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The Enterprise Strikes Back

BeyondVC

Couple that with Mulesoft being bought for 21x TTM revenue ( see Tomasz Tunguz analysis ) at $6.5 There will also still be some amazing companies that raise their Series C, D and beyond funding rounds with scaling metrics. New architectures = new attack vectors and security needs to be reimagined. Serverless technologies….

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7 Ways To Keep Your Focus On Execution After The Idea

Startup Professionals Musings

As a result, Google has become a verb, and the company is a tech giant with record growth rates and a revenue of $74.5 Set business goals and milestones, and use metrics to track performance. A great business must be agile. billion in 2015. But Google is not unique. Enable team members to run the business as their own.

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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. They knew how to execute the current business model.

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Hands-on Lessons for Advanced Topics in Entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

The site visits include stops at Square (the payments startup founded by Twitter co-creator Jack Dorsey), WeWork Soma (an amazing co-working space) and Pivotal Labs (leaders in Lean and Agile consulting), along with one more super-interesting location we’ll announce shortly. or “Did the feature I just built actually increase revenue?”

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Continuous deployment for mission-critical applications

Startup Lessons Learned

A typical "new feature" release is, in my experience, about 80% changes to underlying APIs or architecture. Some of these benefits are shared by agile systems which have continuous integration but large batch releases, but others are unique to continuous deployment. Monitoring of real-world metrics. I just dont believe it.

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The Mission Model Canvas – An Adapted Business Model Canvas for Mission-Driven Organizations

Steve Blank

In other words, how can we adapt the Business Model Canvas when the metrics of success for an organization is not revenue? From Revenue Streams to Mission Achievement. For these organizations, the canvas box labeled Revenue Streams doesn’t make sense. Revenue Streams changes to Mission Achievement.

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Why Continuous Deployment?

Startup Lessons Learned

Both sides start to think of their point of view in moralistic terms: “those guys don’t see the economic value of fast action, they only care about their precious architecture diagrams&# or “those guys are sloppy and have no professional pride.&# " Actually this process works really well in a financial company.