Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2007, 2011) and for the hottest of companies and in bad markets for fund raising (2003, 2008) prices test the bottom end of the range. Another firm we saw tried to raise $15 million at a $60 million pre-money with similar metrics. There is no such thing as a uniform price. Here’s the problem.

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Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Silicon Valley Stock 336

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

At an accelerator … Me: Raising convertible notes as a seed round is one of the biggest disservices our industry has done to entrepreneurs since 2001-2003 when there were “full ratchets” and “multiple liquidation preferences” – the most hostile terms anybody found in term sheets 10 years ago. Your A round?

Venture Capital 417

Venture Capital Liquidation Preference Valuation Term Sheet 417

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

But we couldn''t have identified this without having clear metrics (that high bug count) to assess our development process. We had finally hit the point where we needed to impose clear process - process whose main goal was to ensure that software stayed stable.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 12, 2014

By 2003 nearly all of their competitors had failed, the companies that went public pre-bubble were trading sub-$1 / share, but ServiceMagic was growing like crazy and was very profitable. Before ignoring vanity metrics became trendy, ServiceMagic ignored them.

Seattle 149

Seattle Metrics Cofounder Finance 149

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

Even for later-stage companies with predictable financials, the lack of liquidity, audited financials, and standardized metrics creates real challenges to scaling quantitative investing. . – Internal diversity.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

Even for later-stage companies with predictable financials, the lack of liquidity, audited financials, and standardized metrics creates real challenges to scaling quantitative investing. . – Internal diversity.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

It was 2003. 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. Mark Organ , saw a tiny space in the already very crowded CRM industry and founded Eloqua.

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Customer Marketing Artificial Inteligence Clickthrough 92

Hearpreneur

JULY 8, 2017

incentaHEALTH was formed in 2003 around the idea of rewarding people for healthy behaviors. We’re also expanding the scope of biometric devices that we offer to track a growing list of key health metrics, like physical activity, cholesterol, blood pressure, sleep quality, etc. Tell us about your business.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

I remember just a decade ago in 2003 when we all laughed at how dumb people in the 90′s were talking about the race to “capture as many eyeballs as possible” before your competition. The minute you try to monetize now they have metrics with which to beat you up and say you’re business has limitations.”

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VC Cafe

MARCH 4, 2021

I first met Mark in Israel in 2003, when he offered me a job at GLG straight out of college. We could discuss the ROI metrics of each organization in the same way as we would any company. Mark Gerson is a serial entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist (see his short bio below).

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Africa Cofounder Community 155

Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 14, 2021

With the use of three pillars of this technique: Methodology, Metrics, and Philosophy. With Metrics, you can correctly evaluate the areas of maximum/minimum output and production. This point was explained at the Texas technology Showcase of the year 2003.

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Cracking the Code

APRIL 27, 2018

What a journey it has been since the genesis of the company in 2003, when it’s visionary team set out to automate the agreement process and solve many pain points from speed to cost and accuracy. Mike and I regularly exchanged thoughts on SaaS metrics and strategic transactions in EMEA. And this is just the beginning!

Seattle 48

Seattle Global Cofounder Security 48

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

Good press and industry mojo wasn’t enough to overcome the financial metrics of the business and the offers came in at more like $10 million. It’s 2003 and VCs aren’t exactly lining up to fund startup businesses. It was not. I wasn’t surprised. We decided not to sell. Would now be a good time to buy a house?

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Startup Dilution San Diego Stock Options 417

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I grew up in Los Angeles and went to undergrad at UC Santa Barbara, graduating in 2003 with Honors in Economics. Any thoughts on my recent post Startup Metrics ? The Startup Metrics post is a good example of what I call “holocognics.” Startup Metrics discusses what a Startup needs to consider before “going live.”

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Los Angeles Southern California Startup SEO 150

reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Friendster was at its height, strongly battling MySpace after raising its premium round from Benchmark and Kleiner in the fall of 2003. Friendster raised a big round in 2003; MySpace started gaining traction. And show that you’re focused on the metrics that matter: revenue numbers, engagement traction, etc.

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 19, 2016

When I was at Reuters Venture Capital, for example, we worked like crazy to raise our second fund in the tech nuclear winter of 2001-2003 and kept believing, but there came a point when we flipped the switch and gave up. However, we need the switch when that irrational optimism stops serving us well. Fascinating stuff.

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Venture Capital Metrics Sales Startup 60

Gust

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Me: Raising convertible notes as a seed round is one of the biggest disservices our industry has done to entrepreneurs since 2001-2003 when there were “full ratchets” and “multiple liquidation preferences” – the most hostile terms anybody found in term sheets 10 years ago. There were no metrics. Him: On metrics. Your A round?

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Liquidation Preference Valuation Term Sheet Stock 153

ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

even selfish humans are more likely to act fairly when in public.” ( Burnham, 2003 , pp. Because that number provides a strong influence in donating, you should inflate that metric as much as possible. That inflated metric, in turn, should help you collect more donations moving forward. How can you apply this tactic? 2013 , pp.

Campaign 48

Campaign Reputation Metrics Naming 48

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

For example, The MailerMailer Email Marketing Metrics Report is number one for their important phrase email marketing metrics as a result of free content. With a squeeze page, you’re lucky to get into the first 20 pages on Google for a phrase like “email marketing metrics&#. But you want leads, right?

