ReadWriteStart

JULY 18, 2011

Money man and pundit Paul Kedrosky also spoke at the International Startup Festival and offered humorous, blunt advice about how to get what you want from investors and investment bankers. Kedrosky: "In the 90's I was an analyst through all this [tech investment and IPO] madness.

Investment Bankers 153

Investment Bankers Technical Review Cofounder Due Diligence 153

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

Similarly, customer introductions are invaluable in the early days, but become less valuable once a company has a fully-formed go to market function.”. For instance, tracking ‘months-of-runway’ combined with the month-over-month change to that metric allows us to rapidly identify companies that may be distressed. Customer Development.

Private Equity 78

Private Equity Venture Capital Portfolio Equity 78

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The biggest change for us in early-stage investing is that we now need to commit earlier. We can’t wait for customers to use the product for 12–18 months and do customer interviews or look at purchase cohorts. It’s just now that we’re Seed Investors. So he covers a ton of ground for industry knowledge and M&A chops.

Pre-Money Valuation 471

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Venture Capital Early Stage 471

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

This provides us more time to develop meaningful relationships with prospects and customers. A number of analysts have particular focus on serving the customers of technology companies, e.g., Gartner and 451 Research , and their work is also relevant for investors. 3) Raise capital. 6) Due diligence.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 23, 2021

The metrics from the dashboard are the key inputs for collective decisions. You can always instrument your business and gather metrics, but that doesn’t mean the data you gather will be useful. For example, if you haven’t achieved product-market fit, instrumenting every aspect of customer acquisition is overkill.

Venture Capital 46

Venture Capital Metrics Investment Bankers Framework 46

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 10, 2011

In fact, this crisis was at the heart of Steve Blank ’s original impetus to develop customer development as an alternative set of milestones to use for startups.) Vanity metrics and success theater are in a moral grey area; they are masking the fact that some of our industry’s most “successful” ventures are actually value destroying.

Silicon Valley 167

Silicon Valley San Francisco Lean Investment Bankers 167

Up and Running

MAY 28, 2014

Vanity metrics measure how much you’re being seen, but they don’t tell you much about how your business is doing. With the ease of data collection in today’s technological landscape, it’s easy to get bogged down in performance metrics. Avoid Vanity Metrics. Tie Metrics to Actions. Look at Similar Companies.

Metrics 109

Metrics Investment Bankers Revenue Early Stage 109