Ted Glasnow

What to look for Post-Product:

1) Retention: Users stick around 2) Surveys: Users say they’d be very disappointed if your product went away 3) Exponential organic growth 4) Cost-efficient growth 5) CAC < LTV 6) Customers clamor for your product 7) People are using it even when it’s broken

almost every B2B business BOTH hits up their personal network AND heads to the places their potential customers were spending time. The question isn’t which of these two routes to pursue, but instead how far your own network will take you before you move on.

The five essentials ingredients to any company strategy document are:1. Mission - What are you meant to achieve2. Vision - What does it look like once you’ve achieved it3. Goal - How do you concretely know you’ve achieved it4. Strategy - What is the path to achieving it5. Strategic pillars - Three to five key bets that the company needs to make

A value metric however allows you to have essentially infinite price points — maximizing your revenue potential.

The increased financialization of start-ups have led to CFO focusing on fundraising and M&A, so the responsibilities of a CBO are split between the CEO and CFO

the third wave beyond that – and it's not totally mutually exclusive—is the cellular agriculture wave. It's a little bit of a different animal, pun intended, because cellular agriculture is intending to recreate animal tissue in a lab. 

Jim Collins...shares a different approach for identifying your wheel...for larger corporations:

1. Create a list of significant replicable successes your company has achieved 2. Compile a list of failures and disappointments 3. Compare the successes to the disappointments and ask, “What do these successes and disappointments tell us about the... See more

you’ll first need to identify the two basic groups that will be involved in planning: the Leadership group and the individual Teams.

We look at [the taxonomy of B2B marketplaces] in a couple of different ways. High-level, there are aggregators, managed marketplaces, channel marketplaces, vertical SaaS-enabled marketplaces, and then tech-enabled brokerages.