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bjoernlassehon The illusion behind Vice Media's impressive numbers

This reads like a bad rant. It makes it difficult to take your investigation serious.

nice

bjoernlassehon Compass Monitor helps investors track the health of their portfolio startups

Thank you. All information are private. A company can selectively share their data with an investor or consultant or anyone else via Compass Monitor. Currently there is no API.

bjoernlassehon Compass Monitor helps investors track the health of their portfolio startups

If you email me at bjoern@compass.co, then I can put you in touch with some investors/incubators that are using it today.

bjoernlassehon Compass Monitor helps investors track the health of their portfolio startups

Thx. Slowly non startups start adopting it. Compass Monitor helps with that as Consulting Firms, Accounting Firms, etc. use it also for non startups.

bjoernlassehon Analyzing AngelList Job Postings, Part 2: Salary and Equity Benchmarks

lol, great point - fixed that

bjoernlassehon Analyzing AngelList Job Postings, Part 2: Salary and Equity Benchmarks

We are currently doing a survey to get more detailed data on Salaries for engineers & co. If you have a few minutes please help and contribute :)! http://blog.startupcompass.co/

bjoernlassehon Foodservice Startup Sourcery (YC W13) Streamlines How Kitchens Source Food

love it :)

bjoernlassehon Decoding the term sheet

thx Michael

bjoernlassehon Your SaaS product is too cheap if you never lose customers because of pricing

compass.co

bjoernlassehon Your SaaS product is too cheap if you never lose customers because of pricing

Yes, among other things we benchmark your profit margin, ratio of CLV/CAC, Retention and Churn. Those indicators can help experiment on pricing more effectively.

bjoernlassehon Snowden Exlusive Interview Jan 26 (blocked in US)

Germany worked fine for me.

bjoernlassehon Snowden Exlusive Interview Jan 26 (blocked in US)

If you are in the US you can use https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/ or alike to watch it.

bjoernlassehon Learning Ruby for Children

yep

bjoernlassehon What salary does the founder of your favorite startup get?

Thx for posting mikekulakov.

bjoernlassehon Bitcoin Big Hit with Developers: Predicting the future with Github

I like the trend dashboard you guys put together.

bjoernlassehon Backed By Steve Blank and More, Compass Launches Next-Gen Benchmarking Tool

Listen I am sorry that something wrong for you. I'd appreciate your help in fixing it. Can you plz send through the details to support@startupcompass.co?

bjoernlassehon Backed By Steve Blank and More, Compass Launches Next-Gen Benchmarking Tool

Can you please send us an email so we can fix the issue you are experiencing?

bjoernlassehon Backed By Steve Blank and More, Compass Launches Next-Gen Benchmarking Tool

don't worry. its back up now.

bjoernlassehon Backed By Steve Blank and More, Compass Launches Next-Gen Benchmarking Tool

its a problem with mongohq

bjoernlassehon Backed By Steve Blank and More, Compass Launches Next-Gen Benchmarking Tool

trying to fix that atm

bjoernlassehon Backed By Steve Blank and More, Compass Launches Next-Gen Benchmarking Tool

Thx. I agree there could be money with investors.

bjoernlassehon Backed By Steve Blank and More, Compass Launches Next-Gen Benchmarking Tool

Agreed :)

bjoernlassehon Backed By Steve Blank and More, Compass Launches Next-Gen Benchmarking Tool

We are not selling it. Our objective is to maximize business success, not helping investors.

bjoernlassehon Backed By Steve Blank and More, Compass Launches Next-Gen Benchmarking Tool

Our main focus is helping business to focus on what matters most by providing reference points on metrics. We are not planning on serving investors.

bjoernlassehon Compass.co - Benchmark your startup metrics with your peers

Thank you for posting!

bjoernlassehon Mechanical Nun robot set to take first confessions at Project Nunway

great article

bjoernlassehon Comparing Startup Ecosystems: SV, London, NYC

Boston was not on the list previously. We hadn't aggregated the greater Boston area and just did.

bjoernlassehon Comparing Startup Ecosystems: SV, London, NYC

Beijing is growing extremely fast and will probably soon surpass more established ecosystems DC/Chicago/Montreal. Also , our data are not perfect for Beijing due to the language barrier.

bjoernlassehon What Kills Startups? A study.

one we call premature scaling, the other we call dysfunctional scaling ;) ... btw. @pg did you read any of our reports?