Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

The metrics were good but we wondered how much better they would be when we expanded our product. But that’s harder to build in 2016 than it was in say 2005.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

Let me take you back just 10 years ago to 2005 in Silicon Valley where I returned after 11 years of living in Europe. But back in 2005 there were a few people who spotted the trend before others and one of the true pioneers was (and continues to be) Jeff Clavier who founded SoftTech VC. It is, of course, a very recent phenomenon.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 17, 2009

it's up to the Board or CEO) One or more financial metrics Balanced scorecard For very early stage startups (e.g.  It is just too hard to see out 12+ months with any certainty to be able to pick meaningful metrics. " Well, there are basically three ways you can link pay to performance (in startups): Discretionary (i.e.

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Venture Capital Metrics Startup Software Review 47

Altgate

DECEMBER 15, 2010

link] fnazeeri That’s absolutely correct, although we can look at other metrics like “step up in subsequent rounds&# on which I hopefully will be able to post more soon. Perhaps the are other tell-tale metrics like time required to raise money vs. number of founders…need to think more on that.

Pre-Money Valuation 66

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Cofounder Founder 66

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.

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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.

Africa 104

Africa Brazil China India 104

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.

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Retention Developer Customer Programming 112

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. ► 2005. (1). I call this scenario "Innovate and Measure". 4) Reality - Some things are "hard". .

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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.

Retention 105

Retention Customer Developer Programming 105

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Thanks for sharing a candid view of what went on; I’ve heard Reid discuss the process in 2005 at a conference in the UK. We’ve had a supportive board and encouraging metrics and a helpful climate for our community news notion (now 51 sites in 3 states). Congrats! . link] Lincoln Coutts. We’ve been lucky.

Term Sheet 178

Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

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.

Retention 98

Retention Customer Developer Programming 98

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2019

I’d led the systems integration as CIO of the Gillette company into P&G in 2005, and run multi-billion dollar IT and Shared Services operations in every region of the world. And the success metrics show that. While 99.999999 percent of all takeoffs are successful, an estimated 70 percent of digital transformations fail.

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Philippines Business Model Engineer Operations 124

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

We funded one in 2005 and lost a lot of money. 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. I believe in company metrics that are publicized and can be used as company motivation and creating a unified sense of purpose.

Startup 417

Startup Dilution San Diego Stock Options 417

Board Effect

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In 2005, the United Nations reinforced ESG when it established an initiative called the Principles for Responsible Investment. Make a point to incorporate ESG goals and metrics into your strategic planning efforts. The report determined that companies that created ESG policies would be stronger and more resilient.

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South Africa Government Africa Institutional Investors 76

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 5, 2017

Another important part of solving problems through good design is having success metrics so you know when a solution is actually working. A report by Motiv Strategies and the Design Management Institute examined how Apple, Starbucks, Target, and other top companies turned good design into 211 percent growth between 2005 to 2016.

Design 78

Design Missouri Differentiation Advertising 78

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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Metrics Social Media Small Business RSS 50

Altgate

OCTOBER 1, 2010

What do you think, is this the right way to score these metrics? We decided (so far) that if, for example, a company had 4 executives while there peers had 5, we would “reward&# them in their score for being people efficient.

Part-Time VPE 39

Part-Time VPE Startup Salary Equity 39

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 26, 2020

Amazon raised the stakes back in 2005 when they offered two-day free shipping on eligible purchases. Social shopping, omnichannel purchases, instant gratification, the ever-more crowded market, and the need to fully monitor your sales and marketing metrics all demand a full-body digital makeover for your business.

Sales 227

Sales Social Media Channel Technical Review 227

Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Never missing an opportunity for a good war story, I’d like to revisit one high-profile transaction, the $650 million acquisition of MySpace by Fox Interactive Media in 2005, on which I spent many sleepless nights along with the rest of the deal team. The spin-out took a few months to negotiate and didn’t actually close until February 2005.

Valuation 98

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Merger Vesting 98

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.

