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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

In both North America and Europe, many venture studios in non-major cities are funded by government agencies to stimulate local growth, at times with matching donations from companies. These studios have different metrics than startup studios whose limited partners are private family offices or venture capitalists.

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[Review] The Lean Startup

YoungUpstarts

Through rapid experimentation, short product development cycles, and rigorous measurements of the right metrics, they can ascertain what customers really want. Through learning milestones approximated to stages of a company’s development, one could achieve positive improvements in a it’s core metrics.

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A Non-Profit Lean Startup: The Story of Adopt-a-Pet

Startup Lessons Learned

Today it’s North America's largest non-profit pet adoption website, with millions of visitors to the site each month and partnerships with more than 17,000 animal shelters, pet rescue groups, humane societies and shelters. David Meyer founded Adopt-a-Pet.com (formerly 1-800-Save-A-Pet.com) in 2000 as a way of ending pet overpopulation.

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29 Entrepreneurs Reveal the Pivots They’re Making in Their Business as a Result of Pandemic

Hearpreneur

Yes, our business pivoted as a result of the pandemic by Shifting our focus to a global customer base We shifted focus from offering services within North America's confines to focusing on a global market. 11- Paying attention to metrics. Metrics do not lie, and metrics over a longer time period are much more useful to study.

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Groupon's S-1: From Zero to Like? Billions in 30 Months ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

But it turns out the majority of the company’s revenue comes from outside the US & Canada … about 54% of revenue in Q1 2011 came from the International segment (non North America).

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Stitch Fix: Reinventing Retail Through Personalization

abovethecrowd.com

For starters, the business metrics are quite compelling. The company is also announcing two new board members in addition to myself, Marka Hansen, former president of North America for Gap, Inc., The company has clearly “struck a chord” with consumers. and John Fleming, previously EVP of Walmart and CEO of Walmart.com.

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How One Startup Combines Boston’s B2B Sense with the Valley’s Social Media Style

View from Seed

Incepted in 2012, Alignable’s platform hit the market in 2014, and since then, we’ve seen hundreds of thousands of business owners in North America join. A few stats to consider on the market opportunity in North America alone: 28 million SMBs in North America, with roughly 60 million employees.