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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

Both Sides of the Table

I ran my first marathon in London this way in 2003 raising $3,000 for Parkinson’s disease (and finishing in under 4 hours – my publicly stated goal). Measuring viral adoption is obviously important. 10% of our revenue is coming from direct sales of our banner inventory. Nobody likes to raise money then look like a loser.

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The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition (Part 1)

Software By Rob

Depending on your market, the ROI can be better any other traffic source you can find (with viral traffic the most common exception). The site generated revenue but it was losing customers and the hosting bill was hefty given the performance requirements of the site (it’s basically performing real-time analytics).

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Even Branding Should Be Agile: An Interview With Base Creative’s Matthew Kinsman

Up and Running

In 2003, Matthew Kinsman was traveling around the world and found himself in Hong Kong. For Base Creative’s website, “Google Analytics shows that the visuals are approximately four times more popular than the text equivalents.” In other words, if there’s any one way to control whether a post goes viral, quality is it.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

The biggest deal I’ve ever done was a sale of a $100,000 website. It made this site very sticky and it grew organically through viral word-of-mouth as a result of doing that. In the Magic site’s case it was a forum that would grow virally by itself. That website gave me money to play with. Deciding to Sell.

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Google VP: Here's How to Get Bought By Us

mashable.com

But there’s also the satellite-mapping company Keyhole, which in 2003 became the seed that sprouted Google Maps. GLIIF’s initial offering includes a brand-able and blend-able custom encrypted image at a low cost of entry, pre re-direction marketing services and full analytics. Result: sale was made. viral video.