Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, November 7, 2008 Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step If you want to build an online service, and you dont test it with a fake AdWords campaign ahead of time, youre crazy. Enable Google Analytics tracking. November 7, 2008 7:36 PM nitesh said.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

GE made a $4 billion bet on connecting industrial equipment via the Internet of Things (IoT) and analytical software with a suite of products called the “ Predix Cloud ”. Andreessen’s article helped accelerate the company’s digital transformation.

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2011

Advanced risk management : After the crisis of 2008, financial institutions are clamoring to empower their risk management practices via technology solutions that perform better and faster than current offerings, with as little room for human error as possible. Our portfolio companies OfferIQ (acquired by Transactis) is in this sector.

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Eric Friedman

JANUARY 1, 2023

This will encourage new content creation and be supportive and changes not just informative with analytics. 8/ There is a cohort of companies started in 2023 that rivals the vintage of 2008. Selfishly I hope this is Wolf.game and the price of $wool soars. Consolidation of ARR companies that are doing $5-$10m happens.

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ConversionXL

JULY 22, 2014

I mean, assuming you have site search set up properly in Google Analytics, if you knew that the majority of people are searching for “Coffee Tables” don’t you think you could do something with that data? Setting Up Internal Site Search With Google Analytics. The thing is, what 86.7%

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Eric Friedman

DECEMBER 10, 2022

This will encourage new content creation and be supportive and changes not just informative with analytics. 8/ There is a cohort of companies started in 2023 that rivals the vintage of 2008. Selfishly I hope this is Wolf.game and the price of $wool soars. Consolidation of ARR companies that are doing $5-$10m happens.

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thebarefootvc

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

The combination of mobile technology, sensors, robotics, and data analytics will create businesses that can empower billions of people around the world through decentralized and distributed networks where the “middlemen” are no longer required. The 2008 financial crisis is still being felt in this country. Globally, there are 2.5

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

If you’re still doing SEO by optimizing for keywords, you should know: it’s not 2008 anymore. You test the new version against the control, and make sure you feed the test data to Google Analytics, so you can segment the crap out of test results. Web analytics - Google Analytics (or whatever you use) is a goldmine.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 7, 2018

Keep an eye on the dashboards and analytics tools because that’s where the durable truths about an organizations priorities are depicted. Even forward-thinking and scrupulous teams are going to need help understanding the tradeoffs inherent in *not* maximizing for a short-term exploitive growth hack or business goal.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

New business applications are the highest since 2008, reports the Wall Street Journal. He leads a team of professionals who help small businesses grow with financial analytics, business strategy, and accounting. by LJ Suzuki, CFOShare.org. Is it crazy to start a business during the Covid-19 pandemic?

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 30, 2020

Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that during economic downturns like the Dot Com crash and the financial crisis of 2008, more than 100% of net job growth comes from companies that are less than five years old. The series D insured that Linkedin had the capabilities to play both offense and defense in the 2008 crisis.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Google Analytics 4 (GA4) officially launched in October 2020. What makes GA4 so different compared to the current version of Google Analytics? A brief overview of Google Analytics 4. GA2 : Classic, 2008. Most notably, compared to older versions of Google Analytics, GA4 places a heavy focus on the event-driven data model.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Statisco Economic Analytics. Then Prashant Singh from Bangalore, India, discussed Statisco Economic Analytics , a risk management technology for managing company balance sheets, interfacing with their ERP systems. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 13, 2008 Five Whys Taiichi Ohno was one of the inventors of the Toyota Production System. November 13, 2008 8:59 PM eisrael said. November 14, 2008 3:19 AM Hitchens said. November 14, 2008 4:41 PM Eric said. November 14, 2008 5:00 PM Tony said. Good stuff.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

See if you were able to get more traffic to arrive at your site, and if they were Existing Visitors or New Visitors (hopefully measured with a first party cookie in your website analytics tool). Bonus reading material: Multichannel Analytics: Tracking Offline Conversions. Web Analytics. 7 Best Practices ].

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 26, 2021

I had been in the NY tech scene since 2008/2009 and was just, generally, trying to be helpful to founders, investors, etc. HW: You then started your own company in the social media marketing/analytics space ( SocialRank ). Alex Taub: Yep, I think I did a reference call for them with you guys. This just helped speed certain things up.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 12, 2017

On day one, we heard from UX and digital analytics experts. Analytic: A measure software can track. Michele Kiss: Mastering Analytics for Optimization Success. Analytics and testing should live together in an organization. 2008 process. Tools used: JIRA, SiteSpect, Apptimize, Adobe Analytics, Amazon Web Services.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Way back in 2008, an obscure SaaS company called Zuora started talking—loudly and endlessly—about the “ subscription economy. Articles, case studies, and eGuides, like this analytics whitepaper written by, you guessed it, a company offering call-center analytics software. Create movement-first content to build credibility.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 13, 2008 SEM on five dollars a day How do you build a new product with constant customer feedback while simultaneously staying under the radar? In the process, we had also built a simple cohort-based analytics system. SEM is a simple idea. I just came across this post.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

kaChing launched a virtual portfolio management game on Facebook in January 2008 and a similar version shortly thereafter on kaChing.com. kaChing launched a virtual portfolio management game on Facebook in January 2008 and a similar version shortly thereafter on kaChing.com. How’d it happen? How’d it happen?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Marketing and lead automation software for businesses; claim to have largest market share in sector since March 2008. Seattle-based company specializing in mobile analytics. Investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners (Jeremy Liew) (lead), with existing investors Polaris Venture Partners, Crosscut Ventures. Read more: PEHub.

