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9 Business Acronyms You Need To Know

YoungUpstarts

An NDA, or Non-Disclosure Agreement, is an essential business acronym that often takes many forms. EBITDA, or Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization, is a metric of measurement of cash earnings that is generally non-GAAP. EBITDA is often used in loans covenants.

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The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition (Part 3)

Software By Rob

Details on which costs you chose to attack first (technical debt vs. free subscriptions vs. UX) is something all web businesses should think about. She asks me to sign an NDA, which I do. Can you say how long you estimated it would take, given your purchase costs and ongoing expenses, to make the acquisition profitable?

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The 90-Day CMO and Cross-Channel Acquisition Strategies That Scale

Duct Tape Marketing

17:30] How deep into financials and metrics do you get before taking a client on? [19:01] And when I present it to them in terms of a cost analysis, [00:05:00] in terms of what you would. The only thing I'll get into in, if they want me to sign an NDA, that's fine. Is like acquisition metrics. What's your cost per lead?

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In Venture Capital, Should You Be a Momentum or a Value Investor?

David Teten

Likely signs of a Value investment: the company has challenges in filling out the round; the investors have more negotiating leverage than the founders during the closing process; the company has significantly better metrics (e.g. Running your own analytics and sourcing process has real financial costs. LTV / CAC, revenue growth, etc.)

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Technology Roles in Startups

SoCal CTO

20 Required NDA to continue – a nonstarter 50 Couldn’t sell him 15 Couldn’t explain why they wanted him involved In our conversation together, David and I spent a fair bit of time discussing the fact that a lot of people really didn’t know what he could do for them.

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Things to Avoid When Recruiting Co-founders

grasshopperherder.com

Don’t Even Ask for an NDA This just makes me laugh. UPDATE: It is of course perfectly reasonable to ask for an NDA before giving away the super secret sauce. As a corollary, cold call a VC and try and get them to sign an NDA before your first meeting. As an investor, I will expect the same metrics an investor would get.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. Building Metrics / Usage Reports / KPI 3. Product/Metrics (70%/30% time) * Get your product activation (sign-up + meaningful action) to 60% * then, Get your product retention to 20% weekly. Why do I do it?