Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. They look for the use of talent analytics, such as productivity per employee, as well as the practices and attitude toward employee satisfaction.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 30, 2022

16- Become more agile and flexible. In my opinion, one of the changes that companies will have to make this year is becoming more agile and flexible. In order to keep up with the ever-changing landscape, businesses will need to be more agile and flexible. Thanks to Cody Candee, Bounce ! #16- Photo Credit: Emir Bacic.

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ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

From where they’re standing, they’ve already spent a ton of money buying analytics and dashboarding tools, each of which promised to be the holy grail. Now, we’re wrapping up a data lake that stores data across all customer touchpoints on most channels, from acquisition to re-engagement. So why do they need a data strategy?

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

This actually aligns closely with the Lean Planning approach, which allows your business to be more agile and make adjustments as you test your idea in the market. Know every business metric for your company—start with Google Analytics. Business must be calculable—and it’s same with customer acquisition. How did I build mine?

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2024

Employ robust analytics tools to track key performance indicators (KPIs) such as conversion rates, website traffic, and customer engagement during and after the promotion to evaluate the performance of your campaign.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

With digital analytics , you have access to all the data you need to make smart decisions without solely relying on feelings. In this guide, you’ll learn how digital analytics can benefit your business and how to use it to communicate with stakeholders. Table of contents What is digital analytics and what can you gain from it?

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

With the pace of innovation increasing, and powerful new tools—such as cloud storage of big data sets and machine learning algorithms for mining that data—now affordable and accessible to even fledgling start-ups, even the most powerful incumbents, such as Walmart and Microsoft, must learn to be more agile in both product development and marketing.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2019

Take 3DR , who make drone aerial analytics software for the construction site. Plangrid and Building Connected have made headway penetrating the market, and their recent acquisitions by Autodesk means they will be taken more mainstream with such a strong backer.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 24, 2017

With agile development cycles and uncertain monetization models, they live and die by data and experimentation. Optimizers who want to lead this type of transformation in the business must be able to do a lot more in-depth research, it won’t be enough to just be analytical or creative. Image Source.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 10, 2014

We had seen Lightspeed portfolio company Nicira disrupt networking layers 2-3 with an architecture that consisted of highly distributed scale out software elements coupled with centralized control, culminating in an acquisition by VMWare for $1.25B in the summer of 2012.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Specifically: Who owns web analytics / who it reports to from a org structure perspective. Let me hasten to add that this, web analytics ownership, does not exist in a vacuum. If your overall web business is misaligned from an org perspective then honestly there is no hope for you, regardless of where analytics sits.].

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

It’s also a time when you are most agile to work on ideas and implement strategies without the crippling setbacks caused by decision hierarchy and process. The early startup phase of your business is a very exciting time because there is an immense amount of opportunity and success to be had.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2016

And, as if unlimited is not enough, nearly every month your analytics vendors release new features, you discover new analytics solutions, and as your business is more successful (hurray!) What guarantees that agility and innovation are present in your analytics practice? It is not even an analytics tool.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

It’s also a time when you are most agile to work on ideas and implement strategies without the crippling setbacks caused by decision hierarchy and process. The early startup phase of your business is a very exciting time because there is an immense amount of opportunity and success to be had.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

There are few courses which teach aspiring entrepreneurs the skills (business models, customer and agile development, design thinking, etc.) We’ll build the class around the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. What are your hypotheses around customer acquisition costs?

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Agile VC

MAY 21, 2012

On the consumer facing side, the number of companies doing multiple acquisitions of $100M+ was extremely short… Google, eBay/PayPal, Amazon, and Microsoft are at the top of the list. ad-tech, analytics, development platforms, etc) the list is slightly different. IAC and Yahoo! On the B2B SaaS side or enabling services (e.g.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

The challenge I want to take on is to be specific in the recommendations make, and to share how we can be very nimble and agile. tearsofpain One way of removing silos and focusing on the entire business is to leverage Acquisition, Behavior and Outcome metrics. You’ll see three consistent patterns in the thinking expressed below.

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www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

MARCH 26, 2014

The Enterprise Architect building an Agile Enterprise Home MDD PaaS Startup Presentations About The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared October 12, 2013 Johan Den Haan 10 comments “I work for a PaaS company” I answered him. “Ah, okay, great”, and he moved to another subject. It shouldnâ??t Image 6 â??

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Nose to the grind "How do I" questions: David Walizer: How do you sell the value of web analytics to a skeptical client in 30 seconds or less? By doing multichannel analytics! More detail on those techniques, and three more, are in this blog post: Multichannel Analytics: Tracking Offline Conversions. Let's go!

