August, 2006

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Why cash is king

BeyondVC

Oftentimes I am asked what my plan for exit is when I invest in a company. Sure I have a plan when I invest, but it is impossible to predict the future. The best plan in my mind is to make sure that any company we invest in has a tremendous market opportunity with a real business model and high operating margins that can eventually generate real cash flow.

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Excellent Analytics Tip #7: The Adorable Site Abandonment Rate Metric

Occam's Razor

How many metrics can you call adorable? Site abandonment rate is an adorable metric, to me : ), for these reasons: Money, money, money baby. IMHO there isn't a metric out there that can tell you a lot so quickly and any improvement you make to it will directly and immediately impact the bottom-line. It measures the customer interaction in a very small number of web pages, probably one for cart and two to three for checkout.

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When All Else Fails.Manipulate The Data - Startups and angels.

Tim Keane

'Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Home. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. « Listening to Entrepreneurs | Main. | Learning from Failure » August 21, 2006. When All Else Fails.Manipulate The Data. I saw that on a t-shirt worn by a bartender at the Milwaukee Irish Fest last night.

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Links for 2006-08-16 [del.icio.us]

OnlyOnce

Fractals of Change: Are You an Entrepreneur? Tom Evslin's entertaining Top 10 Ways You Know You're an Entrepreneur. Some may dovetail nicely if I ever write up my read of The Fountainhead through entrepreneurial lens!

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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Making Ends Meet

Spencer Fry

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The myth of the Rock Star CEO

BeyondVC

Attraction to fame is part of our culture. There are dozens of magazines, tv shows, and websites devoted too all things celebrity. This attraction to fame also extends to the business and tech world as well – bringing a household name to your company can instantly elevate the perceived status of your business. All that being said, I personally have a serious problem when anything related to fame creeps into personnel decisions for an early stage company.

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Listening to Entrepreneurs - Startups and angels: Along the way to.

Tim Keane

'Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Home. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. « Do You See The Big Picture? | Main. | When All Else Fails.Manipulate The Data » August 10, 2006. Listening to Entrepreneurs. The consistent feedback each semester during my "New Venture Formation" graduate class is that the guest speakers were the highlight of the course.

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Purchasing Domains

Spencer Fry

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How Partnerships Can Work

Spencer Fry

Partner 28
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Why The Little Guy Can Win

Spencer Fry

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New NetBusinessTalk Owner

Spencer Fry

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What's Up With Web Designers?

Spencer Fry

Web 28
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Are Good Web Designers Rare?

Spencer Fry

Web 28
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Switching to Apple

Spencer Fry

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Part-Time Job Complete

Spencer Fry

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Just Walking Away

Spencer Fry

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The Ruler Has Returned

Spencer Fry

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Vacation Time!

Spencer Fry

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Trinity: A Mindset & Strategic Approach

Occam's Razor

Some of you have heard me speak at a conference , I always have a deep passion and excitement when I talk about the “Trinity” I wax and wane about it and go on and on about how fantastic the “Trinity” is. But it took a comment from Lisa Seaman to make me realize that I had not written about the “Trinity” on this blog.