Up and Running

AUGUST 7, 2018

If the money isn’t there or the workload doesn’t warrant bringing in new employees, you should reconsider scaling. . You’re hopefully monitoring sales, marketing, and support metrics on a regular basis. At some point, they realized the workloads were increasing due to increased demand, and so they adjusted accordingly.

Software Review 94

Software Review Warrant Demand Employee 94

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

This structure allows for alignment on the front end, and real-time flexibility for performance metrics,” says Samira Salman , a family office investor and advisor. . Flexible VCs have created structures based on other company performance metrics than revenues, such as profits or founder salaries. Lenders sometimes take warrants.

Cofounder 78

Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

View from Seed

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Include both positives and negatives for a more productive board conversation, which is especially critical in the seed stage since nearly everything is in “figure it out” mode. A seed-stage mobile startup’s housekeeping section might look something like this: Section 3: Core Metrics.

Seed Stage 331

Seed Stage Cap Table Metrics Burn Rate 331

Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

BUT I’m also a believer that most founders shouldn’t waste time with extensive investor conversations unless they’re getting ready to raise capital within the next 3-6 months -or- you believe an investor can help you in some specific way separate from/ahead of a funding.] public) markets.

Venture Capital 85

Venture Capital Technical Review Early Stage Warrant 85

Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Each project is scoped with timelines, metrics and deliverables. JA: We understand the legacy feelings and, to some extent, they are warranted. To this end, part of a what we’re trying to do with our current crowdfunding campaign is start a conversation. These conversations need to happen to bridge the gap.

Campaign 60

Campaign Technical Cofounder Cofounder Virginia 60

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

ABM must target the entire buying committee, not just one or two individuals who may never be involved in sales conversations. Because of this, even a small deal may warrant a one-to-one marketing approach. Does your company clearly understand current CAC , LTV, CAC payback period, and other core growth metrics?

Customer 98

Customer Marketing Channel Acquisition 98

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 30, 2017

Great sustainable sales only exist in an environment where there are processes and metrics. If you claim to have metrics, but don’t track them or can’t recite them, you are fooling yourself. If you think your business is different and you don’t need metrics, you are wrong. The converse is never true.

Warrant 195

Warrant Valuation Metrics Startup 195

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Perhaps a specialist is warranted in one area, and a smart generalist in another. In these startups one of the traps is paying too much for a specialist, because the company may not grow fast enough to warrant the expense, and the specialists talents may go (somewhat) to waste without the rapid growth environment.

Warrant 48

Warrant Bootstrapping Framework Hiring 48

David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

Next, I would push ‘anti-pattern’ entrepreneurs to remove the convenient (and often true) excuses for not warranting investment. Prove more through metrics. I truly believe in the meritocracy of Silicon Valley – when you have solid metrics. Don recommends: Don’t just do startups “for us”.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Greece Advisory Board Cofounder 60

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 21, 2013

I was having a conversion on Friday with Brad Bernthal , an Associate Professor at Colorado Law School who directs the Silicon Flatirons Center’s Entrepreneurship Initiative. TBD, but traditional metrics won’t capture its benefits. Brad and I – in addition to sharing a first name – are close friends.

Colorado 141

Colorado Seattle Silicon Valley Warrant 141

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 1, 2019

For example, if we’re interested in the difference between the conversion rate of a test variation of a checkout page and our current checkout page, we would: Perform an A/B test to measure the difference between the test and control groups. Most commonly, we work with differences in conversion rates or average revenue per user.

Distribution 110

Distribution Metrics Warrant Conversion 110

TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

In a recent conversation on Twitter about JEP 301: Enhanced Enums , Joshua Bloch and Brian Goetz referred to theoretical immutable Enum{Set,Map} types in the JDK. It beats RegularEnumSet in all important metrics: Query speed ( contains(element) , etc.) API-level changes are warranted as well. Iteration speed Space consumed.

Java 330

Java API Operations Semantic 330

ConversionXL

JULY 25, 2022

Show how teams will track the success of each campaign, channel, or asset, including KPIs and goal-related metrics and the tools used to measure performance. Below the key steps is an ongoing conversation about what to include and what these additions mean: This active collaboration means that playbooks have the right information.

