YoungUpstarts

APRIL 3, 2015

The Harvard Business School reported that small business loans have decreased 21% from their pre-recession peak in 2008. FICO credit scores, business cash flow and business debt are being joined by cash-flow reports, direct deposit data and, in some cases, social media reviews and metrics during the approval process. How it Works.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Those were the messages from the two latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on Sirius XM Channel 111. Clips from their interviews are below, but first a word about the show: Entrepreneurs are Everywhere airs Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern on Sirius XM Channel 111. I left Amex Jan. We could call them up.

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ConversionXL

MAY 19, 2020

Or maybe it’s your keyword well that’s reaching its limits, leaving you with plenty of ideas, but no clear path forward about how to prioritize them or the distribution channels for which they’re best suited. Map these metrics to the appropriate funnel stages, as well as the content types most commonly used to support them.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Warm Regards Sean Murphy www.skmurphy.com September 19, 2008 4:35 PM Eric said. Sure, Id be delighted to.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Forget everything you learned about software channels. The internet is your new channel and Technology Enabled Service providers are among the few partners that actually care if you succeed (more.) SaaS companies use different metrics to calculate renewals. 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 ► 2008. (11).

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Mass blasts of information are ineffective, because the broadcast channels are suffering from information overload (even in social media). Test-marketing is now easier than ever before, thanks to leveraged distribution channels like AdWords and Facebook. There are too many products clamoring for attention. Is that a lot?

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Paid Search or affiliates or email or display or YouTube or whatever channel you end up choosing. [ Remember: Engagement is not a metric, its an excuse. ]. The ideal metrics for this desired outcome are Visitor Loyalty & Visitor Recency. You can compute two important metrics: Likelihood to Recommend / Brand Lift.

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dontbesoanalytical.blogspot.com

MAY 13, 2012

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). Enjoy this eclectic collection of essays, recipes, and fictions -. Post a Comment.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

Finally, we’ll zoom out and assess the big picture: how various categories of company may be impacted long-term, how this crisis compares to 2008 (and what that means for early-stage founders), and the industries and business models that are now prime for growth. What are those metrics? I do think that is a massive difference.

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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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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2019

And the success metrics show that. Its product quality, sales and share price tanked — the share price in 2008 hit $3, as compared to $250 today. It’s done a great job of continuing to distinguish itself in its local expertise of home improvement, while using digital technology for improving operations as well as in omni-channel sales.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

She has a separate team, with its own culture and office, and a mandate straight from top management to innovate without regard to the company’s historic products, channels, or supply chain. In a startup context, numbers like gross revenue are actually vanity metrics, not actionable metrics. So far, so good.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

You know all about vanity metrics , and how you shouldn’t be obsessed with them. You can usually tell this is the case when your SEO traffic converts well below other acquisition channels. Also note that often, organic traffic is one of the highest converting channels. Traffic Without Conversions is Worthless. Image Source.

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Hippoland

DECEMBER 15, 2015

In late 2008, I was about to turn in my 2 week resignation at Google to start a company when Sequoia sent out a presentation to their portfolio companies. For angels, they are not tied to investing in startups per se – they simply want to invest money in channels that will yield good returns. In 2000, we had the dot com bust.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 2, 2006

1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 ► 2008. (11). The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008 Release. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends. Happy New Year 2008! SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Add RSS feed. Subscribe via email. Cracking The Code on Facebook. SaaS 13 Index*. Hard times.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers. Time-to-complete-a-sale is not a bad metric for validated learning at this stage. And yet, their investors are frustrated. This last point is especially important.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

We combined three tactics: extensive use of free software, an open platform for user-generated content, and leveraged distribution channels. Leveraged distribution channels. So we tried to craft a strategy that would give us the product development leverage we needed to serve all customers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

Today, Id like to spend some time on two techniques: the problem presentation and learning what channels of information reach customers. In particular, Ive focused on the two channels of communication that were most commonly suggested in the first survey: conferences and books. Lets start with what I learned last time.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

