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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

What are your key Startup Metrics ? Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both? Analytics/Metrics - what are the key startup metrics that you will need to track? Are there specific metrics needed for future funding rounds or for operations? Who are the other stakeholders involved? Other types of users?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

What are your key Startup Metrics ? Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both? Analytics/Metrics - what are the key startup metrics that you will need to track? Are there specific metrics needed for future funding rounds or for operations? Who are the other stakeholders involved? Other types of users?

Developer 384
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8 Keys To Being A First Responder To Market Changes

Startup Professionals Musings

Don’t dismiss any new thing as a “flash in the pan.” Establish and evaluate metrics at multiple levels. As times change, you may need new metrics, such as total experience, web site hits, and social media complaints. When sales fall off, you need to dig deep for the “why,” rather than just assuming the price needs to go down.

Marketing 405
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SSEBITDA – A steady-state profit metric for SaaS companies

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

This is the fourth article in a series on novel ideas for SaaS metrics, which started with The unprofitable SaaS business model trap , COC: a new metric for cancellations , and The mistake of 1/c in LTV. It turns out that COC is the key to this metric of “underlying profitability.” Here’s a way to do it.

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Do you really need an accountant?

Berkonomics

Email readers, continue here…] Many early-stage founders and CEOs believe they can delegate design and creation of metrics, flash reports, analytical reports and more from their bookkeepers. Why bother with this ? And at some early stages, a bookkeeper can prepare such information.

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Why That $1 Million Doesn’t Always Mean Your Crowdfunding Campaign Was A Success

YoungUpstarts

This can be done through launching new perks, running flash sales and targeting the non-purchasers from your email list. My company did this by offering bundles of products together at a discount one week into the campaign and running holiday flash sales. The biggest driver of success is also the hardest to measure.

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Use agile budgeting to manage your cash

David Teten

Instead of budget approvals, monitor key metrics and give managers more flexibility. The next most important set of metrics are sales by category; working capital (cash and other current assets, less current liabilities); EBITA; and gross margin. Traditional budgets can be destructive and a huge waste of time.

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