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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. ” Historically, investing was a manual, artisan process. VC Firm. $ Tech % of workforce.

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

David Teten

In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm . 3) Raise capital.

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Benchmarking Performance: Your Options, Dos, Don'ts and To-Die-Fors!

Occam's Razor

If you've read my first book Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, you know that I've advocated this strategy since 2008! There are four reasons, again from Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, from 2008 (!): This has never been true – not even for people who use the same analytics tool. See Page 269. :).

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Video Hosting Platforms: Which Is Best for Your Business?

ConversionXL

The best video hosting platform varies business by business, depending on factors like: How often you’re uploading; How you plan to use the video; The viewing experience you want to give your audience; The analytics you need; The cash you have to spend. The plan targets data scientists and video engineers. Image source ).

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Tracking Multiple Domains: Setup & Reporting for Dozens of Sites

ConversionXL

How do you coordinate the analytics setup of a web shop that sells their products all over the world—if you have to handle 10+ languages and currencies in over 80 countries? Aggregate them and consider how those needs transfer to your web analysis tool: What do you want to analyze? Can all data be stored within Google Analytics? .

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

Most importantly, it’s now possible to have detailed analytics on exactly what’s happening to messages and ideas as they flow through word-of-mouth channels. Test-marketing is now easier than ever before, thanks to leveraged distribution channels like AdWords and Facebook. Scaling up successful tests is easy for the same reason.

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9 Case Studies That’ll Help You Reduce SaaS Churn

ConversionXL

That’s why you need to be simultaneously feeding your growth engine , while monitoring churn and your other startup metrics. Here are funnel analytics for the Bingo Card Creator new user experience: image source. Below, are 10 case studies on how to reduce churn for your SaaS product. The Research. The Execution. image source.

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