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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

There were startups and a software industry but barely. We had nascent revenues, ridiculous cost structures and unrealistic valuations. SEEING THINGS FROM THE VC SIDE OF THE TABLE While I was a VC in 2007 & 2008 those were dead years because the market again evaporated due the the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). It was 1991.

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Neil Patel Review: Learning Marketing Entrepreneurship From The Master

YoungUpstarts

Neil carried on running an internet marketing consulting business so that he could pay for Crazy Egg’s software development. NP Digital receives consistently positive reviews from its customers. The post Neil Patel Review: Learning Marketing Entrepreneurship From The Master appeared first on Young Upstarts. Pay It Forward.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

This article first appeared on the Harvard Business Review blog. In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup.

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The Apple Watch – Tipping Point Time for Healthcare

Steve Blank

Heck, up until its first shipment in 2015, it was science fiction. To get FDA clearance, Apple reportedly submitted two studies to the FDA (so far none of the data has been published or peer reviewed). Yet Apple got two software clearances in under 30 days, which uncannily appeared the day before their product announcement.

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How Boards Need to Evolve Over Time

Both Sides of the Table

Reviewing financial & operational performance. See as a board we can already see very clearly how our 2014 & 2015 years pencil out with a fair degree of predictability. Selling tons of “shelfware” (customers who buy but don’t use your software) and thus having bad customer references. Mentorship.

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Seduced By Growth, But Terminal Scale Still Matters

Agile VC

Looking back at 2015, the standout theme in the VC/startup ecosystem was unicorn hunting. We started the year enraptured by the “Age of Unicorns” with this cover of Fortune in January 2015 : Illustration: Jeremy Enecio. But clearly 2015 saw the bloom come off the rose for this group of companies broadly.

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5 Things Businesses Should Do Now To Ensure 2015 Success

YoungUpstarts

With the end of the 2015 fiscal year nearing, businesses may be reviewing their consolidated revenues and thinking of ways they can increase their profit margin as they enter the new fiscal year or second-half of the calendar year. Implement data software automation. Ensure you are getting the best bang for the buck!