Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

work (collection, processing, reporting, analysis), processes, org structure, governance models, last-mile gaps , metrics ladders of awesomeness , and… so… much… more. Remember, tools, work, processes, org structure, governance models, last-mile gaps, metrics ladders of awesomeness, and… so… much… more. The Impact Matrix.

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Analytics Framework Metrics Algorithm 93

Gust

JANUARY 31, 2013

Modern theories of economics and finance teach us that in a world of perfect information, the market will decide what a fair price is for any company’s stock at any point in time based on its current financial condition, results of past operations, analysts’ forecasts of future performance, industry conditions and so on.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

What is the role of public and private organizations in governing our shared civic fabric? You can go read about it on Wikipedia and whatnot, but it's sort of a metric that economists use to look at the various countries of the world and measure how economically free those places are. ER : Don't get me started about stock exchanges.

IPO 113

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

And there is so much money around being thrown at so many entrepreneurs that many firms don’t even care about board seats, governance rights or heaven forbid doing work with the company because that would eat into the VCs time needed to chase 5 more deals. A seed round these days is $3–5 million or more!

Pre-Money Valuation 471

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 22, 2020

These can include: Fun runs – These are defined as runs that don’t require road closures and even special permits from the government. You can do this by clearly defining the metrics you want to assess or evaluate. However, depending on the type of cause or organization you’re raising funds for, there are many options to choose from.

Developer 179

Developer Metrics Operations Retention 179

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 4, 2019

Previous Government Shutdowns Weren’t A Big Deal. Government shutdowns of previous years haven’t had that much of an effect on financial markets’ performance. Stock markets, at large, can also be volatile. The go-to metric used to gauge market volatility is the Volatility Index, more commonly known as the VIX.

United States 113

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

To ensure customer delight was delivered in a timely manner, it was also decided that Average Call Time (ACT) would now be The success metric. The success metric, ACT, did go down. That ACT was an activity metric was terrible – if you have a The success metric, it should always be an outcome metric. Another issue.

Metrics 60

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

We worked with the Chinese government to put U.S. When people say, "Well, who could've foreseen this," well, part of, I think, is we couldn’t have foreseen exactly how bad it's been because it was hard to foresee that our government would bungle this as badly as it did. experts inside the Chinese disease-response agency.

Government 60

Government Africa America Washington 60

Up and Running

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Begin by taking stock of yourself and your situation: Why do you want to start a business? If you don’t have time to perform the research or would like a second opinion, there are people you can go to for help, like government departments and your local SBDC. Milestones and Metrics. Conduct a personal evaluation. Target Market.

Venture Capital 166

Venture Capital Business Plan Limited Liability Company Finance 166

ithacaVC

APRIL 5, 2011

A cap table is a written record (in Excel, for example) of who owns stock in your company. It lists every owner out by amount owned, type of stock (common or preferred), and date purchased. For clarity, it is impossible to issue stock without putting a value on the company. I am a huge fan of simple cap tables.

Common Stock 45

Common Stock Stock Cap Table Preferred Stock 45

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

The government backs the 529 college saving programs listed on the app, allowing friends, family and well wishers, from wherever in the world they may be, to help out by contributing to your child’s college fund. What Scholar Raise does is provide a crowdfunding platform to help parents hit their stated funding objectives.

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Startup Algorithm .Net Stock 170

Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Gordon Gekko may have a new movie coming out, but the days of the jolly old stock market he once knew are gone forever. public stock market performance over the past 11 years has been. And then there is the government. With 90 million Americans with money in the stock market, there is zero political hay in noting that 99.9%

Stock 48

Stock Vesting Japan Algorithm 48

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 23, 2019

If you enjoy research, collecting and assessing metrics, or crafting a narrative or prediction based on historical data, then business analytics might be your perfect niche. Stocks and futures traders , money exchange traders, investment capital firms, and even governments need the services that business analysts provide.

Analytics 127

Analytics Salary Advertising Stock 127

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Im writing this post from an airplane headed to Washington DC, where Ill be presenting at the Government 2.0 Im especially curious to gauge the reaction of the civilian and military representatives of our government. Ive been in a few government-themed meetings recently, so I know some of the standard answers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

And then, once that curve is low enough, governments can dance, testing and tracking cases until the virus is eradicated or we develop a working vaccine. They didn't have experience buying bulk from the government things like masks or ventilators." So I think it's good to take stock of what has happened. What did China do?

South Korea 114

South Korea Silicon Valley Sweden Italy 114

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

But we couldn''t have identified this without having clear metrics (that high bug count) to assess our development process. The webcast is free with registration and will include a live Q&A with attendees. The result was a new process of four-week iterative cycles all about throttling new code.

Lean 167

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

Oh, and your salespeople have to make sure bookstores will stock it, and your marketing and PR people will have to make sure readers know it exists. Last year, the co -founders of B ack to the Roots talked about their innovation accounting and how they were ignoring sales metrics in order to grow.

Lean 165

Lean Technical Review Startup Software Review 165

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 17, 2015

Meet Nava, A Startup That Wants To Fix The Government’s Crappy Design [link] crowdspring.co/1MbGeIk Content Marketing Metrics You Aren’t Measuring | SEJ [link] crowdspring.co/1KPRXNZ How to Choose the Right Stock Photo for Your Next Project [link] crowdspring.co/1IHl6GK Launching a New Product? 1TjcNbz . 1gm1uRE .

