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HBS Angels Healthcare Night

David Teten

C8 Sciences ( [link] ) markets web-delivered cognitive development programs based on Yale IP of integrated computer and physical exercises. The company aggregates a tremendous amount of medical news and research and personalizes it into a user friendly experience. Docphin ( [link] ) is the Bloomberg for doctors.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

Both Sides of the Table

One of the things I discuss the most with the portfolio companies I’m involved with is that “you manage what you measure.”. And given your stage of development you sure better at least know what your goal is. Measuring viral adoption is obviously important. You Manage What you Measure. That’s not acceptable. Is it 4/1,000?

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The amazing Quora raises $50m

The Equity Kicker

I read some great stuff today on topics like why aren’t VCs lean and scrappy , and why Pinterest took so long to go viral , but the pick of the bunch by far were some of the answers to What are some decisions taken by the “Growth team” at Facebook that helped Facebook reach 500 million users? But maybe I should.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. Tribe Capital has developed A Quantitative Approach to Product Market Fit. .

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Cracking The Code: Happy New Year 2008!

Cracking the Code

Wize provides consumers with a unique way to leverage the online wisdom by aggregating the opinions of millions of users and by letting people ask questions about a specific product or need to the Wize community. Portfolio. (3). Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. We decided to fund Wize.com to answer this question.

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Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior | For Entrepreneurs

www.forentrepreneurs.com

We could do this in several ways: Cross sell to add additional products Up sell to add seats, or premium features Develop a scalable pricing matrix that does a better job of charging higher end customers that are willing to pay more. At OpenView, we try to instill this discipline and capability in each of our portfolio companies from Day 1.

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Out of the Crisis #1: Sam Altman on resetting the clock cycle of biotech, investing in a cure and more

Startup Lessons Learned

There's a good enough vaccine to get the virality rate below one. ER : Do you mind talking a little bit about your conversations with startups in your portfolio, people who have reached out to you for advice about how to handle a crisis like this? SA : I don't remember the very first company. However, surviving it is important.