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How To Get Ready To Participate In An Acceleration Program

YoungUpstarts

To give you a practical example, I’d like to analyze the reasons why my startup was rejected from participating in Start-Up Chile ’s Generation 17. More metrics need to be identified such as product testing, market validation, and/or customer validation in order to show that a market opportunity exists. After you are accepted.

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[Review] The $100 Startup

YoungUpstarts

This entails reviewing aspects like business development, offer development, prices, and customer communication, and monitoring one or two key metrics (eg sales per day, sales conversion rate, leads per day, etc). We are also told to “work on our business” instead of just in our business (hat tip to The E-Myth Revisited ).

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FutureBrand 2010: Israel Up 11 Spots in Ranking As a Country Brand

VC Cafe

Israel was also crowned as one of the ‘Rising Starts of 2010′ along with Chile, Argentina and Iceland. Israel moved in the right direction in 2010, climbing 11 spots to #30.

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FutureBrand 2010: Israel Up 11 Spots in Ranking As a Country Brand

VC Cafe

Israel was also crowned as one of the ‘Rising Starts of 2010′ along with Chile, Argentina and Iceland. Israel moved in the right direction in 2010, climbing 11 spots to #30.

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FutureBrand 2010: Israel Up 11 Spots in Ranking As a Country Brand

VC Cafe

Israel was also crowned as one of the ‘Rising Starts of 2010′ along with Chile, Argentina and Iceland. Israel moved in the right direction in 2010, climbing 11 spots to #30.

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How to measure the accuracy of forecasts

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

” Our “error” metric will confirm that this forecaster is a genius — exactly zero over a whole year of predictions! Consider the life of a forecaster in Antofagasta, Chile, where on average it rains only five days a year (for a grand total of 1.7 This metric — “uncertainty” — is computed as.

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Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more)

Startup Lessons Learned

Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,