Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. Time-to-complete-a-sale is not a bad metric for validated learning at this stage. Thank you for your simple, insightful explanation of why that is the wrong metric to use.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

But aggregated across many schools, there are thousands or tens of thousands of them. January 14, 2010 12:43 AM wesley chun said. January 14, 2010 12:43 AM wesley chun said. January 14, 2010 4:55 AM Ronald S Woan said. January 14, 2010 9:48 AM wesley chun said. Wow, this sounds familiar.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 13, 2015

The class of 2010 is a cohort, because every student in the group graduated in 2010. As the above chart shows, we can compare the average income of the class of 2010 and 2011 over the same relative interval (5 years after graduation) for an apple-to-apples comparison. Will this cohort help me improve that metric?”.

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

goods and services, especially services, and they are expanding in aggregate at a rate that even 10% U.S. A strong results and metrics-focused approach. This is where the growth action is, and while the first reaction of Americans is to feel as if we’re being left out of the game, the RIGHT reaction should be WOW.

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www.subelsky.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Because it has an RSS feed, one could also use "Unresolved Hoptoad Errors" as a metric influencing the continuous deployment system. This isnt Rails-specific, but we use SimpleDB for dumping a lot of important metrics data, like performance measurements, which we then turn into metrics. March 8, 2010 9:25 PM Anonymoussaid.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 18, 2010 Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events The following is a case study of one entrepreneurs transition from a traditional development cycle to continuous deployment. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

Bekkers and Wiepking (2010) examined why people donate to charities. Most project creators describe their project using aggregate framing. Bekkers and Wiepking (2010) analyzed over 500 studies on charitable giving. Because that number provides a strong influence in donating, you should inflate that metric as much as possible.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Wize provides consumers with a unique way to leverage the online wisdom by aggregating the opinions of millions of users and by letting people ask questions about a specific product or need to the Wize community. ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010! ► 02/20 - 02/27. (1).

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, August 16, 2010 Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium (Normally, I do not write about companies that are doing a marketing launch. Between the metrics and the direct customer questions, SlideShare had what Sinha calls “minor learnings and then major shifts.&# Except it didn’t take off. [I

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

2gov.org automatically routes your tweet (aggregating it with everyone else whos expressed a similar point of view) to the right legislator or agency. 2gov.org automatically routes your tweet (aggregating it with everyone else whos expressed a similar point of view) to the right legislator or agency. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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David Teten

MARCH 2, 2013

The Kauffman Foundation points out several reasons why they choose to keep pouring capital into the industry: the J-curve narrative, VC investment allocation mandates (which should disproportionally benefit large funds), the “relationship business” philosophy, and potentially misleading return metrics (such as IRR).

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Pascal's View

DECEMBER 19, 2012

Seller financial performance: acquisitions remain heavily weighted toward Sellers with revenue, and Sellers in the aggregate continue to show improved earnings since 2009. Earn-outs: usage of financial metrics (revenue and earnings) and multi-metric achievement tests is declining, accompanied by a shift toward longer earn-out periods.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 19, 2010

"What is the difference between a metric and a key performance indicator (KPI)?" " "Are goals metrics?" There seems to be genuine confusion about the simplest, most foundational, parts of web metrics / analytics. Metric: A metric is a number. But not normal metrics. Dimensions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, February 22, 2010 Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Diversity is the canary in the coal mine for meritocracy. Two others – that each team member give their input independently and that the results be objectively aggregated – are also key parts of building a meritocracy.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 9, 2019

In 2010, Dr. Anne Aula, a Senior User Experience Researcher at Google, presented some disappointing findings about mouse tracking: Only 6% of people showed some vertical correlation between mouse movement and eye tracking. Click maps show you a heat map comprised of aggregated click data. Maybe it’s accurate, maybe it’s not.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In an ecosystem, each participant acts according to its own imperatives, but these selfish actions have an aggregate effect. In an ecosystem, each participant acts according to its own imperatives, but these selfish actions have an aggregate effect. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 30, 2008

In order to get optimal results from a group-based effort, you need three things: diversity, Independence , and an objective method for aggregating results. Aggregate results carefully. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Not all crowds are wise.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

