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.
Steve Blank
MAY 17, 2022
You succeed in convincing one company and a government to adopt computers and learn to code much faster than their competitors /adversaries. But they herald a sea change in what computers are capable of doing, how they do it, and what hardware and software is needed to do it. Deep Learning /Neural Nets – a subfield of machine learning.
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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
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.
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.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 27, 2011
Gross Profit (also called Gross Margin or sometimes “Net Revenue”). And assuming they both had the same net profit margins (profit / revenue) then the former company would be much better off at the end of the year. Let’s consider the following two software companies, both of which have 66% gross margins.
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