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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

Both Sides of the Table

I always remind this to journalists who ask me about public stocks. So while the simplest way that people often evaluate stocks is by P/E ratios (price-to-earnings), one also needs to look at other metrics such as the PEG (price-to-earnings-growth). [of Revenue is Not Revenue is Not Revenue. Not necessarily.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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Why Uber is The Revenge of the Founders

Steve Blank

A version of this article is in the Harvard Business Review. To turn your company’s stock into cash, you engaged a top-notch investment bank (Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs) and/or their Silicon Valley compatriots (Hambrecht & Quist, Montgomery Securities, Robertson Stephens). This seems to be occurring more and more.

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What are the Key Factors Influencing the Cost of Order Fulfillment for Amazon Sellers? Explained

The Startup Magazine

Efficient management of stock levels is also important, as excess inventory can lead to higher storage and removal fees. Regularly reviewing performance metrics can help identify areas for improvement. These tools can help you maintain the right stock levels, ensuring you can meet customer demand without overstocking.

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Software Inventory

www.joelonsoftware.com

Joel on Software. Software Inventory. That means on the average day you have 150 metric tons of wheat flour in stock. The software production process has several major “inventory” accumulation points, itself. How is software like a factory?” An implementation process (writing code). by Joel Spolsky.

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How to Prepare for a Board Meeting to Make Sure you Crush It

Both Sides of the Table

The law firm has done its job of preparing the stock option requests, board meeting minutes, 409a valuations. Often board members themselves don’t do the work to say “what metrics would we like to see.” If you have some key metrics or financial figures that go with the pre-read even better. Sometimes they don’t even know.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. Your firm worked with an investment banking firm that underwrote and offered stock (typically on the NASDAQ exchange) to the public.