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Exciting News! We've been preparing for this moment for the past several months, and it's finally here. Together with Andres and Tom De Kooning we are proud to introduce Kloze—a software company set to revolutionize how contracts are signed in the real estate market. In our first major update, we are thrilled to announce that Kloze has been accepted in Start it Accelerate | @KBC! Find us at the Beacon where we are building our product or working on our strategy and OKRs with our coach Inge Wouters. I will combine my start-up Journey at Kloze with my Scale-up career by reducing my working days for Loop. I want to thank Dimitri O and Maarten Bodewes, my manager Helen Timbrell, and everyone at Loop Earplugs for their trust and guidance, It's one thing to say you want to encourage employees to be entrepreneurial, but it's another to genuinely empower them to take this step. If you are interested in our journey, I will try to post some regular updates here, so stay tuned 😋 there is a lot to come! 🚀 If you have any knowledge or just want to chat about the Proptech market, don't be a stranger, I need to learn!

In this Sunday's newsletter, we did a deep dive on network effects, covering: - A bit of history - How the Bell Company’s telephone network led indirectly to the creation of Silicon Valley; - Why the internet strongly favours business models with network effects; - The different types of network effect that exist in modern software companies; - Why not all network effects are equal, and how this affects the prospective value and defensibility of a startup. A special thank you to Sameer Singh - we leaned on his research heavily in this piece! https://lnkd.in/edUXkEbB

If I were bootstrapping again, I would only go full-time with the following conditions: — You have a product-market fit, for example, using Sean Ellis's survey method — You have actual customers and not only users — The business is growing, and growth is predictable — You have a stable distribution strategy because figuring out distribution and marketing is as hard as building the product If you don't have these, you'll be way too stressed. Figuring out the above can take months or years; no formula exists, and just working hard won't cut it. For Todoist, I only went full-time 4 years after starting it. During this time, I only worked on it during the night. In hindsight, I should have gone full-time after one year because I had all the above conditions met.

"Hello Growth Warriors! Our book of the week is 'Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets' by Al Ramadan, Dave Peterson, and Christopher Lochhead.🚀 Learn the concept of 'Category Design' and understand how companies like Uber, Airbnb and Facebook created and dominated their own categories to achieve exponential growth. Stay tuned as we continue our quest for knowledge. To growth and beyond! #GrowthAgency #BusinessGrowth #LearningResources #BookOfTheWeek #PlayBigger"

An MVP is a straightforward, cost-effective investment that reduces rick and delivers a better product,. It’s a way to prove your idea and see how your actual customers perceive the product. In fact, large groundbreaking projects such as Facebook, Amazon, and Airbnb started off as MVPs with a simple idea. Learn More: https://lnkd.in/gn6Ma8eq #AllionTech #MVP #Advantages 

Check out Evan’s podcast about his real estate tech startup that will change the industry!

The most successful product businesses start out simple. Don’t believe me? Google ��� Search the Internet Uber → Book a ride, from your phone Amazon → Buy book online AirBnB → Homes not hotels Facebook → Connect & Share with friend Today, they’re all monstrously complicated products with stacks of different value propositions, satisfying enormous sized markets. But the only reason they were able to get there, was because they started out simple. They figured out what they should focus on, and then they put everything into nailing that focus area. And more importantly, this focus meant that none of the ‘me too’ products that sprung up could compete, because they didn’t know what to focus on. But what if you don’t know what to focus on? Well, then you need to do figure out your Product Strategy. And hey, if you need help with that, just DM me ‘strategy’. 

🔍 𝗕𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗮 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿: 𝗧hink 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗼𝘅! At #EUVC 206, Manolis Manassakis shares his core learnings from angel investing. 🌟 The power of active listening: Listening goes beyond words; it's the secret sauce. In the simplicity of a single word or phrase lies immeasurable influence. ✨ Unraveling uniqueness in execution: Generic templates won't cut it. Manolis deeply understands each startup's idiosyncrasies, like Airbnb's breakthrough with quality photos. ❓ The intriguing concept of "Why now?": It's easy to go with trends, but he recommends caution. The real success lies in uncovering the less glamorous factors that make a startup stand the test of time. Read the insights 👀 | Listen to the pod 🎧 https://buff.ly/3PhfQGx #AngelInvesting #VentureCapital #Europe

Quite proud of this collaboration between Stripe and AC Ventures, where we set out to develop a Go-to-Market (GTM) playbook that bring out real-life examples from applying diverse growth tactics. Whether you're preparing for a product launch or searching for your next growth lever, this playbook has something for you. What to expect? 📚 Fundamental concepts to shape your GTM strategy 📈 Variety of GTM strategies and practical tactics 🌏 Global and local case studies of real-life applications Get your copy here: https://lnkd.in/gtrHps77