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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. If you’re a software startup competing in China, the words that come to mind are “ruthless and relentless.” company setting up some subsidiary here and expecting them to compete while they were following U.S. like WeChat.). Competition.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. If you’re a software startup competing in China, the words that come to mind are “ruthless and relentless.” company setting up some subsidiary here and expecting them to compete while they were following U.S. like WeChat.). Competition.

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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

For each of these, there is a human element (non-scaleable) and the possibility of a tech layer (which any one VC will only have implemented to varying extents). the “TOPSCAN” framework from my research study on value creation by VCs ): T eam-Building – We aggregate openings across our portfolio on our jobs page.

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Data Analysis 101: Seven Simple Mistakes That Limit Your Salary

Occam's Razor

I love that the analyst is segmenting the data rather than showing the aggregate trend ("all data in aggregate is essentially crap" – me). For bonus points you can analyze Mobile Search traffic performance with Mobile Non-Search traffic performance. That is after all what pays our salary right?

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Doubling SaaS Revenue By Changing The Pricing Model

www.kalzumeus.com

They were very concerned with competing with free. They’ll complain that Server Density costs infinity percent more than OSS, because they value their own time at zero, not having to e.g. pay salaries or account for a budget or anything. This is true even though the revenue per customer is non-normal. Michael Selik.

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How To Staff A Startup With (Almost) No Money

ReadWriteStart

Last month, the 17-year-old sold Summly , his news-aggregation app, to Yahoo for a reported $30 million! At the beginning, before you have investors, it is not unusual for you (and possibly employees) to forego salary for extended periods of time. Non-Monetary Incentives.

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Knowledge

Occam's Razor

" ~ Digital Careers: "How can I get a bigger salary? Customer Personas, Customer Value, Customer Retention and Non-line Marketing. Aggregation of Marginal Gains: Recession Busting Analytics! 3 Advanced Web Analytics Visitor Segments: Non-Flirts, Social, Long Tail. " + Standard Metrics Revisited Series.

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