Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
But it will be patiently deployed, waiting for a cohort of founders who aren’t artificially clinging to 2021 valuation metrics. So we largely sat out fundings of NFTs or other areas where we didn’t feel like we were the expert or where the valuation metrics weren’t in line with our funding goals.
Startup Lessons Learned
MARCH 6, 2013
If you're planning to be in Austin, please come say hello. SATURDAY, MARCH 9TH - Hilton Austin Downtown KEYNOTES & CASE STUDIES FROM. (This year, we're battling both the flu and the Congressional sequester.) See you there! THIS SATURDAY! JOIN THE BIGGEST TECH EVENT @SXSW, featuring. 1,000 startup founders, investors, and press!
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Steve Blank
AUGUST 3, 2012
That earned us the right to ask questions of fact about their department’s mission, goals, operations, volumes, tools, methods, and success metrics. The same thing happened on Friday in Austin. We did a quick overview of the product. We asked, “Given all that, what problems are you having?” Now they’re arguing about how to do it.”.
Austin Startup
APRIL 4, 2017
I really enjoyed a recent post I read on First Round Review about vanity metrics, which touches on what I love about my startup vs. others with more funding, more engineers and more mentions on TechCrunch. Vanity metrics aren’t useless. Tracking clarity metrics builds great businesses.” “In Don’t focus on them internally.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
JULY 19, 2010
Photodex is a little company you've never heard of I worked for in Austin in the 90's. On the surface, it's yet another "marketing metrics" company. Google's search algorithm was just better, therefore they won the eyeballs, therefore they were able to monetize. Sure Bing and Yahoo are good now , but the advantage lasted long enough.
Austin Startup
JULY 22, 2017
Back in December 2016 I had the idea to develop a startup pledge for diversity and inclusion here in Austin and since have informally been working with some folks to develop the idea. This is similar to something we did at Austin Ventures to encourage startups to make a donation to the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Central Texas.
Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 18, 2011
Manuel Rosso was IMVU's first VP of Marketing, and is now CEO of Food on the Table , one of the leading lean startups in Austin. Because of their dedication to metrics, they knew all the details of their registration funnel and subsequent user journey. If your metrics are surprising, do some qualitative research to figure out why!
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