Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Include Advisory Board members and key industry people connections. Rest assured that potential investors will ask for names, and place some calls. Financial forecast and metrics.

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Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 290

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

So if youre new, consider not paying any attention to the rest of this post, and just diving into the archives, if you havent already. He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has worked as a consultant to a number of startups, companies, and venture capital firms.

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San Francisco Technical Cofounder Fractional CTO CTO 155

Gust

AUGUST 5, 2012

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Include Advisory Board members and key industry people connections. Rest assured that potential investors will ask for names, and place some calls. Financial forecast and metrics.

Business Plan 182

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 182

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Include Advisory Board members and key industry people connections. Rest assured that potential investors will ask for names, and place some calls. Financial forecast and metrics.

Business Plan 186

Business Plan Exit Strategy Sweat Equity Intellectual Property 186

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 20, 2010

End of a minor web analytics lesson on going beyond obvious metrics and never, ever, never forgetting context. Of course look at our favorite metric bounce rate by keyword (that tells you if you can get people to give you one solitary click , the most primitive measure of SEO success). Back to our story.

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Analytics Search SEO Metrics 90

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Read the rest. Read the rest. 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,

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San Francisco Product Lean Continuous Deployment 137

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Every experiment has to be evaluated based on a single standard report of 5-10 (no more) key metrics. Any team that creates an experiment must monitor the metrics and customer reactions (support calls, forum threads, etc) while the experiment is in-progress, and abort if something catastrophic happens. It promotes rapid iteration.

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San Francisco Lean Metrics Continuous Deployment 133

usersknow.blogspot.com

APRIL 30, 2010

Is this feature usable, and is the UX reasonably consistent with the rest of my product? You need to have some sort of plan for testing to see how it’s affecting key metrics , whether those are revenue, retention, registration, user happiness, or some other number you care about. What is the expected ROI for this feature?

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Software Review Agile San Francisco Advisory Board 40

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

All the rest is noise. If you are down on someone, the rest of your team will already know. ?. Use them as a sounding board for corporate development issues. Advisory boards never amount to much. Jason is also an investor in and Board Member at RJ Metrics. It’s all about the product. Always has been.

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Technical Review Technology Software Review Valuation 108

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

All the rest is noise. Use them as a sounding board for corporate development issues. Advisory boards never amount to much. Jason is also an investor in and Board Member at RJ Metrics. If you’re taking more than 3 weeks to ship updates, you’re taking too long. Don’t do this by committee.

Post-Money Valuation 92

Post-Money Valuation Valuation Dilution Advisory Board 92

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Read the rest of Myth: Entrepreneurship Will Make You Rich Also take a look at the great Hacker News discussion of this essay. Read the rest of Myth: Entrepreneurship Will Make You Rich Also take a look at the great Hacker News discussion of this essay. If you only want to do one of these things, there are better options.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 111