Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine. The Funding Problem.
Ben's Blog
MARCH 24, 2011
In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. The inflation-adjusted data from the last bubble tells the story: In the 3-year period from 1998-2000, venture capital firms raised more than $200 billion, which represented about 0.55% of the national GDP.
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ReadWriteStart
JUNE 2, 2011
She was the former CTO of Cisco Systems from 1998-2000, and is on the boards of Disney and Packet Design and was a board member at Sun and FedEx for many years. The point here is that you can have very different and all valid success metrics, but it is important to keep in mind what you are trying to accomplish with your startup venture.
Up and Running
APRIL 9, 2019
It was also in a SWOT session that we realized we needed to make our product downloadable on the web (back in 1998, when we were among the first). Our SWOT sessions took only an hour or two. We used a whiteboard and worked on bullet points.
Startup Lessons Learned
JUNE 8, 2009
That’s because many of our reports feed us vanity metrics: numbers that make us look good but don’t really help make decisions. Yet even among those who have access to good actionable metrics, I’ve noticed a phenomenon that prevents taking maximum advantage of data. Too much of this data is non- actionable.
Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 19, 2009
This is another sub-optimization caused by incentivizing the wrong metric. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. This is a variant of the time-quality-money fallacy , and it is not necessarily true.
Board Effect
MARCH 15, 2022
Liam Donaldson was the first one to come up with the idea of clinical governance around 1998. These are the metrics by which hospitals can and should be assessing their governance practices. That’s still a worthy goal for today’s healthcare providers. What Does Good Governance for Hospitals Look Like?
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