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Startup Metrics

TechEmpower

If your numbers work out, then scaling becomes a question of capital. Next, define what you need from a metrics and reporting standpoint. The metrics, and how they relate, are captured in his slide: Note the relationship between retention/referral efforts and lifetime value. Don’t worry about scaling just yet.

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Startup Metrics

SoCal CTO

A post by Fred Wilson pointed me to Dave McClure's Startup Metrics presentation. If these numbers work out, then often scaling is more a question of capital. Define what you need from a metrics and reporting standpoint. Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp, Sept 2009) View more documents from Dave McClure.

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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

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We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital. The Spark Capital website (it’s one of my favorites). BookRenter – plus a discussion about Chegg … what is going on in the university book market?

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

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The deck itself was produced by a committee of functional team lead who were asked to do 5–7 slides each for an update. Each section head reads his / her 5–7 slides. If you put up 5 slides on “what should we order for lunch today” the board will spend 30 minutes debating that. There are too many pages. It passes the weight test.

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The Four Main Things that Investors Look for in a Startup

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And they’re easy to remember because they all begin with an M: management, market, money and above all else momentum. Not everybody agrees that entrepreneurs should take investor meetings outside of “funding season&# when they’re raising capital. It’s a conversation that creeps up from time-to-time.

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How Great, Operationally-Focused CFO’s Can Transform Your Business

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What I love about my job is getting to see teams of super-early-stage companies develop ideas that while raw have potential to make an impact on the market. It freed up Ophir to grow out our sales organization, to work more closely with agencies, to innovate on product and to raise capital. It literally can put you out of business.

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Should Your Startup Give Performance-Based Warrants?

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As startup entrepreneurs we all want to work with them because having their name as reference clients makes it so much easier for marketing, PR, selling to other customers, fund raising and even recruiting. Have minimums but a sliding scale. Subjective warrants – I also see warrants given out without hard metrics.

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