Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2022

How does any entrepreneur define the right balance, and then measure their performance against real metrics? In fact, there is plenty of evidence that these arrangements, such as with Whole Foods , are easy to implement, and pay big productivity, loyalty, as well as financial dividends.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2020

At least the first time around, it pays big dividends for an idea person to find a partner with the business skills you haven’t tested yet. Create a written plan, with target milestones and metrics. Don’t assume you can outsource the implementation decisions. You must also learn from your customers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

(for Harvard Business Review) Over at Harvard Business Review, Ive been building up a series designed to introduce the Lean Startup methodology to a business-focused audience. Hence, cutting corners often paid huge dividends. Read the rest of The Startups Rules of Speed - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Thomas Clayton has started and run numerous high-tech startups in Silicon Valley. He is currently CEO of Bubbly , a social media startup backed by Sequoia Capital, SingTel Innov8, and JAFCO. The company is one of the largest VC–backed startups in Southeast Asia, having raised over $60M in funding. Sequoia , Accel , NEA , etc.).

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

Startups and angels: Along the way to success.   Note that this applies only to earl stage Series A-type equity financings and assumes no cash dividends are paid to investors.   First , dividends. In some cases, dividends are often paid at the discretion of the board and not required by the terms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2019

One of the first harsh realities that every entrepreneur has to learn is that most of the things that are critical to startup success are outside of their direct control. As a new startup, you the entrepreneur are the brand. A debt repaid before it is asked for reaps a huge dividend in trust. Protect your personal brand.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

They adopt, measure, and manage key product performance metrics. A CTO is in the business of scale, for whatever an organization has as its core metrics. Some of my most satisfying projects are when we make improvements in, say, developer productivity that also pay a “security dividend”. Please email douglas@voltagecontrol.co

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2015

By definition, every startup is predictably unpredictable, since new solutions have no proven track record, startups are usually building a new market, and the world around them is changing faster than ever. Written product specifications and business plans pay big dividends. The market changes faster than your startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2019

How does any entrepreneur define the right balance, and then measure their performance against real metrics? In fact, there is plenty of evidence that these arrangements, such as with Whole Foods , are easy to implement, and pay big productivity, loyalty, as well as financial dividends.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 15, 2008 The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time Split-testing is a core lean startup discipline, and its one of those rare topics that comes up just as often in a technical context as in a business-oriented one when Im talking to startups. First of all, why split-test?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

How does any entrepreneur define the right balance, and then measure their performance against real metrics? In fact, there is plenty of evidence that these arrangements, such as with Whole Foods , are easy to implement, and pay big productivity, loyalty, as well as financial dividends. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

One of the first harsh realities that every entrepreneur has to learn is that most of the things that are critical to startup success are outside of their direct control. As a new startup, you the entrepreneur are the brand. A debt repaid before it is asked for reaps a huge dividend in trust. Protect your personal brand.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2013

One of the first harsh realities that every entrepreneur has to learn is that most of the things that are critical to startup success are outside of their direct control. As a new startup, you the entrepreneur are the brand. A debt repaid before it is asked for reaps a huge dividend in trust. Protect your personal brand.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2017

One of the first harsh realities that every entrepreneur has to learn is that most of the things that are critical to startup success are outside of their direct control. As a new startup, you the entrepreneur are the brand. A debt repaid before it is asked for reaps a huge dividend in trust. Protect your personal brand.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2013

How does any entrepreneur define the right balance, and then measure their performance against real metrics? In fact, there is plenty of evidence that these arrangements, such as with Whole Foods , are easy to implement, and pay big productivity, loyalty, as well as financial dividends. What do you think? Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

These changes pay increasing dividends, because each improvement now direclty frees up somebody in QA at the same time as reducing the total time of the certification step. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2017

How does any entrepreneur define the right balance, and then measure their performance against real metrics? In fact, there is plenty of evidence that these arrangements, such as with Whole Foods , are easy to implement, and pay big productivity, loyalty, as well as financial dividends.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 28, 2009

Its an essential discipline of good software development, especially in startups. Nonetheless, I want to talk about a dysfunction Ive seen in several startups: they are literally refactoring themselves to death. Only one occasion was a substantial rewrite justified based on performance metrics. Share what you learn.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, July 2, 2009 How to conduct a Five Whys root cause analysis In the lean startup workshops , we’ve spent a lot of time discussing the technique of Five Whys. My intention is to describe a full working process, similar to what I’ve seen at IMVU and other lean startups. First, a caveat.

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A Crowded Space

AUGUST 8, 2014

She talks about the rise of food delivery startups, on-demand rides, on-demand laundry services, etc. There is certainly a huge wave of these startups that are all harnessing the power of having every worker walking around with a GPS-enabled smartphone (as I’ve said before, the smartphone is a great logistics device). .

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2013

Don’t underestimate the undergraduates; in fact, the potential dividends of their academic prowess, augmented by their hard fought real-world experience makes them all formidable opponents. We had no pre-formed teams to work with. Hopefully none of you will have to face off against any of them in the marketplace.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

There’s another presentation I deliver on the top ten reasons startups fail, and the number one reason startups fail is because of the wrong team, and in my first company, we were not necessarily the right team. Now entrepreneurship is the sexiest word on the planet, so a lot of people have startup weekends.

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

For example, digital startups are more likely to secure funding if someone on their founding team holds a doctoral degree. shares, dividends). Because that number provides a strong influence in donating, you should inflate that metric as much as possible. How can you reveal your reputation? Equity-based – Equity returns (e.g.,

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Board Effect

MAY 10, 2019

Cap tables list a company’s authorized and outstanding shares, the parties to which those shares have been assigned, and the various metrics relevant to managing them. Such metrics can include an investor’s liquidation preference, option exercise windows and expiry dates, and shareholders’ fully diluted ownership percentages.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

At the time, he was advising the campaign while also serving as Executive Vice President and General Counsel at Revolution, a DC-based VC firm created to fund startups led by diverse founders all over the country. Do you want to talk a little bit about the role you see for startups to play in this recovery? Ron Klain : Yeah.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 19, 2009 Inc Magazine on Minimum Viable Product (and a response) Inc Magazine has a great new piece up about the increasing use of the Minimum Viable Product by businesses (and not just startups). See “ It’s a startup, not a spreadsheet &# for more.) Read the rest.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 2, 2017

These are actual results a startup Ringadoc got from their partner program. Being metrics and business outcome focused throughout a product’s lifecycle is important to us, and using Amplitude allows us to measure and achieve our goals in that regard.”. ” Investing in partner enablement pays handsome dividends.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 2, 2017

These are actual results a startup Ringadoc got from their partner program. Being metrics and business outcome focused throughout a product’s lifecycle is important to us, and using Amplitude allows us to measure and achieve our goals in that regard.”. ” Investing in partner enablement pays handsome dividends.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

In February of last year, Fortune magazine writers Erin Griffith and Dan Primack declared 2015 “ The Age of the Unicorns ” noting — “Fortune counts more than 80 startups that have been valued at $1 billion or more by venture capitalists.” Next came Rolfe Winkler’s deep dive “ Highly Valued Startup Zenefits Runs Into Turbulence. ”

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