Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. Even though they’re next to Zhongguancun, the hottest place for startups in China, there seems to be a lower appetite for risk, a lack of interest in equity (instead optimizing for a high salary) and very little loyalty to any one company.

China 215

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 215

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

I had an objective to stay in that job until the real estate income was twice the value of my salary. There actually is something to that. I did not quit my pharmaceutical job right away. Now American Ventures is a successful multifamily and commercial real estate investment firm with a proven track record.

Accredited Investor 147

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 31, 2011

I love that the analyst is segmenting the data rather than showing the aggregate trend ("all data in aggregate is essentially crap" – me). That is after all what pays our salary right? Data Analysis 101: Seven Simple Mistakes That Limit Your Salary is a post from: Occam's Razor by Avinash Kaushik.

Salary 130

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

I was also in the 1% of alumni who had a salary of zero dollars per year. After a year’s worth of 16 hour days in glass offices with her friend Excel (together creating strategy matrixes), she left her Consultant title and six-figure salary, and took her Ivy MBA to become a bartender in Canada. You are the job, you are the recipe.

Artificial Inteligence 272

Artificial Inteligence Startup Salary Algorithm 272

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

This includes establishing sales objectives and compensation plans for all sales personnel, including salary structures, commission plans, sales contests and bonus plans.

Part-Time VPE 92

Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Engineer Sales 92

The Startup Magazine

JULY 9, 2020

Do you know how you can sustain your business, improve sales, and pay-off salaries even during the pandemic? For example, listing your business to aggregator sites, setting up your own e-commerce presence, or even opening up your blog to guest posting possibilities. Help create New Sales channels and Revenue generating models.

Social Media 90

Social Media PPC Marketing SEO 90

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Compute ROI: (cost of Facebook campaigns + salary of people running campaigns + agency creative costs) vs. profit from incremental product sales. Declaring success based on measuring Likes in aggregate is like declaring success after getting a lot of Visits to your site. But not, ever, in aggregate.]. I will personally hate you.

Metrics 165

Metrics Advertising Marketing Social Media 165

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

We either had to triple down and raise another fund (with which you have fees to pay for offices & salaries) or move to a different model. Many people join to run an accelerator on a low salary but with the promise to transition their career. And Jim & I went on to raise several more venture capital funds in our day jobs.

Early Stage 290

Early Stage Venture Capital Los Angeles Coder 290

Scalable Startup

JANUARY 12, 2015

RI primarily needs to accelerate revenue growth and market share in order to build new products, increase salaries to market rate and defend their position against a large number of competitors. I found several areas of excellence as well as several more that need enhancement. Self funded to date, 10-20 employees. >

Management 20

Management Los Angeles Angel Investor B2B 20

Start Up Blog

APRIL 24, 2012

I decide what I think the average salary in the room is. I work out the hourly rate of the average salary. I calculated the average salary as $150k per annum, which then translated into an hourly rate of $75. So I started doing this weird exercise every time I happen to be in a meeting filled with people.

Widget 92

Widget Salary Aggregator Cost 92

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

People are trapped at home, they are not getting a salary, and they are afraid to touch another person because no one knows who is and isn’t infected with the virus. He stated that not only are we fighting a virus, “but we’re also fighting emotions on an individual level, on a collective level.

Bootstrapping 85

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Be sure you understand how to make every aspect of the business repeatable and scalable: aggregation, ingredient purchasing, production, fulfillment, customer experience and customer retention. Shen Tong, Food Future Incubator. For a company to be financially sustainable you have to pay yourself!

Balance Sheet 60

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Scalable Startup

JANUARY 12, 2015

RI primarily needs to accelerate revenue growth and market share in order to build new products, increase salaries to market rate and defend their position against a large number of competitors. I found several areas of excellence as well as several more that need enhancement.

Aggregator 20

Aggregator Management Los Angeles Angel Investor 20

Start Up Blog

MARCH 29, 2020

Many of the parts that make an economy are real – like people – but much of it is just aggregated concepts for which measurements are possible. I bet Allan Joyce won’t give back any of his $20 million in non salary benefits he received last financial year.

Government 87

Government Australia Denmark Balance Sheet 87

Start Up Blog

APRIL 24, 2012

I decide what I think the average salary in the room is. I work out the hourly rate of the average salary. I calculated the average salary as $150k per annum, which then translated into an hourly rate of $75. So I started doing this weird exercise every time I happen to be in a meeting filled with people.

Widget 48

Widget Salary Aggregator Cost 48

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 2, 2016

Contextualize all available data relative to aggregate spend. When possible, tabulate marketing-specific salaries, service provider expenses, ad spends, contract work, new technology acquired within the given time period, and any additional expenses accrued through planning and execution.

Marketing 48

Marketing Metrics Aggregator Social Media 48

ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2013

Last month, the 17-year-old sold Summly , his news-aggregation app, to Yahoo for a reported $30 million! At the beginning, before you have investors, it is not unusual for you (and possibly employees) to forego salary for extended periods of time. Guest author Gary Whitehill is Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Startup Weekend.

Curation 61

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

" ~ Digital Careers: "How can I get a bigger salary? Aggregation of Marginal Gains: Recession Busting Analytics! Digital Careers: "How can I get a bigger salary? Analytics Career: Job Titles, Salaries, Technical & Business Roles. " + Standard Metrics Revisited Series. How can I be smart?"

