Developer Dilution Metrics Sales 
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 13, 2021
It’s easy to say “yes” to one more feature request after another, until the potential for real impact gets diluted. Obsessive sales – must meet revenue goals. Hypermetricemia – metrics for everything. My advice is to focus on a handful of high-level metrics that matter , and are simple and relevant to organizational objectives.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
There isn’t one most important SaaS metric. Being focussed on SaaS metrics is not incompatible with valuing employee fulfillment and customer happiness. Find and focus on one reliable distribution mechanism before diluting your time diversifying. Sales” is not a dirty word. Priority depends on your goals (e.g.
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Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
It wasn’t just front-end processes like sales tools, marketing funnels, dynamic pricing, driver routes and so forth but we also had to build comprehensive systems to manage numerous warehouses across four different cities. Startups are messy and development is seldom linear and up-and-to-the right.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
A-Rounds used to be $3–7 million with the best companies able to skip this smaller amount and raise $10 million on a $40 million pre-money valuation (20% dilution). At the time I wasn’t 100% sure but he made compelling arguments about how other markets have developed as they matured so I took note. So in a way it’s self selecting.
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.
ReadWriteStart
JULY 18, 2011
He says that one is too lonely, two is good and three is a great number if they can combine their skills to cover design, development and distribution. with a run rate of 12 to 18 months: 6 months of development and then 12 months of distribution. VCs need to figure out the people side of the company and raising money is a sales job.
ConversionXL
NOVEMBER 6, 2017
In any experiment, some metric within some group usually changes, but whether we’ve invested in the statistical rigor to discover it is another question altogether.”. Knowing these finer details can help meaningfully shift your metrics in a positive direction, where they may have once been plateauing. Image Source.
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