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All great managers are alike
Hollywood and Silicon Valley often seems worlds apart. While movie making and startup building may always be very different endeavors, great managers use the same techniques in every discipline to...
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Founders, teach your employees statistics
Everyone is learning statistics because making sense of data is the difference between success and failure. R, the open source statistics language, is about a third as popular as Ruby and growing fast.
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The culture of data science
In a triumph of statistics, Nate Sliver predicted the outcome of every state in the Presidential election correctly. What makes this story so noteworthy isn’t that it proves data enables superior...
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Your Startup’s 10 Most Important Metrics
With the analytics tools today, it's easy to measure hundreds if not thousands of different metrics for your business. Cutting through all the chaff to determine the most important or insightful...
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The myth of the generalist
When I started working at Google, I heard the word generalist over and over. “We only hire generalists,” I was told. Eight years later this mantra is pretty common. I hear it often both referring to...
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How APIs Will Evolve
I believe the simple API will evolve to become an API Hub. An API Hub combines starts with access to an important API and combines access to other APIs with the infrastructure needed to process all...
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The 10 Most Important Metrics in a Startup's Financial Statements
Financial statements are a Rosetta Stone for startups. They reveal the strategies and the tactics of how to bring a product to market. These are the ten metrics I look at when sifting through a...
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Using Data to Pick the Optimal Name for Your Startup
Naming your startup can be one of the hardest things to do when starting a company. Each founder must agree. The domain must be available to buy. Last and perhaps most importantly, investors need to...
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Benchmarking Hubspot's S-1: How 7 Key SaaS Metrics Stack Up
One of the best ways I've found to understand SaaS companies is to pore through their public filings. A few months ago, I analyzed Box's S-1. In this post, we'll look at HubSpot's IPO filing and...
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Benchmarking Tableau's S-1: How 7 Key SaaS Metrics Stack Up
This post is part of a continuing series evaluating the S-1s of publicly traded SaaS companies in order to better understand the core business and build a library of benchmarks that might be useful to...
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