Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 16, 2009
What metrics do we use to see if we learned enough in Customer Discovery ? I gave my boilerplate answer, “I’m a product guy and I tend to invest and look at deals that have measurable revenue metrics. Dave McClure has some great metrics…” It was an honest but vaguely unsatisfying answer. It’s an impressive portfolio.
ConversionXL
DECEMBER 7, 2016
Nowadays nearly every online shop utilizes some sort of product recommendation engine, which is no wonder, as these systems, if set up and configured properly can significantly boost revenues, CTRs, conversions, and other important metrics. This is a very important metric when evaluating a recommender system. Popular Products.
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ReadWriteStart
AUGUST 26, 2022
What guidance for your portfolio companies? I think every company’s portfolio is different, so they’re all different sizes, different stages, different geographies, different cash positions, and different market leadership positions. . I will say the one thing we tell all our portfolio companies is to get fit and lean in.
Growthink Blog
SEPTEMBER 20, 2010
market indices (Dow, S and P, NASDAQ) are trading lower today than they were in September 1999. Certainly not the financial media, which has figured out that it is just a lot more fun to focus on the daily ups and downs of the market and personalities, than the more stuffy and far more ratings-unfriendly focus on return metrics.
abovethecrowd.com
OCTOBER 17, 2013
I immediately reached out to the founder and CEO, Katrina Lake , who had previously worked for another Benchmark portfolio company in the fashion space, Polyvore. In addition to market concerns, I had the unique experience of working with Dan Nordstrom and the team at Nordstrom.com in August of 1999.
ConversionXL
MARCH 19, 2020
At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999. Use that intelligence to inform product portfolio and investment choices.”. As the authors found, “Firms that cut costs faster and deeper than rivals don’t necessarily flourish.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million.
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