Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2011

The LP's that fund booms are, after all, pension, municipal, and sovereign wealth funds. Every ounce of energy invested in vanity metrics and success theater could have gone into building real value instead. But the signs of winter are all around us: persistently high unemployment, market shocks, ill-timed austerity measures.

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LP Incubator New York Programming 168

K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 12, 2015

This includes, but is not limited to money from China, India, Middle-East and also from “retail” investors (or otherwise unsophisticated investors who are attracted to a market simply because of the amount of press/media attention it gets). If you’re a new GP, chose your LPs wisely (if you have the luxury to of course).

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Venture Capital Seed Stage LP Valuation 48

K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

One of the people I respect the most in the VC/PE media ecosystem is Dan Primack. The first time I used the words “pre-seed” (yes, the initial use was in all lower-case, but then became upper-case over time) was on June 27, 2013, at the K9 Ventures LP Meeting. Where did the term Pre-Seed come from? Seed rounds were getting bigger.

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Seed Stage Finance Later Stage Equity 82

conversionxl.com

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Ask Peep about analytics, and he’ll tell you, “Metrics are there to provide actionable insight. You need to look at a metric, ask “so what?” – and have an answer.”. Do This: Create a social media listening dashboard to track mentions of your brand across the social web. So its clear that how important LP’s are.

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Analytics Software Review Conversion Video 98

Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

Our venture was selected for competitive accelerator spots & recognition from media and mentors from Austin, Chicago and Silicon Valley to work on this problem and capture the value its solution provided. Where there isn’t consensus is what metrics meet the bar for “early traction” and who qualifies as a “great team”.

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Silicon Valley Startup B2C Sweat Equity 54

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The human joy per square foot metric is one we'll be tracking closely over time here. When the Mets got to the World Series, they release a kettle corn flavored ice cream with blue and orange M&Ms and a contest on social media around naming the ice cream. It's a part of the neighborhood--not just a dispensary of ice cream.

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Venture Capital Cofounder Syndicate Syndication 60

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

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. And we see it in our media too. And this term economic freedom, it's kind of an interesting one. So yeah, fair enough. BA : Yeah.

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IPO Cofounder Technical Review Government 113