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

Startup Lessons Learned

is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?)

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A VC: Employee Equity: How Much?

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Nov 22 , 2010. I got this formula from a big compensation consulting firm. But it is based on a common practive in compensation consulting. This is NOT your 409a valuation (we call that "fair value"). This "best value" can be the valuation on the last round of financing. Musings of a VC in NYC.

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