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How To Get Ready To Participate In An Acceleration Program

YoungUpstarts

Follow them on Twitter and/or other forms of social media, in order to find out about Q&A webinars they host or to contact them directly. To give you a practical example, I’d like to analyze the reasons why my startup was rejected from participating in Start-Up Chile ’s Generation 17. Contact accelerator staff.

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[Review] The $100 Startup

YoungUpstarts

This entails reviewing aspects like business development, offer development, prices, and customer communication, and monitoring one or two key metrics (eg sales per day, sales conversion rate, leads per day, etc). We are also told to “work on our business” instead of just in our business (hat tip to The E-Myth Revisited ).

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End of Dumb Tables in Web Analytics Tools! Hello: Weighted Sort

Occam's Razor

As if massive data we have is not enough of a problem, we also rely on Averages, Percentages, Ratios and Compound/Calculated Metrics in a profoundly sub optimal way, as a drunken man uses lamp-posts – for support rather than for illumination. You saw this problem when I sorted descending or ascending for the metric bounce rate above.

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