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Don't Get Funded: How to Use Your Customers to Bootstrap

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Instructor: Patrick Campbell Don't get the wrong idea. We're not saying that you don't need funding. Very likely you will. BUT ... you might not need it as soon as you think. This interactive class will give you the insight you need to reimagine how to raise the capital you need to start your venture without taking on (much) debt or losing equity.

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Don’t Get Funded: How to Use Customers to BootstrapPatrick Campbell @Patticus

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AGENDA

• Quick overview of Price Intelligently and myself

• Why you need to rethink funding?

• When funding is necessary?

• Alternatives to Funding

• Building a business without funding

• Things to look for when raising cash

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A Caveat.

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A Caveat.

Investors can be superheroes, you just need to raise right.

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LET’S TALK ABOUT

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Deep customer pricing intelligence for software companies.

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PRICING AND KEY MILESTONES:• May 2012: Founded in Boston• Nov. 2012: 50+ Customers

International Expansion to UK, Canada, & Australia• Jan. 2013: Expanded Team to 10• April 2013: Completed Over 100,000 Pricing Studies

LEADERSHIP:• CEO/Co-Founder: Patrick Campbell• Technologist/Co-Founder: Christopher O’Donnell• Technologist/Co-Founder: Aaron White

Over 30+ Years of Economics & Technology Experience

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EXPERIENCE IN SOFTWARE

"The Price Intelligently team removed the guesswork from our pricing strategy, providing us with hard data from real people that fit our personas. Pricing is something we have to

get right; our business depends on it.

"We were incredibly pleased with Price Intelligently. I would recommend them to

anyone who wants real data on the value customers and prospective customers place on your products and features.”

“Price Intelligently was able to collect and compile more information than we ever could.

PriceIntel helped us quickly understand the customer value of our product, which was data

that we couldn’t get anywhere else.”

"To me, pricing is the one area that marketers need to consider first and foremost. PriceIntel

makes the pricing process painless and remarkably powerful with its extraordinary

findings and in-depth analysis.”

CEO – Nick Francis Director of Product – Chris Bulger

CEO – Chris Savage CMO – Jeanne Hopkins

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ACTIVITY #1:

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WHY YOU NEED TO

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THE

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THE BUT,

ONLY 1% OF

COMPANIES RAISE MONEY

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COSTS ARE

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SPEED ISN’T GOOD IF YOU’RE RUNNING IN

THE WRONG DIRECTION

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FUNDING IS

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1. HIGH CAPITAL

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2. WHEN YOU KNOW

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3. WHEN YOU’VE

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TONS OF

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1. KICKSTARTER

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BUILDING A BUSINESS

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FOCUS ON A STEP-

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ACTIVITY #2:

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FOCUS ON WHAT

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YOUR BUSINESS

Product and Company

Persona 1

Features E,F,G,H

Value Proposition 1,2,3,4 Value Proposition 5,6,7,8

Pricing

Features A,B,C,D

Value Proposition 1,2,3,4

Price Sensitivity & Value Metrics

Features C,D,E,F

Value Proposition 5,6,7,8

Price Sensitivity & Value Metrics

Persona 2

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OUTSOURCE AND

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ACTIVITY #3:

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OUTSOURCE AND

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ACTIVITY #4:

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THINGS TO LOOK FOR

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DON’T:

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DO:

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GREAT VCS:

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QUESTIONS &

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