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5 Reasons Two Founders As A Team Are Better Than One

Startup Professionals Musings

Here also the solution usually is a partner with prior experience, who has learned how and when to hire real help, and implement metrics and processes to measure results. But in my experience, very few entrepreneurs have the bandwidth to make this work, and the adapted entrepreneur ends up doing both jobs poorly.

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Deep dive: Cancellation rate in SaaS business models

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

As a preamble to the metrics, it’s useful to know what you’re measuring and why it’s vital. We had a spike in this metric in February at WP Engine when our Internet provider themselves had a datacenter-wide catastrophe which brought us down for twelve hours; of course not all spikes will have such obvious causes.

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5 Ways A Startup Benefits From Dual Partner Strengths

Startup Professionals Musings

Here also the solution usually is a partner with prior experience, who has learned how and when to hire real help, and implement metrics and processes to measure results. But in my experience, very few entrepreneurs have the bandwidth to make this work, and the adapted entrepreneur ends up doing both jobs poorly.

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Why Uber is The Revenge of the Founders

Steve Blank

While 20th century metrics were revenue and profit, today it’s common for companies to get acquired for their user base. In the 20th century learning the best practices of a startup CEO was limited by your coffee bandwidth. (Today’s version is Tesla – now more valuable than Ford.). 2. Information is everywhere.

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Speed up or slow down? (for Harvard Business Review)

Startup Lessons Learned

It usually looks like this: the can-do attitude and high-bandwidth communication that characterized the first few iterations have produced magic. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable Beware of Vanity Metrics For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? Everyone was in the flow; the team was hyper-productive.

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Case Study: UX, Design, and Food on the Table

Startup Lessons Learned

Because of their dedication to metrics, they knew all the details of their registration funnel and subsequent user journey. They would look at a metric, spot a problem, come up with an idea for how to fix it, release a change, and test it. If your metrics are surprising, do some qualitative research to figure out why!

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17 Secrets To Keeping And Engaging Top Talent

YoungUpstarts

Your best bet: ask who wants to take on more or who has the bandwidth to do so now. Top performers hate busy work and they want to know how they are doing on the metrics that do matter. General Commitments that Top Talent Appreciates. Don’t overwork people, but know who can handle more work or work with a bigger scope.

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