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Accel APX conference: short take aways

Cracking the Code

We were fortunate to host very talented speakers from our portfolio (Ilya Sukhar from FB/Parse, Steve Marx from Dropbox, Bill Ready from Braintree, Ali Rayl from Slack, Eric Wittman from Atlassian, Sam Mac Donnell from HotelTonight.)

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Paying Attention > Any Business Book

Austin Startup

Design Typecasting IRL A very talented friend who designs brands took on a restaurant project that went a little viral. But to do it he had to go back to making passion projects (read: free self-generated work) to build a more diverse portfolio. But Unimark was a failed business. And poor process compromises the business model.

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HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small Business

mashable.com

You can also get great recommendations from your existing network; just be sure to research portfolios, websites and references thoroughly before making a decision to work with a particular developer. Familiarize yourself with the agency’s portfolio and get recommendations from colleagues whenever possible. PM OK, agree.

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A Path to the Minimum Viable Product

Steve Blank

Note that if you’re familiar with the business model canvas, Steps 1-4 below are equivalent to a visual map of the choices a founder makes as they develop a business model canvas. In the Roku case study we’ve chosen three execution branches: (1) delivery platforms, (2) sales channels, and (3) chip platforms.

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Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior | For Entrepreneurs

www.forentrepreneurs.com

For Web and SaaS businesses with smaller transactions at higher volumes, this kind of modeling and tracking is much easier, as web-based lead generation and marketing have easy to implement measurements, and the greater the volume of transactions, the more clearly patterns emerge. Bookings is the pre-cursor to Revenue.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and.

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Cracking The Code: Cracking the SMB code

Cracking the Code

Today, VARs are the key to the SMB segment and their business model is collapsing, opening new opportunities for them and for technology providers. Today, VARs are the key to the SMB segment and their business model is collapsing, opening new opportunities for them and for technology providers. Portfolio. (3).