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Why Misunderstanding Startup Metrics Can Cost You Your Business

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The key to being able to run a business that isn’t yet profitable (on operating margin) is availability of capital to finance losses and preferably at a cost that isn’t too punitive to the founders and employees. Sustaining short-term losses is all predicated on ability to finance the losses through venture capital or other means.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

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I’m no great scholar on bubbles – I have more interesting things to spend my time worrying about than the exact definition , but having been around a few I have at least given them intellectual consideration. Or worse yet they may never get financed. It’s what I love about entrepreneurship and about venture capital.

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Twitter’s Acquisition, Chirp & Managing Developer Relationships

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I guess it may be impractical for Twitter to acquire Seesmic given it has raised considerable amounts of venture capital (reportedly $12 million) but the broader point for me is that I always believed Twitter should control the client versions of its product. Think about the creative tension. Kind of obvious, huh?

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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

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These include building products, recruiting, managing your finances, marketing, selling, getting feedback from customers and … fund raising. If they see you when you’ve already got your first term sheet and they’ve got 3 weeks to decide then by definition they have no relationship with you. How to Work with PR Firms.

Developer 366
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Cracking The Code: BlablaCar - Travel Revolution

Cracking the Code

Note: high CAC ratio means high productiviy (see blog post for definition). Venture Capital. (3). Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Bessemer Venture Partners Expands BVP VII Fund. Explore Venture Capital. Yahoo Finance. Started on Jan. 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00

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Cracking The Code: In search of Europe's next tech stars.

Cracking the Code

Note: high CAC ratio means high productiviy (see blog post for definition). Venture Capital. (3). Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Bessemer Venture Partners Expands BVP VII Fund. Explore Venture Capital. Yahoo Finance. Started on Jan. 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00

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Cracking The Code: SaaS Multiples: Recovery or Bubble?

Cracking the Code

Note: high CAC ratio means high productiviy (see blog post for definition). Venture Capital. (3). Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Bessemer Venture Partners Expands BVP VII Fund. Explore Venture Capital. Yahoo Finance. Started on Jan. 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00