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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten

BCG (June 2018): “Startups founded and cofounded by women actually performed better over time, generating 10% more in cumulative revenue over a five-year period: $730,000 compared with $662,000.”. ” (I discuss this more in Why are Revenue-Share VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders ?) ” .

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Five Quarters of Profitability During the 1980’s and through the mid 1990’s startups going public had to do something that most companies today never heard of – they had to show a track record of increasing revenue and consistent profitability. There was now a public market for companies with no revenue, no profit and big claims.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

As we have seen with the recent speed bumps at highfliers like Groupon and Zynga, taking “lean startups” from foundation to creating sustainable, scalable, profitable business models is a very rare and special task. TripAdvisor, in effect, was a model lean start-up with an engineering-driven, product-focused founder. Really hard.

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10 Rules for Winning (and Making More Money) in 2014

ConversionXL

And you know what – this was mostly in 2012 (+ Moneyball came out in 2004). Are you familiar with the Lean Startup methodology? They call it Lean Startup, but it’s also essentially conversion optimization. Lean Analytics (book, mainly for startup folk, but good primer for all). So this is the past.

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16 Common Mistakes Young Startups Make

mashable.com

In fact, recent research shows that 75% of startups fail (based on a study of 2,000 startups that received VC funding from 2004 to 2010). Young founders tend to complicate things too much, from structuring partnership agreements, financing, leases, etc. If so, I hate to break it to you, but theres a good chance it will fail.

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“Customer First” Healthcare

abovethecrowd.com

In their marvelous book, Lean Solutions , James Womack and Daniel Jones unpack what it means to apply the discipline of lean manufacturing to service industries. Most large healthcare IT systems are chosen based on one primary objective: revenue management. That same shift is now coming to healthcare.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010. Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., Harley Goes Lean to Build Hogs. Finance, Banking, Loans, etc.