Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Metrics like Return on Net Assets, Return on Capital and Internal Rate of Return are the guiding stars of the board and CEO. As Harvard professor Clayton Christensen noted, these efficiency metrics provided wise guidance for times when capital was scarce and raising money was hard. Ultimately this is not just another staff function.

Private Equity 325

Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2018

The crash took a year to incubate. They created their own metrics and over-hyped the rivalries. And true to their word, senior management promoted Matt amidst great fanfare. After all, Matt was their rising star. He knew how to “get results!”. Matt’s promotion gave him national influence and responsibility.

Leadership 113

Leadership Incubator Metrics Sales 113

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Across the world, work spaces, maker spaces, incubators, and accelerators are opening, expanding, and making an impact on their communities, and beyond. A key impact metric for Kairos is the number of faces processed. Within the entrepreneurship ecosystem, “scaleup” challenges differ from startup challenges and demand unique solutions.

Miami 61

Miami Technical Review Software Review Artificial Inteligence 61

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Acceleration and incubation programs are on the rise and have helped start and scale many successful businesses over the past 10 years. More metrics need to be identified such as product testing, market validation, and/or customer validation in order to show that a market opportunity exists. Reasons for rejection analyzed + tips.

Programming 124

Programming Chile B2B B2C 124

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Angel groups, accelerators, and incubators are pervasive. You don’t have to be a heavily funded later stage startup to get access to “big data,” customer analytics, and metrics dashboards. Non-professional investors now use crowdfunding sites, like Indiegogo and Kickstarter , for similar access.

Intellectual Property 120

Intellectual Property Startup Angel Groups Social Media 120

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Corporations running internal incubators face many of the same selection issues as startup investors, plus they must grapple with the issues of integrating new ideas into existing P&L-driven functions or business units. data that investors, accelerators and incubators can use to inform selection. Or watch the video here.).

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A Crowded Space

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Incubators and accelerators are breeding grounds of hype - they put lists of companies out there and have a demo day to display their wares. Notice the distinct absence of little things like revenue, customers, engagement metrics, or gross margin. They can create temporary growth in vanity metrics like downloads.

San Diego 60

San Diego Software Review San Francisco Silicon Valley 60

Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

Here the company is essentially incubating a startup. Horizon 3 groups need to be physically separate from operating divisions (in a corporate incubator, or their own facility.) These innovators want to create new and potentially disruptive business models. Get to Yes. are assigned to work inside Horizon 3 organizations.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Bill Gross founded Idealab in 1996, making it the longest-running technology incubator alive today. Bob Sutton is a Stanford professor and the author of several best-selling books on standout management, including Scaling Up Excellence , an investigation of high-growth companies.

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Lean Fractional CTO Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE 165

Up and Running

MAY 15, 2014

As an entrepreneur raised in the era of analytics, I want to find metrics for everything. PopInShop’s progress retroactively validated my decision, as the metrics on overall growth supported my gut: after reverting to my status as a lone founder, the company made fast strides on product development and partnerships.

Partner 113

Partner Cofounder Equity Metrics 113

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

We’ve had an explosion of alternate sources of financing from crowd-sourcing, angels, accelerators, incubators, corporates, corporate incubators. Create company measures for success that go beyond financial metrics. You manage what you measure so be careful about having too narrowly defined of performance metrics.

Marketing 354

Marketing Incubator Turkey Metrics 354

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2013

Singapore-based accelerator Joyful Frog Digital Incubator ( JFDI Asia ) has revealed that over 300 digital startup teams have applied for its second accelerator program for this year, competing for just 12 places in this intake. Other nations made up less than 1% of applications each.

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Singapore Programming Asia Incubator 243

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 28, 2007

Where LinkedIn Works for Me A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive About this Blog Southern California Tech Central Southern California Tech Central Loading. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Where LinkedIn Works for Me A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive About this Blog Southern California Tech Central Southern California Tech Central Loading. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

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Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire 150

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Where LinkedIn Works for Me A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive About this Blog Southern California Tech Central Southern California Tech Central Loading. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

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Technical Cofounder Los Angeles Southern California CTO Hire 150

Steve Blank

JUNE 20, 2022

In his first week the exec staff had pointed him to the existing corporate incubator. Anthony had long come to the same conclusion I had, that highly visible corporate incubators do a good job of shaping culture and getting great press, but most often their biggest products were demos that never get deployed to the field.

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CTO Technical Cofounder CTO Hire Incubator 354

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Where LinkedIn Works for Me A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive About this Blog Southern California Tech Central Southern California Tech Central Loading. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

Los Angeles 150

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

In some ways it is similar to early stage incubators such as Y Combinator, although FI is even earlier stage, focusing on developing the founders themselves as entrepreneurs as opposed to actual companies. I'm working quite a bit with startups who are leveraging social media, but I'm finding it hard to predict success and metrics.

