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BE 2.0: Self-Correction is Vital – Recognizing When Change is Needed

Paul G. Silva

Jim Collins makes a powerful observation: the most successful organizations don’t stagnatethey continuously self-correct. This post is part of my ongoing series exploring lessons from Jim Collins’s book, BE 2.0 Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0). The Challenge of Seeing the Truth In BE 2.0, This is just another down cycle.”

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How to Communicate Impact Metrics to Investors

StartupNation

Effectively communicating your startup’s impact metrics to investors can make or break your funding opportunities. From telling compelling data-driven stories to aligning metrics with investor priorities, these approaches will equip you to present your startup’s impact in a clear and persuasive manner.

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What founders often get wrong!

Berkonomics

Thoughts from BERKONOMICS – Dave Berkus After 50 years in entrepreneurship and 200+ startup investments, here’s what most first-time founders get dangerously wrong: They obsess over the wrong metrics. There are only 5 metrics that truly matter in your first 18 months: Everything else is a distraction.

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5 Signs that Your Startup is Failing to Thrive in the Age of Work From Home

StartupNation

With this in mind, we’ve compiled a list of five tell-tale signs that your WFH startup could be in trouble and how to fix it before it’s too late. In order to hit the ground running as a WFH startup, it’s important to understand the challenges associated with hiring a remote team first. The Work From Home era is far from over.

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Max MRR: Your growth ceiling

A Smart Bear: Longform

The “Max MRR” metric predicts revenue plateaus based on churn and new revenue. Because their financial data is public (in another example of their special, enviable culture), and because they’ve gone through a few different phases of life, they are a perfect case-study for SaaS metrics. Was the customer base static?

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Leave Common Approaches to Average Players: Insights from Belkins Founder Vladyslav Podoliako

Jason Malki

Today, hes here to offer fresh insightson: What inspired him to launch a business with limited resources (and zero external investments) Why he loves building products fromscratch The most common mistakes founders make and how to avoidthem How to succeed when starting acompany What motivated you to launch yourstartup?

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What is AI automation? And how your business can use it

The Zapier Blog

Not in a replace-me-with-a-robot kind of way (I like health insurance); more in a I-should-be-focusing-on-more-important-things kind of way. Saves employee time and energy: Automation alone is enough to turn an otherwise seven-hour manual task into a five-minute one. Automation used to be the best way to do that.