2008, Hiring and Metrics

Why vanity metrics are dangerous

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, December 23, 2009 Why vanity metrics are dangerous In a previous post, I defined two kinds of metrics: vanity metrics and actionable metrics. In this post, Id like to talk about the perils of vanity metrics. My personal favorite vanity metrics is "hits."

Metrics

Metrics San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment

Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

He just hired Meg Whitman. Tech IPO prices exploded and subsequent trading prices rose to dizzying heights as the stock prices became disconnected from the traditional metrics of revenue and profits. Startups wrote business plans, generated expansive 5-year forecasts and executed (hired, spent and built) to the plan.

Lean

Lean Burn Rate Startup IPO

ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Metrics like Return on Net Assets, Return on Capital and Internal Rate of Return are the guiding stars of the board and CEO. As Harvard professor Clayton Christensen noted, these efficiency metrics provided wise guidance for times when capital was scarce and raising money was hard. Ultimately this is not just another staff function.

Private Equity

Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property

Lessons Learned: Lean hiring tips

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 19, 2009 Lean hiring tips In preparing for the strategy series panel this week, I have been doing some thinking about costs. And all of that cost was caused by one activity: hiring. Hiring is no different from any other company process. Sounds a little abstract, though, doesnt it?

Lean

Lean Hiring San Francisco Continuous Deployment

Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 The three drivers of growth for your business model. Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. Choose one.

San Francisco

San Francisco CPA SEM CTO Hire

30 Entrepreneurs Share Their #1 Goal for 2022

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2021

It could be more revenue, hiring clients, or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. Initially, I would like to hire people from my neighborhood, with the goal of expanding to other communities in the future. 19- Hiring people for exponential growth.

Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur Social Media Employee Los Angeles

Key Metrics In Managing A Successful Company

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2016

Using some key metrics called Key Performance Indicators, or KPIs, can help to manage and evaluate your company and measure if your service, product, or business provides something to your target market that is new, needed, better, more convenient, or cost-effective. This class teaches practical applications for the investment process.

Metrics

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The Virus Survival Strategy For Your Startup

Steve Blank

MARCH 17, 2020

What are the new financial metrics? If it’s just three-months, (looking more unlikely by the day) then an immediate freeze on variable spending (hires, marketing, travel, etc.) Data from the last large crash in 2008 had seed rounds recovering early, but later stage funding cratered and took years to recover. How do you know?

Burn Rate

Burn Rate Startup Valuation Sales Cycle

Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, October 4, 2008 About the author ( Update January, 2010: This post originally dates from October, 2008 back when I first started writing this blog. October 13, 2008 6:47 PM Luke G said. December 4, 2008 4:43 PM Valto said. Eric, love the blog. Connect (off)line? Thanks much.

San Francisco

San Francisco Technical Cofounder Fractional CTO CTO

Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 15, 2008 The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time Split-testing is a core lean startup discipline, and its one of those rare topics that comes up just as often in a technical context as in a business-oriented one when Im talking to startups. September 15, 2008 9:12 PM Hitchens said.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Continuous Deployment

Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, November 7, 2008 Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step If you want to build an online service, and you dont test it with a fake AdWords campaign ahead of time, youre crazy. November 7, 2008 7:36 PM nitesh said. November 7, 2008 7:41 PM nitesh said.

Demand

Demand San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment

Lessons Learned: The product manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, October 5, 2008 The product managers lament Life is not easy when youre working in an old-fashioned waterfall development process, no matter what role you play. October 6, 2008 12:16 AM Vincent van Wylick said. October 6, 2008 12:17 AM r& said. October 6, 2008 9:02 AM Eric said. @r&

San Francisco

San Francisco Management Software Review Product

Finding Good Developers in Los Angeles?

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Since then it has become much harder to find people and while we are talking about hiring relatively small numbers of people, the typical sources of candidates dont seem to be working. About 18 months ago, the entire group began to mention that they were having more difficulty finding good developers.

Los Angeles

Los Angeles Technical Cofounder Southern California CTO Hire

Announcing Multicoin Capital

Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

Take a look at some of the emails between us from 2010: We were attending NYU from 2008–2012. We invest in protocols that meet our quantitative and qualitative metrics. PPS, you should expect to see a lot more writing from both Tushar and I, as well as our recently hired and soon-to-be-announced research associate.

