ICO, IPO & Blockchain — The Buzz is wearing off | At Jumpstart HQ in Hong Kong, we get inundated daily (including weekends) with emails, messages and press releases full of buzzwords, in particular ICO, IPO and blockchain (Is there anything that can’t be linked to it? Yes, but you wouldn’t know from all the buzz around it). For this issue, we decided to face these buzzwords head on to see what’s behind the buzz and what’s actually going on in Asia when it comes to these words. Turns out, the answer is: a lot.
How to Find Your Company’s North Star Metric to Ensure Success
In the world of business, having a singular goal to focus on can be the key to success. That’s where the North Star Metric (NSM) comes in. Coined by startup investor Sean Ellis, the NSM is the measure of the value a company is delivering to its customers and is used as a means to predict the growth of the business.