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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

He worked at an education startup here in Silicon Valley. Tomas Pueyo : Yeah, I started figuring out it was going to happen around the middle of February, and I was waiting for the cases to really start appearing in Silicon Valley. You have a day job here in Silicon Valley at an education technology company.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs, Angels, Incubators, Accelerators - What Are You Doing With Your Rejects?

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To give you some further context, we recently spoke with a VC in Boise, Idaho, who gets 500 deals a year. If you look at the numbers of super angels in Silicon Valley, they are even scarier. His firm invests in four. That means that less than 1% of the entrepreneurs who apply succeed in getting financed.

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How to Fine-tune Your Small Business Finances—from Funding to Growth [Webinar Recap]

Up and Running

Maybe you are wondering which metrics to track, or whether or not you should take out a loan for your business. Which metrics do you most rely on to understand your business itself. The question is what metrics do you most rely on to understand your business’s health? What specific metrics should they be monitoring?

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Lean Business Planning with Tim Berry [VIDEO]

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We’re looking at our lean business planning is about strategy, tactics, concrete specifics including milestones, metrics, tasks and schedule, and essential numbers to run a business, all of which lead to managing cash flow. He lives in a small town in Idaho, so he can find out from Census.gov how many families live in his town.

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