Gust

JANUARY 31, 2013

Hastings in the era of social media : On July 3, 2012, he posted to his Facebook page , which had more than 200,000 subscribers, the fact that Netflix had streamed a billion hours of video in the preceding month.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

LinkedIn’s product had only been live for a couple months, we only had tens of thousands of registered users, and wouldn’t start generating revenue for more than a year after this point. We’ve had a supportive board and encouraging metrics and a helpful climate for our community news notion (now 51 sites in 3 states).

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 20, 2016

in 2012, its first step was gauging the local market’s wants and needs. In December 2012, the Council of the District of Columbia and the mayor shut down the District of Columbia Taxicab Commission’s efforts to block Uber. Small business success metrics must be defined by more than numbers pulled from the sky.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 4, 2017

After failing to complete adequate due diligence before acquiring Autonomy in 2012, they ended up with losses of around $5 billion. Once you have access to a company’s financial metrics, you can use it in several ways in order to assess the risks that they might pose to your business. Just look at the example of Hewlett-Packard.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 28, 2020

To do that, we built a demand funnel that took us from nothing to 44X revenue growth in a single year. SiriusDecisions Rearchitected Demand Waterfall (2012). That difference cascades down the funnel, allowing you to track the ROI of your lead sources between inbound and outbound campaigns—all the way through to revenue.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 30, 2013

On average, during Black Friday 2012, social traffic converted 77% higher than normal. A new Forrester report titled “The Purchase Path of Online Buyers In 2012? analyzed conversion paths on 77,000 orders to determine what sources returned the most revenue. Wrong metric. Real money behind numbers. Image credit.

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www.clickz.com

JANUARY 7, 2013

Ad Industry Metrics. Heidi Cohen | December 24, 2012. To get your 2013 marketing plans on track to increase revenues, here are seven social media tactics based on solid research that you need now. 2012 was a key year in Digital Marketing. Social Media, Mobile, and Content Marketing: 4 Trends That Rocked 2012.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2016

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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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 23, 2013

Marketo filed for IPO with impressive 80% year-over-year growth in 2012, with almost $60m in revenue. of revenue, force-feeding sales pipelines with an unprofitable product. SaaS companies earn their revenue over time. time to earn back the revenue to cover all your customer acquisition expenses) 75% annual retention.

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Up and Running

JUNE 29, 2016

It’s not just the overall trend toward online shopping that makes this a solid strategy for increasing revenue, however. Then, in 2008, she started her own independent ecommerce site, with revenues reaching $28 million by 2011, and $100 million by 2012. Go beyond “straight sizing”.

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Revenue eCommerce Social Media Campaign 76

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

It would have been easy to explain the difference by changes in the 2010/2011 revenue growth projections but unfortunately that is not the case. revenues while large caps are trading at 6.4x. ► 2012. (1). SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Wednesday, February 23, 2011. SaaS Multiples: Recovery or Bubble?

Software Review 101

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Pinterest is quietly generating revenue by modifying user submitted pins – [link]. Good to see companies focus on real advertising metrics – [link]. Oscar nominations 2012: if posters told the truth – in pictures – [link]. When did advertising get so small? – [link]. Is Crowdsourcing The Future Of Film?

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 2, 2013

Multi-channel attribution was the flavor of the month for every month in 2012. And just as in 2012 magic pills will be scarce, FUD will be plentiful, and vendors will promise the moon. On top of the graph click on Select A Metric and choose Goal Conversion Rate. Change the metric on top of the page to Goal Values and bam!

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Analytics Search Campaign eCommerce 159

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

It’s easy to get lost down the rabbit hole of metrics for your business. When it comes to getting the most out of your website performance, only certain metrics are what you can consider key performance indicators. For websites, this can include “sales volume,” “number of visits,” “average cart value,” and a variety of other metrics.

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Metrics Acquisition Conversion Revenue 121

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Global revenue from mobile advertising increased by 92 percent from 2012 to 2013, growing from $10.1 Perhaps the largest obstacle to the growth of mobile is determining clear metrics to calculate return on investment. billion to $19.3 Advertisers must continue to innovate to leverage the proliferation of mobile devices.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

movie box office - traditionally the holy grail of movie industry metrics -- become increasingly irrelevant? billion dollar business this year to $5 billion by 2012, taking market share away from DVD retailers and intensifying the carriers' ambition to bid for the best (and first run) titles. Has the U.S. How about Internet Video?

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 20, 2016

There are, however, proxy metrics you can use, most of them older school metrics like brand mentions, satisfaction scores, and some newer ones like social media mentions and followers, email subscriptions , referrals, and NPS. The post How To Make Your Brand “Likable” and Win More Revenue appeared first on ConversionXL.

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Revenue Social Media Retention Metrics 48

www.readwriteweb.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Along those lines, last week, Ryan Carson, co-founder of Carsonified offered a list of six key metrics for your web app and how to track them. CMRR Definition : CMRR is "Contracted Monthly Recurring Revenue." Are there any additional metrics you think SaaS companies should track? The calcuation is 100 / churn_percentage.

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Metrics CPA Illinois Acquisition 58

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 1, 2009

► 2012. (1). SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Online Gaming. (1). Portfolio. (3). sales and marketing. (10). Small and medium businesses. (2). software. (10). Venture Capital. (3). Blog Archive. ► 01/15 - 01/22. (1). BlablaCar - Travel Revolution. ► 2011. (2). ► 07/31 - 08/07. (1). ► 2007. (10).

