Competition Design Metrics Software Review 
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 22, 2023
Competition is not always a bad thing, and the real purpose is often to make the world a better place. Design the full stack, not just a new software element. With a singular focus on building unicorns, very rapid growth has been a key metric. In Silicon Valley’s classic model, startups must start “asset light.”
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 29, 2015
In fact, my cofounder had already put in notice to move out of his place, he had bough tickets to Columbia, where he had decided to spend the next six months to work on coding. They immediately wired us money, and even paid myself and my cofounder a stipend while we were in due diligence. So, we decided to shut down the company.
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Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 1, 2020
Competition is not always a bad thing, and the real purpose is often to make the world a better place. Design the full stack, not just a new software element. With a singular focus on building unicorns, very rapid growth has been a key metric. In Silicon Valley’s classic model, startups must start “asset light.”
SoCal CTO
JANUARY 26, 2010
I provided a whole set of questions that I go through with founders before Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything. Given likely market changes, how will we design and build so that the systems can respond to marketplace changes? These questions are critical background for any developer at any level.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
He came to work in our offices at Upfront Ventures as an EIR and immediately began building software to improve how storage was picked up, photographed, scanned and routed to a warehouse. Sam began drawing out plans for a new way to provide storage after he had horrific experiences with traditional storage after the storm.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 27, 2011
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 Fast early growth in a market is often eroded when competition gets fierce and prices are forced down due to competition.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 25, 2016
It says that selling an airplane ticket for $500 and getting paid a $5 fees by the airlines (1% gross margin) is not the same thing as selling $500 of software that you built (>90% gross margin). Sam did all this analysis before even deciding to build V1 of his software and before we put serious money behind him launching.
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