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Groupon's S-1: From Zero to Like? Billions in 30 Months ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

4) Unique Reporting of Accounting: Much has been made in the press that Groupon has chosen to report alternative non-GAAP metrics in addition to GAAP accounting. IMO this is much ado about nothing, as any comptentent analyst can look at Groupon’s GAAP and non-GAAP metrics and get a good sense of the business. And Why 20%?

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How to Handle Mobile “Moneyball Syndrome” & Cross-Device Attribution

ConversionXL

billion smartphone users in 2012. Inspired by the movie ‘Moneyball,’ MoneyBall syndrome refers to the fact that companies aren’t looking into the right metrics when measuring the effectiveness of their mobile website. Some marketers try looking at conversion as a solo metric of determining how their CTAs perform on mobile.

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Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox, part 1

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July 12, 2012. App-specific metrics. Another thing that became increasingly useful was to have thousands of custom stats aggregated over thousands of servers graphed. Apr 8 2012 14:33:59 POST. Apr 8 2012 14:34:00 GET. Apr 8 2012 14:34:00 GET. Apr 8 2012 14:34:01 POST. Rajivs blog. RSS Archive.

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Doubling SaaS Revenue By Changing The Pricing Model

www.kalzumeus.com

Posted on August 13, 2012. Unless you own a hosting company, “number of servers owned” is not a metric your CEO cares about. August 13, 2012 at 9:32 am. #. August 13, 2012 at 9:50 am. #. August 13, 2012 at 9:57 am. #. August 13, 2012 at 10:18 am. #. Greatest Hits. Standing Invitation.

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Maternova and the Business of Saving Lives: A Secret to Success Story

Up and Running

Allyson met her co-founder Meg Wirth in 2012 when Wirth was working as a consultant for groups like the Rockefeller Foundation and the United Nations. 90 percent of our clients are ordering more than one product at a time, so we’re an aggregator. They don’t have time to go digging around to find all these great innovations; we do.

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The SMB Guide To CRM In 2019

YoungUpstarts

Since you have access to intelligent information, the question becomes — how will you aggregate and leverage all this data? Today’s best SMB-focused CRMs capture metrics more effectively than ever before. John Oechsle joined Swiftpage in July 2012 and currently serves as president and chief executive officer.

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The SRS 2012 Merger and Acquisition Terms Study: Comments on Key Findings

Pascal's View

My comments on the key findings from the Shareholder Representative Services 2012 M & A Deal Terms Study are in bold: Deal sizes: although the median deal size* rose slightly to $75 million in 2012 from $70 million in 2011, deals $50 million or less grew to 42% of deals in 2012, up from 33% in 2011. That’s for sure!