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Intel Disrupted: Why large companies find it difficult to innovate, and what they can do about it

Steve Blank

As a consequence, corporations used metrics like return on net assets (RONA), return on capital deployed, and internal rate of return (IRR) to measure efficiency. These metrics make it difficult for a company that wants to invest in long-term innovation. Its acquisition of Android may have been the biggest bargain in corporate history.

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8 Ways An Investor Pitch Differs From A Product Pitch

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, these should never be in a customer pitch, but investors expect an overall strategy with specific budgets, milestones and metrics. Startup investments are extremely risky, primarily because the stock has no value until a future liquidity event, such as an acquisition or public offering.

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Does raising money mean you should start scaling?

The Next Web

You’re learning what the metrics that matter are, what your funnel looks like, and what actions you want your prospects to take. Clearly investors should promote the idea that startups need to have clear metrics for terminating the discovery mode. You need to nail your metrics to graduate discovery mode. How do you do that?

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Keep It Under Your Hat: Valuation Caps and the $650 Million Sale of MySpace for $125 Million

Gust

Never missing an opportunity for a good war story, I’d like to revisit one high-profile transaction, the $650 million acquisition of MySpace by Fox Interactive Media in 2005, on which I spent many sleepless nights along with the rest of the deal team. Read on for a fuller explanation. Intermix and its advisors weren’t fools. of MySpace, Inc.

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14 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

With annual healthcare expenditures for conditions that either have an underlying cellular degeneration or damage component, now surpassing $7 trillion globally, Bioquark’s platform makes the company an attractive candidate for high-value strategic transactions and liquidity events for investors. Thanks to Ira S.

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Startup Metrics for Pirates â?? SaaS Metrics Tutorial â?? great web customer acquisition tutorials. SEO and Analytics Tutorials. read this before you spend time elsewhere. worth reading as well. Analytics review â?? mixpanel vs kissmetric vs google analytics review. Analytics blog â?? good analytics tutorials. good tutorial.