TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Focusing on the metrics that ultimately drive the business, often the bottom line, has provided a reality check, a counter-weight to the desire to consume all new technologies. A site with a million users is much easier to manage today than it was in 2000. It's a fun and funny business to be in. Those requests had better be worth it!

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Back when we were all trying to figure out the real value of traffic on the web, investors – and acquiring companies – got a bit crazy with metrics used to value acquisitions and investments. Remembering the insanity before 2000. But, when the bubble burst in 2000, most of us quickly grew up. Microsoft paid $9.00

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Setting clear goals from the start means that you can both design your campaign with these intentions in mind, and know what metrics to monitor on your campaign dashboard. M easurable: the goal needs to be something that can be measured and tracked using metrics. You may have heard of the SMART framework. Impressions.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 17, 2020

What are the new financial metrics? If you’re selling directly to consumers (a B-to-C market,) were you in a multi-sided market (consumers use the product, but others pay you for their eyeballs/data?) Are those assumptions about payers still correct? How do you know? Receivables – get on top of them. Days of cash left?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2013

Thanks To Facebook, Strongest Year For IPOs Since 2000 With $21.5 The 6 Marketing Metrics Your CEO Actually Cares About [Cheat Sheet] | Hubspot Blog - [link]. The 6 Marketing Metrics Your CEO Actually Cares About [Cheat Sheet] | Hubspot Blog - [link]. Why You Should Give Yourself Permission to Screw Up - [link].

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

However, Elgg could power 100,000 networks and it would make no difference - there is no revenue stream as we give everything away under a GPL license. I understand his frustration. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

The IPO Bubble – August 1995 – March 2000 In August 1995 Netscape went public, and the world of start ups turned upside down. Yahoo would hit $104/share in March 2000 with a market cap of $104 billion.) The boom in Internet startups would last 4½ years until it came crashing down to earth in March 2000. Warning sign?

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Gust

JANUARY 31, 2013

In 2000, the SEC adopted Regulation FD in response to growing concerns regarding “ selective disclosure.” ” Like it sounds, selective disclosure is the practice of supplying material non-public information to securities professionals or major investors before disseminating it to the general public.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Metrics for Series A – [link]. The Ultimate Photoshop Patterns Collection: 2000+ Patterns – [link]. Why Humility is Essential for Every New Startup Hire – [link]. Venture Math 101 – [link]. Inside Google’s Culture of Success and Employee Happiness | KISSmetrics Blog – [link].

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 12, 2014

We learned this dynamic in the early 2000’s with our investment in ServiceMagic. In 2000, Michael and Rodney cut the business drastically, changed the business model to a lead-fee system, which they pioneered online. Before ignoring vanity metrics became trendy, ServiceMagic ignored them. Some get it; many don’t.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 2, 2011

She was the former CTO of Cisco Systems from 1998-2000, and is on the boards of Disney and Packet Design and was a board member at Sun and FedEx for many years. The point here is that you can have very different and all valid success metrics, but it is important to keep in mind what you are trying to accomplish with your startup venture.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 25, 2017

If you don’t know Scott, he was the co-founder and CEO of ExactTarget (2000) – one of the original SaaS companies. While the web is peppered with SaaS metrics and the state of SaaS, there’s a dearth of CEO-centric qualitative information. I put him in the awesome category.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

It was early 2000. Another firm we saw tried to raise $15 million at a $60 million pre-money with similar metrics. I’ve been preaching the “don’t get ahead of your inherent valuation&# message for nearly 10 years. I raised my A round at a $31.5 million post-money valuation with no revenue. That was market.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 4, 2016

A 2015 global study of 2000 B2B buyers and sellers by Accenture shows that B2B buyers have high expectations for engagement. And typical success metrics for them would look like: email open rate. And typical success metrics for them would look like: email open rate. Share with their subscribers either through an email blast, or.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 18, 2015

The success of Netflix can be attributed to business intelligence principles and metrics. Netflix focuses on customer experience metrics. In 2000, three years after Netflix launched DVD rental services, Netflix used customer data and ratings from their movie recommendation system to predict content choices for all Netflix members.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

There's material on things like page speed and core web vitals or three different metrics and core web vitals. John (04:23): Yeah, we had a 2000 page site that we did just that to 1400 pages and immediately lifted their results. So there's a lot on that. That's a Google innovation that's coming out of Google.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

or the key metrics in the credit card business. … Where do people think certain key metrics are going?” I’ve talked to about 1800 to 2000 companies a year… I always think the shorthand for Demo is, “I’ll look at all those start-ups so you don’t have to.” What’s going to happen to them?”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2015

This is nearly 30 times the size of the entire global Internet in 2000. Data enable: use metrics and measurements. Extend data metrics into non-traditional channels, such as email, internal social media, and customer collaboration platforms. exabytes per month at the end of the year. Accelerate: speed is life in this new world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2011

Microsoft found this out last year when their market capitalization, once at $560 billion in the year 2000, had fallen to $219 billion, allowing them to be passed by Apple at $222 billion, who grew from $15.6 Metrics are required for ensuring the return to a known good baseline. billion during the same period.

