ReadWriteStart

JULY 18, 2011

The conversation at investment banks was 'why don't we have one of those?'. Every company has a forecast for how it will get to an arbitrary $100 million in revenue and they all hit it on year five. key metrics or a dashboard showing how you've made progress in whatever the key metrics for your business are.

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Up and Running

JULY 31, 2014

Don’t set a sales goal or a sales forecast with a hundred line items in there. You’ve got a three year forecast with your goals, monthly for the first 12 months, and then yearly for the next two years. Same month, last year, the full last year, look at your history because that will help inform your goal setting and you forecasting.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

If you want to learn about how to do simple forecasting and trend analysis, please see the official forecast function in Excel post on the Microsoft website, and this handy tutorial on trend lines and forecasting in excel. Outcomes of the conversations with your Finance team and Sr. And other such things.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round). Not long after the product launch we began the initial conversations with VCs for a Series A round.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Forecasting is sometimes done by dragging the mouse based on many assumptions, because it’s hard to predict the future. One question that keeps coming up when speaking with early stage entrepreneurs when it comes to funding, is what metrics the company needs to hit to raise seed/series A/B etc: What’s a good conversion rate?

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

In order to achieve 20x growth, Snap needs grow both of those metrics 4–5x. To be clear, I can’t forecast the details of how an augmented reality OS should work. To capture any material part of the $400B that Cook is forecasting, Snap will need to control the underlying operating system on which the glasses function.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 12, 2015

At the core of everything you will do in digital analytics is the concept of metrics. How do you define a metric: It is simply a number. Your digital analytics tools are full of metrics. Helpful post: Best Metrics For Digital Marketing: Rock Your Own And Rent Strategies.]. Now you have your foundation, metrics and KPIs.

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ConversionXL

MAY 14, 2014

Here’s something that won’t come as a shock to people who work for big companies: not everyone is on-board with the idea of conversion optimization and testing. You’re actively doing conversion testing. Iztok said, “We ensured the CEO that conversion optimization would increase sales.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2018

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is one of the biggest levers that a business can use within their acquisition strategy as part of their Growth goals. You’re likely familiar with the different Growth frameworks like AARRR (Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, Revenue). It all start with Acquisition.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 2, 2020

This arrangement made it challenging to give a quick answer to basic questions on user conversions or to comment on traffic rates and MRR. Instead of measuring Awareness, Appeal, and Ask separately, we combined all marketing acquisition efforts under the Awareness stage, leaving Act to account for conversions in the form of sign-ups.

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Brandanew

JUNE 24, 2016

You want to ensure that you’re spending your company’s or your client’s money wisely by investing in the right advertising channels, monitoring the right metrics and utilizing the most efficient outlets. This means you have to make sure your client acquisition costs and value forecasts are accurate.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Now try to think of the last time you experimented with something other than your acquisition strategy. Article after article, course after course, conference talk after conference talk addresses acquisition experimentation—getting more conversions at the top of the funnel. Every tip is acquisition-centric. Acquisition.

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Tim Keane

JUNE 13, 2006

In general, the first part of the discussion runs to whether or not your numbers are tied to metrics with an underlying set of assumptions, or if they are simply a function of a mathematically applied growth rate. In our first startup, my partners and I built a customer acquisition model and tested it. What it will cost?

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

More detail on those techniques, and three more, are in this blog post: Multichannel Analytics: Tracking Offline Conversions. But each keyword gets "credit" for other metrics. The best option is to hire a statistician with experience in data modeling and forecasting. 7 Best Practices, Bonus Tips.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Now try to think of the last time you experimented with something other than your acquisition strategy. Article after article, course after course, conference talk after conference talk addresses acquisition experimentation—getting more conversions at the top of the funnel. Every tip is acquisition-centric. Acquisition.

Retention 48

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The Next Web

MAY 26, 2013

There’s no magic metric in software startups (so don’t let anyone convince you there is). That said, it’s crucial to have a core KPI (key performance indicator) to benchmark your progress, and it’s typically ideal that such a metric be a revenue lever. Provide customer acquisition costs.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

It's as if they have never seen a report with Visits & Conversions before. At the very minimum your notepad should contain answers to these two questions: What is the macro-conversion? What are two or three micro-conversions? Step #2: How good is the acquisition strategy? See how it looks. Traffic Sources Report.

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Up and Running

JULY 28, 2016

See Also: The 5 Metrics You Need to Track for Your Subscription (SaaS) Business to Succeed. See Also: A Complete Guide to Forecasting Sales for Your Monthly Subscription (SaaS) Business. Kissmetrics should be your go-to if you’re interested in (you guessed it) metrics. Startups for the Rest of Us. Communities and networking.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 2, 2018

It’s the kind of environment where people may think that concepts like business forecasting or change management are all well and good, but really the province of big businesses – not more fledgling organizations. It happens because they often neglect the forecasting and planning that helps them prepare.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Maybe you are wondering which metrics to track, or whether or not you should take out a loan for your business. What I did is I learned the art of a pro forma and the value of a pro forma which basically is a forecast. Which metrics do you most rely on to understand your business itself. Thank you very much. What do you do?

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2019

Add to that 400 old and new faces, plenty of conversations, live music, and more than a few beers. When setting up interviews , call them “chats,” not interviews—and treat them like chats; anticipate where the conversation could go and listen, listen, listen. What a rush—24 speakers over three days at a picturesque resort.

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