The Million Dollar Club: Sapience Analytics

Another Pune, India company, Sapience Analytics, is the creator of an enterprise class solution designed to increase productivity and create ‘automated work visibility’ across the enterprise hierarchy – with no added managerial responsibility.

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Series A Crunch: How 1M/1M Can Help

If you have the stomach for it, the metal to carry on, the energy to bootstrap to a point where either you CAN get funded, or generate enough revenues and become profitable, we can help.

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Series A Crunch: Bootstrapping Works

Just because you have been rejected by VCs doesn’t mean you cannot build a great business.

Marc Benioff was rejected by pretty much ALL the VCs he approached. Didn’t stop him from building Salesforce.com into a multi billion dollar enterprise with global impact.

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Series A Crunch: Forget Freemium

What is your business model? Do you have one, or is it TBD?

Is it Freemium?

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Series A Crunch: Obsession With Exit

Do you know the difference between a business model and an exit strategy?

Are you building a business that has a real, viable business model?

Or are you trying to do an Instagram?

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Series A Crunch: Tyranny of the TAM

What is TAM? Perhaps, the biggest factor in whether a VC funds you or not. TAM = Total Available Market.

Note: Top Down TAM doesn’t matter. You need to present a Bottom-Up TAM Analysis.

And to get funded, that TAM needs to be very large. Billion. Two billion. Ten billion.

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Series A Crunch: Revenue vs. Equity

Do you understand the impact of infusing cash into your business? You do, right?

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Series A Crunch: Customers vs. Investors

What have you been doing for the last six months? Chasing customers? Chasing Investors?

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