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The Case For A Five Hour Workday

YoungUpstarts

Revenue and profits are way up, and we’re attracting great talent — but that’s not the interesting part of this story. Germany’s NPR station interviewed me that same week, and dozens of articles flooded Germany, Austria, Switzerland, India, the UK, and Canada within a week. We work 8 a.m. with no lunch; then, we leave.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

LinkedIn’s product had only been live for a couple months, we only had tens of thousands of registered users, and wouldn’t start generating revenue for more than a year after this point. Thanks from switzerland, Nice story! Great to see you had such a good partner to start with. Ps check mypicasso.com. great insight.

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Analyze This: 5 Rules For Awesome Impromptu Web Analysis

Occam's Razor

But when you as an Analyst recommend removing ads because you find them annoying (and they can be super annoying) you are essentially recommending the removal of a revenue stream. Ok so if I accept your recommendation of removing ads what do you recommend I do about the revenue stream? " Or: "I would remove the ads.

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Transcript of Advice for Entrepreneurs Who Want to Sell Their Companies

Duct Tape Marketing

And I’m guessing one of them certainly is a lot of, “What’s the revenue? So what’s your top-line revenue? The more revenue you have, the more valuable your company is going to be, generally. The more revenue you have, the more valuable your company is going to be, generally. Here’s why.

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How To Suck At Social Media: An Indispensable Guide For Businesses

Occam's Razor

Success Metrics. In my Oct 2011 post, Best Social Media Metrics , I'd created four metrics to quantify this value. Economic Value (EcV) is the value of short and long-term revenue and cost savings. I believe the best way to measure success is to measure the above four metrics (actual interaction/action/outcome).