Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. Turnover of employees in capital in Beijing is very high. Employees work here for a few months and are suddenly gone. The motivations are the same – profit – driven by entrepreneurs and venture finance.

China 221

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 221

David Teten

JULY 14, 2014

During her tenure, the fund grew from $15 billion to $150 billion in AUM and from 200 to 1400 employees. Katina Stefanova : The government is looking for effective ways to increase transparency in the aggregate risk of the system and hold investment managers accountable. How does the increase in government regulations come into play?

Management 114

Management Portfolio Institutional Investors Government 114

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 13, 2017

Nolo.com has good advice on employee evaluations. Look for the employees who are most ready to sell new products and services, and see if they should also be given a promotion to reflect their new responsibilities. Evaluate your sales team. Successes and mistakes, and helping them to do their jobs better.

Small Business 100

Small Business Small Business Administration Social Media Aggregator 100

VC Adventure

APRIL 30, 2020

I wrote recently about the The Finance Assistance Network (FAN) , that I helped set up (along with Lew Visscher and Phil Votteiro) three weeks ago to offer pro bono financial advice to small businesses affected by COVID-19. I though it was worth sharing here as well. Please join us by registering at [link].

Small Business 79

Small Business SBA Colorado Finance 79

Growthink Blog

AUGUST 31, 2016

Here are four critical business domains - financing, sales, organization design and goal setting where the high-flyers get it right: Financing. Speed of product development, of brand-building, of customer acquisition, of team-building and talent aggregation. Financing, Sales, Organization Design, Planning. read more.

SCRUM 48

SCRUM Finance Aggregator Acquisition 48

David Teten

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Although any given early-stage company is quite risky, when aggregated across a large portfolio, returns are very attractive. We have eight full-time employees and 5,000 square feet of office space to help our portfolio companies. Our finance team acts as an outsourced CFO.

Early Stage 148

Early Stage Private Equity Portfolio Aggregator 148

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

In theory when you went public, everyone’s shares were now tradable on the stock exchange, but usually the underwriters required a six month “lockup” when company insiders (employees and investors) couldn’t sell. We could for example, find warning signs in popular literature about e.g. finance suggesting rapid maturation in bond trading.

Silicon Valley 237

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 237

Transformify

AUGUST 5, 2019

In her current role, MJ works to align the customer and employee experience with PEMCO’s brand aspirations. When it comes to Diversity & Inclusion, the stakes continue to climb higher for both consumers and employees. “Our customers and employees feel a sense of belonging and connection to our purpose and our team.

Hiring 40

Hiring Portland Non-Compete Seattle 40

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2019

A report that can be filtered and aggregated by data points like team, portfolio, or customer, also acts as a KPI that allows teams to identify which projects need attention, which are profiting, and which are facing losses.

Artificial Inteligence 168

Artificial Inteligence Software Review Management Software Development 168

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

Box had just 50 employees and was hitting an inflection point when I joined in 2009, so there was far more work to do than people to do it. The first was in July of 2014, when we made the unusual move of raising and announcing another round of private financing while on file to go public. They gave me a shot.

IPO 95

IPO Cofounder Early Stage Portfolio 95

Startup Company Lawyer

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Due to aggregate liquidation preferences that may exceed the acquisition price in an M&A deal, common stock may be rendered worthless. In response to the problem of worthless common stock, some companies have implemented employee retention plans, which are also referred to as M&A carveout plans. Straight Retention Plans.

Retention 31

Retention Liquidation Preference Employee Common Stock 31

YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

Kevin Rose at TechCrunch , April 20, 2009: Digg founder Kevin Rose almost sold his wildly popular aggregator to Google in 2008, and subsequently turned his resources toward creating a much stronger independent business instead. This article was first posted on Online Universities.

