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Startup: 15 Ways to Generate Startup Ideas

So, you want to be a startup founder.  But how do you find an idea worth doing? Despite what startup formation myths say, many founders decided they wanted to be founders and then went in search of a product or problem. It is a much more common pattern than you normally see in the media.  […]

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Financing: Revenue-Based Financing

Description:   Revenue-based financing (RPF) is a financing arrangement where a company takes in cash now and pays back over years a percentage of monthly or quarterly top-line revenue (say 1 to 9 percent) until a fixed amount is paid back (usually a fixed multiple of the original cash provided say 2 to 3 times). It […]

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Startup Pattern: The Freemium Business Model

  Summary: Freemium is a business model where usage of the product is free for a basic version. Once the customer wants to use a lot of the product or use more feature dimensions, the customer starts paying for it. Different than a Free Trial where a customer uses a fully-featured product for a limited […]

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Startup Pattern: Bottom Up Sales

Summary: Bottom Up Sales is a venture pattern where individual employees start using or buy a version of a product and when enough employees of a company do so, then the company buys it for many more employees or makes it an official tool.  Description and Background: At SeeClickFix we were faced with the question, […]

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