View from Seed

DECEMBER 4, 2019

At the time, I spent most of my time describing the metrics themselves and how VCs and their LPs evaluate performance based on these measurements. If you aren’t familiar with these metrics, I recommend reading the original post to get a sense of the numbers that I’ll be reviewing here. So, is this good or bad?

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

Friday, March 12, 2010. State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. So, here is the first edition, including the recent Q4 2009 earnings and the updated 2010 forecast. So, here is the first edition, including the recent Q4 2009 earnings and the updated 2010 forecast.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your SaaS and Cloud Computing business. As we get close to the end of the year, I thought it would be interesting to put together a post on how to approach the 2010 planning. In search of Europe's next tech stars. ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 14, 2010

Thursday, January 14, 2010. Happy New Year 2010! In search of Europe's next tech stars. ▼ 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010! Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your SaaS and C. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends. Cracking The Code. at 5:00 PM.

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Cracking the Code

AUGUST 3, 2011

In search of Europes next tech stars. In search of Europe's next tech stars. ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010! Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your SaaS and C. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends. SaaS business metrics: why are they different?

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

Although we were studying finance, we were always more interested in tech. Take a look at some of the emails between us from 2010: We were attending NYU from 2008–2012. We were infatuated with tech. But we got serious in early 2016 when we developed deep conviction around the immense technical vision of Ethereum.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Notice that none of those five reasons deals with TDD or automated testing, which have changed the game. This is the approach of test-driven-development (TDD). I really enjoyed the aspect of TDD that had me learning about _how_ to test software and it coerced me into writing better, more fault tolerant, code.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

We had thought really hard about “ market type ” and decided to reposition the company from a technology provider to a solutions provider. Metrics – Mine is Bigger Than Yours The first thing SuperMac needed to do was to change how our potential color desktop publishing customers viewed our products versus our competitors’ products.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. Tech acquisitions went crazy at the same time the IPO market did. 3) invest in and take equity stakes in exchange for capital.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

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. Successful agile budgeting requires modern technology.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 17, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, June 17, 2010 No departments Big companies have departments. I was the junior guy on a project team; I was called in to do some technical due diligence for reasons that were obscure to me, because the team already had much more senior engineers assigned to it. Startups are companies.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

competitive analyses, channel and customer collateral (white papers, data sheets, product reviews), customer surveys, and market requirements documents. And the results weren’t the traditional PR metrics of number of articles or inches of ink. It wasn’t measured by how busy you were, it was measured by results.

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dontbesoanalytical.blogspot.com

MAY 13, 2012

From time to time, Ill address information technology, and how it impacts business and daily life. Daddy, What Does a Chief Technology Officer Do? Inside the development organization, this Director attends to staffing, training, workload and productivity metrics, budget, and scheduling. Saturday, February 16, 2008.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Promote those with the most potential or talent, not those with the most experience or education or those who are due for promotion. Top performers hate busy work and they want to know how they are doing on the metrics that do matter. Measure what matters and let your best employees focus on what matters.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

It would have been easy to explain the difference by changes in the 2010/2011 revenue growth projections but unfortunately that is not the case. SaaS companies projected to grow 18% over this period in January 2010 and this projection moved up only to 20% today. In search of Europe's next tech stars. ► 2010. (5).

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 15, 2008 The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time Split-testing is a core lean startup discipline, and its one of those rare topics that comes up just as often in a technical context as in a business-oriented one when Im talking to startups. First of all, why split-test?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 2, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 2, 2008 Paul Graham on fundraising I have found no better primer on the current realities of starting a new technology company in a startup hub like Silicon Valley than Paul Grahams essays. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound. Its been great to zero in on very specific skillsets.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

2018 also had the fewest number of angel-led financing rounds since before 2010. He said, “We estimate that annual RBI market activity has grown 10x in the last decade, from two dozen deals a year in 2010 to upwards of 200 new company fundings completed in 2018.” He said, . “[W]e

