Comments on: 3 Operating benchmarks founders should bear in mind now. http://gigaom.com/2007/09/10/3-operating-benchmarks-founders-should-bear-in-mind-now/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:52:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: mistone http://gigaom.com/2007/09/10/3-operating-benchmarks-founders-should-bear-in-mind-now/#comment-180021 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:15:43 +0000 http://foundread.wordpress.com/2007/09/10/3-operating-benchmarks-founders-should-bear-in-mind-now/#comment-180021 These questions are good awareness factors for CEO’s, but I do not understand all the secrecy. No offense but PE investors are not the wise sages of all things business and investing.

They should take a hint from the VC bloggers and open those gold threaded kimonos a bit more. Shrouds of secrecy means there is something to hide.}

]]> By: jan_raas http://gigaom.com/2007/09/10/3-operating-benchmarks-founders-should-bear-in-mind-now/#comment-180022 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:08:06 +0000 http://foundread.wordpress.com/2007/09/10/3-operating-benchmarks-founders-should-bear-in-mind-now/#comment-180022 Nice post … thanks. Would love to know the remaining seven questions, but these provide plenty of “food for thought.” In my experience (at much smaller, but growing, sw cos.) is that: for (1), that you might like to distinguish between “high profit” and “high cost” customers, but in practice it’s too difficult, esp. if you’re small / just starting; for (2), a lot of thought needs to go into streamlining a process and, much like my garden, it needs constant pruning; and for (3), using different %ages at different stages (suspect, prospect, contract negotiations, etc…) provides a pretty good picture of where you’re likely to end up.

Anyhow, good stuff … thanks.}

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