David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. What I’m challenged with as a small business owner is, I don’t know if it’s the press, or if it’s just the culture in general, but there’s this pressing vanity metric of, How much capital have you raised? What does it mean to have a co-founder or not?

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www.joelonsoftware.com

JULY 10, 2012

That means on the average day you have 150 metric tons of wheat flour in stock. New York City , including free housing, free lunch, and the chance to develop software people will really use, with great mentors on interesting projects. I’m Joel Spolsky , co-founder of Fog Creek Software , a New York company that proves that.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Anand Sanwal , co-founder and CEO of CB Insights ; and Chris Shipley , executive producer of MIT’s Solve initiative, joined me in the studio to discuss the day-to-day chaos of building a company. or the key metrics in the credit card business. … Where do people think certain key metrics are going?” Eye on the Prize.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Storage is what’s known as “highly fragmented,” meaning easier for a new entrant to get traction if it could design a better product / service / experience. The metrics were good but we wondered how much better they would be when we expanded our product. You need a wedge. Validate data. Validate firmly held positions.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 24, 2018

Eighteen months later, I’m keynoting at conferences and serving clients in London, Sydney, Singapore, Los Angeles, Lisbon, Vancouver, and 50 other cities,” says Logan Young, the co-founder of BlitzMetrics, a Facebook dashboard and advertising company. Learn, Do, Teach: Build Your Expertise First.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

While the aforementioned example may not fit every startup, regardless, you need to have an actionable, scalable business model with measurable metrics (downloads, customers, etc.) With more than 50 million monthly pageviews and 14 million unique monthly visitors, Mashable has one of the most engaged online news communities.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 3, 2017

Guest post by Melissa Moore & Jennifer Maerz of Lean Startup Co. Whether you need advice on how to design a good experiment, how to get buy-in from your boss, or what key metrics to track to hold your team accountable, we’re here to help. You won’t just hear inspirational and motivational talks (though we’ll have plenty of that!).

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 27, 2013

Yesterday, author Dan Heath took time out of his launch day to spend some time with me and answered some questions about his new book, Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work , co-authored with his brother Chip. Dan also kindly asked his publisher to reserve 50 copies of the new book to give away to my readers.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 23, 2022

David is the Founder and CEO of David Novak Leadership, the parent organization to five nonprofits dedicated to developing leaders at every stage of life, from ages 5 to 65. David is also the Co-author of his newest book – Take Charge of You: How Self Coaching Can Transform Your Life and Career. How leaders lead with David Novak.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

They adopt, measure, and manage key product performance metrics. A new CTO will conduct a thorough audit and a holistic technology assessment, in order to codify your strengths and weaknesses. “A A CTO is in the business of scale, for whatever an organization has as its core metrics. Please email douglas@voltagecontrol.co

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Wanted: High Frequency Performance Operations Specialist at Two Sigma Investments (New York, New York United States). Its impossible to use hard-and-fast metrics to decide where someone fits in, and these kinds of metrics tend to accidentally incentivize the wrong things. Educational adjustments. (It

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

In fact, I believe the movement is now mainstream—startups, VCs, accelerators, are no longer “new.”. There are co-working spaces in basically every city in the world—from Nepal to New York. Using an alternative process including different systems and metrics is key. to find, attract and retain “starters.”.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 8, 2017

Quantitative research with digital analytics tools like Google Analytics , Mixpanel, Amplitude or RJ Metrics will inform you about where your users are coming from, what they are doing during their sessions and where they are dropping off from your conversion funnel or when they churn. Image Source. Behavioral segments. Here is the biggie.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 11, 2018

The New York Times had a critically acclaimed article on fake followers that focused attention on a well-known “dirty secret” of influencer marketing. Influencer marketing uses engagement as a metric to measure the level of interaction influencers receive with their content.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 21, 2017

My Mama, the founder of Yuca’s Hut in Los Feliz, CA, didn’t allow a lack of college degrees or a business plan to deter her from launching her dream. Larry Page, Google co-founder.I I am co founder of GreenPal which has been described as Uber for lawn care. I own a brand strategy agency in New York.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies.

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David Teten

AUGUST 6, 2015

I also spoke with Michael Hutchens , CEO & Cofounder of BPM Global , which helps organizations more efficiently build and maintain financial models. Below is an example of a useful financial output summary located within an assumptions tab: 18) Output key metrics, not just financial statements. 13) Design for auditability.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

Bessemer was also heavily represented with David Cowan , managing partner and co-founder of VeriSign ( see his post about the event ), Rob Stavis , BVP’s New York-based managing partner who led our investment in Skype, Byron Deeter , partner and founder of Trigo and our COO/managing partner Ed Colloton.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

We were excited by the response at last year’s Lean Startup Conference to Diane Tavenner’s eye-opening talk on her experience implementing Lean Startup methods at Summit Public Schools, the California charter for which she is CEO and co-founder. Join them on November 21 at 9a PT, along with conference co-host Sarah Milstein.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 11, 2018

The New York Times had a critically acclaimed article on fake followers that focused attention on a well-known “dirty secret” of influencer marketing. Influencer marketing uses engagement as a metric to measure the level of interaction influencers receive with their content.

