David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

This structure allows for alignment on the front end, and real-time flexibility for performance metrics,” says Samira Salman , a family office investor and advisor. . Flexible VCs have created structures based on other company performance metrics than revenues, such as profits or founder salaries. Typical business stage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Flexible business models, including value-based pricing, bundling, and custom proposals are the places to begin. To check your return on marketing investment, you need to define metrics and a formal process to evaluate progress and cost tradeoffs. Maximize repeat business with existing clients.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2020

At least the first time around, it pays big dividends for an idea person to find a partner with the business skills you haven’t tested yet. Bill was initially the idea person and technologist, while Steve had the business and marketing experience from Proctor & Gamble to close the business equation.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

.   You can vary both valuation and term-sheet assumptions (in the gray boxes) to assess the impact on the values of the business.   Note that this applies only to earl stage Series A-type equity financings and assumes no cash dividends are paid to investors.   First , dividends. Let’s start at the end.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2013

First, it allowed us to use the classroom time to dive deep into each team’s discovery narrative as it related to that week’s section of the business model canvas. This approach helped in several ways. Second, it allowed the teams mentors to “follow along”, since they were all first timers to the Lean LaunchPad approach.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

Every model, it doesn’t matter what you are. Food, technology, bioscience, services, you need to know the metrics for your model. These are the metrics for the SaaS model that we have. How many people are going to leave? Then referral rates and opt-out rates. This is what we track.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 28, 2009

If thats not a team-wide phenomenon, then its still a form of waste, because everyone has to learn every lesson before it starts paying dividends. On the one hand, I think they have an urgent problem, and need to invest 100% of their energy into finding a business model (or another form of traction). Share what you learn.

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