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The Importance of Being Transaction-Ready: Navigating Seed and Series A Stage Rounds for Venture Capital Funding

DevelopmentCorporate

Venture capital funding, particularly at the Seed and Series A stages, is essential for the growth and development of startups. These early rounds help startups establish and scale their operations by providing capital for market research, product development, and team expansion.

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Voice of Customer: Why VoC should lead your product development process

Usersnap

Should the Voice of Customer influence product development? In Frost & Sullivan’s survey research on R&D/innovation and product development priorities, 84% of the respondents declare that they employ the voice of customers (VoC) in their product development cycle. Do you consider customer feedback?

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Why and how I transferred my career from finance to product management

The Product Coalition

My supervisors in different teams (I was in a management trainee rotational program) gave me two big projects. One project was about pre-IPO funding for which I had to do a lot of financial modeling, due diligence, and third party negotiation. We have to be prepared and keep trying hard. It’s a tough job, but worth it!

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What is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence?

Sachin Rekhi

Their time is typically spent vetting various startup ideas, finding a co-founder, doing market research on the space, putting together a pitch deck, and maybe starting early prototypesmockups. Though full scale development is usually left for after the EIR period is over. EIR serves as part of the investment team.