2008 Aggregator Cofounder Metrics 
Startup Lessons Learned
FEBRUARY 22, 2010
Two others – that each team member give their input independently and that the results be objectively aggregated – are also key parts of building a meritocracy. One last suggestion, which is a technique I learned from my IMVU co-founder Will Harvey. So why is demographic diversity important?
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 14, 2009
It should be even more important to the founders themselves, because it demonstrates that their business hypothesis is grounded in reality. Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process.
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Startup Lessons Learned
JUNE 5, 2009
In a startup context, numbers like gross revenue are actually vanity metrics, not actionable metrics. Similarly, it’s easy to generate large aggregate numbers by simply falling back to non-disruptive or non-sustainable tactics (see Validated learning about customers for one example). June 8, 2009 1:16 AM Colin said.
Cracking the Code
FEBRUARY 4, 2008
Monday, February 04, 2008. A few times per year, Bessemer organizes a CxO event for our portfolio companies and we decided to focus our first session of 2008 on Software-as-a-service (SaaS). What metrics should I be using to drive a saas business? The 10 laws of SaaS unveiled at Bessemer CEO Summit.
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 14, 2009
In an ecosystem, each participant acts according to its own imperatives, but these selfish actions have an aggregate effect. Startup founders need to use their own judgment to ask: which is the riskiest assumption underlying my business plan? Founders struggle with this question. Successful startups don’t.
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 30, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, December 30, 2008 Assessing fit with the Wisdom of Crowds When I wrote earlier about how to conduct a good technical interview , I had only a few things to say about how to assess if the candidate fits in with the team, including this: This responsibility falls squarely to the hiring manager.
Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 24, 2009
Despite all the energy invested in talking to authors about the size of their platform, very few gatekeepers have a rigorous set of metrics for measuring it. The problem is that there are no other metrics they can look at to judge the content of a book to know if it’s worth reviewing. Is that a lot? In that I see opportunity.
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