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5 Preconditions for Success in Spawning a New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Thus, I was happy to see some real actionable advice on this challenge in a new book, “ The Unicorn Within: How Companies Can Create Game-Changing Ventures at Startup Speed ,” by Linda Yates, the founder and CEO of a leading growth incubator for global businesses. Assemble an engaged new venture advisory board.

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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

Both Sides of the Table

He has grown our US operations from 1 employee (him) to a global organization of 75 employees that will finish the year with 8-digit revenues (90+% recurring) and more than 350% year-over-year growth. By being so metrics driven we can have a lot more quantifiable and objective discussions at board meetings and at mid-point reviews. .

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Endeavor Miami Takes on Scaleup Challenge

The Startup Magazine

Endeavor Miami was the first US office of the Endeavor Global organization of worldwide scaleup accelerators. 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. 15M Capital raised (by the Entrepreneurs).

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How Employee Experience Shapes Brand Perception

Duct Tape Marketing

She is the global customer growth and innovation evangelist at Salesforce and the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Growth IQ. She is a global customer growth and innovation evangelist at Salesforce and the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Growth IQ. Go to inbound.com to get your ticket today. (01:03):

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

What metrics do we use to see if we learned enough in Customer Discovery ? I gave my boilerplate answer, “I’m a product guy and I tend to invest and look at deals that have measurable revenue metrics. Dave McClure has some great metrics…” It was an honest but vaguely unsatisfying answer. As for #3. I agree completely.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

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 VCs have created structures based on other company performance metrics than revenues, such as profits or founder salaries. Flexible VC 102: Variations.

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Startup CEO (OnlyOnce- the book!), Part III – Pre-Order Now

OnlyOnce

The book is part of the Startup Revolution series that Brad has been working on for a couple years now, including Do More (Even) Faster , Venture Deals , Startup Communities , and Startup Life (with two more to come, Startup Boards and Startup Metrics). Chapter 28: Going Global…Should Your Business Go Global?,

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