Steve Blank

OCTOBER 11, 2016

How to recognize when it’s time to pull the plug on your startup idea, and why founders can’t operate afford to operate in a vacuum were the focus on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. Dan Miller , co-founder of Level Therapy , provider of mobile therapy sessions. Dan Miller. Brian Zuercher.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Many assume it was a cakewalk, based on the success LinkedIn has enjoyed over time and the current stature of our founder/CEO Reid Hoffman (now Chairman). Yes… he was a very successful PayPal exec and previously co-founder & VP Product of SocialNet. But keep in mind at this point Reid’s a first-time CEO.

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

Even for those who don’t care to dive into the numbers, it’s worth a quick glance because co-founder/CEO Andrew Mason wrote a letter which forms the preamble of the full document. If Groupon’s growth rate drops by 80% they’ll still be nearly tripling top line sales in 2012. Read More ». And Why 20%?

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Lighter Capital is a RBI VC which has provided over $100 million in growth capital to over 250 companies since 2012. John Borchers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Decathlon Capital, claims to be the largest revenue-based financing investor in the US. RBI structures help to protect the equity of both founders and investors.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

How do I find good technical co-founders? Metrics for Series A – [link]. Phenomenal Reddit AMA … I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – [link]. Airbnb’s Big 2012: 4X Guest Growth And 2X The Number Of Listings In 192 Countries Worldwide – [link].

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Austin Startup

MAY 29, 2019

I encourage startup founders or anyone interested in social commerce to read it: [link] When you think about Big Data Applications (a term coined in 2012 by Raj De Datta in this TechCrunch article ), Bazaarvoice is one as Raj points out in his article. 8, which was released earlier this week. I’ve also heard BDAs called SaaS 3.0

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ConversionXL

MARCH 28, 2014

On the eCommerce side, a 2012 report by invodo showed that over half of eCommerce buyers report feeling more confident in a purchase decision after watching a product video, and high quality videos can increase cart sizes by an impressive 174 %. ” The visitor/view metric is one you should only be competing against yourself on.

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Up and Running

JUNE 23, 2015

Meg Wirth and Allyson Cote, founders of Maternova. I was fortunate enough to speak with co-founder Allyson Cote, and hear the Maternova story, as well as some of its exciting plans for the future. Maternal health is a concern the world over, especially in developing nations. The quirky and cute Maternova offices.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

Just before the IPO, I had a far-reaching conversation with co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong as he approached this major milestone for the company he co-founded back in 2012. Coinbase was founded in 2012 and operates a cryptocurrency exchange. I'm the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 28, 2020

In that unannounced meeting, Brett Hurt, our CEO and co-founder, laid it out for us. SiriusDecisions Rearchitected Demand Waterfall (2012). We had built the world’s largest open-data community but—like so many startups—didn’t have a clear product-market fit. . It wasn’t quite a flip from B2C to B2B, but it was close.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

JULY 10, 2012

Monday, July 09, 2012. That means on the average day you have 150 metric tons of wheat flour in stock. I’m Joel Spolsky , co-founder of Fog Creek Software , a New York company that proves that. I’m also the co-founder of Stack Overflow. © 2000-2012 Joel Spolsky. Joel on Software. by Joel Spolsky.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

I usually don’t back a business unless there are founders that can build, sell, and service the new solution that is being brought to market. In this case, they could build and service it but they needed a third co-founder to sell it. But it was the dot-com craze and all of the metrics (eyeballs, pageviews, etc.)

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 25, 2017

If you don’t know Scott, he was the co-founder and CEO of ExactTarget (2000) – one of the original SaaS companies. ExactTarget went public in 2012 and was acquired by Salesforce.com in 2013 for $2.5 I put him in the awesome category. billion and became the core of the current Salesforce Marketing Cloud.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 16, 2015

A couple weeks ago my colleague Dimitri Dadiomov published a post on NextView’s “View From Seed” blog which answered the question “Should we take Harvard MBAs Seriously as Startup Founders?” From the group, over 260 founders have launched around 90 startups, raising more than $2.5B in capital. Quite the contrary.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

EURO 2012 soccer logo: A wonderful exercise in graphic design excess - [link]. Co-Founder, Micah Baldwin – [link]. Immigrants founded 7000 tech co’s from 1995-2006 – [link]. Entrepreneurs: Beware of Vanity Metrics - [link]. CSS Rounded Corners In All Browsers (Without Images) – [link].

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

I was lucky to sign on as advisor and investor the founder of a very high-profile consumer Internet site who happens to also be a former engineer, who I will call Richard. The first thing I did was to find an advisor who I could trust.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Going to business school and becoming a startup founder are often positioned as conflicting choices by the media and startup bloggers. Some go as far as stating, flat out, that MBAs don’t make for good founders. In fact, there are over 250 founders from the HBS classes between 2008 and 2014. Combined, they’ve raised over $2.5

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 21, 2013

Last year’s conference was no exception: speakers talked about their direct experience with practices you may need help implementing—things like metrics, feedback, and experimentation. This year’s conference will go deeper on advanced entrepreneurship topics, and we wanted to get you up to speed on some of the key ideas from 2012.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

I gained nearly 20 pounds during those two years, in part because of the growing frustration I felt when I would leave yet another meeting with VCs who I felt didn’t genuinely listen to, understand, or value my experience as a black founder and CEO. Those were teachers, accountants, consultants, entrepreneurs, and community leaders.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

