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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

Despite all the energy invested in talking to authors about the size of their platform, very few gatekeepers have a rigorous set of metrics for measuring it. When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. My blog has over 14000 subscribers, for example. Is that a lot? Is that good?

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Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations - Startups.

Tim Keane

Bottom Up Market Sizing » January 12, 2010. Please see later version of this post on May 16, 2010 Entrepreneurs are often not experts in the area of term-sheet negotiations and all of the surrounding issues. This results in a range of sale prices; in this example from $118.6MM to $21MM. Let’s start at the end.

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How to Conduct a Technical SEO Audit

ConversionXL

Understand and maintain them and your website can rank prominently, drive traffic, and help boost sales. Identifying and merging content targeting the same or similar keywords; Removing duplicate content that dilutes importance, and; Improving metadata so that users see what they’re looking for in search engine results pages (SERPs).

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90 Things I've Learned From Founding 4 Technology Companies

betashop.com

On October 27, 2010 I wrote a blog post about the “ 57 Things I Learned Founding 3 Tech Companies.”. million registered users, 7500 supplier partners, 600 team members, and a run-rate of more than $150M in sales in just 15 months. Don’t skimp on fundraising because of dilution fears.?. Fab.com Fab Feed Bradfords Blog.

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People-First Capitalism

Reid Hoffman

So you met me in 2010. At the time, they said, it’s not enough to design a product that’s good for sales, it must also be good for the environment. The burden [should] just be that we care; that if we learn something, we improve it, and that we don’t only use single output metrics and its growth at all costs. And it was 2007.

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People-First Capitalism

Reid Hoffman

So you met me in 2010. At the time, they said, it’s not enough to design a product that’s good for sales, it must also be good for the environment. The burden [should] just be that we care; that if we learn something, we improve it, and that we don’t only use single output metrics and its growth at all costs. And it was 2007.