Marketing 48

Marketing Software Review Social Media Audience 48

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Almost immediately, people started to dig what we were doing: Digital Trends named Localeur one of their favorite new apps of SXSW 2013 and other press followed. Second, I went on to raise roughly $5 million in angel investments from 100 individuals who did listen to, understand, and value my experience as a black founder and CEO.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 22, 2012

Guest author Arie Abecassis is co-founder of AppStori, a crowdfunding startup for entrepreneurs of mobile apps, and a Venture Partner at DreamIt Ventures. He’s been actively involved in the New York tech community as an entrepreneur and investor, and currently sits on the boards of SeatGeek, Adaptly and BiznessApps.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

I've known Brian Chesky, Co-Founder, CEO and Head of Community at Airbnb for a long time. People, not just metrics. I think every founder, every CEO, every leader, could learn something, could take heart from Brian's example and I hope they will. I'm from New York, upstate New York.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 4, 2021

Consequently, we concentrate around 80% of our giving in two organizations that I co-founded and Chair — African Mission Healthcare and United Hatzalah. We could discuss the ROI metrics of each organization in the same way as we would any company. Our answer: Mt. Great medical institutions are ready to handle everything.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

In a post last week about how to measure the effectiveness of startup employees , we mentioned that perhaps the number of hours worked isn't the best metric. Chris Grayson, a New York-based digital media consultant and marketing strategist, said , "What @brianjeremy said." Jeremy isn't alone in his sentiments.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Going to business school and becoming a startup founder are often positioned as conflicting choices by the media and startup bloggers. Some go as far as stating, flat out, that MBAs don’t make for good founders. In fact, there are over 250 founders from the HBS classes between 2008 and 2014. Combined, they’ve raised over $2.5

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The Next Web

AUGUST 28, 2012

So in the course of 48 hours she quit her job, sold most of her belongings and moved to New York in order to chase her goals. Rae was pushed by her friend Teju Ravilochan, co-founder and CEO of The Unreasonable Institute , to drive her actions forward and do something more. But how do you measure success?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 28, 2011

On the other side of this radio interview are Adelaide Lancaster and Amy Abrams , both founders of their own startups, both coaches and mentors to dozens of other startups over the years, and who together created and still run the In Good Company co-working space for women entrepreneurs in New York City.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 19, 2013

How much skin do you and your fellow founders have in the game ? Email readers, continue here.] Metrics and management: What might be the first indication the company will not be able to achieve its goals and objectives? When will the company run out of money if the development of the enterprise is at a slower rate than expected?

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Hunter Walker

JULY 25, 2017

So when Joe Marchese introduced me to Heather Hartnett for more information about the NYC startup studio they were cofounding, I was predisposed to feel a kinship. I can see this in the people they bring onboard and the founders they work with. We sit on the side of the founder and we let the market value the company.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2017

In the end, all marketers growth hack a bit, even if all that means is trying new things to engage new customers. He regularly speaks to startups and Fortune 100s and has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, WIRED, Fast Company, Inc.com, and TechCrunch. How to find your North Star Metric?

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K9 Ventures

DECEMBER 10, 2011

I must admit that I do also have some exceptions to this rule – LucidChart is based in Provo, UT, and Occipital is presently in Boulder, CO. I’m not saying that VCs work harder than founders do, but they’re not slacking off either. Maybe if I make it 30 miles as-the-crow-flies, it may still hold!

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, December 23, 2009 Why vanity metrics are dangerous In a previous post, I defined two kinds of metrics: vanity metrics and actionable metrics. In this post, Id like to talk about the perils of vanity metrics. My personal favorite vanity metrics is "hits."

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K9 Ventures

DECEMBER 10, 2011

I must admit that I do also have some exceptions to this rule – LucidChart is based in Provo, UT, and Occipital is presently in Boulder, CO. I’m not saying that VCs work harder than founders do, but they’re not slacking off either. Maybe if I make it 30 miles as-the-crow-flies, it may still hold!

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Up and Running

AUGUST 2, 2017

As the founder of a publishing company focused specifically on serving entrepreneurs, I see the same problem over and over: When a business owner decides they want to write a book (or do anything else, for that matter), their goal is to be the best. How does a book get you attention?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Focus on the output metrics of that part of the product, and you make the problem a lot more clear. To promote this metrics discipline, we would present the full funnel to our board (and advisers) at the end of every development cycle. Max Levchin of Slide and Paypal has noted that 10% of Slides headcount is devoted to metrics only.

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