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Why vanity metrics are dangerous

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, December 23, 2009 Why vanity metrics are dangerous In a previous post, I defined two kinds of metrics: vanity metrics and actionable metrics. In this post, Id like to talk about the perils of vanity metrics. My personal favorite vanity metrics is "hits."

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Mark Hauser’s Hauser Private Equity Spearheads Major Deals in Industrial Sector

The Startup Magazine

Through these applications including its core product CareBook, DataLink helps healthcare payors and providers by resolving gaps in patient care while also improving quality performance metrics.

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

Both Sides of the Table

We spent a few hundred thousand dollars opening up operations in Chicago and Washington D.C. Whereas New York City had people living in close clusters , Chicago and Washington D.C. and we were met with weak demand, slow growth and high costs. were more distributed.

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Experts share tips for mission-driven organizations on DE&I

Board Effect

Measuring DE&I progress Use tools and metrics. “To When board members come from diverse backgrounds and experiences, they offer fresh perspectives — often challenging biases — leading to balanced and better decisions that might not have occurred without such diversity.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

We’ve just held our seventh and eighth weeks of Hacking for Diplomacy at Stanford, and the attention our course is getting from Washington – and around the world – has been interesting. For the deputy secretary, such a dialogue in Silicon Valley is not a matter of charity, but necessity. There is so much room for improvement,” he said.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

We’ve just held our seventh and eighth weeks of Hacking for Diplomacy at Stanford, and the attention our course is getting from Washington – and around the world – has been interesting. For the deputy secretary, such a dialogue in Silicon Valley is not a matter of charity, but necessity. There is so much room for improvement,” he said.

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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.