Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Since 2005, they have been the two leading investors in Africa, investing $31 billion and $16 billion on the continent, respectively. A strong results and metrics-focused approach. In the U.S. so far, no company has raised more than $700 million and it is somewhat of a sad commentary that the biggest U.S. But a few constants remain.

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Altgate

JANUARY 17, 2009

You touch a facility and you see data about what is going on there; for example for call centers you see customer support metrics. On a giant wall screen in the main lobby, you see a map of the world with every Fidelity facility. If I were CEO of a large corporation, I would definitely have a “data&# room like this to meet in.

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

decide on success metrics, measure, and then decide if additional investment is warranted. If the innovation is successful, then the metrics should help drive the enhancement into the top/right "agile happy place" quadrant. ► 2010. (14). ► 2005. (1). I call this scenario "Innovate and Measure". ► July.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 23, 2007

The following chart compare the impact of the tsunami in 2005 on the website traffic vs. the viral marketing campaign that they launched in 2007 with Popular Media. ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010! Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your SaaS and C. ► 2009. (9).

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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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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

A few years before all this scandalous VC behavior occurred, in 2005 Paul Graham ) started Y Combinator. Hell, there are still plenty of VCs who don’t even have a blog or use twitter, and many more who have no idea on how to use data services to analyze and collect metrics on their own portfolio. and no, we didn’t.

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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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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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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.

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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. So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry. Today’s Normalization.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 4, 2014

When Digg went through a radical redesign in 2010, it suffered a whopping and mind-blowing 26% loss of site traffic. Listening to people is a good idea, but you have to pay attention to the metrics. This is Amazon in 2005: Yes, different – but not radically different. Remember Digg.com? All the changes are iterative.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

You can find the 2005 version here. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Since 2005, the FutureBrand Country Brand Index , produced in partnership with BBC World News, has measured the strength of a country brand based on its levels of awareness, familiarity, preference, consideration, advocacy and active decisions to visit. Israel moved in the right direction in 2010, climbing 11 spots to #30.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Since 2005, the FutureBrand Country Brand Index , produced in partnership with BBC World News, has measured the strength of a country brand based on its levels of awareness, familiarity, preference, consideration, advocacy and active decisions to visit. Israel moved in the right direction in 2010, climbing 11 spots to #30.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Since 2005, the FutureBrand Country Brand Index , produced in partnership with BBC World News, has measured the strength of a country brand based on its levels of awareness, familiarity, preference, consideration, advocacy and active decisions to visit. Israel moved in the right direction in 2010, climbing 11 spots to #30.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies. Metrics: 2.5mm members, 1,000 brands, 2,500 sale events to-date. Metrics: 50mm users (up from 40mm in Dec 2009), -Competition includes: Spotify , Last.fm.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

In 2005, we launched all three products — in the order of listings, subscriptions, then ads — eventually discovering two surprising insights: The principal market for our listings and subscriptions products became the recruiting space, instead of business development and networking. Identify the right metrics for success.

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Up and Running

MAY 25, 2016

Census Bureau data, of the nonprofits that started in 2005, only 43 percent of these firms still existed in 2010. The Mohawk Valley Metric Century —a bike ride event in Eugene, Oregon—is an example of a benefit event held annually to raise money for Oregon Supported Living Program’s Arts & Culture Program. According to U.S.

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Altgate

JANUARY 1, 2009

One metric that jumped out at me is the global reach.  .  There was a similar growth in terms of RSS subscribers, finishing with about 750 (although Feedburner "lost" about 400 of them this morning which I assume will be "found" tomorrow).

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 22, 2010 The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post) The Huffington Post published an op-ed on the Startup Visa movement that Ive been working on for some time. For example, over 25% of the technology companies founded between 1995-2005 had a key immigrant founder.

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mashable.com

MAY 24, 2011

Apps or Mobile Web: Conversion Rate is Platform Dependent Although comScore’s MobileLens report ending in November 2010 indicates that nearly twice as many smartphone users accessed online retail via a website rather than a native app, that only tells part of the story. That said, deciding how to allocate resources can be difficult.

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

André C says: December 5, 2010 at 1:37 pm. Plinko says: December 28, 2010 at 9:16 pm. Interestingly, My daughter, a graphic designer was taught the opposite (that was in 2005 ish). Eyetracking metrics (book chapter). metrics (1). Pingback: Coffee Bar Junkie: Pingback: New blog design | facepalm II beta. dotSUB (1).

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

You can measure this yourself: go to any list of startups, maybe look at YCombinator’s recent graduate class , or Scoble’s list of picks for 2010 , or Sequoia’s list of seed companies — or go find a list you like better. December 2010. November 2010. October 2010. September 2010.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

I think it was December of 2010, and happened to just be reading that paper on the internet one day and just immediately captivated my attention. You can go read about it on Wikipedia and whatnot, but it's sort of a metric that economists use to look at the various countries of the world and measure how economically free those places are.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

In fact, the data (www.php.net/usage.php) show that PHP's adoption flattened in the middle of 2005. February 17, 2010 3:59 AM Jared said. 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.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? Startup Metrics for Pirates â?? SaaS Metrics Tutorial â?? VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Seed Startups. VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

In fact, a coronavirus caused a shutdown as recently as 2005. Could you have had an outcome that was more like H1N1 in 2009, 2010, where over the course of a little more than a year, about 13,000 people died, so about 1,000 a month? But this kind of pandemic is not actually unprecedented. Pandemics have happened before.

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