David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking. 645 Ventures released a cap table simulator to help level the playing field. Similarly, Corsis uses benchmarking data to understand technology spend patterns.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

An investor had few hard metrics other than the actual financials, and little technology to make the process scaleable. Over the past few decades, better metrics became available, and investors could take a more analytical, data-driven approach. ” Historically, investing was a manual, artisan process.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

View from Seed

DECEMBER 11, 2019

However, as we’ve seen from recent salient stories , these can be ephemeral and don’t end up mattering in the end… they’re really just approximations based on the market for buying a piece of a company’s cap table, not buying the whole thing or making it public. VC performance signal-to-noise-ratio is low. Fund cycle.

Venture Capital 204

Venture Capital Cap Table Partner LP 204

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

People, not just metrics. And what I mean by that is, almost every metric, every graph, every number, is a person. Eric Ries : Metrics are people too. Brian Chesky : Metrics are people. And so suddenly, your master are your metrics. Your metrics are your master. He has a unique business philosophy.

Silicon Valley 60

Silicon Valley Hosting Cofounder Employee 60

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Many have noted that the aggregate shareholder value created by all of the Unicorns will vastly overshadow the losses from the inevitable failed unicorns. Anything that hints of a down round brings questions about the success metrics that have already been “booked.” If you over-fund the industry, aggregate returns fall.

IPO 40

IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

It kind of aggregates technology content, I suppose. You can go read about it on Wikipedia and whatnot, but it's sort of a metric that economists use to look at the various countries of the world and measure how economically free those places are. How did it come on your radar for the first time? That's an important piece.

IPO 113

IPO Cofounder Technical Review Government 113