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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

For each of these, there is a human element (non-scaleable) and the possibility of a tech layer (which any one VC will only have implemented to varying extents). the “TOPSCAN” framework from my research study on value creation by VCs ): T eam-Building – We aggregate openings across our portfolio on our jobs page.

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How To Staff A Startup With (Almost) No Money

ReadWriteStart

Last month, the 17-year-old sold Summly , his news-aggregation app, to Yahoo for a reported $30 million! At the beginning, before you have investors, it is not unusual for you (and possibly employees) to forego salary for extended periods of time. Non-Monetary Incentives.

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Doubling SaaS Revenue By Changing The Pricing Model

www.kalzumeus.com

They were very concerned with competing with free. They’ll complain that Server Density costs infinity percent more than OSS, because they value their own time at zero, not having to e.g. pay salaries or account for a budget or anything. This is true even though the revenue per customer is non-normal.

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Six Web Metrics / Key Performance Indicators To Die For

Occam's Razor

Let's check the big gorilla: Key Performance Indicators (KPI) are financial and non-financial metrics used to help an organization define and measure progress toward organizational goals. That's because this can be a non ecommerce metric. "Purchase" Great KPI's for non-ecommerce website. So awesome!

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Tony P great, though meebo’s place as a “successful&# start up is still open to debate – from consumer IM aggregator to white label IM, still not making big $$. I too am looking for someone to work with that knows the manufacturing and distribution end of a solid product. This is the blog post I needed to read.