Management 150

Management Product Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 150

Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

They measure their success on metrics that reflect success in execution, and they reward execution. These metrics stack the deck against a company that wants to invest in long-term innovation.). Our Investment Readiness Level is just one of those metrics.) Innovation metrics need to be predictive for the future.

IRR 335

IRR Startup Business Model Agile 335

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

Where LinkedIn Works for Me A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive About this Blog Southern California Tech Central Southern California Tech Central Loading. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

Technical Cofounder 150

Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire 150

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Where LinkedIn Works for Me A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive About this Blog Southern California Tech Central Southern California Tech Central Loading. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

Technical Cofounder 150

Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire 150

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Where LinkedIn Works for Me A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive About this Blog Southern California Tech Central Southern California Tech Central Loading. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

Technical Cofounder 150

Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire 150

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Where LinkedIn Works for Me A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive About this Blog Southern California Tech Central Southern California Tech Central Loading. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

Technical Cofounder 150

Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire 150

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I recently wrote a blog post that I believe is worth pointing out in the context of the strategy roundtables: VCs, Angels, Incubators, Accelerators - What Are You Doing With Your Rejects? I'd like to hear from venture capitalists, angel investors, incubators, and accelerators on this topic. His firm invests in four.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

The metrics were good but we wondered how much better they would be when we expanded our product. If you create a business and start building products and go into an incubator or raise angel/seed money and don’t think about Market Size and Market Structure I only have one question: Why? Incumbent Strengths & Weaknesses.

Startup 150

Startup Seed Money DC Software Review 150

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

Where LinkedIn Works for Me A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive About this Blog Southern California Tech Central Southern California Tech Central Loading. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

Los Angeles 150

Los Angeles Technical Cofounder Southern California Networking 150

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 10, 2015

Why this incubator takes the studio approach to startup creation for.tn/1D0Wh6C. Tech Startups Woo Investors With Unconventional Financial Metrics — but Do Numbers Add Up? Usability Metrics – A Guide To Quantify The Usability Of Any System – Usability Geek crowdspring.co/1HqW5mA. Want To Be More Productive?

Small Business 48

Small Business Design Social Media Startup 48

Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

We invest in protocols that meet our quantitative and qualitative metrics. Joshua Baer is a serial entrepreneur and founder/Executive Director of Capital Factory , the largest coworking space and tech incubator in Austin. We dive deep into white papers, review technology, economics, game theory, etc.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Austin 48

Steve Blank

APRIL 25, 2016

Great technical teams like Fishreel often want to use the class as a product incubator when we want them to spend an equal amount of time learning about the rest of the Mission Model canvas. Hopefully after this week’s deployment lecture they’ll start thinking deeper about how a product actually gets purchased and deployed.

Afghanistan 120

Afghanistan Iraq Technical Review Social Media 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 25, 2016

Great technical teams like Fishreel often want to use the class as a product incubator when we want them to spend an equal amount of time learning about the rest of the Mission Model canvas. Hopefully after this week’s deployment lecture they’ll start thinking deeper about how a product actually gets purchased and deployed.

Afghanistan 120

Afghanistan Iraq Technical Review Social Media 120

Up and Running

JULY 5, 2016

By measuring various metrics like business survival rate, the prevalence of investors, and labor cost, they were able to determine which cities offer the best outlook for new ventures. So, where should you stick your flag in the ground? Here is a breakdown of the top 10, plus additional information and resources for each city.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

But the most important metric has been the deep and lasting relationships that have been built with startups and also between senior executives. But wait, does that make Launchpad LA an incubator now? There are at least 6 incubators now being set up in LA. 23 companies have gone through Launchpad LA.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

One passed the other was born four months or so early and spend that time in the incubator and we relied, my wife and I relied on this community called Fish's mom's group to bring us some sanity in terms of hope and how other people who were in that situation dealt with it. It's as simple as that, and that is what metrics are to me.

Community 54

Community Kuwait Cofounder Bootstrapping 54

Up and Running

MAY 20, 2014

In an industry that lauds performance metrics to constantly track progress, there’s something fluffy about a professional degree that is not a prerequisite for anything. There is a tendency in the start-up community to be skeptical towards MBAs. Unlike medical school or law school, you don’t need an MBA to go into business.

Entrepreneur 88

Entrepreneur Advisory Board Silicon Valley New York 88

Steve Blank

JULY 1, 2014

Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. data that investors, accelerators and incubators can use to inform selection. This means the IRL is also a Prescriptive tool.

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Sacramento Framework Customer Development Lean 306

YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2011

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, July 3, 2009 Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up Last week I had a real blast meeting with the companies at the fbFund incubator at Palo Alto. Split-testing is great for linear optimization; making our landing pages, conversion rates, and retention metrics incrementally better day-in day-out.

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