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The Virus Survival Strategy For Your Startup

Steve Blank

But next the question is, ‘What happens to my business?”. The questions every startup or small business CEO needs to ask now are: What’s my Burn Rate and Runway? What does your new business model look like? What does my business model look like now? What are the new financial metrics? How do you know?

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Scaling Sales: From Craft to Machine

Seeing Both Sides

I''ve been thinking a lot lately about scaling sales. . Before this occurs, the sales process is a craft or an art - custom-made by the founder or evangelist sales VP. How do I build a repeatable, scalable sales process that is like an industrial machine - not a crafts project? 1) Enterprise Sales.

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Fermi estimation for startup business models

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Often your best estimate of any metric or market behavior or business model component is at best accurate within a power of ten, for example “expected conversion rate between 0.5% Including future cancellations, they’ll need to sign up a total of 2000 customers to net 1666. So what can be shifted?

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The Very Best Digital Metrics For 15 Different Companies!

Occam's Razor

People ask me this seemingly simple question all the time: What Key Performance Indicators should we use for our business ? There is no golden metric for everyone, we are all unique snowflakes! :). I am going to pick a whole bunch of different businesses (15 in all!), If you want to play along. Don’t read what I’ve chosen.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

The IPO Bubble – August 1995 – March 2000 In August 1995 Netscape went public, and the world of start ups turned upside down. billion for a company with less than $50 million in sales. Yahoo would hit $104/share in March 2000 with a market cap of $104 billion.) My own metric is that you need experience >= 1.5

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

The best drivers apply the brakes just ahead of the curve (they take out excess costs), turn hard toward the apex of the curve (identify the short list of projects that will form the next business model), and accelerate hard out of the curve (spend and hire before markets have rebounded). Image source ).

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[Interview] Tony Saldanha, Author of ‘Why Digital Transformations Fail: The Surprising Disciplines of How to Take Off and Stay Ahead’

YoungUpstarts

But there’s a huge difference between a small, traditional company and the digitally native powerhouses we consider models of this digital age. The key is looking at your own business — and finding the business model that fits — to chart the best course. And the success metrics show that.