Analytics 124

Analytics Metrics SEM Web 124

Pascal's View

DECEMBER 19, 2012

Seller financial performance: acquisitions remain heavily weighted toward Sellers with revenue, and Sellers in the aggregate continue to show improved earnings since 2009. That’s the key statistic on the health of the acquisition market from the 42%-of-the-market-seller’s perspective. I am a strong advocate of binding ADR.

Acquisition 31

Acquisition Merger Dilution Aggregator 31

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 8, 2011

and partly because all they do is present data in the aggregate (a punishable criminal offence if there ever was one!). The chance to understand what is actually driving business value (you know: the thing that pays your salary!). The ability to focus people in your company on the right content creation.

Customer 122

Customer Analytics Metrics SEO 122

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 do it in aggregate. . $1,099 and the CoGS is approx. Source: Investopedia.). 609 is not all Profit. There’s more to account for.

Conversion 127

Conversion Analytics .Net Metrics 127

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

This type of service will aggregate data and help you to pay less for a good policy. When you do outsourcing right, you’ll be able to pay freelancers to take care of business for you, without needing to offer them salaries and benefits. Also, don’t forget about outsourcing.

Operations 147

Operations Arizona Virginia Startup 147

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

So talk to your Marketers, Boss, Cleaning Lady, the dudette you replaced at half her salary! In aggregate trends can hide insights and hence "dirty" the data. Get the tribal knowledge, paste it in. But if you are presenting in excel (or powerpoint) then consider annotating your data as you go along.

Analytics 68

Analytics Metrics Search Florida 68

Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Instead, they prefer to buy through large distribution companies that aggregate products from lots of suppliers and then make that inventory available to retailers to purchase. COGS should only include those costs directly related to selling your products, not regular business expenses such as rent, insurance, salaries, etc.

Business Plan 163

Business Plan Forecast Balance Sheet Distribution 163

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. 50% of base salary if still employed 6 months later). These bonus payments may be paid as long as the employee is employed on a certain date (i.e.

Retention 31

Retention Liquidation Preference Employee Common Stock 31

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Metrics visible at a glance are number of customer interviews in the current week as well as aggregate interviews, hypotheses to test, invalidated hypotheses, mentor and instructor engagements. This data gives a feel for the evidence and trajectory of the cohort as a whole and a top-level of view of each teams progress.

Oakland 326

Oakland Incubator Lean Metrics 326

Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

If you have a lot of them, aggregate them up. If you consider disadvantage to be having a limit on how high your salary can be and how high your influence on the business side can be then yes, I do believe that having a job that is only focused on implementation is a disadvantage. Fruition Internet Marketing. Kara Martens.

Analytics 131

Analytics Marketing Campaign Metrics 131

www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

After you get past hobby project you quickly get into the realms of a) serious revenue being directly dependent on the website, b) serious hard costs like fully-loaded developer salaries for doing suboptimal “cobble it together ourselves from monit scripts” solutions, and c) serious career/business reputational risks if things break.

Revenue 62

Revenue Distribution Software Non-Compete 62

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 18, 2018

In January of 2015, Uber partnered with Alan Krueger , a professor at Princeton University, to conduct the first comprehensive analysis of Uber’s driver-partners, based on both survey data and anonymized, aggregated administrative data. to help maintain a steady income because other sources of income are unstable/unpredictable” (74%).

Partner 61

Partner Demand Matching Detroit 61

Up and Running

JULY 7, 2020

The goal of your labor calculation should be to determine how much labor will be needed in total to run all of your warehouse operations – allowing you to determine overall salaries and benefits expenses. Remember, labor costs don’t just mean employee salaries. Warehousing.

eCommerce 99

eCommerce Cost Forecast Operations 99

Up and Running

MARCH 20, 2019

She could figure on a few thousand in rent, a few thousand in salaries, and then decide that she should continue planning, from the quick view, like it could be a viable business. Instead, she summarizes and aggregates enough to make a useful forecast that she can track, review, and revise as needed with the ongoing business.

Forecast 115

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Marc Hedlund of Wesabe talked about this in his post-mortem stating: 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. During this year they. deprecated the old feature-complete product (ACS 3.4)

Cofounder 89

Cofounder Startup Technical Cofounder CTO Hire 89

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. With that investment thesis thwarted, there is no way to pay expenses, primarily salary and hosting costs. Company : Wesabe.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

This way GA will show you both keywords while the aggregate for visits will not be skewed – as technically it is just one session. ]. What's the best way to aggregate to understand clearly how to improve? IMPORTANT: This type of behavior is rare so you should not see 0 visits often. My advice would be this: 1. I LOVE doing this.

Analytics 94

Analytics Web Non-Compete Metrics 94

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

Whereas, taking the job at X company, advancing to Y position, attaining Z salary, didn't feel natural. They've got to take care of these immediate needs even before they think about a replacement job, at whatever hourly rate or salary they were at before. getting to determine how I was going to participate in the world, felt natural.

Fresno 60

Fresno Community Technology California 60

VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

PeerTV was linux on DSP, which aggregated content from the Internet like Boxee and BeeTV. All the peripheral services are profitable, but there was no place that aggregated everything under one roof. we today aggregate 30,000 conferences on the site. Me and my partner, Boaz Yehuda, worked without a salary.

Aggregator 84

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2019

Each chosen obsession is very much in the spirit of my beloved principle of the aggregation of marginal gains. You'll be surprised at the increase in your salary and bonus (oh, and the company will benefit too!). In context of Analytics are you aiming for something special in 2019 that I've not covered above?

Analytics 88

Analytics Marketing Algorithm Campaign 88