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Taking a Book to Scale | Nick Gray

Peter Winick

Creating diverse products from a book to reach scale. Using Nick’s book as an example, Peter walks through the process of taking a book from shelf to scale. Another component to taking a book to scale is moving the contents to versatile offerings. Okay, how would I even begin to get it to real estate?

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Benchmarks 2023: How We’re Doing

Chief Executive

Prices, Revenues According to our survey, 41 percent of U.S. companies are projecting their annual revenues to grow by 10 percent or more in 2022. Net revenue per employee is another important metric to consider in this economy, as labor costs continue to skyrocket. Companies, available at chiefexecutive.net/benchmarksreport.

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How to reinvent your product growth strategy for the tech downturn

Andrew Chen

This puts the focus squarely on burn by evaluating it as a multiple of revenue growth. In other words, if you spend $10M and gain $5M more in annual recurring revenue, that’s a 2x burn multiple — which he grades as “Suspect.” Then there’s highly targeted paid marketing.

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CEO Optimism Continues To Rise In September

Chief Executive

More specifically: “A new direction in government after fall elections, less job availability that will force people back to work, [and a] smaller-than-predicted recession,” are the reasons given by the CEO of a real estate company to explain his forecast of 8 out of 10 for business conditions in the U.S. by this time next year.

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CEO Confidence Drops To Decade Low In July Amid Growing Fears Of Recession

Chief Executive

business environment 12 months from now is now at its lowest level of the decade, teetering on the edge of “Weak” according to our 10-point scale where 10 is Excellent and 1 is Poor. on the Index’s 10-point scale. Chief Executive ’s July reading of CEO Confidence Index shows the leading indicator at 5.1 CEO optimism for the U.S.

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Creator Economy 2.0: What we’ve learned, why it’s hard, and what’s next

Andrew Chen

This is insanely valuable real estate for Creator Economy startups. Or you have to find a different piece of real estate, whether that’s inside the creator content itself – whether that’s video, text, or otherwise. It’s just much easier to stack revenue over time this way.

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What to look for when you’re hiring a Head of Growth

Andrew Chen

Growing your startup’s users and revenue is so critical that it makes sense to hire someone to run it, and to potentially add a team underneath them to support this goal. Or are you trying to scale its success? It’s asked often for good reason. Or are you focused on fending off competitors? Escape Velocity.

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