BI Norwegian Business School extends collaboration with Metrics to strengthen BI Startup and The Village

Investor

10 Dec 2025

Chul Christian Aamodt, partner i Metrics Venture was brought in during 2025 to help elevate BI’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, strengthen its connection with students and industry, and expand The Village as a meeting ground for students, academic research, founders, investors and corporates.

BI Norwegian Business School will continue throughout 2026, following a successful engagement in autumn 2025 aimed at accelerating the development of BI Startup and The Village.

The rule of 40

The Rule of 40 is a widely used performance benchmark for SaaS companies. It provides a balanced view of a company’s ability to combine growth with profitability. Definition A SaaS company is considered financially healthy when the sum of its revenue growth rate and profitability meets or exceeds 40

Three lessons we learned building a global SaaS company

The three partners in Metrics Venture previously served in the leadership team at Mintra, a global SaaS company with more than 3 million users. 1. Focus beats everything else Growth accelerated once we committed to a single repeatable model and stopped pursuing opportunities outside the core. Saying no became a

Three best practices for CEOs reporting to a Board

Written by: Chul Christian Aamodt, Partner in Metrics Venture With more than 20 years of board experience — and years as a CEO reporting into boards myself — I’ve learned that great board reporting is not about volume, but about clarity, honesty, and actionable leadership. 1. Present the real numbers — not

The network effect is one of the most underrated growth engines in any SaaS company

The idea is simple: the value of a product increases as more people use it. A classic example is the telephone. The very first telephone was almost worthless — it had no one to call. Two phones created some value. Ten made it useful. A million made it indispensable. The same

Read more

The rule of 40

Three lessons we learned building a global SaaS company

Three best practices for CEOs reporting to a Board

The network effect is one of the most underrated growth engines in any SaaS company