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Here’s how fast a few dozen startups grew in Q3 2020

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Earlier this week I asked startups to share their Q3 growth metrics and whether they were performing ahead or behind of their yearly goals. “Revenue for the first three quarters of 2020 is 11X our origination 2020 plan, and 18X versus the same period in 2019,” he said in an email. Lots of companies responded.

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What are the new must-hit startup metrics?

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But the rules that supplanted the conventional wisdom became all the more ironclad during the 2020-2021 startup cycle peak; those new rules are now old rules — we’re in a new market and a worse economy. What are the new new metrics, then? What are the new must-hit startup metrics?

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Which emerging technologies are enterprise companies getting serious about in 2020?

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We conducted the survey at the tail end of Q3 2020. There’s already a clear understanding of at least some of the use cases or problems that need solving, and return-on-investment metrics have been established. ” The top technology there was quantum computing.

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Lime touts a 2020 turnaround and 2021 profitability

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For a startup this is not a surprising decision, but before we declare Lime fully “profitable,” we’ll want some more GAAP metrics. By November of 2019, Lime was talking about reaching EBIT positivity in 2020. It turns out, Lime is basing this projection on EBIT, as opposed to more traditional net income.

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Building Like Amazon

Speaker: Leo Zhadanovsky, Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

How Amazon thinks about metrics. Wednesday September 16th, 2020 at 11AM PDT, 2PM EST, 6PM GMT The "two pizza" team culture. Keys to automation at different stages of organization maturity. Maintaining a culture of DevOps no matter what the size of your organization is. This is a session you won’t want to miss!

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Revolut’s 2020 financial performance explains its big new $33B valuation

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Lunden also went on to report on the company’s changing financial picture based on Revolut’s recently released 2020 results. In this entry, we’re digging more deeply into those financial results and usage metrics detailed by the fintech megacorn. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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Square and PayPal earnings bring good (and bad) news for fintech startups

TechCrunch

We’re not really concerned with their overall revenue and profit metrics. As TechCrunch reported when PayPal dropped its Q3 numbers, the public company had bullish results from its Venmo service, payment processing and consumer activity metrics. A very fintech 2020. Lots, it turns out.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

He'll also go over metrics we can use to measure the health of our ecosystems as we build more resources for innovators. February 26th, 2020 11:00 AM PST, 2:00 PM EST, 7:00 PM GMT Tune in on February 26th and get the answers to questions such as: What is an innovation ecosystem? What do I measure to know I'm making progress?