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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.”. Only one guy in the room knew – their tech lead. Once you churn a user due to stability or performance problems it can be hard to get them back. Customer Acquisition. How many through SEM?

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

Many startup businesses – tech or otherwise – fail. Trying outrageous new things or even trying mundane things but in new ways but with extreme quality & innovation is what fuels the tech startup industry. The perfect competitors are the ones where they unable to respond due to The Innovator’s Dilemma.

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Top Platforms for Freelancing Newbies

Transformify

You need to be careful in choosing the website where you’ll build your portfolio because you might end up wasting time, effort, and money without getting any clients. Search Engine Optimization or SEO, SEM. This is due to the fact that there are so many jobs featured there at any given time, no matter what your skill set is.

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Multichannel Analytics: Tracking Offline Conversions. 7 Best Practices, Bonus Tips

Occam's Razor

Or there are people who will get their tech support question answered and as a result not call you on the phone (saving you $50 it costs you to answer the phone). If you are willing to create a small portfolio of initiatives then you can get a pretty decent understanding of the hidden impact (offline) of your web presence.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

The top performing SaaS companies typically achieve annual customer renewal rates above 90% - with most of the churn due to death (bankruptcies) or marriage (acquisitions) - and over 100% renewals on a dollar value basis due to up-sells into this installed base. upfront acquisition cost, making the CLTV equal to $2.5-$0.7=