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 Liquidity Event + Metrics
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| Page 1 of 1 | Previous | Next | | | | LEARN TO DUCK NOVEMBER 28, 2011 What’s More Evil? VCs or Startups? And, yes, almost always the VC makes more on a winning liquidity event than the entrepreneur. They spend hours and hours pouring over metrics. 500Startups: Cohort Metrics For Startups (askthevc.com). Are VCs really just parasites that make money off the work of entrepreneurs? really struggle with this. Big decisions. | GABRIEL WEINBERG MAY 27, 2010 When can startups be called successful, e.g. reddit, dropbox? Common metrics for failure are going out of business or not having a Web site (without a known liquidity event of some magnitude). Thinking about these it seems clear that success metrics are not the opposite of failure metrics. think this comment on my last post gives this perspective well. Where is that line? | | | | | | | |
| - The Dot-com bubble, the 2nd Great Tech Boom & Economic Viability
Investment continues to pour into startups, although there are signs that early stage investments are dropping slightly in favor of Series B and Series C investments into companies that are scaling to grow and eventually reach a liquidity event of their own. Some startups like Gowalla have hit the deadpool. Those that were not died. MORE >> -
BERKONOMICS | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2011  The new Berkus SMALL BUSINESS SUCCESS COLLECTION – eBooks and books
Creating metrics. New forms of metrics for your business. Strategies for getting the most in a liquidity event. Announcing EIGHT new mini-books and eBooks by Master Entrepreneur, Dave Berkus , just released by The Berkus Press. Buy or download one or more at the following locations: Kindle singles at $2.99 STARTING UP! MORE >> -
BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2010  What I *Would Have* Said at TechCrunch Disrupt
In my heart I believe in ‘founder liquidity’ and always will – I have written about this extensively so if you want a deeper dive it is in my post on “ The Entrepreneur’s Thesis &# or “ Should Founders be Able to Take Money off the Table ?&# I was a founder once. Answer: Not much. It’s a shame. MORE >> -
ARCTICSTARTUP | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2011  The Move Towards Supporting The Markets
So the effectiveness metric here is that only 1 million has been used by the large companies to finance their own needs. The metric we should be looking at is, is with how little public support we are able to run our current growth company ecosystem. Funding larger, publicly listed companies is just wrong. This is all wrong. MORE >> - The Dot-com bubble, the 2nd Great Tech Boom & Economic Viability
Investment continues to pour into startups, although there are signs that early stage investments are dropping slightly in favor of Series B and Series C investments into companies that are scaling to grow and eventually reach a liquidity event of their own. Some startups like Gowalla have hit the deadpool. Those that were not died. MORE >>
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