Entrepreneur 231

Entrepreneur Cofounder Washington Bangladesh 231

Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

While currently free to angel groups, their business model revolves around aggregating the angel investment data. If my math is correct, this is approximately a 31% IRR, which has to beat individual angel investments on aggregate and venture capital returns over the period of the study (1990-2007). return on investment after 3.5

Pre-Money Valuation 28

Pre-Money Valuation Angel Investor Angel Groups Valuation 28

Women Entrepreneurs Can

AUGUST 30, 2020

Boosting the World of Finance. The finance industry is spearheading the AI revolution. Improving Employee Engagement and Retention. Even though employee engagement is vital in businesses, about 85% of the employees are actively disengaged or not engaged at work. But, how exactly is it managing to achieve that?

Artificial Inteligence 59

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Retention Aggregator 59

ithacaVC

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

The MCOP can serve a critical role as founders and other management team members are diluted down by rounds of financing or if their equity is not in the money. As the investors’ aggregate liquidation preference (ALP) increases typically the need for a MCOP also increases. A few key points to consider: 1.

Liquidation Preference 55

Liquidation Preference Management Preferred Stock Dividend 55

Growthink Blog

MARCH 14, 2018

I have been blessed in my business life with very hard-working partners, employees, clients, vendors and suppliers. It all starts with just going to work every day , and doing so with enthusiasm, optimism, pride, and a striving toward excellence. population works in the private sector.

Balance Sheet 48

Balance Sheet Jordan Non-Compete Aggregator 48

Scott Edward Walker

APRIL 16, 2014

A well-drafted confidentiality agreement will also prohibit the potential buyer from hiring and/or soliciting the company’s employees. (I Indeed, this is customary in public deals and large private deals if the buyer is unable to obtain financing and can be as high as 10% of the purchase price. on a need-to-know basis.

Non-disclosure Agreement 101

Non-disclosure Agreement Acquisition New York City Non-Compete 101

Babbling VC

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

If it takes forever to raise finances or your fund, there's something not right. Go back to being an employee. billion in aggregate. Vice verse, get them away from your best employees whom they are most likely to demotivate. This goes both for employees as well as C-level employees. Well, you probably suck.

LP 71

LP Valuation Aggregator Venture Capital 71

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Wize provides consumers with a unique way to leverage the online wisdom by aggregating the opinions of millions of users and by letting people ask questions about a specific product or need to the Wize community. Yahoo Finance. We decided to fund Wize.com to answer this question. Justin Label. Jeremy Levine. Sarah Tavel. Raj Kapoor.

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Los Angeles Europe 48

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. This is why companies often get out-competed by former employees (Palm vs Handspring to name just one), even though the upstart lacks all of the familiar resources, tools, processes, and support they used to have.

Customer 167

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

K9 Ventures

MAY 14, 2011

They are generally high net worth (accredited) individuals who have done well in their career, either as entrepreneurs or as executives and early employees at some of the companies that have done well (in the Valley that usually means Paypal, Google, Facebook etc). <$50K in aggregate. Lots, 20-100. 1-2 per partner. Individual.

Preferred Stock 125

Preferred Stock Seed Stage Incubator Early Stage 125

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 4, 2022

Additionally, by aggregating products/services into lumpy groups, it can give a misleading sense of success. You can do this using an aggregate % number that you can lop off for CoGS. You can work with your Finance team to get FLCo. You can do it in aggregate. . $609 is not all Profit. There’s more to account for.

Conversion 129

Conversion Analytics .Net Metrics 129

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

In fact, I encouraged my favorite IM aggregator client, Digsby , to go the opposite direction and become a Twitter client also. Actually, the latter could be a reasonable strategy for super technical entrepreneurs who can sustain themselves without big financing needs (see: Atebits, owner of Tweetie).

Acquisition 287

Acquisition Developer Management Advertising 287

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Why the Unicorn Financing Market Just Became Dangerous…For All Involved. All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. By January of 2016, that number had ballooned to 229.

