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View from Seed
MARCH 24, 2021
So, we decided to aggregate NextView’s “greatest hits.” ” Below are our favorite pieces from the past few years, divided in to a few key categories: fundraising, company building, product development, industry trends, and the life of a VC. What Are Your Valuation Expectations? ” (Melody Koh).
David Teten
APRIL 1, 2021
Nick Kim , Crosscut’s Head of Platform, in his presentation at the 4th Annual VC Platform Summit, shared their Platform development methodology, which he viewed as an exercise in product development. For example, recruiting writ large is useful at all stages of development. aggregates resources from all the VCs.
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Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 14, 2009
Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. And what of the product development team? First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful.
Startup Lessons Learned
JUNE 5, 2009
In a startup context, numbers like gross revenue are actually vanity metrics, not actionable metrics. Similarly, it’s easy to generate large aggregate numbers by simply falling back to non-disruptive or non-sustainable tactics (see Validated learning about customers for one example). June 8, 2009 1:16 AM Colin said.
Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 24, 2009
Despite all the energy invested in talking to authors about the size of their platform, very few gatekeepers have a rigorous set of metrics for measuring it. When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. My blog has over 14000 subscribers, for example. Is that a lot?
ReadWriteStart
JUNE 29, 2020
Wikipedia.com defines a “startup company (startup or startup) is an entrepreneurial venture which is typically a newly emerged, fast-growing business that aims to meet a marketplace need by developing a viable business model around an innovative product, service, process, or a platform.”.
Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 18, 2010
Prior to starting any maker activity, I clearly identify what needs to get done (the goal) and sketch out how it needs to get done (the design). There is inherent value in committing incremental work into production to diffuse future integration surprises. Application level diagnostics Despite the best testing, defects still happen.
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