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. For acceptance at Endeavor Miami, scalable businesses don’t have to be technology companies. A key impact metric for Kairos is the number of faces processed.

Miami 74

Miami Technical Review Software Review Artificial Inteligence 74

YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2018

The crash took a year to incubate. They created their own metrics and over-hyped the rivalries. Martino is the author of Expect Leadership, a series of leadership books – The Executive Edition, in Business, in Engineeering, and in Technology. And true to their word, senior management promoted Matt amidst great fanfare.

Leadership 113

Leadership Incubator Metrics Sales 113

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 326

Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 326

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2014

As the emeritus Chief Technology Officer of the United States, he still connects government and Silicon Valley. Bill Gross founded Idealab in 1996, making it the longest-running technology incubator alive today. He’ll talk about making a profit and making a difference in a conversation with New Media Ventures’ Christie George.

Lean 165

Lean Fractional CTO Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE 165

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

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. We now have the tools, technology and data to take incubators and accelerators to the next level. Here’s how.

Oakland 327

Oakland Incubator Lean Metrics 327

Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 6, 2020

The term “early-stage” covers a lot of territory in venture investing, from incubating a brand-new idea, to investing in a Series A. WHAT METRICS SHOULD A FOUNDER SHOW TO RAISE A SERIES A FROM A VC FIRM LIKE GREYLOCK? Reid and I have both done Series A investments in companies that have no metrics to speak of.

Technical Review 69

Technical Review Seed Stage Software Review Early Stage 69

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Years ago, it cost a million dollars for a new e-commerce site, one that you can now create for almost nothing with current tools and technology. 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.

Intellectual Property 120

Intellectual Property Startup Angel Groups Social Media 120

Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

Here the company looks for new opportunities in its existing business model (trying a different distribution channel, using the same technology with new customers or selling existing customers new products, etc.) Here the company is essentially incubating a startup. In Horizon 2 a company extends its core business. Get to Yes.

Lean 120

Lean Management Business Model Incubator 120

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 About this Blog Ive been thinking about doing a blog with my thoughts on technology and whats happening in the Los Angeles area technology scene for a while, but it was Ben Kuos recent start of a blog that inspired me to actually go ahead and do it. Thanks Ben.

Technical Cofounder 150

Technical Cofounder Los Angeles Southern California CTO Hire 150

Steve Blank

JUNE 5, 2018

Is your organization full of Hackathons, Shark Tanks, Incubators and other innovation programs, but none have changed the trajectory of your company/agency? In addition, companies and agencies have set up I nnovation Outposts (most often located in Silicon Valley) to be closer to relevant technology and then to invest, partner or buy.

Programming 322

Programming Incubator Leadership Silicon Valley 322

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 28, 2007

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

Technical Cofounder 150

Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles Mobile 150

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

Technical Cofounder 150

Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire 150

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

Los Angeles 150

Los Angeles Technical Cofounder Southern California CTO Hire 150

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

Technical Cofounder 150

Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire 150

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

Technical Cofounder 150

Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire 150

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

Technical Cofounder 150

Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire 150

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

Technical Cofounder 150

Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire 150

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

to work on an entertainment-related technology project and have stayed ever since. This is a novel user interaction that embeds casual entertainment directly into the operating system experience, based on some fairly interesting underlying technology. After BITSource was successfully acquired, I moved to L.A. Details coming soon!)

Management 150

Management Product Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 150

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine. Mobility really changes everything.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

For me, these are folks who are actively involved in wide variety of technology-enabled businesses. Having produced a variety of events over the years and having been on the boards of both the Technology Council and AITP, I can say that its really hard to attract a critical mass of interesting people. You know what I mean.

Los Angeles 150

Los Angeles Technical Cofounder Southern California Networking 150

Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

We provide 3 forms of value for investors: 1) Primary research — we take a technology-first approach to crypto. We dive deep into white papers, review technology, economics, game theory, etc. We invest in protocols that meet our quantitative and qualitative metrics. Cheers, and may your private keys always be with you!

