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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. Every Flexible VC structure allows founders to access immediate risk capital while preserving exit, growth trajectory, and ownership optionality. . Flexible VC 102: Variations.

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The Impact of Community

Duct Tape Marketing

He is the co-founder of Boast.ai, where he leveraged the Community-Led Growth model to bootstrap the company. He is also the co-founder of Traction, a community empowering over 100k innovators through connections, content, and capital. He is the co-founder of Boast.ai It's as simple as that, and that is what metrics are to me.

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6 Customer Journey Mapping Examples: How UX Pros Do It

ConversionXL

” I had the pleasure of speaking to Dr. Chip about customer journey and innovative service metrics. Metrics should be anchored in part to customer outcomes, not granular processes and practices. It will arm them with more design thinking than the most cutting edge white paper.” ” Click to enlarge.

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Announcing Multicoin Capital

Austin Startup

We dive deep into white papers, review technology, economics, game theory, etc. We invest in protocols that meet our quantitative and qualitative metrics. Joshua Baer is a serial entrepreneur and founder/Executive Director of Capital Factory , the largest coworking space and tech incubator in Austin. Factom, Inc.

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Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior | For Entrepreneurs

www.forentrepreneurs.com

Blog About Log in Register Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior Great companies are almost always run by great management teams. Good metrics should also be actionable, and drive successful behavior. In a follow up post, I will use this technique to walk through the design of a set of metrics for a SaaS company.

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How Lemming VCs Cause Venture Recessions

Mucker Lab

Following the inevitable ups and downs of the VC investment cycle, and what founders can do when it all turns cold. Just six months ago, VCs were publishing white papers extolling the virtue of non-bank lending startups, but now no one will touch them with a 10-foot pole. The “venture recession” of 2016 is in full swing.

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Transcript of Why Page Speed Matters on Your Website

Duct Tape Marketing

He is a former Google UX manager and founder of Pathmonk at pathmonk.com. There was tons of metrics there and I know there’s a lot of marketeers listening. So I will basically give you one metric, that we used within Google while we were working with Google’s biggest clients, and that is the speed index.

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