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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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! Conversion rate is one of those metrics that I strongly encourage you only create benchmarks for from your own data. There are four reasons, again from Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, from 2008 (!):

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

That’s because many of our reports feed us vanity metrics: numbers that make us look good but don’t really help make decisions. Yet even among those who have access to good actionable metrics, I’ve noticed a phenomenon that prevents taking maximum advantage of data. Too much of this data is non- actionable.

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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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dontbesoanalytical.blogspot.com

MAY 13, 2012

Dont Be So Analytical!!! Saturday, February 16, 2008. Inside the development organization, this Director attends to staffing, training, workload and productivity metrics, budget, and scheduling. On the Use, and Misuse, of Software Test Metrics. ▼ 2008. (9). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Post a Comment.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

And finally, Scott demonstrated his internal management tool for managing the metrics of his business. 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. It’s awesome.

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David Teten

APRIL 6, 2015

of US annual medical costs in 2008, compared with 6.5% The industry standard metric for tracking the severity of disease is disability-adjusted life years ( DALYs ), i.e., the number of healthy life years lost due to the disease or risk. It also shows market white space for the smart entrepreneur. The data is painful. a decade prior.

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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. Top Five Tools of BigData Analytics. ► 2008. (21). 4) Reality - Some things are "hard".

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Most importantly, it’s now possible to have detailed analytics on exactly what’s happening to messages and ideas as they flow through word-of-mouth channels. Despite all the energy invested in talking to authors about the size of their platform, very few gatekeepers have a rigorous set of metrics for measuring it.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

The best video hosting platform varies business by business, depending on factors like: How often you’re uploading; How you plan to use the video; The viewing experience you want to give your audience; The analytics you need; The cash you have to spend. Wistia has been around since 2008. YouTube is an obvious and popular choice.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

Rashmi Sinha, co-founder and CEO of SlideShare , describes an early version of the analytics package that’s part of the Pro accounts the company announced today. “Individuals and small companies wanted analytics, they wanted to know what was happening in social media [for their content], they wanted ad removal and lead gen.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

IDES is an analytics enhancement for fraud prevention systems addressing the credit card fraud market. Cristina currently has a couple of large customers in pilot mode, and is starting to show metrics on how much improvement IDES can deliver over existing analytics engines. And a very large one at that.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 18, 2010

They use customer development , split-testing , and actionable analytics as vehicles for learning about how to make their vision successful. They use customer development , split-testing , and actionable analytics as vehicles for learning about how to make their vision successful. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

I have tried to find some metric that mixes Y/Y and M/M, but to no avail. Here's me comparing performance of this blog over two years for the Visitors metric: Overall happiness reigns, I think. Let's say I did lots of things to drive SEO from Nov 2007 to May 2008. Five Rules for High Impact Web Analytics Dashboards.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Kiss Metrics – https://blog.kissmetrics.com/. The 50 Best Business Blogs of 2008 Lists are always popular this time of year so I. Razor Social – [link]. Jon Loomer – [link]. PPC Hero – [link]. WordStream – [link]. Conversion. Unbounce – [link]. QuickSprout – [link]. Crazy Egg – [link].

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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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VC Cafe

MAY 3, 2010

But during attendance at the TechCrunch 50 conference in San Francisco in 2008, the founders cottoned-on to the idea that publishers could benefit by adding a rich layer of social and other functionality to their sites. Wibiya also provides publishers with analytics to display the metrics relating to user interaction with the toolbar.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Friday, October 10, 2008. The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008 Release. When we first published Bessemer’s Top 10 Laws for Being "SaaS-y" in early 2008 in conjunction with our annual invitation-only SaaS CEO Summit, we were overwhelmed with the positive response and feedback we received. Brian, Paglo www.paglo.com.

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Small Business Force

MARCH 11, 2017

While data analytics and “big data,” have been around for more than forty years, for the prior twenty-five, it was mostly driven by a set of geeky folks who were, seemingly, always developing solutions looking for problems to solve. For each function define one or two important metrics to track.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Google Analytics provides insights into where your visitors find you on the web, yet what happens once they’re on your site is often a mystery. Optimizely has a great article about the 2008 Obama campaign testing text on their call to action button. Heatmap Tracking. The four buttons they tested were: Join Us Now. Learn More.

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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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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

MAY 18, 2010

One of my earliest blog posts extolled the glorious virtues of segmentation: Excellent Analytics Tip#2: Segment Absolutely Everything. Many paid web analytics clickstream analytics tools, even today (!), Web Analytics , the other wonderful free WA tool, had advanced segmentation from day one. Of course Yahoo!

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

In a lot of cases, this requires a lot of energy invested in talking to customers or metrics and analytics. 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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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 4, 2014

In 2008 Wal-Mart asked customers if they would like less cluttered stores, and the answer was “Yes, please.” Listening to people is a good idea, but you have to pay attention to the metrics. Digital analytics analysis: where are you leaking money ? ” What people say and what they do are different things.

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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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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. Tracking results is useful for metrics, which, in turn, help measure growth and success of the company.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2009

LIKED: Y startups fail, cont deployment vs waterfall vs agile, small batches & learn fr biz metrics #leanstartup As concise a summary as Ive ever seen. Trial and Error + Analytics? What makes a department (or individual) "more efficient" doesnt necessarily advance the companys goals. farazq : Awesome session @ericries. What else?"

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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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marketingland.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Analytics |. Column: Analytics & Marketing Column. 8 Ways We Deceive Ourselves With Metrics (And How To Avoid Them), Part I. and particularly people involved in metrics and evaluation of “how did we do this week/month/quarter?” Tumblr Has Its First Analytics Platform Via Partnership With Union Metrics.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Yaniv Masjedi: Exactly, in the early days we were essentially educating the market on moving away from traditional PBX, expensive, clunky, difficult phone systems to the cloud or VoIP back in 2008. I would say more and more when we first started in 2008 I think the early days it was just, “Let’s move fast and do what makes sense.”

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

We sold the company in 2008 to Comcast and were taking some much-needed time off. But we knew about A/B testing and optimizing metrics, and search spaces and fitness functions. We were spoiled by having had dashboards, analytics, and data warehousing at Plaxo, so we ended up building our own dashboards for each part of the business.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Ok, so perhaps as the author of two bestselling books on analytics I love it a little bit more! In each case the creator did something interesting that made me wonder how I can use their strategy in my daily efforts in service of digital marketing and analytics. You can hover over each box to get a sense of the key metrics.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 12, 2017

On day one, we heard from UX and digital analytics experts. Jared Spool: Is Design Metrically Opposed? Useless measures and silly metrics. Metric: A measure we track (usually over time). Analytic: A measure software can track. A metric should tell you what you will do differently. pic.twitter.com/T2OjzFm2U8.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

The actual goal here is really to increase the main metrics – the amount of money it generates and the amount of traffic it gets. You want to provide information on traffic, and that can be something as simple as Google Analytics. You’re very well aware that one of the statistics packages is Google Analytics. Increase traffic.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And that’s been reflected in the entrepreneurial community, where entrepreneurs, especially between 2000 and 2008, entrepreneurs really only wanted to do — for the most part wanted to do consumer software, because that’s the only software that they could actually get anybody to adopt. So GoodData is an actual easy-to-use analytics package.

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Altgate

JANUARY 1, 2009

  I was just looking at the 2008 Google Analytics data for Altgate.  Overall, 2008 was a great year of growth in traffic.  One metric that jumped out at me is the global reach.    It is an amazing tool.    You can see which page they left from but not where they went. 

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