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Use agile budgeting to manage your cash

David Teten

Instead of budget approvals, monitor key metrics and give managers more flexibility. How should a growth company manage their budget? So here’s the solution I have recommended to some of my portfolio companies: “ agile budgeting ”, i.e., monitoring a few key variables while giving managers significant flexibility.

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Textio’s Founder Kieran Snyder on the Two Advantages Startups Have in AI (While Remaining Skeptical Of The Funding Gold Rush)

Hunter Walker

Specifically, we thought that if you could use piles and piles of data to figure out which phrases, structures, and other linguistic characteristics performed the best with real audiences, then you could expose that data to help people write stuff that performed better. How did Textio get smarter about remote teams over time?

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Rare event in Palo Alto today: fireside chat with Lifograph and Microsoft

The Startup Magazine

Microsoft General Manager Dave Mendlen is in Palo Alto today to participate in a rare fireside chat with the CEO of Lifograph, Dea Wilson. Mendlen flew into Silicon Valley from Seattle specifically for this event to chat with the “Wiki of People” CEO. AGENDA: 5:45pm – 6:30pm – Networking reception.

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Snow in Seattle

Feld Thoughts

I spent the day in Seattle yesterday, starting off with an awesome early morning run along the ocean near downtown and ending the day walking back with some folks from a bar at UW in a freak Seattle snowstorm. I’ve been coming to Seattle for a long time.

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The Lean Startup Book Tour

Startup Lessons Learned

Luckily, the amazing Lean LA meetup group has organized to do this in front of an audience, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. Friday, September 16 - Seattle On Friday, I fly to Seattle, where I'll be for two days. Buy an Autographed Copy Saturday, September 17 - Seattle StartupDay 2011 by Startup Weekend & Seattle 2.0

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Why Partnerships Are The Future Of Marketing

Duct Tape Marketing

What makes it scalable and more of a marketing channel is that it's managed using software. The other thing is, I, I mean the amount of times that we get introduced to someone who's managing the channel, who's never, or been in the channel before, to me is fascinating. Bob Glazer (15:13): Yeah. I mean, you want it to be relevant.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

Joel moved to Seattle, and worked at Microsoft for three years as a program manager on Excel 4.0 Joel met his co-founder for Fog Creek software and learned a valuable management lesson. While it was not a widespread problem, there was an element of micro-management at the wrong levels. 15 minutes. Pricing information.