Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Every plan must start with the problem you are solving, not a description of your company and product. Marketing, sales, and partners. Financial forecast and metrics.

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Competition Metrics Startup Invest 113

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Every plan must start with the problem you are solving, not a description of your company and product. Marketing, sales, and partners. Financial forecast and metrics.

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Competition Metrics Startup Sales 116

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Every plan must start with the problem you are solving, not a description of your company and product. Marketing, sales, and partners. Financial forecast and metrics.

Invest 74

Invest Tips Competition Metrics 74

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

If you buy into the argument that a strong board can actually help you then this post will lay out how to help you have more productive meetings by preparing properly in advance. There are too many pages. Often board members themselves don’t do the work to say “what metrics would we like to see.” It passes the weight test.

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Startup Slides Metrics News 226

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

To learn more about all the companies, be sure to visit 500 Startups’ official demo day page. About $37B worth of lost sales a year, worldwide. Harnessing more energy from our grid by emphasizing efficiency, not increased factory and power production. They showed very impressive average customer repurchases.

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Startup Mobile Commerce Education 111

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 4, 2013

You need to first create a compelling product. Compelling in the sense that you solve a real problem a target group of potential customers has with a product that is significantly better than the alternatives on that market. You need product / market fit. Product / market fit is everything. ” True.

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Startup Customer Custom Technical Review 401

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 22, 2016

Industry news was excited, but for how amazing of a product they are, custom Snapchat geofilters have remained stunningly under the radar. So what’s exciting about this new product? This product is literally too good to pass up. You can download them on the first page of the submission process. The list goes on.

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Customer Custom Snapchat Design 40

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

For those patient enough to source great companies at reasonable prices and prepared to weather the next inevitable downturn, I believe firmly there will be economic rewards for discipline and patience. They compete on features, price and execution. Bottom of the sales funnel. Some will pay off, others will not.

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Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

First, let me recommend reading a previous blog, called omg I’m just a startup, I can’t do those fancy metrics. Now let’s move on to the first couple topics: Step 0: Pre-product. The main things I like to look at are new versus return visitors, top content pages, what pages are causing bounces, etc.

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Startup IP Email Report 29