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An Alternative to Board Decks Some Seed VCs Actually Prefer

View from Seed

Office and Logistics: Potential moves and cost (rent plus dollars per square foot plus lease length), insurance, healthcare, legal, and other services. A seed-stage mobile startup’s housekeeping section might look something like this: Section 3: Core Metrics. The seed stage is all about traction.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

If the CEO wants to completely change the product in order to serve a new customer segment, you need someone in the room who can digest the needs of the new (proposed) business, and lay out the costs of each possible approach. In my mind, theyre racking up costs (one month for that part, two months for that other part, uh oh).

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The curse of prevention

Startup Lessons Learned

Or, if it really was prevented, what was the opportunity cost of choosing to prevent it ahead of time? And in most situations, there is significant cost involved in negotiating over the right estimates to plug in. How much will it cost to solve this problem now? They are usually among the most heated arguments a company has.

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Social, Agile, and Transformation: Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research

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The x-axis depicts technical complexity, risk, and cost which are all related. decide on success metrics, measure, and then decide if additional investment is warranted. If the innovation is successful, then the metrics should help drive the enhancement into the top/right "agile happy place" quadrant. ► 2011. (14).

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

This single decision wound up costing the company significant revenue and over the course of several months sent its customer growth into decline. In the end, we managed to repair the damage, but only after losing a lot of time and at significant opportunity cost. We were totally unprepared for the magnitude of what happened.

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