In 2012 I got together with Alexander Osterwalder , Henry Chesbrough and Andre Marquis to think about the Lean and the future of corporate innovation. There are co-working spaces in basically every city in the world—from Nepal to New York. Using an alternative process including different systems and metrics is key.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Word of mouth is no substitute for market research, says Ben Price, co-founder of Hard Knocks Brewing, a small brewpub in its second year of operation. Co-founders Jamie Floyd and Nikos Ridge leased their startup system from a family running a German restaurant out of a former brewpub. Metrics: Know your numbers.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 6, 2018

My talk was about the 7 lessons I’ve learned on the journey from founder to CEO. I started off my talk emphasizing that the journey matters most in your transformation from founder to CEO. All metrics were revealed. The event was held at the Jewish Contemporary Museum. where I am now a Venture Partner?—?in in our Series A.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

In 2012, analysts estimate they will do $425 million in revenue and $85 million in EBITDA. For the 15 years since inception, CEO and cofounder Bush has run athenahealth end-to-end. As anyone who has met him can tell you, Jonathan Bush is a unique founder/CEO. The company's market capitalizaiton is $3.2 Athenahealth's Culture.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 8, 2012

Labovitz and Victor Rosansky, co-authors of “ Rapid Realignment: How to Quickly Integrate People, Processes, and Strategy for Unbeatable Performance “ If you’ve ever skippered a sailboat, you know that you cannot simply set a course and then sit back, relax, and watch the waves roll by. © 2012 Dr. George H.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. Building Metrics / Usage Reports / KPI 3. Product/Metrics (70%/30% time) * Get your product activation (sign-up + meaningful action) to 60% * then, Get your product retention to 20% weekly.

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www.readwriteweb.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Along those lines, last week, Ryan Carson, co-founder of Carsonified offered a list of six key metrics for your web app and how to track them. Are there any additional metrics you think SaaS companies should track? According to Gartner, between 2007 and 2012, most U.S. Thanks for including the spreadsheet.

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gigaom.com

JUNE 18, 2012

17, 2012, 10:48am PT. Sachin Kamdar is an NYC entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of Parse.ly. Dash captures publisher specific data to present the best opportunities for engagement and to improve key metrics for publishers. Monday, June 18 2012. © 2012 GigaOM. Follow us on Twitter. -->. john terry.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 7, 2014

In my first real company, Feld Technologies, there were two founders – me and Dave Jilk. I reported to the two co-chairman and we quickly scaled up to 50 people in two offices. We invested in Moz in April 2012. I was a CEO once. As we grew, other people had different titles, but the two of us ran the business.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Chatting with CEO and cofounder Kaufer this week, I was reminded of the fact that the company started with a very different business model in mind. TripAdvisor, in effect, was a model lean start-up with an engineering-driven, product-focused founder. With 1,300 employees and 12 years after its founding, he remains CEO of the company.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 9, 2013

Guest post by Ben Yoskovitz, the co-author of Lean Analytics , a new book on how to use analytics successfully in your business. Ben is currently VP Product at GoInstant, which was acquired by Salesforce in 2012. This is a very metrics-focused approach, but you can ask yourself some higher level questions as well. Hopefully not.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

When we pivoted from fabulis to Fab, we pivoted towards building a business around the unique tastemaker talents of one of our founders, Bradford Shellhammer. Have amazing co-founders who are better at what they do than you could ever be. Founders need to personally own something big themselves. It’s that important.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

Co-founder and CEO Nicolas Brusson spoke to me about BlaBlaCar’s early ambitions to be a European rather than local country winner and its progression to global player. You then came back to Europe and joined a venture firm before co-founding BlaBlaCar. How did you go from VC to founder? We were very proactive though.

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Up and Running

JULY 2, 2013

Tattooing My Co-Founder. At SXSW 2013, I got us in The Wall Street Journal by making my co-founder get our logo tattooed on his back side. During the 2012 election, we made a site that compared candidates’ website stats — not just website traffic, but a lot of interesting metrics. Moore , RJMetrics.

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Brandanew

JUNE 15, 2015

Storytelling as a Content Marketing technique that was introduced in 2012 by the co-founder of Contently, Shane Snow. It is a marketing technique developed by startups using creativity, analytical thinking and social metrics to sell products and gain exposure. Storytelling.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

Word of mouth is no substitute for market research , says Ben Price, co-founder of Hard Knocks Brewing, a small brewpub in its second year of operation. Co-founders Jamie Floyd and Nikos Ridge leased their startup system from a family running a German restaurant out of a former brewpub. Metrics: Know your numbers.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

The 23rd started with a quick overview of the achievement of our Software and SaaS portfolio in 2007 presented by Byron Deeter, the co-head of our West Coast SaaS practice. What metrics should I be using to drive a saas business? If you want to learn more on SaaS metrics, you can read my previous blog post.

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Rob Go

APRIL 13, 2015

We ended the trek chatting with Paul English, the co-founder of Kayak at his venture foundry Blade. Zulily: IPO Market Cap: $2.6B, Revenue: $331M (2012), Employees: 886 (2013), Rev / Employee: $374K. Of course, these businesses are very different, and that has an impact on this metric.

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