Austin Startup
JULY 22, 2017
In the years following its implementation, the number of minorities hired to fill head-coach roles doubled. The Walker Rule calls for diversity and inclusion in interviewing and hiring of startup co-founders, CEO, senior team, management, staff, board of directors and advisors. I’ve named the Walker Rule after Madam C.
Steve Blank
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
What most founders don’t realize is: Every stage of a startup requires a different set of metrics and milestones and founder skills. What is some of the critical metrics that matter? Note that each market – web/SAAS/physical products – and channel – online/direct sales – has different metrics and a different funnel steps.)For
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This is going to be BIG.
DECEMBER 13, 2021
If your idea hasn’t changed at all, despite not getting any traction on fundraising, hiring, or customer signups, and your biggest complaint is how much fundraising sucks or that VCs won’t take risks or fund founders like you, you’re playing startup. Please reach out!
Reid Hoffman
DECEMBER 10, 2020
So I got the license to put a term sheet down, and we made the investment. it took years for Airbnb’s metrics to really start accelerating. In addition, the company redirected its recruiting team from hiring new employees to helping former employees find new jobs. Now here’s an interesting coda to that story.
Austin Startup
MAY 19, 2018
Just don’t do reference checks ever until the term sheet has been issued and you’re almost ready to fund. Most of the time we are being told no by somebody whether it’s prospects, investors, or hires who aren’t willing to take the risk at a startup. Get excited (and show it!) Founders are duking it out day in and day out.
Steve Blank
APRIL 9, 2009
We hired union laborers to do that. And the results weren’t the traditional PR metrics of number of articles or inches of ink. We were constantly creating metrics to see the effects of different PR messages, channels and audiences on end-user purchases. What’s your advice about hiring sales/marketing folks? (I
David Teten
DECEMBER 3, 2019
Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking. Atlassian open-sourced their M&A term sheet , a very aggressive move which helps smooth the M&A process, by reducing the number of degrees of freedom in a negotiation.
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