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Massacre at IBM

Steve Blank

On Monday, in San Jose, near the factory, we met with UltraTech Stepper, a friendly account. That earned us the right to ask questions of fact about their department’s mission, goals, operations, volumes, tools, methods, and success metrics. The first wave of meetings was with five US customers in mid-November.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

Wondering how do I get in touch with you - I am founder of a company here in San jose, CA and would like to invite you to be part of our advisor team. 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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Women 2.0 » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

www.women2.org

San Jose, CA. The Alchemist Series: Customer Development and Metrics. This is the first course in a five course series featuring the Valleys leading minds on Customer Development and Metrics. Learn how to create, launch, and manage your start-up over complimentary beer and wine. For more info and to register, click here.

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ProfessorVC: Is the Grass Really Greener on the Dark Side?

Professor VC

Perhaps, this is partially driving some of the jumping across the table, but certainly the performance metrics of funds and individual partners has also played a key role. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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ProfessorVC: 4 Lessons of Entrepreneurship

Professor VC

Its Ok to Exit a Little Early -StubHub was experiencing great growth and hitting its metrics when Ebay acquired the company in early 2007 It is quite possible that Jeff could have gotten a higher price for the company by waiting, but felt there were a number of benefits to exiting when they did.

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Fostering A Company Culture Of Ongoing Professional Growth

YoungUpstarts

That simple metric will give you a simple baseline from which to improve. James began his career as a technical recruiter in Silicon Valley and San Francisco. After nine years of recruiting, James completed his Masters in Counselor Education at San Jose State University and transitioned into career counseling and coaching.

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Well, it seems to make sense…

Life Beyond Code

The claim is that Facebook is catching up and in fact recently surpassed Google on this metric. And, what’s the metric again? You will quickly notice that the metric chosen does not make sense even if the numbers are correct ( which are not as I will prove in the next one minute ). Total time spent on the website.