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Startup Metrics

TechEmpower

Proving your Business Model Works - Build, Define, and Review But how do you prove your numbers? If your numbers work out, then scaling becomes a question of capital. Finally, review the numbers with your partners. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas Don’t worry about scaling just yet.

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How Boards Need to Evolve Over Time

Both Sides of the Table

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. Reviewing financial & operational performance. And honestly if you did raise a ton of capital from many people it’s ok that you share control. In the Early Days. Mentorship.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , July 11, 2010 I just reviewed several hundred startup pitches for Capital Factory. So, I’ve had about 4 years on the “inside” of a fast-growing, venture-backed B2B SaaS startup. Most were on paper and video; 20 were invited to pitch in person.

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Here is Why Non-Obvious Startup Ideas Can Yield the Largest Results

Both Sides of the Table

It has become so synonymous with Internet companies that the French have invented a disdainful term including Amazon: “les GAFA,” which they refer to as Google-Apple-Facebook-Amazon to talk about American dominance of the Internet. But can you really tell me MakeSpace is a tech company? It is a household name.

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One Weird Trick to Build a Personal Brand

Both Sides of the Table

My long-time friend Jason Lemkin is on the verge of launching a spectacular SaaS conference called SaaStr this week. We had just gotten over the dot com crash and return to normalcy where nobody seemed to give a s**t about tech companies any more. I had been doing SaaS for 7 years. We attended Saleforce.com parties.

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