IPO 40

IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Point Nine Capital uses 15Five for continuous employee feedback. Some notable metrics are revenue growth rates, free cashflow, leverage ratios, historical financing amounts, returns on marketing spend, customer acquisition costs, lifetime value of customers, customer churn rates, and team social scores.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

The employee picks a provider from a plan picked by the employer from the insurance carrier. This is then sent though the employer to the employee. Now the employee is exposed to the price for the very first time, and told the price was too high, but guess what — this is after the work is already done. In the U.S.

Customer 59

Customer Technical Review Venture Capital Software Review 59

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

16:07) We discuss the importance of facilitating people's ability to do work, especially for leaders who have the flexibility to offer employees the chance to help. (18:12) 16:07) We discuss the importance of facilitating people's ability to do work, especially for leaders who have the flexibility to offer employees the chance to help. (18:12)

Silicon Valley 68

Silicon Valley Technical Review Government .Net 68

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Seasonal employees. Make sure you have the right number of employees on the right days, and are quickly trained to be as effective as your year-round workers. Designate established employees as mentors and be sure to reward them for their efforts. Good customer service is critical during the holidays.

Small Business 100

Small Business Management United States Aggregator 100

Up and Running

JULY 24, 2019

It also goes to the very heart of the relationship between a company and its employees. Payroll, a finance task that is often handled by human resources teams at mid-size and larger companies because of concerns for worker data privacy, fits both criteria perfectly. Payroll is a company’s biggest line item, its single biggest expense.

Small Business 95

Small Business Artificial Inteligence Startup Aggregator 95

Transformify

JULY 14, 2022

Thanks to Open API integration, the customer’s job listings posted to Transformify ATS ( applicant tracking system) will be published by a lot of other recruiter services, job boards and job aggregators such as Indeed, Jooble, DrJob, Adzuna and many more. Calendar Integration.

Management 52

Management Technical Review API Software Review 52

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

You and I promised a lot to get this program going, so many employees, leaders, egos, teams were involved, it will be a big let-down. One of my solutions is to send an email out to Finance, Logistics, Customer Support, a wide diversity of employees. Because: All data in aggregate is crap. What can I say.

Analytics 103

Analytics Programming Global Campaign 103

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

GroupSwim – Social collaboration and community tools to bring your employees, customers, and partners together. Socialcast – Private online communities of all sizes to help organize enterprise communication that allows employees to decide how to find and use information while reducing email clutter and unproductive communications.

Software Review 78

Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. Allen, Greylock, and General Atlantic wouldn’t be in the building on weekends and neither would the employees bother to come in.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

12 cloud IPOs in the past 2 years: One from Europe SaaS companies are thriving in the public markets, with their aggregated market cap grew 350% since 2011, and 12 cloud companies going public in the past 24 months. These 12 have performed well, with an aggregate $2.6 Nothing is perfect, and we might have missed some great companies.

Europe 83

Europe Cloud API 83

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2019

My professional areas of interest cover Customer Service, User Experience and Finance, though here on Occam’s Razor my focus is on influencing incredible Marketing through the use of innovative Analytics. Each chosen obsession is very much in the spirit of my beloved principle of the aggregation of marginal gains.

Analytics 89

Analytics Marketing Algorithm Campaign 89

VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

The Israeli Cabinet approved Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz’s proposal to continue with the biennial state budget model in 2011-2012. The British mobile payments and messaging aggregator will become part of Amdocs’ OpenMarket US mobile transactions hub. ISRAELI CABINET APPROVES 2-YEAR MODEL FOR BUDGET 2011-2012.

OTC 68

OTC Brazil Paraguay 68

Occam's Razor

MAY 19, 2014

In small organizations there is a lot more end-to-end ownership amongst the few employees, and if something is going awry things hit the fan pretty fast. And if you can pass that barrier (with, say, dimension widening using universal analytics), it is very hard to find this data inside the company (Finance department?),

Metrics 160

Metrics Analytics SEC Acquisition 160