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In his 17-year career, Rosenberg has developed key insights into the minds of CFOs and FP&A teams, with strengths in both customer-facing leadership and data analytics itself. He has a wealth of experience in the data vertical, having served in previous roles at companies such as Intel, AllScripts, and Vision.bi. Prior Leader Moves On.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 14, 2020

Looking at internal search keywords in tools like Google Analytics, Algolia , or Looker has many benefits. To find internal search data in Google Analytics, go to: Behavior; Site Search; Search Terms; Look at the “Search Term” column. Unless you’re a small, agile startup, shipping new features isn’t as simple as it sounds.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 15, 2010

Founded in Austin in 1999, Coremetrics is known as one of the high-end providers of web analytics, competing with Omniture and Webtrends. Coremetrics’ offerings are a new addition to IBM’s business analytics portfolio. Today it was announced that IBM is acquiring the company for an undisclosed sum.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

There are more mistruths and F U D about Web analytics out there than I think is reasonable. Web Analytics, this beautiful child, was born just the other day in the midst of tumultuous times, quite literally, when everything changes every day. Here are ten web analytics ground truths… 1. Part of it fueled by Vendors.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 21, 2015

The more agile you are, the bigger effect your optimization will have. Cost of customer acquisition = cost of visitor acquisition * conversion rate, if it is profitable: Increase the volume for the same traffic. Agile means you need to move and respond fast, continuously incorporate customer inputs. Data is not easy.

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Up and Running

MARCH 14, 2017

Social channels are as agile as they are flaky—one wrong word can make all the difference between massive participation rates (which can also lead to comments and shares), and being ignored. As you keep an eye on user engagement analytics, perhaps testing two to three different headlines, eventually leads should start dribbling in.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 1, 2014

At this point, it’s Nelson and new cofounder of her latest venture Jason Champion gearing up to break new ground in video analytics (Bradford now stays on in an advisory capacity). If not, be agile enough to change direction and re-focus,” Nelson advises. Their latest product, Statdragon, launched just last week.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Corporate Agility. Transparency correlates to agility (Does your CEO know how many tests you ran last month?). Optimize for retention, not just acquisition. To understand acquisition you must understand lifetime value. Deliver analytics in a consumable manner. Culture of Innovation. Continuous Optimization.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 5, 2021

monthly email newsletter to entire subscriber list on X day each month) Dynamic workflows are more agile and flexible. For example, here’s an email Airbnb sent to a user showing strong intent to book a place to stay in San Diego: This behavior would have first been recorded by an automation platform or via events in Google Analytics.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

If you want to learn how a focus on the bottom-line, especially net profit can change your life, and I mean that literally, please see this video: Agile, Outcomes Driven, Digital Advertising. Bonus 2: Google Analytics has a wonderful set of reports called Multi-Channel Funnels. Parts two and three, Rockin' Teen and Adult (Ninja!).].

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Strategy expert, Gary Fox , defines growth marketing as: “An agile and adaptive marketing methodology that focuses on how to get, grow and keep customers.”. You should also look closely at your website and social analytics. Those with the highest customer acquisition costs can be scaled back. .

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The Next Web

JUNE 29, 2012

It’s the moment that every user or customer is bringing another one; the moment when your analytics graphs start to be exceptional and you go around and show them to everyone. Because we use Agile and work on a bi-weekly sprints it was very difficult to prioritize it against other features. Truly understand your market.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 12, 2020

agile methodologies, aligning tools stacks). acquisition, conversion, onboarding, activation, etc.). So how can you help your teams manage the risk of implementing new ideas? Create a center of excellence. In other cases, it’s a permanent fixture and a source of innovation. Image source ).

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Transformify

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Reporting and Analytics In the business world, robust decisions are built upon the bedrock of data. Your software should serve as a wellspring of analytics that empower you to make informed choices. Time saved is time that can be dedicated to business development, client acquisition, and quality improvement.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

Then there is Agile for engineering. If you want to grow your business, you are going to need content/engagement points for the See stage (the widest possible addressable audience) and for the Think stage (fill up your funnel at the very top, convince people early, build relationships, convert higher at a cheaper acquisition cost).

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

And so this very agile, iterative process of bringing new technologies and prototyping systems. We’ve started to adjust our acquisition approach. And the departments have put out some very useful new guidance on how to approach software acquisition in a very different way than hardware acquisition.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering. These three tools allow startups to focus on the parts of an early stage venture that matter the most: the product, product/market fit, customer acquisition, revenue and cost model, channels and partners.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

So let’s be very specific: let’s assume your dream job is product manager at Google, working on the Analytics product. The 11 Harsh Realities Of Being An Entrepreneur - OnStartups , November 1, 2010 There's always talk about the end game in the form of an acquisition, funding announcement, or eventual flame out. By doing the job.

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