Small Business 48

Small Business Design Social Media Cuba 48

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 14, 2012

The Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, or GAAP, are the set of rules that govern financial accounting in businesses. IPO stands for Initial Public Offering, and is the first sale of a private stock to the public. A demonarchy is defined as a political system governed by a demon. Maybe double-check that contract.

Non-disclosure Agreement 202

Non-disclosure Agreement NDA IPO Covenant 202

Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2010

Do they have metrics and a methodology they use for early stage companies that differs from companies that have already found a business model? VC’s with formerly high-ranking government officials and Fortune 1000 CEO’s as advisors may be wonderful to help you grow your company in a later stage but not helpful now.

Founder 232

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Up and Running

JUNE 28, 2012

As a CEO and an adviser to governments and politicians, I do a lot of listening. I even wrote a blog post about my listening into my industry, Government 2.0. It might seem like fun and games as in the social media stock market “ Empire Avenue.” ” Or do you? But you need to get a clue. It is pretty simple.

Social Media 91

Social Media Government Metrics Database 91

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

Your historical trading information including financials and a “customer file” which shows the history of your transactions so that investors can run “cohort” analyses Customer reference, personal references, key team members, compensation, cap table, stock option plan, etc. and then asking to take a brochure home with you.

Cap Table 336

Cap Table Due Diligence Forecast Churn Rate 336

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

But there isn't actually a top down roadmap of how to do it with real milestones and metrics and uh, around it. (07:01): And their question for us was how should they organize and govern those and prioritize them and resource them and so on. 07:01): And a real fundamental change in the operating model. It's just right.

Technical Review 65

Technical Review Silicon Valley Generative AI Arizona 65

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

In this situation, teams take ownership of their outcomes: their goals and metrics. Once you’ve taken stock of the situation, make sure your leadership development efforts support a culture of success rather than one of failure. To create a culture of success, leaders need to learn how to govern collaboratively.

Leadership 88

Leadership Developer Employee Framework 88

Business Plan Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Governance: Many governance issues can be addressed in the social enterprise’s corporate bylaws. Similar to a non-profit, there is the heightened responsibility for moral governance of your organization as to fulfilling the organization’s mission.

Vesting 51

Vesting Government Stock Salary 51

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 21, 2010

It also causes them to miss the numerous other kinds of startups that appear in less-glamorous settings: inside enterprises, non-profits, and even governments. This is equally true of a packaged good in a grocery store, an ecommerce website, a non-profit social service or a variety of government programs. Wrong again. Wrong again.

San Francisco 168

San Francisco Startup Lean Continuous Deployment 168

ConversionXL

JUNE 23, 2019

Avoid cheesy stock photos. Are you somehow connected to a university, a government agency, a research lab, or another reputable organization? Stanford); Attack Resistant Trust Metrics (Raph Levien, UC Berkeley) Understanding How Internet Users Make Sense of Credibility (Miriam J. Visible return and refund policies.

Reputation 132

Reputation Caching Design Community 132

NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 8, 2019

I made my first investment in the stock market when I was 12 years old. Appropriate governance. A simple metric – when I registered my first company in 2004, the naming space was wide open. I killed it, everyone did. So I splashed out and bought a gigantic pack of pick ‘n’ mix.

New Zealand 43

New Zealand Entrepreneur Valuation Dilution 43

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 29, 2013

About Ari and Wyatt: Wyatt Jenkins is VP of Product at Shutterstock, a stock photo site founded in 2003 that now encompasses twelve cross-functional teams and is one of the world’s largest two-sided marketplaces. Ari Gesher is a senior engineer at Palantir Technologies, creating data-mining software for government and financial clients.

Lean 167

Lean Hiring Metrics Conversion 167

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

The same thing happened to many Internet stocks. Anything that hints of a down round brings questions about the success metrics that have already been “booked.” Ever single public CEO has had days where the stock price falls — it is common and accepted. It is worth noting that stock prices go up and stock prices go down.

IPO 40

IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

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. 10) Metrics.

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

Livelys launch was marred by zillions of sex chat rooms, with people spending hours and hours trying to figure out how to use Livelys stock animations to make their avatars do things that looked kinky. The government doesnt assign each clothing brand its own level of benefit. Guess what they wanted to talk about.

San Francisco 68

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 68

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And then medium-size businesses start to use it, and then large businesses start to use it, and then eventually the government starts to use it. All you need is for one of the new enterprise companies to completely whiff a quarter and their stock will collapse and then everybody will get all freaked out. Marc Andreessen: Yeah.

Software Review 22

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

The burden [should] just be that we care; that if we learn something, we improve it, and that we don’t only use single output metrics and its growth at all costs. Most boards have an audit committee, a nominating governance committee and a comp committee. And the burden shouldn’t be on us to launch something and magically be good.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Hosting Rhode Island Design 69

Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

The burden [should] just be that we care; that if we learn something, we improve it, and that we don’t only use single output metrics and its growth at all costs. Most boards have an audit committee, a nominating governance committee and a comp committee. And the burden shouldn’t be on us to launch something and magically be good.

Silicon Valley 36

Silicon Valley Hosting Rhode Island Design 36

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Look at what happened with Microsoft’s attempt to get the London Stock Exchange onto.NET – a total failure. My code is running well right now in universities, Fortune 500 companies, mom-and-pop businesses, power utilities, state and national governments, and, yes, a number of successful startups. March 27, 2011 at 3:50 pm.

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