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Austin 48

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

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2012

ExcelerateLabs ranked in the top Startup Incubators by Forbes – [link]. Why You Ought to Throw Away Your Vanity Metrics for These 5 Customer Metrics – [link]. Can Technology Transform Education Before It’s Too Late? Love this post and agree 100% about need to promote intense debate among teams - [link].

Social Media 94

Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

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. Discuss.

Incubator 116

Incubator Silicon Valley Idaho Entrepreneur 116

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. What we’re trying to prevent is to have teams give the DOD/IC yet another great technology demo. They have plenty of those.

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. What we’re trying to prevent is to have teams give the DOD/IC yet another great technology demo. They have plenty of those.

Afghanistan 120

Afghanistan Iraq Technical Review Social Media 120

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

. – Incubating companies. – Technology stack. . – Technology stack. I have published a series of research papers on how VCs are using technology to improve returns. But, according to Knowledge.VC , under 5% of US VCs have a full-time team member focused on technology.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

. – Incubating companies. – Technology stack. . – Technology stack. I have published a series of research papers on how VCs are using technology to improve returns. But, according to Knowledge.VC , under 5% of US VCs have a full-time team member focused on technology.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

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.

St. Louis 105

St. Louis Oklahoma City Oklahoma Tulsa 105

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

His innovators and stakeholders curated and prioritized their problems/idea/technology before handing them off. We agreed that the goal was not to change any of the existing execution processes, procedures, incentives, metrics but rather to work with all the organizations to write new ones for innovation projects.

Finance 232

Finance Lean Metrics Programming 232

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Incubators and Accelerators. One of the best definitions in the book is when Feld articulates the difference between an incubator and an accelerator. An incubator provides year-round physical space, infrastructure and advice in exchange for a fee (often in equity.) There is no guaranteed funding.

Community 334

Community Silicon Valley San Francisco Venture Capital 334

Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 13, 2021

One might be autonomous vehicles, which is clearly a transformative technology. And then also another investment that I’ve made through Greylock is Entrepreneur First, which is an incubator. And they’re like, well, all of these incubators all failed, why would we pick up the 70th one? What is it, what can you do?

Incubator 36

Incubator IPO Networking Cofounder 36

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

I am somewhat of an expert in this having created one of the first pioneering labs and incubators in the Internet era, from N AZ where the normal course of action was to prove lean ventures with our retirement only to see them copied by deeper pockets on the coasts when we went searching for capital. Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

Lean 168

Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment 168

www.lanceglasser.com

MAY 13, 2012

Metrics for cyclical businesses. What does a CTO (Chief Technology Officer) do in a high-tech company? First it is to ensure that the company has the best technology. The company and network of suppliers and allies need to have the best technology for solving the customers’ problems. Finance and budgeting.

CTO 40

CTO CTO Hire Technical Review Architecture 40

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 31, 2016

Most good entrepreneurs are experts in something—a particular technology, an industry, or a skill. Incubators and economic development agencies may invest at the concept stage. Set out goals and metrics for your business. Manage to those metrics and use that as a framework to communicate. Ask questions. Seek advice.

United Kingdom 100

United Kingdom Entrepreneur Oklahoma Ohio 100

Steve Blank

MAY 16, 2016

In the DOD/IC innovation is often more technology, more planes, more aircraft carriers, more satellites, etc. This results not in innovation, but in Innovation Theater – lots of coffee cups, press releases, incubators and false hopes, but no real disruptive changes. They have to change the metrics across the entire organization.

San Diego 143

San Diego Metrics Indonesia Silicon Valley 143

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Now working in the imperial and metric systems, Deepblocks addresses inefficiencies and costs of planning for housing. Olivia Ramos , Deepblocks’ Founder and CEO, is a graduate of all three Singularity University startup programs, GSP, Incubator, and Accelerator, and was the only woman participant in the DARPA Innovation House program.

Artificial Inteligence 76

Artificial Inteligence Miami Architecture Florida 76