Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

And finally, Scott demonstrated his internal management tool for managing the metrics of his business. Founded in 2008 in Santa Monica by Ron Goldman (former CRO of shopping.com) and Rahul Sonnad. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. Offers two products: Palantir Government and Palantir Finance.

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JUNE 8, 2009

That’s because many of our reports feed us vanity metrics: numbers that make us look good but don’t really help make decisions. Yet even among those who have access to good actionable metrics, I’ve noticed a phenomenon that prevents taking maximum advantage of data. Too much of this data is non- actionable.

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Jeff Hilimire

MARCH 24, 2020

The first is to look back at the 2008 financial crisis, and the second is to literally look to the East, where the world seems be about a week and a half ahead of us on this virus. We’ve already been seeing this in the US, with new announcements from companies and government officials coming in by the hour. Trust and problem solving.

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David Teten

APRIL 6, 2015

of US annual medical costs in 2008, compared with 6.5% The industry standard metric for tracking the severity of disease is disability-adjusted life years ( DALYs ), i.e., the number of healthy life years lost due to the disease or risk. It also shows market white space for the smart entrepreneur. The data is painful. a decade prior.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

If your practice is not designed to cope with uncertainty, it has no place in a startup - even if your startup is located in government or enterprise. Split-testing is great for linear optimization; making our landing pages, conversion rates, and retention metrics incrementally better day-in day-out. They dont really create value.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Or maybe you got booted from your job, like a lot of people got laid off in, I don’t know, 2006, 2007, 2008. 2008 is when I sort of involuntarily accidentally became unemployed because I got laid off along with a bunch of other people. There’s a lot of things that, from a metric standpoint, are pretty easy to point to.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

We met a number of policy makers from the White House and State Department, and had a solid Startup2Startup all about government policy and entrepreneurship. In a previous post , I asked readers for suggested topics that the US government needs to know about startups and entrepreneurs, and got some really interesting responses.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Every bit as true for government as for enterprise - and even the two guys in a garage. A lot of conversation was about what "the federal government" should do. But its all too easy to lose sight of the fact that any government, even one as large as the US, is made up entirely of people. Federal government should do nothing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 21, 2010

It also causes them to miss the numerous other kinds of startups that appear in less-glamorous settings: inside enterprises, non-profits, and even governments. This is equally true of a packaged good in a grocery store, an ecommerce website, a non-profit social service or a variety of government programs. Wrong again. Wrong again.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2010

Our trip was bipartisan, bicameral, and bi-branches-of-government. Our trip was bipartisan, bicameral, and bi-branches-of-government. 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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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Friday, October 10, 2008. The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008 Release. When we first published Bessemer’s Top 10 Laws for Being "SaaS-y" in early 2008 in conjunction with our annual invitation-only SaaS CEO Summit, we were overwhelmed with the positive response and feedback we received. Brian, Paglo www.paglo.com.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, November 11, 2008 Where did Silicon Valley come from? To an early observer, it would have seemed obvious that Route 128 had all the advantages: a head start, more government and military funding, and far more established companies. The first two students to follow his advice were William R.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Im writing this post from an airplane headed to Washington DC, where Ill be presenting at the Government 2.0 Im especially curious to gauge the reaction of the civilian and military representatives of our government. Ive been in a few government-themed meetings recently, so I know some of the standard answers.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

GA2 : Classic, 2008. According to Google , “If you use Google Tag Manager or the global site tag for Google Analytics today, there’s no re-tagging required for your website.”). While you can customize it to track additional interactions, doing so requires more advanced knowledge of event tracking and Google Tag Manager.

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VC Adventure

APRIL 16, 2020

Thousands of small businesses are probably gone for good because of the failure of the federal government to act quickly enough. The key feature of the PPP is the forgiveness of the loan amounts if certain employment metrics are met. Seth Levine is managing partner of the The Foundry Group, a $2.5 But it doesn’t go far enough.

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Tim Keane

MAY 27, 2010

  They have a growth metric – one measurement of success – that focuses the attention of the entire enterprise.   In the EU, for instance, it’s virtually impossible to dismiss anyone – for non-performance or anything short of outright theft – caught on video tape by a government certified camera operator.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

My personal belief is that since everything comes down to the product, the best founders are product managers. To this day, as we approach 600 people at Fab, we personally interview every manager and we still personally review and approve or disapprove most hires throughout our entire organization. I can’t imagine it any other way. ?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, October 11, 2008 Three decisions to make on virtual goods I was invited to the Virtual Goods Summit yesterday, and got to see quite a few interesting speakers and panels. Your challenge will be incentivizing your developers to create, and managing the volume of their output.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

A few years back while walking Valencia St here in SF Caroline and I noticed Dandelion Chocolate , a new factory/store which focuses on bean-to-bar production – that means they take care to manage the whole supply chain. We sold the company in 2008 to Comcast and were taking some much-needed time off.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

The company had a wild year, from the initial crisis management that came in the form of restructuring the company and refunding millions of dollars off their own balance sheet, to lobbying Congress, to provide support to hosts, [and] launching initiatives to provide housing for frontline healthcare workers.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

The company had a wild year, from the initial crisis management that came in the form of restructuring the company and refunding millions of dollars off their own balance sheet, to lobbying Congress, to provide support to hosts, [and] launching initiatives to provide housing for frontline healthcare workers.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And then medium-size businesses start to use it, and then large businesses start to use it, and then eventually the government starts to use it. It’s called Enterprise Performance Management, which is kind of a weird term. And then small businesses start to use it. But this is a complete change from the way it has always worked.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

And.NET’s languages (C#, IronPython, managed C++, etc.) The VAST majority of what you’re dealing with (HTTP, MIME, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, relational databases, page template, authentication, session management, caching, etc.) Do you manage to hire any programmers in the first place. are also reasonable and flexible.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 26, 2015

Last week , I wrote about all of the amazing lessons of the world and science of Sports Metrics has to offer business. Well, with the 2016 Presidential Campaign heating up, let's talk how just as in sports the use of metrics in politics has jumped a full generation ahead of business. read more.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Its i-nigma solution comprises of a mobile multi-barcode reader application and an integrated platform for managing barcode services. This allows customers to create, manage and track processes that include tagging of physical objects using barcodes. 4G/LTE and WiMax networks and provide full cell awareness. Amos Spacecom.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 11, 2009 The cardinal sin of community management Once you have a product launched, you will the face the joys – and the despair – of a community that grows up around it. Nothing worked, until we finally had one of our community managers start talking to real customers on the phone.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

He was the White House Ebola Response Coordinator in 2014 and 2015, when the Obama administration set up a pandemic prevention office and created a playbook for managing future outbreaks. We worked with the Chinese government to put U.S. We created a pandemic response playbook that we wrote in 2015, in 2016.

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