Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 8, 2010

Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Microsoft will be making scholarships available to companies in their BizSpark program; stay tuned for details. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

So I have personal scars from what it means to over-index success using fundraising as the key metric. Success and fundraising are not one and the same. You can find Brent’s original post here. ).

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David Teten

JUNE 12, 2014

We are also the second or third most active angel group in New York, depending on which metric you use. Because of that, we have been judges or speakers at programs in New York geared to investors and startups from Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Eastern Europe, Germany, Holland, Israel, Italy, the Maghreb, and Portugal.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

The actual goal here is really to increase the main metrics – the amount of money it generates and the amount of traffic it gets. He’s in Brazil living like a king because he makes $10,000 a month from his blogging and his membership site. 10,000 US a month is a lot of money in Sao Paulo, Brazil. It’s entirely up to you.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

As if massive data we have is not enough of a problem, we also rely on Averages, Percentages, Ratios and Compound/Calculated Metrics in a profoundly sub optimal way, as a drunken man uses lamp-posts – for support rather than for illumination. You saw this problem when I sorted descending or ascending for the metric bounce rate above.

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Growthink Blog

JULY 23, 2012

trillion, by 2020, equivalent to bringing a whole new market the size of Brazil online. A strong results and metrics-focused approach. Since 2005, they have been the two leading investors in Africa, investing $31 billion and $16 billion on the continent, respectively. But a few constants remain.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

Be sure that you´ve already helped me and some friends a lot (down here in Brazil) to become better entrepreuneurs. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Success Metrics. In my Oct 2011 post, Best Social Media Metrics , I'd created four metrics to quantify this value. I believe the best way to measure success is to measure the above four metrics (actual interaction/action/outcome). It can be a brand metric, say Likelihood to Recommend. It is not that hard.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

Best wishes, Miguel Cavalcanti, from Brazil @mcavalcanti August 19, 2009 3:08 PM Andykiteman said. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. They do lots of prototypes internally. Tks a lot for sharing.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 166

Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

trillion, by 2020, equivalent to bringing a whole new market the size of Brazil online. A strong results and metrics-focused approach. Since 2005, they have been the two leading investors in Africa, investing $31 billion and $16 billion on the continent, respectively. But a few constants remain.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

And the final lesson was that we were keeping score on our packaging with the wrong metrics – it wasn’t about awards, it was about sales in the retail channel. We had been outsourcing an important part of our demand creation strategy – packaging – to an outside agency without having the expertise to judge or manage the results.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

We’ve had just one market since then and it could confuse one into thinking: every deal finds downstream investors, every company good or bad finds a home, you know anything at all about brazil, india, china or even saas sales, ecommerce or analytics (you know all these in a bull market).

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Mongoose Metrics ~ ifbyphone. I know Mongoose Metrics a bit more and have been impressed with their solution and evolution over the last couple of years. Twitter to me is a proxy of how data collection is changing and what the future of relevant metrics might look like. Mongoose Metrics. AnalyzeWords. Google Analytics.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

I have recently been doing some research on Entrepreneurship in Brazil, while also trying to start my own company. I wanted to ask you what you thought about “context&# ? a lot is written in general terms, mostly US centric. What about emerging economies, what caveats do they posses ?

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Hey, David Barrett, instead of considering the percentage of start-ups that don’t use.NET as some kind of meaningful metric, the more important metric is how many of these start-ups burn through their venture funds before producing any viable product to sell. March 27, 2011 at 3:50 pm. Robert Stanton. But that was about it.

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