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7 Keys To Making People First And Winning In Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Even geography counts – there is a reason that tech firms cluster in Silicon Valley and financial firms cluster in London and New York. Establish metrics on the culture, as well as the product. Healthy cultures have high morale, as well as low turnover, high rates of retention, and attract top talent.

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Why Startups Need to Focus on Client Retention Right from the Start

The Startup Magazine

When it comes to startups, the focus often gravitates toward acquiring new customers, expanding market reach, and chasing growth metrics. However, amidst the frenzy of attracting fresh clientele, many startups overlook a critical aspect of sustainable success – client retention.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one.

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The Very Best Digital Metrics For 15 Different Companies!

Occam's Razor

There is no golden metric for everyone, we are all unique snowflakes! :). and tell you what are the best key performance indicators (metrics) for them. In the past I’ve shared a cluster of metrics that small, medium and large businesses can use as a springboard…. If you want to play along. Don’t read what I’ve chosen.

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18 Ways to Make Your Financial Model Stand Out to Investors

David Teten

Datavore is a New York startup which is working to improve on the functionality of existing tools like Microsoft Excel by creating a visual display of the calculations comprising complex analyses such as a financial model. I recommend insert report title, date printed, and page number on every footer, for easy auditing.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

Or follow all of the New York Times columnists equally? This is good news for everyone except those who have huge legacy investments in large-batch distribution. Despite all the energy invested in talking to authors about the size of their platform, very few gatekeepers have a rigorous set of metrics for measuring it.

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Lessons Learned on Mashable today

Startup Lessons Learned

The core of the article is my first attempt to articulate the key metrics (in graph form) that I believe demonstrate customer value. Retention cohort analysis. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.