January 2010
10 posts
Pitch Decks →
rahmin:
Killer guidelines for an early stage pitch deck. (via micahbaldwin)
“The first marketing person you hire should have a solid product background (or...”
– Product Marketing vs. Marketing Communications (and MarComm Must Die) | Rocket Watcher by April Dunford
Scale Well: funding traction in scalable... →
amber-rae:
“$1000 for your company. No strings attached.”
chitown buddy and ex-coworker Andy Angelos just launched this project.
ScaleWell is designed to provide entrepreneurs and startups with capital to reach milestones and gain traction. sounds awesome.
How it works: $1000 and coworking space for you company
Applications are now open and will close on January 31st 2010.
awesome. also dig...
“The biggest lesson that I’ve gotten is about testing. It’s about set high goals...”
– Marc Pincus on Metrics - Bronte Media (via hiten)
“Usually, new projects are measured and held accountable to milestones and...”
– Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? - Harvard Business Review
“The case of the United Kingdom provides a good example of such a program....”
– The Race for the Next Google « More Startups. More Jobs.
How to design your Business Model as a Lean... →
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Analyst: Can you share some of the metrics of your business—ARPU, conversion...”
– Lightspeed Venture Partners Blog
To be a profitable company you need a 1% conversion rate of paying game players if you have a million daily players and some of those paying members spend 10s of 1000s of $ a year. Seems kooky, but there it is. Scale creates models. (via tedr)
How I Built my Minimum Viable Product →
novaurora:
The Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is a key lean startup concept popularized by Eric Ries. The basic idea is to maximize validated learning for the least amount of effort. After all, why waste effort building out a product without first testing if it’s worth it.