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Human Engineering and Emotional Intelligence for Startups

VC Cafe

Goleman added a new facet to how humans measure intelligence, which was previously generally viewed as a person’s IQ – a narrow metric revolving around linguistic and math skills. make a copy of this Google doc template of the Business Model Canvas to re-jig who your users, collaborators, channels and business model(s).

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Pragmatism with Flavor

TechEmpower

It's a fun and funny business to be in. Through our fifteen years, we've been charged with helping clients get business done with technology. Focusing on the metrics that ultimately drive the business, often the bottom line, has provided a reality check, a counter-weight to the desire to consume all new technologies.

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Fear of Failure and Lack of Speed In a Large Corporation

Steve Blank

I just spent a day working with Bob, the Chief Innovation Officer of a very smart large company I’ll call Acme Widgets. I suggested the best place to start the conversation is with the 21 st century definition of a startup: A startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.

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The Pre-Board Board: How to Create Accountability Before You Give Away a Board Seat

This is going to be BIG.

Metrics around these efforts. For example, you may decide that a small business needs a widget like yours (hypothesis) so you outbound to 100 of them (goals) with a vaporware deck to see if you could sell some pre-orders. Some efforts don’t have more complicated metrics than just, “Did this work, yes, no, or still in process?”

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Lean Analytics: The Best Numbers for Non-Tech Companies

Startup Lessons Learned

It provides a basic introduction to analytics as they apply to Lean Startup, including sections on what metrics to use and how to interpret them. For instance, Ben lists out the worst of the “vanity metrics,” a term that describes appealing but meaningless or misleading numbers. We often tell founders that a business plan is nonsense.

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StartupRoar.com – A Source Of Aggregated, Curated Entrepreneurial Content

YoungUpstarts

You’ll find content categorized into different topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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The Swinging Pendulum Between Distribution and Monetization

Genuine VC

After the crash at the end of the last decade, web startups clamped down to focus on their core value proposition and were forced out of necessity for survival to hone their revenue models. If the notion has reached the popular business press, then it’s indeed a pervasive story. But it goes beyond just widgets and social networks.