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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

Both Sides of the Table

One of the things I discuss the most with the portfolio companies I’m involved with is that “you manage what you measure.”. Customer Acquisition. How many through affiliate deals? You can find out how to more cost effectively buy search terms (i.e. You Manage What you Measure. How many adds came through organic SEO?

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Taking Corporate VC: When It Makes Sense

View from Seed

One of our prior investments was an e-commerce company that grew primarily through organic search. Most corporate VCs today understand the rights and responsibilities of startup minority shareholders, and don’t try to push for onerous requirements like ROFR on an acquisition or egregious information rights.

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Why Partnerships Are The Future Of Marketing

Duct Tape Marketing

So yeah, I, there there's some confusion around these terms, partner, marketing partnership, marketing affiliate market, and you have influencer and B2B. I, I think there is this convert urgents where affiliate marketing was a model that used technology to, to work with partners at scale. You say you'll pay me 10 bucks. I'll promote.

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Measuring Incrementality: Controlled Experiments to the Rescue!

Occam's Razor

We have to do Search Engine Optimization. We have to do Paid Search. We have to have a robust Affiliate network. Smart Marketers work hard to ensure that their digital marketing and advertising efforts are focused on the most impactful portfolio of channels. Maybe it is Search, Email and Facebook.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. Pacer is useful to search prior litigation, bankruptcies, etc.

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Multi-Channel Attribution Modeling: The Good, Bad and Ugly Models

Occam's Razor

MCA-ADC covers the challenge of attributing credit to all digital marketing channels (Social, Display, YouTube, Referral, Email, Search, others) that contributed to a particular conversion (or multiple conversions). And you are telling me that the Cost Per Acquisition for my display campaigns is not $201 but rather a lowly $155?

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Be Real-World Smart: A Beginner's Advanced Google Analytics Guide

Occam's Razor

You can also search for other stuff, like custom reports or attribution models. We rarely hold people responsible for Traffic Acquisition accountable, we rarely hold people responsible for Site Design and Merchandizing accountable. Question time for your Acquisition, Design and Merchandizing team. Another tip. A lousy 17%.