Community 93

Community Marketing Retention Campaign 93

ConversionXL

MAY 20, 2020

Those images may not warrant a click, but they may help searchers recognize and remember your brand. It focuses on monitoring conversion funnels across various channels and devices. You can point the tool to important conversion metrics, and it shows which steps leak traffic or where you could shorten the conversion path.

SEO 148

SEO Search Video Mobile 148

David Teten

MARCH 2, 2013

While I don’t ultimately agree with the article’s conclusions, I think it warrants consideration. We thought that you’d be interested in our conversation. Tom draws on two metrics to demonstrate that larger funds are, in fact, more likely to be top performers. examined 4 separate sources using a variety of return metrics.

LP 114

LP Securities and Exchange Commission Silicon Valley Venture Capital 114

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

We know that it means to evaluate something by comparison to the standard, but by what metrics are we evaluating it? Now, ours (we’re calling it the Conversion-Focused UX, or CUX model) differs slightly, in that we really want to be as conversion-focused as possible. How Do We Do UX Benchmarking? Background and Methodology.

Database 110

Database Design Search eCommerce 110

ConversionXL

APRIL 27, 2017

Due to long tail search and dedicated posts or ads on social media for specific products, traffic to product pages has gone up and so has their conversion rate.” (via Thus, the conversion potential is reasonably high. More than enough to warrant optimizing your out of stock product pages. via GetUplift.co). Start experimenting.

Stock 90

Stock Product eCommerce SEO 90

Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2018

So while the number of dollars pouring into Austin may be increasing, that metric is only favorable to businesses that warrant those sized-rounds. was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Austin 48

Austin San Francisco Early Stage Later Stage 48

ithacaVC

APRIL 5, 2011

It also lists out option holders and warrant holders. So, again, with convertible debt, you delay the valuation decision altogether until the next equity round is raised (and hopefully by then the company is more mature leading to better metrics for valuation). A real institutional investor wants to invest $XX,000 in his company.

Common Stock 45

Common Stock Stock Cap Table Preferred Stock 45

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

There were no metrics. Him: On metrics. If we priced it based on any metrics your company would likely be worth less than 7 figures at your A round. These are all real conversations. What if when you have that conversation you don’t agree? It’s like we need a finance 101 course for entrepreneurs.

Venture Capital 417

Venture Capital Liquidation Preference Valuation Term Sheet 417

Gust

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

There were no metrics. Him: On metrics. If we priced it based on any metrics your company would likely be worth less than 7 figures at your A round. These are all real conversations. What if when you have that conversation you don’t agree? It’s like we need a finance 101 course for entrepreneurs. Your A round?

Liquidation Preference 153

Liquidation Preference Valuation Term Sheet Stock 153

Rob Go

JUNE 1, 2016

As an existing investor, it’s very hard not to try to pour more money into companies that seem to be getting lots of external investor validation, even if you suspect that the company doesn’t warrant it. One metric I see mentioned from time to time is the idea of a follow-on hit rate. Hit rates and outside leads can be very misleading.

Term Sheet 28

Term Sheet Portfolio Valuation Warrant 28

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

In the middle of a serious conversation on the joys of motherhood or the stress of a career you might realize that the person you’re talking to is only 15. But to your point, you can't even have a conversation with them, they have made their decisions and moved on. But it also has some drawbacks. IMVU is one great tornado.

Community 158

Community Management Lean Software Review 158

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

As much as I love Linux (and would love to make it my primary OS across all of my development systems), it simply lacks the market share necessary to warrant the investment of my efforts. If I want to make something for the professional, “advanced” or Gamer/Desktop market, there’s no alternative to Windows. Robert Stanton.

Java 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

ConversionXL

JULY 12, 2017

By that, I mean the benefits go further than simply increasing your conversion rate by a few percentage points. And yes, an increased conversion rate. We know that most people aren’t satisfied with their conversion rates (if you’re satisfied, stop settling for mediocrity – you can always improve !). Read our guide here.

eCommerce 100

eCommerce Mobile Conversion Design 100

ConversionXL

JULY 12, 2017

By that, I mean the benefits go further than simply increasing your conversion rate by a few percentage points. And yes, an increased conversion rate. We know that most people aren’t satisfied with their conversion rates (if you’re satisfied, stop settling for mediocrity – you can always improve !). Read our guide here.

eCommerce 95

eCommerce Mobile Conversion Design 95