Version One Ventures
OCTOBER 31, 2016
As an investor and former founder, I know that scalable growth (and the pretty hockey stick graph) is the holy grail for every startup. Since it was part of the Version One marketplace meetup, we geared the conversation toward marketplace companies , but many points apply to software/SaaS startups as well.
Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 15, 2010
Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review Way back when the money was doled out, the team made a compelling pitch about the large market that was going to adopt their new innovative product or service. They are on-schedule and on-budget, but their gross metrics are way off.
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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. Flexible VC 102: Variations.
Up and Running
AUGUST 21, 2014
In this webinar, we take time to discuss the different metrics that startups—and established businesses—should be tracking. It’s hard to understand how many people will you actually attract, what is it going to cost, what’s your conversion rate, how long will people stay. Those things are all really hard to just get.
ConversionXL
FEBRUARY 19, 2016
You’d think conversion optimization and SEO should play together nicely, right? In theory, conversion optimization aims to improve the user experience, which, conveniently, is what Google wants to do as well with their top search results. How do you balance traffic acquisition with conversion optimization?
Reid Hoffman
DECEMBER 10, 2020
After that conversation, I called around to learn more about Brian, Joe and Nate, and I got really strong references. it took years for Airbnb’s metrics to really start accelerating. That’s when I agreed to meet them. They came to Greylock’s offices on a Sunday to meet me. Now here’s an interesting coda to that story.
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 14, 2009
Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. This wasn’t very impressive, but we had two things going for us: A hockey stick shaped growth curve. People often forget the most important part of the hockey stick: the long flat part. Whats the right set of materials, conversations, etc.
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