.

3 articles this week around the topic :

Getting from Seed to Series A from Peter Specht @ Creandum,

Why founders should hire a Product Manager after raising a seed round from Louis Coppey @ Point Nine

How to Best Prepare an Enterprise Sales Pipeline Review for Your Investors from Jessica Lin @ Work-Bench

Also an interesting view from Tom Tunguz @ redpoint representing Your Startup as a Series of Cycles

Enjoy your read, have a great coming week

The Id4 team.

Articles we liked at Id4 ventures

How to Best Prepare an Enterprise Sales Pipeline Review for Your Investors | by Jessica Lin | Work-Bench | Oct, 2020 | Medium

As enterprise investors here at Work-Bench, investing at Seed II stage, we are obsessed with all things go-to-market and working alongside our founders to refine their early GTM and sales engine…

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Your Startup is a Series of Cycles by @ttunguz

I used to think of a startup as a series of funnels. There’s the customer conversion funnel, the recruiting funnel, the customer success funnel. Funnels simplify metrics. Examine the yield from each stage to gauge success. Start to finish.
I’ve been preparing my session for the NY Enterprise Tech Meetup later this week on the Essential Guide to SaaS Metrics. Thinking through that presentation and reflecting on some recent conversations, I’ve changed my belief.

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Getting from Seed to Series A. Transitioning from an initial Seed… | by specht.p | Oct, 2020 | Creandum

Transitioning from an initial Seed investment to the Series A round is a critical step for the long-term success of many ventures. How many companies make it? What are the strategies to get there…

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Why founders should hire a Product Manager after raising a seed round | by Louis Coppey | Point Nine Land | Medium

Our mission at Point Nine is to help B2B SaaS and B2B marketplace businesses get from a stage where they have some early signals of Product Market Fit (i.e.“the P9 stage”) to what we call “Go To…

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From our Startups

Nordigen

@nordigen

Humbled to be mentioned among 10 great Latvian startups such as @printify, @Sonar_Works , @cast_print and others - which are the heart of Baltic tech in a recent article from @irishtechnews!🚀

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