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, May 31, 2010 Thank you The past month has been an incredible roller coaster: #sllconf was a trending topic (briefly topping Justin Bieber before the wifi in the hotel gave out), the Web 2.0 And a special thanks is due to all of our presenters, panelists, and mentors. We all owe you.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 31, 2016

When we think about this question, it’s important to remember that startups today fail due to lack of distribution and product-market fit – not because of technical problems that they were unable to solve. In other words, if you’re looking at generic metrics, you’ll end up with a generic strategy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 15, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, January 15, 2010 Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Harvard Business Review) The next part in the series I am writing for Harvard Business Review is online. They are on-schedule and on-budget, but their gross metrics are way off. Leave a comment or reply to someone else.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. To give you a sense, for 2002 the entire US online ad market was $6B and had shrunk year over year (it was $25B+ for 2010). How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior – [link]. 57 Things I’ve Learned Founding 3 Tech Companies – [link]. The modern tech CEO: Barefoot and 21 – [link]. Chicago Sun Times writes about crowdSPING’s 2010 Chicago Innovation Award – [link]. – [link].

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 16, 2012

In search of Europe's next tech stars. ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010! Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your SaaS and C. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends. SaaS business metrics: why are they different? My Yelp reviews. ► 2009.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 7, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, January 7, 2010 Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? for Harvard Business Review) Im excited to have just published the first of several articles on entrepreneurship for the Harvard Business Review online. Read the rest at The Conversation - Harvard Business Review.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Sunday, November 07, 2010. In search of Europe's next tech stars. ▼ 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010! Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your SaaS and C. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends. SaaS business metrics: why are they different?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Heres my diagnosis of his problem: He has some automated tests, but his team doesnt have a continuous integration server or practice TDD. And has the tension goes down, it will be easier to get the whole team (including the MBAs) to embrace TDD and other good practices as further refinements. I'm a die hard believer in TDD.

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Up and Running

JULY 5, 2016

By measuring various metrics like business survival rate, the prevalence of investors, and labor cost, they were able to determine which cities offer the best outlook for new ventures. Ranked third by WalletHub, Oklahoma City has also been found to be a great city for STEM professionals, entrepreneurial women, and small tech businesses.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Of the techniques he mentioned, I think four are fundamental and critical for any lean startup: TDD (or the even more politely named TATFT ) Continuous integration Automate your deployments Collect statistics The tools to help you do these things are getting better and better every day, but dont confuse tools with process.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and whats changed since then) My recent article on technical debt and its positive uses generated a fair bit of controversy. It had a pretty good technical design. That "good design" turned out to be technical debt, after all.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, January 12, 2010 Amazing lean startup resources A year ago, there was no lean startup movement. My success is due in no small part to their early and enthusiastic endorsement. The term was known by maybe a few dozen people. Youll probably get a better result, anyway.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

The other revels in the world as we all know it will be someday: limitless distribution enabled by new technologies, the importance of collaborative filters, and on-demand availability of all content for end-users. But the same technologies that make life difficult for traditional marketers also offer them unprecedented new opportunities.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 28, 2006

Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. I make the most of this time by listening to my favorite tech and venture podcasts. In search of Europe's next tech stars. ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010! Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your SaaS and C.

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $713M. Revenue Growth: 2241% YoY (2010 vs 2009), 1357% YOY (Q1 2011 vs Q1 2010). 2010 Gross Profit: $280M. 2010 Net Income: -$389M (net loss) (2). 2010 Net Income: -$389M (net loss) (2). How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Wednesday, February 24, 2010. In search of Europe's next tech stars. ▼ 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010! Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your SaaS and C. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends. SaaS business metrics: why are they different?

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 9, 2009

However, as the second graphs shows, some companies such as Constant Contact, Vocus or Salesforce do start to show a stabilization or an improvement in their productivity metrics. In other words, how much of the decline in revenue growth is due to signing up fewer customer vs lower revenues from each new customer. ► 2010. (5).

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