Tag
Startups
Entries tagged startups.
7 entries
Crossing the Chasm
A discontinuous gap separates the visionaries who first buy a new technology from the pragmatic mainstream, and most products die in it.
8 min
Mental modelEffectuation
The decision logic expert entrepreneurs actually use: start from the means you already have, cap your downside at what you can afford to lose, and build the goal with whoever commits, rather than predicting a future and chasing it.
7 min
Mental modelPirate Metrics (AARRR)
The customer lifecycle broken into five measurable stages, Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, Revenue, so you fix the one leaking stage instead of chasing a flattering total.
7 min
ConceptProduct-Market Fit
The point at which a product satisfies a strong market so well that demand pulls it out of the company faster than the company can supply it.
8 min
Mental modelThe Lean Startup
Treat a startup as an experiment engine whose real product is validated learning, and test cheap falsifiable hypotheses before you scale.
7 min
ConceptThe Venture Capital Power Law
Venture returns are so skewed that a fund's single best investment usually returns more than all the others combined, so the winning strategy is to maximize exposure to extreme upside, not to avoid loss.
9 min
ConceptUnit Economics
Judge a business one customer at a time: if it loses money on each customer, growth makes it worse, not better.
8 min