Technical Review

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Austin

Lessons Learned: Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, September 18, 2008 Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? September 19, 2008 2:08 PM gmlk said. September 19, 2008 2:25 PM Eric said. Thanks again, Eric September 19, 2008 2:26 PM Eric said. September 19, 2008 2:27 PM gmlk said. September 19, 2008 2:35 PM gmlk said.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC

Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 The lean startup Ive been thinking for some time about a term that could encapsulate trends that are changing the startup landscape. September 11, 2008 2:06 PM Editor said. September 15, 2008 9:19 PM James said. After some trial and error, Ive settled on the Lean Startup.

Lean

Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment

30+ Killer New Content Ideas in 30 Minutes (and How to Prioritize Them)

ConversionXL

MAY 19, 2020

Marcus Sheridan is the king of the question, having used question-driven content to save his failing River Pools & Spa business during the Great Recession of 2008. Map these metrics to the appropriate funnel stages, as well as the content types most commonly used to support them. What questions are your customers asking?

Differentiation

Differentiation Sales Email Metrics

Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Warm Regards Sean Murphy www.skmurphy.com September 19, 2008 4:35 PM Eric said. Sure, Id be delighted to.

Customer Development

Customer Development Engineer San Francisco Developer

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 2: Anand Sanwal and Chris Shipley

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

1, 2008. … (and) the economy tanked right as soon as I started. or the key metrics in the credit card business. … Where do people think certain key metrics are going?” Among these was the realization that a formal onboarding process for new hires is critical. You hire really smart people-. I left Amex Jan.

Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Cofounder Channel

Serial CEO Judy Estrin On Startups and Innovation

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 2, 2011

She wrote Closing the Innovation Gap: Reigniting the Spark of Creativity in a Global Economy back in 2008 and now runs her own firm JLabs speaking and advising businesses on innovation, leadership and entrepreneurship. It is a lot easier to have someone else recruit and hire a CEO.".

CTO Hire

CTO Hire Startup Algorithm Leadership

Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 30, 2008 What does a startup CTO actually do? October 1, 2008 2:13 AM archenland said. Great article youre now in my rss feeds :) October 2, 2008 4:37 AM kamilski81 said. October 2, 2008 8:58 AM Chad said. October 2, 2008 8:58 AM Chad said. Great piece! Great post!

CTO

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Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond"

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 4, 2010

Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

Agile

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Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Review)

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, February 8, 2010 Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Review) The next article in my series on entrepreneurship for Harvard Business Review is live today. Once again, we revisit the topic of Actionable metrics and their nemesis: Vanity metrics. Remember "metrics are people, too."

Metrics

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Lessons Learned: Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for.

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, November 4, 2008 Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for Maples Investments Image via Wikipedia Steve Blank and I had the opportunity to create a presentation about lean startups for Maples Investments. How dare you! =) November 4, 2008 10:58 PM IMVU said. Excellent ideas!

Lean

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. October 20, 2008 9:34 PM Nivi said. October 20, 2008 10:36 PM Nathan said.

Software Review

Software Review Engineer Management Technical Review

The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business Review)

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 2, 2010

Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable Beware of Vanity Metrics For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable Beware of Vanity Metrics For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? Read the rest of The Five Whys for Start-Ups. Speed up or slow down? Speed up or slow down?

Technical Review

Technical Review San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment

Why Startups Should Raise Money at the Top End of Normal

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2007, 2011) and for the hottest of companies and in bad markets for fund raising (2003, 2008) prices test the bottom end of the range. Another firm we saw tried to raise $15 million at a $60 million pre-money with similar metrics. And the CEO they would hire to come in and run the business when you go would always be a mercenary.

Pre-Money Valuation

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Silicon Valley Stock

Lessons Learned: Just-In-Time Scalability

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 2, 2008 Just-In-Time Scalability At my previous company, we pioneered an approach to building out our infrastructure that we called "Just-In-Time Scalability." Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

San Francisco

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Paul Graham on fundraising

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 2, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 2, 2008 Paul Graham on fundraising I have found no better primer on the current realities of starting a new technology company in a startup hub like Silicon Valley than Paul Grahams essays. but rest assured they would be. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23.

San Francisco

San Francisco Software Review Technical Review Continuous Deployment

Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customer development? November 9, 2008 5:40 PM Chris said. etl.stanford.edu November 10, 2008 2:20 AM Saku said. November 10, 2008 10:45 PM Will said. December 3, 2008 6:42 PM Anonymoussaid. When we build products, we use a methodology.

Customer Development

Customer Development Developer San Francisco Customer

Speed up or slow down? (for Harvard Business Review)

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable Beware of Vanity Metrics For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable Beware of Vanity Metrics For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? Read the rest of The Startups Rules of Speed - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review.

