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Clouded Judgement 9.29.23 - Rates Keep Going Up

Clouded Judgement

Pretty crazy to think about - growth adjusted multiples are near pre-covid all time highs (excluding 2020-2021 period) even though rates are as high as they’ve been since 2007 (and double what they were on average from 2010-2020). So what’s going on? Do they have different sources of data?

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From AE to CEO: Entrepreneurial Life Lessons with Asad Zaman

Sales Hacker

Get accurate sales forecasting, replace manual processes with real-time guidance, and unlock actionable customer intelligence. Asad Zaman : I came to Canada in 2007 as an international student, to go into law. Comes to Canada in 2007, doing door-to-door sales, enters STA as an account executive, now the CEO.

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PODCAST 98: The Importance of Product-Led Growth and Focus For A Startup w/ Blake Bartlett

Sales Hacker

He’s been a VC since 2007, and prior to OpenView was at Battery Ventures, where he invested in companies like Glassdoor, Wayfair and Optimizely. If you cannot explain the results and if you don’t have a plan, you cannot forecast the results. What You’ll Learn. Product-led growth means focusing on the end user.

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Be the Up in a Downturn: Advice From SurveyMonkey’s Tom Hale

OpenView Labs

Changing expenses was straightforward, but the situation was so fluid that our ability to forecast revenues was… challenged. Let’s fast-forward to 2007/2008 when you became an EIR for Redpoint Ventures. That day, I knew we needed to make big changes—both on the expense side and on the strategy side.

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Finding the Next Wave of Growth: S-Curves and Product Sequencing

Casey Accidental

If you get good at modeling your loops, which basically takes the diagrams above and turns them into spreadsheet based forecasts of the impact to your business, you can start to predict when they will stop driving the growth the company needs. Why did they do this? Well, all growth loops eventually asymptote.

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Unlearning the Growth vs. Costs Myth

OPEXEngine

It’s a pattern that can be seen across the 2007–09 recession, the recovery that followed, the slow-growth years of 2011–19, and even during the pandemic period of 2020–21. In fact, the top-quartile TSR performers outpace the bottom-quartile companies more than twofold in both revenue growth and cost productivity. New ways of working.

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My First 16: Welding Yourself to Early Customers with Marqeta’s Jason Gardner

Andreessen Horowitz

We sold that at the end of 2007 and I stayed on with MoneyGram International who acquired the company until the end of 2009. Obviously we had forecasts and the things that we were looking to get done, but the product became paramount to everything that we’re doing. Jason Gardner: Yeah, an interesting path over 13 years.