Hey folks,
In this week's issue we have various articles focussing on the startup approach, interesting math and metrics, founder bombs, and bedtime stories shared by fellow founders.
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Have a great weekend,
Modern Entrepreneurship
Seeing both sides: your LTV math is wrong
Is your customer Lifetime Value correct? Or overstated with rosy extrapolations?
Reinventing the company
The startup approach to building a business will survive public companies and serve as a striking addition to the capitalist toolbox.
Startup diaries: launching a pilot
These learnings are shared with you by the founder of Cosmos Labs.
The shape of the curve
"The storytelling ability of charts is particularly interesting to me because the shape of a curve reveals a lot more nuance about the product than snapshot metrics ever can."
The founder bomb
We've seen founders drop founder bombs on their teams. This article explains where they come from, so you can have productive conversation about it.
Growth
Some survival math for startup CEOs
An email sent out to CEOs about VCs, shared by a global venture investor.
No pain, no gain in startups: short-term suffering leads to lasting rewards
A point of view by founder and CEO of The Bouqs Company.
Trends
Why HomeJoy failed
Thorough article on all the issues that plagued HomeJoy, and the general on demand economy. With a lot of valuable insights, even if you're not in the on demand business.
Tools
How to measure the success of your app: TAD
TAD is a unifying metric that will help you focus on what really matters: long lasting user relationships.