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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 17 – Organizational Design – Safi Bahcall

Steve Blank

Conversely, the things you measure well, with easily understood and visible metrics, tend to improve without much extra push. They keep the role neutral, like Switzerland, neither on the research side, nor on the operation side, but in between, like a mediator needs to be. More like a surgical strike. 1 is measurement.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Thanks from switzerland, Nice story! We’ve had a supportive board and encouraging metrics and a helpful climate for our community news notion (now 51 sites in 3 states). Thanks for sharing a candid view of what went on; I’ve heard Reid discuss the process in 2005 at a conference in the UK. Ps check mypicasso.com.

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The Case For A Five Hour Workday

YoungUpstarts

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. Our revenue is still up, and all the metrics are going in the right direction. If we don’t change something fast, that strangle hold on first place will be disrupted.

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Female Founder Interview – Claudia Freed, CEO of Non-Profit EALgreen

The Startup Magazine

As a true pioneer of the circular economy movement, Claudia is Technical Panel Member for UL STP3600 Standards, the standards for the Circular Economy and the metrics, processes, and procedures for the circularity of materials and operations. Freed is a global thinker and living proof that purpose-driven businesses transform lives.

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Analyze This: 5 Rules For Awesome Impromptu Web Analysis

Occam's Razor

If you want data for a international site use Google Trends for Websites (here's H M V's data , and here's data for people from Switzerland who read the French newspaper LeMonde ). If you want to understand the clickstream data for any website you could go to Compete (here's ESPN's data , or this blog's ).

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Transcript of Advice for Entrepreneurs Who Want to Sell Their Companies

Duct Tape Marketing

I love looking at cost per account acquired as a key metric to share with potential acquirers. Well, in order to be “bankable,” meaning a company that a bank would lend to, you have to have some of these metrics dialed in. They can simply grow quite quickly by winning new customers.

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Don’t lose users for eternity in the first 5 seconds: How to survive the blink test

The Next Web

A study by the University of Basel, Switzerland in 2012 looked more deeply into the results of the 2006 Canadian study and proved what all tech users know to be commonly true. 2) Heatmapping and metrics. There are two crucial factors that give a negative first impression: High visual complexity = Too much stuff on the page.

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