Sun.May 29, 2016

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The Most Important Metric for Customer Success – Part 2

Guy Nirpaz

I’ve written recently that MAU and DAU are the most important metrics for Customer Success. I’ve received in an email with the following comment: “ How does MAU and DAU, which measure interactive consumption of a service, are applied to products and services that are inherently revenue share models such as Ad-Tech and Fin-Tech?” That is a great question and I’d like to answer it in this post.

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The Best Entrepreneurs Learn To Stay Ahead Of Change

Startup Professionals Musings

Aspiring entrepreneurs who rely only on traditional learning vehicles (teachers, classrooms, and risk-free practice) are doomed to failure in anticipating change today. Either they are never really ready to commit, study an opportunity until it has passed, or fail with tools and techniques from a bygone business era. The Internet and the current information wave have changed everything.

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The secret behind VC partnerships.

Hippoland

I was talking with a Sand Hill VC the other day. They do Series A deals. “We don’t have a consensus model here. If someone on the team loves a company, we’ll do the deal. But conversely, if someone on my team really hates a deal I love, I would probably back away. As much as possible, we want to have a united front here at our firm.” This was a really telling statement and confirmed what I’ve known all along now as a VC but was clueless about when I was an entrepreneur.

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Texas-Squared Startup Newsletter #41

Austin Startup

Texas Startup & Tech News, Opinions & Events in the Lone Star State — SUBSCRIBE View this email in your browser Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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15 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

Share The idea of exactly what your business is going to be usually comes first. Secondly, most often, is giving a title to your idea. What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Some people turn to their childhood for inspiration or a beloved family pet. It could be a made up word you dream of one night and feel it has the right ring to it.

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Why Innovation Depends As Much On Personality As Skill

YoungUpstarts

By Merrick Rosenberg, CEO of Take Flight Learning and author of “ The Chameleon: Life-Changing Wisdom for Anyone Who has a Personality or Knows Someone Who Does “ Everything we invent begins as an idea. Over time, ideas take form and manifest into reality. But ideas can only advance as quickly as people advance them. In highly innovative organizations, leaders save good ideas from needless deaths.

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