Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 26, 2009
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 26, 2009 A real Customer Advisory Board A reader recently asked on a previous post about the technique of having customers periodically produce a “state of the company&# progress report. One example is having a real Customer Advisory Board.
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
Assemble an engaged new venture advisory board. Don’t let early success dilute your focus, or demand that the new venture quickly meet your mainline financial and growth metrics. If you wait to start until your new venture really needs the money, the project will likely die of starvation.
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Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 25, 2022
You may think it’s great that demand exceeds your supply chain, but customers only remember it as a loss of your credibility, and will tell others. Remember that the largest customers are often the slowest to pay, and the most likely to demand support and return concessions. Use metrics on key deliverables to assure quality results.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 22, 2016
That should make you wonder - how do you measure traction in a metric? While thinking about the parameters of traction, and how to measure it, I was impressed with a new book, “ Scaling Lean: Mastering the Key Metrics for Startup Growth ” by Ash Maurya, a serial entrepreneur, and creator of the one-page business modelling tool Lean Canvas.
The Startup Magazine
OCTOBER 25, 2017
Within the entrepreneurship ecosystem, “scaleup” challenges differ from startup challenges and demand unique solutions. Led by former Apple project manager Brian Brackeen, Kairos set up an Endeavor-facilitated advisory board. A key impact metric for Kairos is the number of faces processed.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 10, 2020
You can and must fix this by communicating business goals and objectives, and establishing personal metrics which only reward success. It’s easy for you to blame someone else in the organization, economic conditions outside, or even overly demanding customers, when things are not going well.
David Teten
JANUARY 19, 2021
From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. This structure allows for alignment on the front end, and real-time flexibility for performance metrics,” says Samira Salman , a family office investor and advisor. . Flexible VC 102: Variations.
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