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 21, 2013

Last year’s conference was no exception: speakers talked about their direct experience with practices you may need help implementing—things like metrics, feedback, and experimentation. This year’s conference will go deeper on advanced entrepreneurship topics, and we wanted to get you up to speed on some of the key ideas from 2012.

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Lean Louisville Startup Metrics 167

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

But in 2012 a visit to any major college in America will show you the massive increase in aspirations of our young talent to become the next Mark Zuckerberg and build a future Facebook. So it is unsurprising that an over-funding environment and the commensurate returns hangover would have lasted until about – well – 2012.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Venture Chronicles

DECEMBER 20, 2011

On the latter we have seen a revolution in how companies advertise, increasingly around the notion of pay-per-click (PPC) that provides immediate and detailed performance metrics upon which ROI can be calculated. SoLoMo: Social Local Mobile is on for 2012.

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PPC Social Network Mobile Campaign 32

Agile VC

MARCH 18, 2012

March 18, 2012. Costolo clearly wants to position Twitter as a complementary part of the media ecosystem (which it is by and large) rather than a competitor, and there remains a chance that Twitter will have other forms of revenue besides ads. Here’s why: Virtually all of Twitter’s revenue comes from advertising.

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Media Advertising Silicon Valley Revenue 113

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 30, 2015

5 Content Metrics Every Marketer Needs to Analyze written by Alex Boyer read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. To put these metrics into perspective, look at Bizible and how it assesses its blog’s impact on the business. Today’s guest post comes from Campbell Mcdonald – Enjoy!

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Metrics Marketing B2B Analytics 28

VC Adventure

JANUARY 31, 2014

Or if you want to compare how they did in 2012 to 2013, just read Rand’s post Announcing Moz’s 2012 Metrics, Acquisition of AudienceWise, & Opening of Our Portland Office. And while Sarah and Rand were disappointed in their off-plan performance of 33% revenue growth, GAAP revenue of $29.3

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Portland Acquisition Metrics Revenue 93

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 9, 2009

This strong recovery has highlighted the resiliency of the recurring revenue model in a downturn as well as the stength of the shift to soaftware-as-a-service and cloud computing. In other words, how much of the decline in revenue growth is due to signing up fewer customer vs lower revenues from each new customer. Portfolio. (3).

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Software Review Technical Review Cloud Europe 48

Pascal's View

DECEMBER 19, 2012

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!

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Acquisition Merger Dilution Aggregator 31

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 19, 2018

There’s a new baseball stadium on the waterfront, and since 2012, the Double-A team the Blue Wahoos have drawn more than 300,000 fans per year to Pensacola. It’s important for a community to know where its revenue comes from and, more importantly, know what isn’t generating revenue. percent growth.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Revenue and profits are way up, and we’re attracting great talent — but that’s not the interesting part of this story. A 2012 study by the Economic Policy Institute found that worker productivity in the U.S. Our revenue is still up, and all the metrics are going in the right direction. We work 8 a.m.

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David Teten

APRIL 6, 2015

Source: AON Hewitt 2012 Health Care Survey , based on World Economic Forum data. 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. Healthcare founders are being rational in an irrational system.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Non-Compete Philadelphia 60

Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

Given the predictability of SaaS GAAP revenues on a quarterly basis, the fact that the 08/09 projections were unchanged is not a surprise. Given that the revenues are not growing very fast, this means that most of the companies have reduced their sales force and focused on productivity improvement. (1). ► 2012. (1).

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Software Review Technical Review Cloud Forecast 63

www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

Because we achieved our most aggressive revenue targets and built a strong community, we realized that we had a broader opportunity to change the world of graphic design. Size of Opportunity - market size, revenue or usage, exit outcome and their ability to get equity early are all important. Culture - a fun, collegial work atmosphere.

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Conventional wisdom suggests that the most important metrics for a startup - such as unit economics, cost of acquisition, lifetime value, churn rates - typically get better with time. I hear this asserted frequently by entrepreneurs who confidently project their businesses with increasingly improving metrics as they scale into the future.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 3, 2012

In the quarter to March 2012 Microsoft’s Online Services Division (OSD) saw revenues of $707m which was about 4% of total revenues, and it lost $479m. After the deal Ballmer said that advertising would become 25% of his company’s business within a few years. Unfortunately this prediction has not come to pass.

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Exit Strategy Acquisition Advertising Metrics 96

leananalyticsbook.com

AUGUST 19, 2012

The One Metric That Matters. August 7, 2012 by Alistair. One of the things Ben and I have been discussing a lot is the concept of the One Metric That Matters (OMTM) and how to focus on it. That doesn’t mean there’s only one metric you care about from the day you wake up with an idea to the day you sell your company.

Metrics 58

Metrics Clickthrough Lean Analytics 58

Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

From collections and revenue lifecycle management (called Collector) to clincial documentation and electronic medical records (Clinicals) as well as patient communication (Communicator) - athena now provides a full suite of cloud-based automation software for doctors. And when you do pivot, pivot hard.

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Fractional CTO Cofounder Cleveland Vertical 43

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Cloud accounting is all about matching revenue and costs to consumption…well, except for professional services! SaaS companies use different metrics to calculate renewals. ► 2012. (1). SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Support, support, support! Leverage and monetize the data asset (more.)

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