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Fundraising – Arriving at a “MVC” – Minimum Viable Capital calculation
Each company is different and it is hard to provide generic advice on calculation on Minimum Viable Capital calculation. It is hard to get it right, but the goal is to arrive at a ballpark figure that is close enough to manage and simple enough to iterate. Yash has attempted to formalize this concept into a quick snippet.
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Founder’s Guide on Product Management — Part Deux
Early Stage product development is hard. Over the years, Alok Nandan (Partner, Emergent Ventures and Co Founder, Arka Venture Labs) have collected a few techniques that helped me navigate the infinite search space and prune it down to a tractable one. Most of these techniques apply for enterprise product management.
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Founder`s guide on Product Management
At 40,000 ft level, founders need to have bi-focal focus for Product Market fit— short-term needs of first few customers as well as the long-term strategy of where they want the company/product to go. This is really challenging in the early stages of the evolution of the company. Having been in the trenches for 15+ years, Alok […]
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Capital
We will be providing capital up to 200K USD either in the form of convertible notes at a pre determined valuation or preferred stock
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Mentoring will be provided by the team of Arka Venture Labs and partners from Blume, BGV and Emergent who have extensive experience in the tech industry and in mentoring startups to help them scale. Mentoring will be provided on areas like GTM approach, partnership strategy, sharpening product market fit.
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