YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Most startups have been competent in managing their cash burn by determining how they spend and utilizing government subsidies to meet their goals. Companies that have managed to do this have a distinct advantage over those dependent on financing from external sources. Some have resorted to aiming to be self-sufficient.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, October 5, 2008 The product managers lament Life is not easy when youre working in an old-fashioned waterfall development process, no matter what role you play. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. Lets start with what the product manager does.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2013

Enter “ The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses “, a New York Times bestseller by founder of IMVU (creator of 3D avatars) Eric Ries. As a startup owner, what can you do to improve your chances? This reduces guesswork, time, money and effort.

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Lean Technical Review North America Startup 193

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. What metrics do we use to see if we learned enough in Customer Discovery ?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, July 9, 2010 Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# theory of management At any given time, something like four percent of the US population is engaged in some form of new-company-creation. But I’m not convinced those labels are right at all.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 7, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, January 7, 2010 Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Although much of it will sound familiar to readers of this blog, whats new is my first step towards the " new entrepreneurship " that is my goal for 2010. Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? - Without further ado.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, March 24, 2009 The metrics and levers of engagement, presentation on Engagement Loops for Facebook Developer Garage SF Ill be presenting a talk at the Facebook Developer Garage SF Wednesday evening. Unfortunately, its easy to lose track of positioning effects when optimizing for a single metric.

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Metrics San Francisco Lean Viral 88

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. This engineering manager is a smart guy, and very experienced.

Software Review 164

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David Teten

MAY 20, 2016

As one of the lead engineers at ff Venture Capital , I spend most of my day building custom software solutions that enhance our firm’s process–tools that range from portfolio investment management to co-investor and cap table tracking and more. We posted on our site a more in-depth overview of ff’s Tech Platform.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 3, 2016

Facebook likes are great if all you’re using to advertise your business is Facebook, but when it comes to truly reaching your target audience and current customers, understanding how every effort translates to income is nearly impossible without clear metrics guiding the way. Metrics You Didn’t Learn in School.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

As two fund managers employing Flexible VC, we think it is a healthy addition to the ecosystem and will yield more predictable and stable healthy returns for investors. Too often, investment structures force the management team to make decisions between misaligned growth and investment (return) objectives. Flexible VC 102: Variations.

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Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Excellent detailed resources are everywhere, including a new book, “ The Startup Checklist ,” by serial entrepreneur and founder of the New York Angels, David S. You don’t have to be a heavily funded later stage startup to get access to “big data,” customer analytics, and metrics dashboards.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2022

Prior to joining Facebook, he was the president of Digital, News, Business, and Sports Properties at Time Inc. John also spent several years at The New York Times Company at NYTimes.com running strategy, marketing, and operations. So we know there are over 70 million people, um, that are managing groups. Very early on.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2017

We’ve hosted talks, workshops, and interactive sessions on the challenges and successes of modern management techniques from a wide variety of business leaders around the world. This year, we’re really honing in on the feedback from our past conferences, as well as our smaller, more focused conferences in New York and London this year.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 11, 2009 The cardinal sin of community management Once you have a product launched, you will the face the joys – and the despair – of a community that grows up around it. Nothing worked, until we finally had one of our community managers start talking to real customers on the phone.

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Community Management Lean Software Review 158

ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

Experiments run by Dan Smullen , who manages technical SEO for Independent News & Media , demonstrate that Google isn’t biased against paywalled content: Before launching our paywall in February, we implemented a soft wall—a registration wall. The New York Times ) can be undone simply by disabling JavaScript.

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Board Effect

JUNE 14, 2019

Hackers strike once again, this time causing a data breach at a prominent New York nonprofit social services agency. in western New York to be compromised. Best practices for cybersecurity measures indicate that all organizations, including nonprofits, should manage cybersecurity as part of their risk management program.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2021

As a result of the pandemic, not everyone has managed to hold onto their work. What we offer is a way for employees to feel appreciated at work as well as a way for managers to easily recognize and engage with their employees, both of which are incredibly important in the workplace. #4- Creating more jobs. Photo Credit: Edward Jones.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

They adopt, measure, and manage key product performance metrics. A CTO is in the business of scale, for whatever an organization has as its core metrics. Build and Grow the Product Team Proficient in building, motivating and inspiring talent, a CTO can invigorate your organization to achieve new heights. “A

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

We have to manage to learn something from our first product iteration. In a lot of cases, this requires a lot of energy invested in talking to customers or metrics and analytics. I do this as a core part of the Product Management process I use at all startups. In fact, MVP is quite annoying, because it imposes extra overhead.