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

If I think back over the sixteen years I’ve been investing in startups the market for private company investing was tough from 2000-2004, from 2008-2011 and is getting tough again now. Over seven years it is almost inevitable that the markets will turn bad at some point.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 17, 2014

Tony says that smart companies like Medium, Upworthy, and the Financial Times have figured this out and are starting to focus on engagement metrics to measure their own success and value their advertising products. Here are a couple of highlights: We don’t read what we click on so chasing pageviews is a mistake.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2013

1990s to 2000: Infrastructure, Security, Management, etc. 2000 to 2005: CRM, SFA, ERP, Payroll, Analytics, etc. To gain resonance, IT plans need to consider the goals and metrics of the business and not just technology KPIs alone. 2005 to Today: Retail, Manufacturing, Finance, Government Specific, etc.

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

In early 2000, the diffusion of Personal Computers transformed the way users made decisions and the paradigm buyer/seller changed again. But when it comes down to dealing with product metrics, traditional Marketing Automation platforms have multiple handoffs that lead to communication gaps, data blind spots and inability to scale the process.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

Improving each of these areas might boost your customer retention – BUT it’s only by scrutinizing your customer facing metrics & direct customer feedback that will provide you with your top priorities. Retention, along with many of our usage metrics, have improved as a result of some of these changes. image source.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

Improving each of these areas might boost your customer retention – BUT it’s only by scrutinizing your customer facing metrics & direct customer feedback that will provide you with your top priorities. Retention, along with many of our usage metrics, have improved as a result of some of these changes. image source.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

Improving each of these areas might boost your customer retention – BUT it’s only by scrutinizing your customer facing metrics & direct customer feedback that will provide you with your top priorities. Retention, along with many of our usage metrics, have improved as a result of some of these changes. image source.

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

The Hubspot folks (who are terrific in this area) estimate that each SDR in their mid-market group needs 150 leads per month to be productive and busy while for the small business team, they target feeding 2000 leads per sales rep per month. To that point, a well-run telesales operation will be super metrics-driven. Related articles.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 5, 2018

The problem has been that many LPs lost money in European venture in the 1999-2000, were nervous about making the same mistake again, and wondered if there was a structural reason why venture capitalists seemed to be less successful here than in the US. Efficient market theory has it that money should flow into that void.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. By 2000 the total LP commitments had mushroomed to more than $100 billion. So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. We’ve had a supportive board and encouraging metrics and a helpful climate for our community news notion (now 51 sites in 3 states). Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). We’ve been lucky.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

Improving each of these areas might boost your customer retention – BUT it’s only by scrutinizing your customer facing metrics & direct customer feedback that will provide you with your top priorities. Retention, along with many of our usage metrics, have improved as a result of some of these changes. image source.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Joel on Software Fog Creek Compensation by Joel Spolsky Wednesday, August 30, 2000 At Fog Creek Software, the way we make sure that people are paid fairly and rewarded for excellent work is based on a professional ladder. © 2000-2010 Joel Spolsky. See this and other great job listings on the jobs page.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 3, 2015

They’re displaying the value of high quality content, and they’re bringing new digital tools and metrics to bear. Since the early 2000’s, Brian has helped organizations improve their business development efforts through CRM, sales process improvement, and marketing automation.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago. In the past ten years there have been several dramatic changes in venture capital.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2019

And the success metrics show that. And then in the middle 2000’s Domino’s began a sharp decline. Unlike processes in aviation like airplane takeoffs or medical procedures like blood testing, digital transformation is still as much an art form as it is structured science.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. The questions that clients ask in the coming months are going to be more focused on business results and less on trends and vanity metrics. Image source ).

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Back when we were all trying to figure out the real value of traffic on the web, we investors – and acquiring companies – got a bit crazy with metrics used to value acquisitions and investments. But, when the bubble burst in 2000, most of us quickly grew up.

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