Hunter Walker

JANUARY 7, 2016

Hunter Walk: You’re an expat, having moved to Sweden last year for a leadership role at Spotify. For example, the hippest hottest app or service rarely launches first in Sweden (unless it was born here) and often those apps are dead before they achieve a large user base in Europe. At a personal level, what has that been like?

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

It represents the triumph of learning, over the naive startup creation myths we read about in the media. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. IMVU learned to learn. Please do try this at home.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 6, 2009

The first event is January 21, and is being put on by Dealmaker Media as part of their Strategy Series events: In the Trenches: Cutting Costs in a Tight Economy. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

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San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC 60

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Customers and prospects are overwhelmed by the number of media and companies clamoring for their attention. There will always be far more apps that dont make the top lists, no matter what metric is used. If your launch is not immediately successful, you quickly fall into oblivion. On the App Store, the same dynamic is in play.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 26, 2017

Know your North Star Metric. Hint: it’s not usually a company-valued metric like revenue. Unn Swanstron : News Media CRO. Don’t be blind with one metric. Shared cross-team KPIs – North Star Metric. There is 2% uplift in Sweden” – boring. “We We made 100,000€ in Sweden” – Aww yeah!

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2022

Several discussions on social media have founders asking if they should hedge their FOREX risk. R&D expenditure as a percentage of GDP – Israel ranks 2nd globally in this metric, following closely after South Korea. For the record, Startup Nation Central and Pitchbook share slightly higher numbers ($26.6

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

A business that strives for something like this should absolutely be charging money from day one, in order to establish baselines for their two key metrics: CPA (the cost to acquire a new customer) and LTV (the lifetime value of each acquired customer). Now consider a traditional media business. Sorry about that.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Know what the success metrics are for the launch. We used social media to get alpha users as outlined here during Feburary. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Our online media company is small, we have 6 employees, great proven leaders, great talent, great cashflow. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23.

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Software Review Technical Review Part-Time VPE San Francisco 94

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

Our response time to the crisis was much too slow, and as part of the post-mortem analysis of why , I took a look at the various metrics that all took a precipitous turn for the worse during that summer. Of everything we measured, it was Net Promoter Score that plunged first. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Any perusal on Netcraft.com will show the (vast) majority of major Media companies, Internet Services Providers (ISPs), Web hosting companies and Mobile communications firms use UNIX/Linux as core OS and technologies. company based in Sweden. CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers « Hornet Dear Bernard. Robert Stanton.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

So when a fractured world where the media is as politicized as it has ever been, who managed to get this message out? He wasn't a media star. So first of all, what a testament to social media and its power to reach- Tomas Pueyo : Huge. Sweden decided, "You know what? His name is Tomas Pueyo. He was not a famous author.

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