View from Seed
APRIL 14, 2020
This led to a number of repercussions that most VC’s have lamented during this time, including higher prices, larger rounds, shoddy due diligence, and many companies raising large sums of venture capital that probably aren’t suited to VC funding. In a FOLD world, this is going to continue.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
JANUARY 10, 2011
Here’s a simple question, often asked when designing software but more useful when you’re designing your marketing and sales pitch: How are people doing this today without you? Here’s how this gets your marketing and software design off the ground. Because it’s so much easier to poke around code on 8.5
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Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 28, 2014
Gross Burn vs. Net Burn. Burn rate in case you don’t know is the amount of money a company is either spending (gross) or losing (net) per month. (it Net burn is the amount of money you are losing per month. I often see companies burning $100,000 per month (net) looking to raise $6-8 million.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 13, 2013
T = Tools, the myriad platforms and software needed. 3) Create a holistic way of measuring your Social CRM activities through dashboards monitoring KPIs such as the following: a) Net Promoter Scores (ie how likely are your customers to recommend you to others). P = People and your relationships with them.
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 13, 2008
A new bit of code contained an infinite loop! why did that code get written? Hes a new employee, and he was not properly trained in TDD So far, this isnt much different from the kind of analysis any competent operations team would conduct for a site outage. Most engineers would ship code to production on their first day.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 3, 2009
That died with waterfall software development. Ditto for enterprise software companies. Usually in a tech / software startup 70-80% of your costs will be people. ’ Our Net Income will be $40 million.&#. 66% Net Operating Margins? Each quarter you should review your model. Do so at your peril.
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 23, 2022
One 11-year study of over 200 companies over a decade ago, detailed in the book “ Corporate Culture and Performance ,” found that those working on their culture improved revenue by 516%, and increased net income by 755%. Unethical behavior in business is just due to a few ‘bad apples.’ Ethics can’t be managed.
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