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How is the VC Asset Class Doing?

View from Seed

At the time, I spent most of my time describing the metrics themselves and how VCs and their LPs evaluate performance based on these measurements. If you aren’t familiar with these metrics, I recommend reading the original post to get a sense of the numbers that I’ll be reviewing here. So, is this good or bad? That’s only 0.5X

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

Both Sides of the Table

Nearly every successful tech startup I’ve observed over the past 20 years has gone through a similar growth pattern: Innovate, systematize then scale operations. Sam’s vision was to build a world-class “reverse logistics” company that could be as ambitious as Amazon has been in delivering goods to our houses. Seriously, this happens.

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Leadership Effectiveness By Gender

Austin Startup

In the spring of 2012, Harvard Business Review wrote an article titled ‘ Are Women Better Leaders then Men? bringing into review research data from Zenger Folkman, Inc. It has been 13 years since Summers has said that and women have been proving him wrong, diligently moving not only tech, but also into leadership positions.

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The 6 Metrics That Determine Your Success On Facebook

Duct Tape Marketing

These are the first six key metrics non-robots must track to understand Facebook Page performance, why you need them and where to find them. #1: The fan reach metric is not available in the Facebook statistics interface; that would be way too easy for hard working marketers like us, right? 1: Fan Reach. Here’s the scoop-.

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Announcing Multicoin Capital

Austin Startup

Although we were studying finance, we were always more interested in tech. Take a look at some of the emails between us from 2010: We were attending NYU from 2008–2012. We were infatuated with tech. But we got serious in early 2016 when we developed deep conviction around the immense technical vision of Ethereum.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. We’ve had a supportive board and encouraging metrics and a helpful climate for our community news notion (now 51 sites in 3 states). How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. May 26, 2011.

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Consistent Revenue Growth At Core Of Google’s Mobile Advertising Strategy: TBR

YoungUpstarts

by Jack Narcotta, Devices Analyst at Technology Business Research. While TBR expects margin growth to be uneven through 2015, revenue and gross profit will continue to increase, due to the ability of its advertising business to monetize the proliferation of mobile devices and maintain its dominance in desktop search.