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Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder

SoCal CTO

I did a presentation this week at Coloft that looked at how Non-Technical Founders can go about getting their MVP built. Once you build it, they will now ask you about the key metrics that they need proven in order to see if you really are a good investment. " Once you have the metrics defined, it focuses your effort.

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8 Strategies For Sustaining Momentum In Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

New entrepreneurs, especially technical ones, are excited by early adopters, and tend to focus on their feedback, which will always suggest more product features and options. It’s important to define your growth strategy, document it, communicate it to your team, and align metrics and employee rewards to target goals.

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Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More - Ten Recent Great Startup Posts

SoCal CTO

Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs , February 2, 2010 Looks at the critical equation around customer acquisition cost vs. customer lifetime value similar to what I discussed in Startup Metrics but in more depth. Great stuff. Good stuff from Jason. How Unique Is A Unique Visitor? -

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Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project

Steve Blank

Founders that learn are more successful : Startups that have helpful mentors, track metrics effectively, and learn from startup thought leaders raise 7x more money and have 3.5x Technical-heavy founding teams are 3.3x Balanced teams with one technical founder and one business founder raise 30% more money, have 2.9x

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14 Interesting Findings From The Startup Genome Project

YoungUpstarts

Startups that have helpful mentors, track metrics effectively, and learn from startup thought leaders raise 7x more money and have 3.5x They also over-invest in solo founders and founding teams without technical cofounders despite indicators that show that these teams have a much lower probability of success.

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Smart Bear Live 8: Edwin from MeetingKing.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Well yeah, you could potentially find a cofounder. With higher pricing and other things in that nature, maybe annual pricing and so on, you could probably get enough money together to start having an employee if a cofounder doesn’t sound good. And again, that doesn’t have the metrics that a VC wants.

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Fundraising Debt And How To Avoid It

YoungUpstarts

Ten years ago, Ward Cunningham published a Youtube video that introduced the concept of “technical debt” to the world. This also applies in acquisition conversations. by Anish Sebastian and Juan Pablo Segura, co-founders of Babyscripts. Exacerbating the problem are the subjective standards by which many young companies are evaluated.

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