Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine. Mobility really changes everything. They compete on features, price and execution. Today we’re online 3.1

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Sunday, February 25, 2007 Challenge of Predicting Winners I just read a bit on the payout to YouTube from the Google Acquisition ( Internet News , CNN ). Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Key metrics: Average View Duration, Click Through Rate, & Views 3. Refine titles, thumbnails, and content to increase those metrics — Eric Bandholz (@bandholz) November 24, 2020. Key metrics (90% of your focus). The wonderful thing about YouTube is that they have specific metrics to help you hit the above strategy.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

I'm immensely excited about how completely mobile platforms impact our lives. I'm a lot less excited when I think about the imagination that we've brought to bear on mobile platforms and business/marketing. I'll share two examples of companies that are doing something non-normal when it comes to mobile marketing.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

The actual year of mobile was 10 years ago (release of the iPhone) and we still have horrid mobile experiences out there. 88% check email actively on smart phones, needs to be mobile optimized. mobile is ~50% of revenue, shorter form works better. Optimize for retention, not just acquisition. upleveled aesthetic.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 25, 2014

In a world of infinite choice, the ability to pick critical few metrics to focus on is, well…, critical. In this post I want to share that one-page list of the best metrics for digital content, marketing and business success with you. Your primary owned channel is your website, mobile or desktop. You own the domain.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 19, 2014

But the problem is that single golden metrics hide valuable insights and, more often than not, drive bad behavior. Here's my proposal: If you are pushed to have a single golden metric, give it a partner. The BFF metric you find should not be one that is very far away. So, great metric. Honestly, who can blame them.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

In my daily work with ecommerce brands, I see two types of companies: The first type focuses on acquisition and conversion. Overall acquisition costs for both B2C and B2B have gone up by 50% in the past five years. mobile purchasers). Cohort metrics can help drive more repeat customers. The second relies on retention.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2016

Acquisitions are happening more and more, while companies like PillPack, Actifio, CarGurus, OnShape, Acquia, Applause, and others continue to march forward. “Users” is interesting, but the engagement metrics and value of users is where real success comes into play. Doesn’t look all that compelling.

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ConversionXL

MAY 19, 2016

One of my favorite examples of this is the design of viral loops. Andrew Chen has said that some of the best growth people don’t think in terms of funnels, they think in terms of viral loops. You’re likely familiar with Facebook’s 7 friends in 10 days metric, right? And I think this is really the point.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 10, 2011

We have IT-minded people engaging in massive data puking (one report with 30 metrics anyone?) I want to propose a framework you can use to measure success using metrics that matter for one simple reason: They actually measure if you are participating in the channel in an optimal fashion. That is why I love this metric.

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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). link] leehower. It was a pretty good valuation for the time. link] Terence Donnelly. link] leehower.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 23, 2021

The metrics from the dashboard are the key inputs for collective decisions. You can always instrument your business and gather metrics, but that doesn’t mean the data you gather will be useful. For example, if you haven’t achieved product-market fit, instrumenting every aspect of customer acquisition is overkill.

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The Next Web

MAY 5, 2013

Growth hackers utilize analytical thinking, product engineering and creativity to significantly increase their company’s core metric(s). Growth hackers also don’t have to use viral loops: would you say that the Groupon guys didn’t use growth hacking to grow to 180 million users? Paid Acquisition: There are many types.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 6, 2016

Claire Vo: CRO Metrics for Performance and Insight. Wrong Success Metric (OEC). Revenue is usually a good metric to use to evaluate effectiveness of test. 25% chocolate for a month, 21% mobile phone for a day, 13% sex for a month. Joel Harvey: Master Mobile – What We’ve Learned from Hundreds of Mobile Tests.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2013

It provides a basic introduction to analytics as they apply to Lean Startup, including sections on what metrics to use and how to interpret them. For instance, Ben lists out the worst of the “vanity metrics,” a term that describes appealing but meaningless or misleading numbers. Alistair: There are plenty. Consider a restaurant.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Point Nine Capital uses Qwilr to create modern, mobile-native collateral. Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking. Similarly, Corsis uses benchmarking data to understand technology spend patterns.

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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. One of the themes I explore in the class is the tough reality that many metrics can actually get worse over time for a startup.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 15, 2016

There are two different types of user onboarding flows: mobile and desktop. Mobile user onboarding flows introduce you to a game, a productivity app, a banking app, etc. And only a little over 25% of SaaS companies with less than 10K users spend money on user acquisition. You might be surprised by the ROI. via Inbound.org).

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Once you build it, they will now ask you about the key metrics that they need proven in order to see if you really are a good investment. The real reason to build an MVP is to do early tests of key Startup Metrics for the business. " Once you have the metrics defined, it focuses your effort. To prove/disprove a hypothesis.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

And finally, Scott demonstrated his internal management tool for managing the metrics of his business. Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. Offers virality optimization tools and A/B testing inside Facebook. Includes content mobile guides, ie. It’s awesome. Foursquare.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

It has been awesome, flattering, and humbling to see that post went viral and has been seen by so many thousands of people — mainly aspiring entrepreneurs — and has been translated into many languages. The time to start thinking mobile first vs. web first was 6 months ago. Keep at it. 1 billion people use Facebook.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

You’re learning what the metrics that matter are, what your funnel looks like, and what actions you want your prospects to take. Clearly investors should promote the idea that startups need to have clear metrics for terminating the discovery mode. You need to nail your metrics to graduate discovery mode. What does that mean?

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 29, 2013

Many used some data, but they unfortunately used silly data strategies/metrics. And silly simply because as soon as the strategy/success metric being obsessed about was mentioned, it was clear they would fail. It is a really good metric. There are many spectacular reasons for why Like (and +1s, Followers) is a horrible metric.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

One of my jobs in the past was consulting measures and acquisitions. And you need to look at the data very critically, because the other side of the merger or acquisition is actually trying to frame all the information in a way that is beneficial to that side and against your side. Why You Must Act Now is a call to action.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

What are those metrics? Andrew : If you are a travel company right now, I think you’re seeing very specific metrics dropping. As a result of that, all of those metrics go up. You’re seeing across-the-board higher conversion rates, more time in the apps, and as a result, more acquisition.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

The App Store is a channel for customer acquisition. I think its helpful to think about two kinds of competition for distribution: acquisition competition and retention competition. On the web, we have many of these channels: SEM, SEO, world of mouth, PR and viral. So what can you do? Its like knowing the future.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 3, 2017

There are a lot of metrics you must dig into. Thus, we have compiled a list of key metrics (in no particular order of importance) that you should pay heed to while evaluating the overall performance of your content marketing program. You can find these answers about the consumption of your content by evaluating the following metrics –.

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