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Dave McClure >>"what we are seeing now is a battle of two major investment theses: the index approach and the concentrated investment approach." startupcto

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Technical Review Due Diligence Startup Angel Investor 50

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 29, 2013

About Ari and Wyatt: Wyatt Jenkins is VP of Product at Shutterstock, a stock photo site founded in 2003 that now encompasses twelve cross-functional teams and is one of the world’s largest two-sided marketplaces. And when they say, ‘You need to hold people accountable, not to vanity metrics, but to learning milestones,’ yup, that’s true.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

I had been writing GigaOM (the blog) since December 2001, but in 2003, I started working on a piece for Business 2.0 The success of business can be measured through many metrics — page views, revenues, profits, the number of employees, or an exit (either through a private or through a public sale). STARTING IT UP. Back to the top.

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Founder Conversion Distribution Silicon Valley 80

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

Free Weekly Marketing eNewsletter Years Worth of Posts Here Select Month July 2011 June 2011 May 2011 April 2011 March 2011 February 2011 January 2011 December 2010 November 2010 October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 July 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 February 2010 January 2010 December 2009 November 2009 October 2009 September 2009 (..)

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

MySpace was incubated by a small team of employees within Intermix in 2003 (Chris DeWolfe, Tom Anderson and four others). VantagePoint Venture Partners came to the rescue in late 2003 with an infusion of $15 million in capital, adding Andrew Sheehan (now at Sutter Hill Ventures ) and David Carlick (now at Rho Ventures ) to the Board.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Merger Vesting 98

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

The management happens with the following up on the metrics. Develop measurement to set your marketing goals so you can track and measure your progress. Look for numbers like sales, units, leads, presentations, page views, downloads, and conversion rates. You track plan vs. actual results and look carefully at the difference.

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Marketing Matching Social Media Cofounder 41

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

Do the previous nine steps and, as Matt Heinz says, “Don’t invent new metrics. Those brands that don’t have internal support for content marketing are 300% more likely to stink at content marketing. Track more but report less. Focus on behaviors.” Note: There have been some updates since I published th.

Social Media 41

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Small Business Force

MARCH 11, 2017

However, the book “ Moneyball ” by Michael Lewis, published in 2003 and the follow-on movie, with Brad Pitt, from 2011, really seemed to bring it into mainstream thinking not just in sports, but in business and most everything else. For each function define one or two important metrics to track.

Small Business 26

Small Business Management Metrics Sales Cycle 26

David Teten

AUGUST 7, 2019

Likely signs of a Value investment: the company has challenges in filling out the round; the investors have more negotiating leverage than the founders during the closing process; the company has significantly better metrics (e.g. LTV / CAC, revenue growth, etc.) than comparable companies in the same sector that raised at a higher valuation.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Valuation Stock NDA 60

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Even though I had done it before, I had never heard the term sharding before joining Google (early 2003) so I always thought the term originated there. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

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www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

While this is indeed the metric that matters most to shareholders, its not terribly useful as a measure of productivity, especially daily or hourly productivity. Sustained Reduced Sleep Can have Serious Consequences , Linda Cook, NINR, March 2003. Either the game ships and sells — or it doesnt. Archived at Mischievous Ramblings.

Software Review 90

Software Review Technical Review Widget Los Angeles 90

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

There are three parts to a good competitive analysis: (1) defining the metrics and identifying the competitors you’re comparing, (2) gathering the data, and (3) the analysis. You’re going to need some brand health metrics to track. Start by defining what metrics are important. 3) Develop personas for your target customers.

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Marketing Charlotte Naming Design 162

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2020

It didn't take much searching to find out that the drug had been tested against SARS-CoV-1 (known to non-scientists as SARS, the 2003 pandemic ) and had proved effective against the replication of that virus. The real metric should be funding should go into something or something should be developed until there is a treatment.

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United States Europe Ratchet Technical Review 68

Up and Running

JULY 2, 2014

To put this into perspective, just think about what Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt said in 2010: “Between the birth of the world and 2003, there were five exabytes of information created. You’ll want to check out metrics like bounce rate and average time on page. We [now] create five exabytes every two days.”.

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Audience B2C Sales Web 77

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 4, 2014

User experience guru Jared Spool was talking about the dangers of radical redesigns already back in 2003, Louis Rosenfeld was ranting against it in 2002, and so on. Listening to people is a good idea, but you have to pay attention to the metrics. Seems like a shitty deal, doesn’t it? And this isn’t something new.

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Conversion Technical Review Design Framework 124

Startup Company Lawyer

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

This was particularly common from 2001 to 2003, after the dot-com crash when companies had raised a large amount of venture financing at high valuations. Alternatives include position, time of service, current equity holdings or other metrics as determined by the company’s board of directors. Vesting.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

We’ve had over 20,000 people download that free tool that we built, and the key metric there is if somebody has used that free tool, their conversion rate on our paid product is three times higher than those who have not. We started that company in 2003, and we sold it in the 2011, so you frame up the timing.

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Kansas City CTO Hire Las Vegas Software Developers 40

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Founded in 2003, ASOCS develops and markets MultiComms.processors that provide seamless connectivity over diverse wireless networks. Established back in 2003, Comarcom Ltd. The ASOCS MP100 processor, featuring the ModemX™ core, represents a evolutionary approach to communications.

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