Technical Review 31

Technical Review Technology Venture Capital Social Network 31

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

And that was, you know, 2004, 2005 was, I was realizing that it was no longer about working harder. One when scale started to kick in, when we hit the, you know, 200 employees at the head office, 2000 employees system wide, it started to get complex and a little bit outside of my sandbox. And then secondly was the text.

CTO 79

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OnlyOnce

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

We’ve had many great times, meals, and conversations together over the years, not the least of which was staggering across the finish line together at the New York City Marathon in 2005. Startup Metrics: Making Sense of the Numbers in Your Startup. They are: Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City.

New York City 83

New York City Startup New York Community 83

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 (..)

Atlanta 52

Atlanta Marketing Social Media RSS 52

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.

Silicon Valley 74

Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

So how do you use financial projections as valuation metrics when you know the odds of those being accurate predictors of the future are so very unreliable? There is a universal truth: fewer than one in a thousand start-ups meet or exceed their projected revenues in the periods planned.

Valuation 48

Valuation North Carolina Oklahoma City Silicon Valley 48

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. SaaS business metrics: why are they different? UNICEF USA used their solution and the results have been fantastic. The 10 laws of SaaS unveiled at Bessemer CEO Summi.

Software Review 48

Software Review Viral Media Marketing 48

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.

Marketing 41

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

Social Media Small Business Matching RSS 41

Occam's Razor

APRIL 25, 2011

" I'd postulated this rule in 2005, it is even more true in 2011. Making lame metrics the measures of success: Impressions, Click-throughs, Page Views. Use metrics that matter: Loyalty, Recency , Net Profit, Conversation Rate, Message Amplification , Brand Evangelist Index , Customer Lifetime Value and so on and so forth.

Marketing 126

Marketing Flash Analytics Web 126

David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

Geleerd acquired the stadium out of highly publicized bankruptcy and turned around its financial position and ultimately engineered the sale back to the Toronto Blue Jays in 2005.

Naming 122

Naming Government Intellectual Property LLC 122

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

"What's happened in the last decade, the cost of launching an Internet product - forget other technologies, we'll focus on Internet - has dropped from $5 million to $500,000 in 2005, to $50,000 today," he continues. Two orders of magnitude. It's still growth, mind you, but it's more efficient, less wasteful, and a bit less self-assured.

IPO 115

IPO Stock San Francisco Lean 115

Growthink Blog

JULY 23, 2012

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 that same time frame, United States IPO volume declined 75% in real terms and now accounts for less than 11% of the global total.

Africa 76

Africa Brazil India China 76

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. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Or Ford (it is amazing that in 2013, for such an expensive product, it looks so… 2005). Bonus: Facebook Marketing: Best Metrics, ROI, Business Value ]. If you open your copy of Google/Adobe Analytics or CoreMetrics or Webtrekk you'll notice that every single report has a gigantic number of metrics in it. Beat Beneful.

Analytics 165

Analytics Marketing Channel Metrics 165

ConversionXL

AUGUST 30, 2018

The key is to connect user research to an improved user experience and, in turn, an increase in customer retention, leads, or any other metric for which C-suite members are accountable. At Samsung, user research led the company to redesign its televisions in 2005, doubling their market share in just two years.

Design 111

Design Framework Product Development Technical Review 111

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Up till 2005, Thefacebook was a network for students, but it expanded beyond Ivy League, and even beyond the U.S. Examples of such are security, load handling, performance (number of requests processed per second and other metrics), security, and others. . The site was introduced to a limited target audience – Harvard students.

San Francisco 106

San Francisco Audience SMS Demand 106

BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

During the years ended March 31, 2004, 2005 and 2006, we achieved positive operating cash flows of $0.3 million for 2005, $3.0 While the Salary.com numbers are strong ( read the S-1 here), they are not close to those metrics. million, $0.9 million and $1.8 million, respectively, and used $0.7 million for 2004, $1.9

IPO 60

IPO Investment Bankers Demand Revenue 60