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Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder

SoCal CTO

Once you build it, they will now ask you about the key metrics that they need proven in order to see if you really are a good investment. The real reason to build an MVP is to do early tests of key Startup Metrics for the business. " Once you have the metrics defined, it focuses your effort. To prove/disprove a hypothesis.

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Netflix employees stage a trans solidarity walkout, pose list of demands

TechCrunch LA

The employees who participated in the walkout want Netflix to “adopt measures to avoid future instances of platforming transphobia and hate speech,” they wrote in a letter. But this is a watershed moment — as Netflix employees we have both the privilege and responsibility to create change on and off the platform.

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Accurate assumptions lead to defendable plans

Berkonomics

It is most often missed assumptions about the market, the competition, the speed of adoption, or other critical metrics you’ve researched, or selected, or even just guessed at to create your plan. No-one challenged this number, and it became an unattributed source of the metric for market size for years.

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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

Both Sides of the Table

In the media NYC is “hot” right now yet having just spent 6 days in NY I heard many similar stories as I get in LA: not enough VC and hard to get great tech resources. 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.

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What is your biggest error in company planning?

Berkonomics

It is most often missed assumptions about the market, the competition, the speed of adoption, or other critical metrics you’ve researched, or selected, or even just guessed at to create your plan. That’s likely to be completely unreachable for you with almost any amount of resources. Sources for your data. TAM, SAM, SOM?

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Startup CTO or Developer

SoCal CTO

What metrics are going to be the key startup metrics and how do we get those metrics without too much cost? More on the Role of the Startup CTO I actually had a fairly hard time finding good resources that describe this issue. Eric Ries, a great resource, What Does a Startup CTO actually do? Can't find one?

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Stem: Simplifying Payments For Creatives, With Milana Rabkin

socalTECH

Milana Rabkin: As a platform, we work on a consensus model. They can use Stem as a platform to distribute that content. As revenue comes back from the platforms and services they've monetized that content on, we automate the disbursement of payments to everyone at the same time. Currently, that's music and online video.

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