This is another sub-optimization caused by incentivizing the wrong metric. Given that most recruiting channels are pay-for-performance, its usually cheaper, too, because it has a lower conversion rate. This can be especially challenging for HR professionals who measure their success based on the number of jobs they fill.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

But instead of channeling all my energy towards building new features, I channel roughly 80% of it towards measuring and optimizing existing features. But instead of channeling all my energy towards building new features, I channel roughly 80% of it towards measuring and optimizing existing features.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, March 24, 2009 The metrics and levers of engagement, presentation on Engagement Loops for Facebook Developer Garage SF Ill be presenting a talk at the Facebook Developer Garage SF Wednesday evening. Unfortunately, its easy to lose track of positioning effects when optimizing for a single metric.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

Early this year, SlideShare launched custom channels. Designed for large businesses, the channels let a company share several types of documents, brand the channel with their own design elements, and then include display advertising, contest promotions, blog aggregation, social media integration and metrics reporting.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

Simply sign up using your Google account, create a channel , and upload your video files. Suggested videos encourage people to increase their watch time not just on your channel but on the platform as a whole. In comparison, Facebook Live shows overview metrics like minutes viewed, average percentage completion, and unique viewers.).

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

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. Then, she can start doing partnerships with fraud management system vendors and use their channels to sell, perhaps. And a very large one at that.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, October 7, 2008 The App Store after the gold rush I wrote earlier about the issue of distribution advantage on the iPhone. The App Store is a channel for customer acquisition. On the web, we have many of these channels: SEM, SEO, world of mouth, PR and viral.

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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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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. The central goal of Wibiya is to be a distribution channel and to provide tools for developers to serve web publishers.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

For three decades (1978-2008), investors controlled the board. While 20th century metrics were revenue and profit, today it’s common for companies to get acquired for their user base. . — all great things when you are executing and scaling a known business model. Board Control. Therefore, investors could set the terms.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

In other words, the service transforms tweets into professional reports that are sent by snail mail, fax, and email - the channels that actually have attention paid to them. Why vanity metrics are dangerous ► November (1) ► October (7) ▼ September (9) Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (and a request for.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 31, 2009

As you can tell from recent posts, Ive been experimenting with different formats and channels to try and find the best way to help. 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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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

g2s The very abbreviated version of Customer Development (channeling Steve Blank ). Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Boyds ideas have inspired a lot of the principles underlying my work.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 11, 2009

Those who have tried to build apps that exist just as glorified landing pages or marketing channels have generally failed. And, most importantly, you have several reliable communciation channels to talk to them including including email, profile notifications, feed items and status messages.

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www.rocketwatcher.com

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Rocket Watcher Product Marketing for Startups Product Marketing for Startups About Speaking Contact Email Posts Startups Product Marketing Messaging Social Media Commentary Uncategorized Marketing Metrics 101 for B2B Startups 13. Rocket watcher b2b marketing metrics View more presentations from April Dunford.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, September 18, 2008 How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone I have had the opportunity to meet a lot of iPhone-related companies lately. There are other models, in other distribution channels. September 19, 2008 1:35 PM Anish Acharya said. Blake, thanks for the comment!

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Again, its critical to focus your marketing launch on those publications, venues, and channels that your potential partners are paying attention to. Dont chicken out and do a closed beta; get real customers in through real renewable channels. Know what the success metrics are for the launch. Dont scale. Dont marketing launch.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 31, 2009

Maybe location-specific "channels"? Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. I'm really just trying to figure out how to explain what this thing does. Does this scale in any way?

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

How do we get it out to market, and we read a book, and I remember it was called, it was about traction channels, and there was like 18 different traction channels. In 2008, and 2009, we were really starting to grow. We do a lot of soul searching around how do we built this product, when nobody knows it exist. Matt Watson: Yeah.

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