Links tagged “business”

a16z.com

A second batch of sixteen startup metrics, from total addressable market and ARR to network effects, virality, NPS and cohort analysis, with notes on how each is misreported.

a16z.com

The sixteen startup metrics investors see most often confused or misused — bookings, revenue, ARR, LTV, CAC, GMV, churn, active users — plus common charting pitfalls.

guilhembertholet.com

Un tour d'horizon des business models existants — abonnement, location, modèle imprimante, désintermédiation, enchères, distribution, freemium, low-cost.

en.wikipedia.org

Wikipedia's biography of Seth Godin, American author, marketing expert, entrepreneur and former dot-com business executive.

journaldunet.com

Tribune affirmant que presque personne ne fait vraiment du big data, et qu'à l'ère du SSD et de la RAM abondante une approche « small data » suffit le plus souvent.

fundable.com

Platform where startups run a fundraising campaign, with a profile and data room shown to accredited investors.

fr.slideshare.net

White paper from the 2015 European Pre-Accelerator Summit defining what pre-accelerators do, how their programmes are structured, what they measure and how they fund themselves.

jimcollins.com

Summary of the research behind Good to Great — the flywheel effect, disciplined people, the Hedgehog Concept and the stop-doing list.

medium.com

The eFounders startup studio describes TheNetwork, the shared people, documented processes and in-house software it puts behind its portfolio companies.

lejournaldugrandparis.fr

BNP Paribas inaugure son premier WAI (We Are Innovation), un lieu d’hébergement et d’accélération de start-up dans le 2e arrondissement de Paris.

thenextweb.com

A list of 33 startup directories and launch platforms worth submitting a product to, plus 41 the author rates as not worth the effort.

sixteenventures.com

Argues that a SaaS pricing table should run from the highest plan on the left to the lowest on the right, and explains the anchoring effect behind it.

talkingquickly.co.uk

Sixty-three pieces of startup advice a founder would give his younger self, on shipping, customer development, team and business fundamentals.

medium.com

Défend l’idée que l’économie collaborative prolonge le mutualisme du XIXe siècle, rendu possible par des technologies qui abaissent les coûts de transaction.

paulgraham.com

Essay arguing that early startups have to recruit users by hand and give unscalable personal service instead of waiting for organic growth.

paulgraham.com

Guide to the sources of startup money — friends and family, consulting, angels, seed firms and venture funds — and how successive rounds and their terms work.

paulgraham.com

Essay on the three things a startup needs: good people, something customers actually want, and spending as little money as possible.

paulgraham.com

Essay on where startup ideas come from, arguing they are questions refined by building and by working with capable friends, not finished inventions.

paulgraham.com

Thirteen condensed rules for running a startup, from picking good cofounders to making a few users very happy rather than many users mildly so.

paulgraham.com

Eighteen common ways startups fail, from founding alone to mismanaging investors, all of which reduce to not making something users want.