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One Metric to Rule Them All 10 Aug 2013 | 12:53 am
A well instrumented business will have literally hundreds of metrics that they track to understand the key parts of their business. Each group within an organization likely has a key metrics dashboard...
Handling rejection 24 Jul 2013 | 07:30 am
Update below with the final email in the chain where the entrepreneur apologizes (and talks about some challenges around fundraising that led to his frustration). I just tweeted about an unfortunate ...
What your “About Us” page says about your company 23 Jul 2013 | 10:46 pm
Maybe it’s because I always love the back story of how an idea came together or because I’m particularly partial to team stories, but I love checking out the “About Us” or “Team” pages on websites. An...
The best company vacation policy 15 Jul 2013 | 09:55 pm
Quick note here before I jump in to remind you that I’m not your lawyer (in fact I’m not a lawyer at all). I’m not offering legal advice. You have your own lawyer for that… I’ve seen all sorts of var...
Forget about the rest. What makes a good VC? 29 May 2013 | 09:19 pm
I should preface this post with the caveat that a VC describing what it takes to be a good VC runs the obvious risk of falling into a trap of vanity and lack of self-awareness. I hope I haven’t, but y...
The ten year entrepreneur 9 May 2013 | 02:57 am
It’s easy to get lost in the celebration of high flying companies that quickly take an idea to market, scale and sell. It’s exciting, financially lucrative and makes for great reading. We’ve been fort...
Boulder is for Media 7 May 2013 | 04:37 am
Recently Boulder based Datalogix announced that they had raised $25M to accelerate the build-out of its online ad targeting data business. The Datalogix story is one of perseverance and adaptation and...
Measuring customer satisfaction 18 Apr 2013 | 05:36 am
There was a great thread this week on the Foundry CEO email list about Net Promoter Score and how companies are using it to measure the satisfaction of their customers (specifically in the case of NPS...
#3010: The Video 27 Feb 2013 | 11:03 pm
I blogged last year about the amazing 40th birthday trip my wife Greeley sent me and 9 friends on – cycling through Slovenia and Italy (original blog post along with a bunch of pictures here). We had ...
The Democratization of Entrepreneurship 20 Feb 2013 | 11:58 pm
One of the great trends we’ve been witnessing over the past decade, and in particular the past 5 years, has been what you might call the “democratization” of entrepreneurship”. It’s a powerful trend a...
