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Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences

Startup Lessons Learned

These are things that if you get right, you can optimize your way into a big, sustainable audience. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Use agile budgeting to manage your cash

David Teten

Instead of budget approvals, monitor key metrics and give managers more flexibility. The next most important set of metrics are sales by category; working capital (cash and other current assets, less current liabilities); EBITA; and gross margin. Traditional budgets can be destructive and a huge waste of time.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one.

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Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple

SoCal CTO

He tells us: If you’re starting a new internet company, its important to know who your audience is, and to make sure that you don’t let your own experience and that of other Time Poor people guide you wrong. This is an interesting concept and not something Ive seen articulated this way.

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Speed up or slow down? (for Harvard Business Review)

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, March 25, 2010 Speed up or slow down? for Harvard Business Review) Over at Harvard Business Review, Ive been building up a series designed to introduce the Lean Startup methodology to a business-focused audience. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business Review)

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, June 2, 2010 The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business Review) I continue my series for Harvard Business Review with the Lean Startup technique called Five Whys. Ive written about this before in some detail, but this was an opportunity to try and frame it for a general business audience.

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Events and Networking in Los Angeles

SoCal CTO

In fact, I would say that over the past few years, it has become harder to produce or find events that will attract a good audience. First - let me say what I consider to be a good audience - interesting people. For me, these are folks who are actively involved in wide variety of technology-enabled businesses.