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8 Growth Practices That Every Startup Needs To Follow

Startup Professionals Musings

Pick a single metric that is the focus for all growth. Today’s world is full of metrics leading to business growth, including customer logins, revenue per customer, retention, and average solution price. Revenue and competitive position followed. Less is more. How many do you already practice today?

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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The metrics were good but we wondered how much better they would be when we expanded our product. It is Blockbuster video in the dawn of Netflix. Will a third-party pay (advertisers, data companies)? Competition. Our centralization is their achilles heel. Then you need to understand the economic benefit to the user.

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8 Principles For Building A Competitive Core Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Pick a single metric that is the focus for all growth. Today’s world is full of metrics leading to business growth, including customer logins, revenue per customer, retention, and average solution price. Revenue and competitive position followed. Less is more. How many do you already practice today?

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8 Positive Lessons From Facebook On Building Momentum

Startup Professionals Musings

Pick a single metric that is the focus for all growth. Today’s world is full of metrics leading to business growth, including customer logins, revenue per customer, retention, and average solution price. Revenue and competitive position followed. Less is more. How many do you already practice today?

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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

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We talked about the analogies between what NetFlix achieved in movies and whether this is relevant to the book market. Company grew by more than “400% each year” for past few years [assume growth metric = revenues]. Metrics: 2.5mm members, 1,000 brands, 2,500 sale events to-date. Online text book rental service.