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Eric Friedman

JULY 28, 2008

I had the chance to interview Randy Peterson of P&G for his upcoming participation in Search Engine Strategies 2008: San Jose where he will be speaking on the Keynote Roundtable: “Why Does Search Get the Credit for Everything?” What is one area you would like to see people spend more time on when looking at SEM analytics?

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thebarefootvc

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

The combination of mobile technology, sensors, robotics, and data analytics will create businesses that can empower billions of people around the world through decentralized and distributed networks where the “middlemen” are no longer required. The 2008 financial crisis is still being felt in this country. Globally, there are 2.5

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

And it was an even greater coincidence that I ended up watching part of his “jobs” speech at the same hotel where many of his 2008 presidential campaign events were held. Now, it was only by coincidence that the conference was held in President Obama's Chicago home town.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Media Fragmentation and the Growth of Small Publishers » April 07, 2008. Posted by Steve on April 07, 2008 at 12:57 AM | Permalink. Posted by: Post Work | April 09, 2008 at 07:57 AM. Posted by: Steve | April 09, 2008 at 09:44 AM. Posted by: Atlanta Search Engine Optimization | April 16, 2008 at 07:38 AM.

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Altgate

APRIL 22, 2009

"  The beauty of having the option to select from "standard" options is that WSGR has included some market data , e.g. what percent of term sheets in up rounds in 2008 included this term.  Last year, I spent a lot of time attempting to reverse engineer  this data based on a small personal sample size.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2015

It’s taken since 2008 to get back to October baseball, but the Cubbys finally have a shot at going all the way! How Baseball Is Competing With Apple and Google for Analytics Talent crowdspring.co/1gRDaH0. For instance tonight starts the National League Divisional Series between the St. Louis Cardinals and (guess who?) 1WkFiHb.

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blog.adaptiveblue.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Fast forward to almost 2008 and those days are gone. This service is useful for processing intense data, such as site analytics. Use Google Analytics in Standard And Creative Ways Early on startups need to track things. All of these questions are addressed by any web site analytics package.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

The firm, Correlation Ventures, is using predictive analytics technology to tilt the odds in its favor. In fact, by using analytics software that relies on a different way of measuring risk, the San Diego firm is becoming known in some circles as “the Moneyball of venture capital,” according to David Coats, a co-founder and managing partner.

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ConversionXL

MAY 19, 2020

Marcus Sheridan is the king of the question, having used question-driven content to save his failing River Pools & Spa business during the Great Recession of 2008. What questions are your customers asking? Image source ).

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ConversionXL

APRIL 27, 2019

Indeed, a CMO Council study from 2008 found that: Over 50% of global marketers report that they have fair, little, or no knowledge of the customer demographic, behavioral, psychographic and transactional data. You can identify touchpoints along the user journey in two reports in Google Analytics: Behavior Flow report ; Goal flow report.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

A social analytics platform for Facebook app developers and publishers that provides detailed demographic and engagement data. Analytics also extend to iPhone and web apps using Facebook Connect. Founded in 2008 in Santa Monica by Ron Goldman (former CRO of shopping.com) and Rahul Sonnad. Total Raised: $21.4mm. Kontagent. -A

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 16, 2008 How to Usability Test your Site for Free Noah Kagan has a great discussion of usability testing which can help get you over the "thats too hard" or "thats too expensive" fear. At Facebook we never did testing or looked at analytics.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Mo was graduated from Wharton, worked in investment banking, spent 6 years at IAC (including in an operational role for Connected Ventures which includes College Humor, Busted T’s and Vimeo) before joining Spark Capital in 2008. Google Analytics vs. Facebook’s new analytics tool. Founded in 2008 by Mehdi Maghsoodnia.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

If you've read my first book Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, you know that I've advocated this strategy since 2008! There are four reasons, again from Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, from 2008 (!): This has never been true – not even for people who use the same analytics tool. See Page 269. :).

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

As we learned in 2008, recessions can come on swiftly and cause major crises for all businesses, big and small. Another thing you can look at, is any pattern your business experienced before previous recessions, particularly in 2008. by LJ Suzuki of CFOshare. Smaller-Scale Indicators.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 25, 2012

If you haven’t followed this blog in the past, I’m a guy who launched several web startup/product ideas, acquired several more, had many failures and enough successes that I was able to shut down my consulting firm back in 2008. There are literally over a billion rows in the database and no one had touched it since 2008.

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