David Teten
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
Instead of budget approvals, monitor key metrics and give managers more flexibility. So here’s the solution I have recommended to some of my portfolio companies: “ agile budgeting ”, i.e., monitoring a few key variables while giving managers significant flexibility. This agile approach is not restricted to small startups.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
Almost overnight the floodgates opened, and risk capital was available at scale from venture capital investors who rushed their startups toward public offerings. The unprecedented size and scale of VC returns transformed venture capital from a financial asset backwater into full-fledged player in the financial markets.
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Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 27, 2011
I interviewed Eric for an hour for - This Week in Venture Capital. 42:20 Did agile development influence you? 48:30 Vanity metrics. 52:00 Actionable metrics. I find myself nodding – even when the topic is one I don’t expect to agree with such as “fail fast.” 40:05 What happened after Imvu.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 12, 2020
Venture capital firms have become more discerning where they put their limited funds to use, and banks have always been anti-startup in their business dealings. Pivoting only works if a business is small and agile and can shift its operations quickly and flawlessly in a different direction.
Steve Blank
MARCH 31, 2014
As the venture capital business has come roaring back in the last 5 years, startups are awash in available capital. Instead of measuring success in dollars of profit, …firms focus on measuring capital efficiency. To manage these employees companies create metrics to control, measure and reward execution.
ReadWriteStart
APRIL 8, 2023
In my experience, I follow different resources, for instance, the Andreessen Horowitz blog , one of the top venture capital funds reporting trends in their newsletters, and INC.5000 Aside from venture capitalists, following Twitter personas or subscribing to newsletters is another way to utilize industry information.
BeyondVC
APRIL 4, 2018
There will also still be some amazing companies that raise their Series C, D and beyond funding rounds with scaling metrics. If you are looking for a story about how large enterprises digitally transform themselves into agile software organizations (to the extent they can), then I suggest reading Pivotal’s recently filed S-1 on Friday.
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