Because every tool uses its own sweet metrics definitions, cookie rules, session start and end rules and so much more. If you don't kill 25% of your metrics each year, you are doing something wrong. Allow me to point out that only 50% of the metrics I love exist in clickstream tools - like webtrends or xiti or unica.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 16, 2015

In 2010, Dr Anne Aula, Senior User Experience Researcher at Google, gave a presentation where she presented some disappointing findings about mouse tracking : Only 6% of people showed some vertical correlation between mouse movement and eye tracking. Click maps show you a heatmap comprised of aggregated click data. How do you know?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Using memcacheds multiget, which allows the fetching of many keys in parallel, I have written code to aggregate all the shard lookups for a given page and prefetch them, reducing the overhead even further. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Yes, cost per click is metric. The metric CPC aside, we do present data like this all the time. If you can, focus on a singular metric for each module/slide/element. And because all data in aggregate is crap , segmented trends are even better! The big rise in digital consumption vs. 2010 is much more obvious now.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

On October 27, 2010 I wrote a blog post about the “ 57 Things I Learned Founding 3 Tech Companies.”. If it’s done right, feedback and postmortems are regular activities and reviews are just the official aggregation of such feedback.?. Jason is also an investor in and Board Member at RJ Metrics. Fab.com Fab Feed Bradfords Blog.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 9, 2019

That’s why, in 2010, we chose to redefine ourselves with a name that better identifies who we are, what we stand for, and where we are going. Initially, when Mediametric was just founded, it was called Pandorama and was designed to aggregate fun news and trending content with a cute Panda being the logo. 14-By being Descriptive.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Effectively measuring and understanding your CAC and CLTV metrics are key to future success. Bessemer SaaS Law #1: Your key monthly business metrics are: CMRR (Committed Monthly Recurring Revenue), Churn, and Cash flow - “Bookings” is for suckers. Brian, Paglo www.paglo.com. Great list! Great list! Philippe Botteri.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

In May 2010 (!). Many vendors now aggregate this real customer data and present it in the form of benchmarks that you can use to index your own performance. Check the definitions of various metrics. For example, if you see a metric called Cookies, find out exactly what that metric means before you use the data.

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ConversionXL

JULY 7, 2016

In 2010, Dr Anne Aula, Senior User Experience Researcher at Google, gave a presentation where she presented some disappointing findings about mouse tracking: Only 6% of people showed some vertical correlation between mouse movement and eye tracking. Increasing these metrics is merely correlational with increasing conversion rate.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March The following are the top items based on social signals. Wannabe entrepreneur symptoms and cures - Gabriel Weinberg , July 25, 2010 I was once a wannabe entrepreneur.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

This introduction was also the opportunity to illustrate the amazing growth of our software and saas portfolio in the past years, with aggregated revenues reaching $1.2B What metrics should I be using to drive a saas business? If you want to learn more on SaaS metrics, you can read my previous blog post. ► 2010. (5).

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

It kind of aggregates technology content, I suppose. 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. BA : Yeah, well, the first time I saw the Bitcoin white paper, I saw it on Hacker News, which is a website that YCombinator runs.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Previous Israeli exhibitors lists are available MWC 2009 and MWC 2010. The solution provides a live, accurate status of customers’ level of satisfaction, according to metrics that are pre-defined and measured at the time of the customer experience. The platform enables easy interfacing to MNOs, aggregators and content providers.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 3, 2010

The recovering economy has really boosted brand ad budgets in 2010, with online ad spend back to setting records again. The key driver of this renewed confidence from brand advertisers is better measurement of brand metrics that can show the impact of online advertising beyond clickthrough. Finding money and saving money online.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 15, 2008

The next wave of internet will come from companies aggregating these various data sets and leveraging them to provide more value to the user. ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010! Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your SaaS and C. ► 02/20 - 02/27. (1).

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Startup Metrics for Pirates â?? SaaS Metrics Tutorial â?? aggregation. Startup Foundry tools list. Small Business tools list. Lean Startup Circle â?? Google Group for startup advice. SEO and Analytics Tutorials. read this before you spend time elsewhere. worth reading as well. Analytics review â?? Analytics blog â?? advertising.

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