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San Francisco Product Lean Continuous Deployment 168

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

They understand how to read a profit and loss (P&L) statement , how to budget, hire employees , launch products , and manage cash flow. I learned this painful reality firsthand in one of my early businesses producing New York City theater. Manage your finances and fuel your purpose. It keeps your business going.

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Startup New York City Community Software Review 111

Occam's Razor

JUNE 25, 2012

My hope is to simply help you internalize the impact of these decisions on reports, which metrics might be impacted and which will be fine, as well as what types of decisions you can still make with confidence and which decisions you might make with a grain of salt. Implication on the Visits metric: You get the best case scenario of a Visit.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2016

In the words of Harry Hynekamp, general manager, customer experience, “… a sizable portion of the dealer margin structure was anchored to performance on customer experience standards, training that affects customer experience delivery, and use of the latest technologies and standards for customer care.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Kelly McAdoo is the City Manager & CEO of the City of Hayward in Alameda County, California. I served this role in my prior position as Assistant City Manager. This is where it is crucial for the project teams to be tracking metrics. Having someone at the top levels in the organization who is committed to the effort is key.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 2, 2010

You can view previous essays in this series here: Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable Beware of Vanity Metrics For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? You can view previous essays in this series here: Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Speed up or slow down?

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Technical Review San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 132

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 4, 2010

Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

You can view previous essays in this series here: Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable Beware of Vanity Metrics For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? You can view previous essays in this series here: Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

Software Review 141

Software Review San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 141

www.clickz.com

JANUARY 7, 2013

Social Media Community Management Social Commerce Social Integration Social Media Smarts. Ad Industry Metrics. BTW, use these charts to persuade your management team!). Improve your Online Marketing Skills at SES New York ! Clients include New York Times Digital, AccuWeather.com, CheapTickets, and the UJA.

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Social Media Media B2C New York 86

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, February 8, 2010 Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Review) The next article in my series on entrepreneurship for Harvard Business Review is live today. Once again, we revisit the topic of Actionable metrics and their nemesis: Vanity metrics. Remember "metrics are people, too."

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Metrics San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 121

Growthink Blog

AUGUST 26, 2015

Last week , I wrote about all of the amazing lessons of the world and science of Sports Metrics has to offer business. Well, with the 2016 Presidential Campaign heating up, let's talk how just as in sports the use of metrics in politics has jumped a full generation ahead of business. read more.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 29, 2017

#10- Address financial and operating metrics. By screening hundreds of SMB acquisition opportunities as managing partner at my private equity firm, I saw first-hand that the vast majority of small business owners run their firms without the benefit of good financial or operating metrics. Photo Credit: Dave Robinson.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 12, 2009 New York: three straight days of Lean Startup (two of which are free) Greetings from Europe, where Im just wrapping up an incredible (and exhausting) speaking tour. Expo in New York, theres good news. Expo in New York, theres good news.

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New York Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment 94

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. And we can offer investors metrics to play Moneyball – with the Investment Readiness Level. We think we can do better. Here’s how.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

Yet there’s a lot of mystery around pivots, and entrepreneurs ask all the time how you know it’s time to commit to a new direction. To shed some light, I talked with kaChing , a destination that enables individual investors to find outstanding money managers to manage their money.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment SEC 158

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 15, 2010

Behind this analysis is a spreadsheet model, complete with detailed metrics for a set of customer behaviors that show just how valuable the new product will be. Safely because it is clear that the manager in question didnt do his homework. They are on-schedule and on-budget, but their gross metrics are way off.

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Hockey Stick San Francisco Entrepreneur Lean 105

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

He is co-leader of the McKinsey Digital Practice, a senior partner based in New York, and a member of McKinsey’s Shareholders Council, the firm’s board of directors. He's a co-leader of the McKinsey Digital Practice, a senior partner based in New York, and a member of McKinsey's Shareholders Council. And into the app.

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