crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Metrics for Series A – [link]. How should one go about pricing their software product? How CEOs Stay So Productive | Fast Company – [link]. What is someone going to stop doing when they start using your product? The Value of Taking a Productive Pause – [link]. Venture Math 101 – [link].

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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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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. I understand his frustration.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

You’re unlikely to want to make this sort of investment with the product or the market not yet validated. As ever, prices still determined by: quality of team, quality of product / market and competitiveness of the deal. It was early 2000. The risk wouldn’t be appropriate. I raised my A round at a $31.5

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ConversionXL

MARCH 4, 2016

Email/Calling productivity: Help improve first contact efficiency typically while prospecting. Create interest about your product/service. Help them decide if your product is right for them at this stage. Help them decide if your product is right for them at this stage. Landing page optimization, Lead nurturing.

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

How their product leaders and CMOs embrace the change adjusting product/marketing strategies based on new technologies. In AI implications on Marketing and Analytics , I placed my considerations explaining how and why Artificial Intelligence (AI) will shape the next generation of Analytics and Marketing SaaS products.

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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?” We were the only folks with a product on the credit card space. The other thing was people didn’t even know our vision as a company, they didn’t know the product. What’s going to happen to them?”

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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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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. Customer segmentation is essential , not just to identify where buyers pull back but also to “reveal products primarily purchased by people still willing to pay full price.

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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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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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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

In every start-up, finding initial product-market fit is a magical moment. You dive deep into a customer development process, working closely with a few customers who feed you requirements and are willing to trial an imperfect product that is evolving quickly. a "jungle" stage company would have a lower quota than a "highway" company).

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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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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. Yes… he was a very successful PayPal exec and previously co-founder & VP Product of SocialNet. Not long after the product launch we began the initial conversations with VCs for a Series A round. link] leehower.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2015

This is nearly 30 times the size of the entire global Internet in 2000. Look for and reward quantum changes, like cutting cycle time in half, in your processes, products, and services. Data enable: use metrics and measurements. exabytes per month at the end of the year. Accelerate: speed is life in this new world.

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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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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2013

1990s to 2000: Infrastructure, Security, Management, etc. 2000 to 2005: CRM, SFA, ERP, Payroll, Analytics, etc. Such a shift towards the social enterprise will also influence all functions from HR to Finance, Sales, Marketing, R&D, Operations, Product Development to Manufacturing.

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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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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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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. Try charging customers for your product when you have 12 competitors giving the product away free finances by $20 million of VC. The Funding Problem. The Exit Problem.

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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. These people sit around thinking "lofty thoughts about markets, products, the competition, and the like.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it.

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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. Its product quality, sales and share price tanked — the share price in 2008 hit $3, as compared to $250 today. While 99.999999 percent of all takeoffs are successful, an estimated 70 percent of digital transformations fail.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 13, 2015

Often your best estimate of any metric or market behavior or business model component is at best accurate within a power of ten, for example “expected conversion rate between 0.5% Their product has a few usage tiers; on average a customer spends $50/mo. Of course not all people will find out about the product from advertisement!

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 3, 2015

And when you opt-in for one of their many whitepapers, software demos, or free tools on their site, you’ll start receiving information via email that educates you on the benefits of their products. They’re displaying the value of high quality content, and they’re bringing new digital tools and metrics to bear.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2019

And while there are many KPIs that differ in their importance to teams with different goals, there are some indicators that can be applied universally to maximize efficiency and productivity in project management. User actions and performance are great metrics to do a deep dive into processes and identify those types of bottlenecks.

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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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Mucker Lab

MARCH 8, 2016

We’ve written code, launched products, acquired users, managed P&Ls, and lost sleep over making payroll. Every week, we speak with entrepreneurs who feel like they have solid metrics and growth, but they see other founders effortlessly raise millions of dollars with nothing more than an impressive PowerPoint deck. We understand.

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Up and Running

JUNE 28, 2012

Are you listening; really listening to the conversations going on about you and your products? In the 1990’s and early 2000’s it was “You got mail” as made famous by the AOL advertising stable. Relying on one analytical metric to track your progress or that of the campaigns you are running is a false flag. ” Or do you?

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

It is also intriguing to see that the market bottom was reached only two years after the start of the decline for the 1929, 1973 and 2000 crises, so we might need another year before the market reaches it lowest point. S&M productivity (CAC ratio) for the SaaS 13 Index. "10 Things Every CEO Needs to Know About Product D.

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David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

Kupietzky held a variety of management roles in marketing, sales and product management at world-class technology companies: Digital Insight (Intuit), Loudcloud/Opsware (Hewlett-Packard) and Siebel Systems (Oracle). Mr. Geleerd has been a member of YPO since 2000. He began his career as a consultant with McKinsey & Co.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Over 13 years ago, in March of 2000, I wrote a blog post titled “ The Most Powerful Internet Metric of All. ” The key thesis was this: if an Internet company could obsess about only one metric, it should be conversion. As such, it is time to pound the table again – conversion is by far the most powerful Internet metric of all.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 30, 2019

Like if you go to Walmart, buy a product, it’s probably in one of these plastic blister packs. But you see the product and they look nice, they prevent theft because they’re hard to put in your pocket and walk away with, but they’re difficult to open. Even things like packaging. Roger Dooley: Yeah.

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

We sell the winning designs to customers in the form of personalized wedding invitations, Christmas cards , and other stationery and photo card products. Product Passion - to many engineers, they have to be stoked about the idea to work there. Set up the metrics first, then youll know if you succeeded.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. This was possible because in 2000, Donna and Handspring were in an Existing Market. They never understood Market Type.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 1, 2013

We’ll look at relevant metrics to help you assess whether a specific marketing channel could work for you, and also highlight additional resources to help you get a better understanding of that channel. It leverages others to help promote your company’s products and services. Online Marketing. Social Media Marketing.

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