Tag: metrics

  • Episode 10 – Metrics

    This episode explains why metrics matter when raising investment and which ones founders should track. Its central message is that founders should keep a minimal, focused set of measurements appropriate to their company’s stage rather than tracking everything. It surveys the key SaaS metrics investors care about and warns that any numbers put into a pitch become targets for which a founder will be held accountable.

    [Your North Star metric should be] the number that predicts revenue, the moment of value delivery.

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  • Episode 9 – The science of building startups

    Building a startup used to involve Steve Jobs level intuition and magic. Customer Development and Lean Startup heroes Steve Blank and Eric Ries turned building startups into a scalable repeatable process, through talking to customers and applying the scientific method. Your startup is a science experiment. Learn how to reach product-market fit before your resources run out.

    There are no facts inside the building, so get the hell outside. – Steve Blank

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