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The Next Supply-Chain Challenge Isn’t a Shortage — It’s Inventory Glut

Harvard Business Review

In 2009, the financial crash left manufacturers with excess inventory when consumer buying power suddenly dropped. It’s a forward-looking metric based on the classic momentum equation: current inventory x rate of inventory change. Electronics littered shelves in 2001 after the dot-com bubble burst.

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Seven years after last venture investment, Mixpanel scores $200M Series C

TechCrunch

As it made these moves, it also began work to improve slipping customer satisfaction metrics like its net promoter score (NPS), which was sitting at 15 when Movafaghi was promoted, according to the company. Doshi was CEO from inception until 2018 when he moved to become chairman of the board.

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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO

January 2009: Autonomy buys enterprise content management vendor Interwoven for $775 million. Lynch is among them, for “failure to meet agreed performance goals, including financial metrics.” July 2007: Autonomy pays $375 million for content archiving and electronic discovery specialist Zantaz. November 2012: HP takes an $8.8

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Headless CMS platform Kontent secures new capital to grow its customer base

TechCrunch

While Omlo wouldn’t share revenue metrics — or any growth metrics at all, for that matter — he argued that Kontent’s “bootstrapped and capital-efficient” history gives it an advantage heading into a challenging economic climate. billion by 2027, according to an estimate by Research and Markets.

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The morality and efficacy of going public earlier

TechCrunch

Not just the numbers and the metrics and the calculations of valuations at diluted, and non-diluted, share counts. For more context, Yext, a company that first launched at a TechCrunch event back in 2009 , provides data tooling and search software to businesses, while Latch builds software and hardware for rental-focused buildings.

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Sequoia, Jay-Z, Will Smith back Landis’ $165M debt, equity round toward making homeownership accessible to everyone

TechCrunch

in 2004 before falling sharply due to the economic recession of 2007-2009. Berdugo did not disclose the round’s debt versus equity breakdown, or go into specifics about growth metrics, but did say the driver for the funding round was to expand into new states, add to Landis’ headcount and improve user experience. according to Statista.

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Startup Metrics

SoCal CTO

A post by Fred Wilson pointed me to Dave McClure's Startup Metrics presentation. Define what you need from a metrics and reporting standpoint. Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp, Sept 2009) View more documents from Dave McClure. You only build what you need to prove that model.

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