Software Review

Software Review San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment

Paywalls, SEO, and the Need for a Damn Good Brand

ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

First Click Free (2008). SEO requires backend considerations but doesn’t, in many cases, drive editorial strategy, says Smullen: If someone were to build a paywall-worthy brand from scratch and get bogged down by domain authority metrics and traffic stats, they would never produce award-winning content.

SEO

SEO HTML Technical Review Caching

Lessons Learned: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done.

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, November 17, 2008 The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part one Ive written before about some of the advantages startups have when they are very small, like the benefits of having a pathetically small number of customers. And if you neglect maintenance, you may not have a business left at all.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC

The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

When I wrote a review of Four Steps on this blog in November, 2008, I did my best to be candid and warn of a few shortcomings: And Steve is the first to admit that its a "turgid" read, without a great deal of narrative flow. Its part workbook, part war story compendium, part theoretical treatise, and part manifesto.

Customer Development

Customer Development Developer San Francisco Customer

Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now A great checklist of techniques and tools for making your development more agile, written from a Rail perspective.

Software Review

Software Review San Francisco Technical Review Continuous Deployment

Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

Audience

Audience San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean

Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

kaChing launched a virtual portfolio management game on Facebook in January 2008 and a similar version shortly thereafter on kaChing.com. kaChing launched a virtual portfolio management game on Facebook in January 2008 and a similar version shortly thereafter on kaChing.com. How’d it happen? How’d it happen?

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment SEC

Lessons Learned: Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 6, 2008 Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile I thought Id share an interesting post from someone with a decidedly anti-agile point of view. Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective.

Agile

Agile San Francisco Software Review Continuous Deployment

Lessons Learned: Ideas. Code. Data. Implement. Measure. Learn

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 2, 2008 Ideas. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Learn I like theory too much. But hey, its what helps me think about problems.

San Francisco

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC

Lessons Learned on Mashable today

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2009

The core of the article is my first attempt to articulate the key metrics (in graph form) that I believe demonstrate customer value. My 2008 revenues were over $100k on a 35k inventory. When startups ask me what to measure, I always come back to these three as a starting point: Revenue per customer. They just havd faith in me.

San Francisco

San Francisco Tampa Continuous Deployment Lean

Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Harvard Business.

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 15, 2010

Behind this analysis is a spreadsheet model, complete with detailed metrics for a set of customer behaviors that show just how valuable the new product will be. They are on-schedule and on-budget, but their gross metrics are way off. They are on-schedule and on-budget, but their gross metrics are way off.

Hockey Stick

Hockey Stick San Francisco Entrepreneur Lean

@altgate » Blog Archive » Startup Executive Compensation Scorecard

Altgate

OCTOBER 1, 2010

To the right of that are five charts one each for: Current Equity Equity at Hire Base Salary Target Bonus Actual Total Cash Each of these bar charts shows the respective compensation for the management team on a percentile scale (compared to the cohort). What do you think, is this the right way to score these metrics?

Part-Time VPE

Part-Time VPE Startup Salary Equity

Waves of technology platforms

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 Waves of technology platforms I still remember the first time I switched to LAMP. So one of the first things we did was to hire an Oracle expert and get to work. I was building a new startup in 1999, and wanted to do it right. 1 comments: flixsterwidgettest said. yeah, its awesome.

San Francisco

San Francisco Technology Continuous Deployment Lean

People First

OnlyOnce

AUGUST 18, 2011

And along the same lines, when all economic hell broke loose in the fall of 2008, we immediately told employees that while we’d be in for a rough ride, our three top priorities were to keep everyone’s job, keep everyone’s compensation, and keep everyone’s health benefits.

Employee

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Why vanity metrics are dangerous

Is the Lean Startup Dead?

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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

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30 Entrepreneurs Share Their #1 Goal for 2022

Key Metrics In Managing A Successful Company

The Virus Survival Strategy For Your Startup

Lessons Learned: About the author

Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

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Lessons Learned: The product manager's lament

Finding Good Developers in Los Angeles?

Announcing Multicoin Capital

Lessons Learned: Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

Lessons Learned: The lean startup

30+ Killer New Content Ideas in 30 Minutes (and How to Prioritize Them)

Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 2: Anand Sanwal and Chris Shipley

Serial CEO Judy Estrin On Startups and Innovation

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Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond"

Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Review)

Lessons Learned: Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for.

Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business Review)

Why Startups Should Raise Money at the Top End of Normal

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Paul Graham on fundraising

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Speed up or slow down? (for Harvard Business Review)

Paywalls, SEO, and the Need for a Damn Good Brand

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Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Harvard Business.

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