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From Seed to A: What is your next step?

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This week's Mobileye deal is a great achievement, which most startups aiming for. Surprisingly this deal didn’t leave the owner to rest – they are already asking – what is the next step. Surly, the startup industry was built by this question. An entrepreneur constantly challenged every technology by asking themselves – what is the next step.  Looking at the startup's lifecycle, I think that this is an imperative question to A round stage. Succeeding A round is an entrepreneur's bootstraps into the marketplace. At this point, it's all about scale, making growth, getting customers, and building the marketing infrastructure and not just the product.  What is the next step? Where is the right customer local or abroad? What need does the product answer? How to compete with corporate over on qualified engineers?  Etc. in the past month, I have attended meetups, and I set down and asked some entrepreneurs, from various fields, brainstorming on the most important el