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Female Founder Interview: Author and Business Leader Martha Razo

The Startup Magazine

Martha: Business owners measure their growth by their numbers; revenues, profits, number of employees, the number of locations they own, etc. Every business owner, even if they have someone assigned, should review their profit and loss and balance sheet on a monthly basis. in Industrial engineering.

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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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9 Deadliest Start-up Sins

Steve Blank

Traditionally, engineering, sales, and marketing have all focused on the immovable launch date. Financial progress is tracked using metrics like income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow. Yet without direct and continuous customer contact, it’s unknown whether the features will hold any appeal to customers.

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What’s The Most Difficult CEO Skill? Managing Your Own Psychology

Ben's Blog

Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared to keeping my mind in check. If a great engineer quit, that was my fault. Revenue at Ning is soaring and team morale is high. —The Geto Boys, Mind Playing Tricks on Me. You are all alone.

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The Lean LaunchPad Class: It’s the same, but different

Steve Blank

So in 2011, with support from the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (the entrepreneurship center in the Stanford Engineering School), we created a new capstone entrepreneurship class – the Lean LaunchPad. Things That Needed Constant Reminders. The same holds true for pushing the students.

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Out of the Crisis #7, Brian Chesky Part 1: running Airbnb in crisis mode, being multi-stakeholder, and re-founding the company

Startup Lessons Learned

A complete collapse of revenue that simultaneously affects your employees and your customers, your partners, your investors, everyone all at once and all the news is bad. People, not just metrics. I'm perhaps an oddity of Silicon Valley because I'm not an engineer by training. Eric Ries : Metrics are people too.

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Webinar Recap: 14 Tips on How to Pitch and Get Funded

Up and Running

You should have a good solid executive summary, you should have full financials, and that means a projected balance sheet, P&L and cash flow. Now you’re going to move into your revenue model. Okay, so now your revenue model, so this is—. These are the metrics for the SaaS model that we have.