View from Seed

MARCH 1, 2016

Are you aggregating and leveraging a competitive dataset none will be able to reproduce? Even if you didn’t pitch a particular investor for your previous round, if you contextualize your raise around “Seed was designed to do X, we did X, Series A is designed to do Y” you’re showcasing your foresight and execution powerfully.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

These 6 KRIs are The CHICAGO MetricsR and are the result of an aggregation algorithm based on any number of tactical metrics. Since basis of the company was to create, track, and report out on metrics it fit with the theme and the name, hence, CHICAGO MetricsR. Thanks to EdwardMarchewka, CHICAGO MetricsR ! #3- It took me 2.5

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Customer Relationship Management is a technology designed to help your business manage customer relationships and interactions in an organized way. This typically involves a CRM system or tool that helps automate and aggregate various customer touchpoints. How to choose a CRM for your business.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

aggregates resources from all the VCs. For instance, tracking ‘months-of-runway’ combined with the month-over-month change to that metric allows us to rapidly identify companies that may be distressed. You might hire a really amazing designer, and perhaps even charge companies for their service for cost recovery purposes.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The more well-known your company becomes, the harder it gets to directly impact primary KPI’s at the aggregate level because the majority of customers who buy are going to do so irrespective of if your button color is red or blue. Was the variant designed mobile-first? In the same vein, consider a metric like ‘time on site.’.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Google Analytics switched its default metric from “sessions” to “users” in 2018, mirroring Mixpanel’s emphasis on users over pageviews. Google’s dominance of the ad market has bolstered its primacy for acquisition metrics—integrations with Google Ads (search and display) are comprehensive and seamless.

Analytics 119

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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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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

Along the way I'll share some of my favourite metrics and analytics best practices that should accelerate your path to becoming a true Analysis Ninja. At this point you'll be a little confused about some metric or the other. Go, read one of the best pages in the Analytics help center: Understanding Dimensions and Metrics.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

An investor had few hard metrics other than the actual financials, and little technology to make the process scaleable. Over the past few decades, better metrics became available, and investors could take a more analytical, data-driven approach. Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors.

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ConversionXL

JULY 21, 2022

By focusing intently on a single measurement, known as a north star metric. The north star metric defines success for the whole company and aligns teams on a growth trajectory. In this article, you’ll learn how other growing companies use the north star metric to achieve customer success. Customer-centricity. Accountability.

Metrics 120

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. For our content creation, we use tools such as Canva (graphic design) and GoToStage (webinars platform) to create and share content for prospects to find.”. It sounds simple; however, very few asset managers actually do it.” 3) Raise capital.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Nowadays nearly every online shop utilizes some sort of product recommendation engine, which is no wonder, as these systems, if set up and configured properly can significantly boost revenues, CTRs, conversions, and other important metrics. This is a very important metric when evaluating a recommender system.

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SVPG

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Note: For the purposes of this article, consider the terms: “analytics,” “data,” “KPI" (Key Performance Indicator), and “metrics" to be synonymous. The data we aggregate (from all sources) can be a gold mine. I attribute this change to several factors. Prove If Product Ideas Work.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Two others – that each team member give their input independently and that the results be objectively aggregated – are also key parts of building a meritocracy. I have personally taught many “non-technical&# people to program – graphic designers, QA folks, even artists and animators.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

Intellectual Property 175

Intellectual Property Aggregator Startup IP 175

The Startup Magazine

JULY 16, 2021

Understanding your market segments will not only help you to drive profitability, it will help you to understand business risk and better design an adaptable business model. . We should no longer think in broad market terms but in terms of segments. Clarify What Your Company’s Profit Segmentation Is.

Business Model 167

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

That means: All of these metrics are off. Mark Tollerman: I've often observed insights to be the sole responsibility of analysts rather than designers, PMs, engineers and execs resulting in fear and lack of understanding of data and therefore increased use of opinion over fact. See my note to Mark above about how hard this is.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

Because every tool uses its own sweet metrics definitions, cookie rules, session start and end rules and so much more. If you don't kill 25% of your metrics each year, you are doing something wrong. Allow me to point out that only 50% of the metrics I love exist in clickstream tools - like webtrends or xiti or unica.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In an ecosystem, each participant acts according to its own imperatives, but these selfish actions have an aggregate effect. I had a lot of use for this concept back when I worked on game design and virtual worlds. Constructing a working business model is a form of ecosystem design. And this is true outside of games.

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Version One Ventures

AUGUST 16, 2017

Let’s think about the typical (and simplified) data flow in a company: raw data is aggregated, normalized or processed and then stored in a data warehouse. As a company grows bigger, dashboards sprout up all over the organization with KPIs and metrics that mean different things to different people. What’s the problem with this?

San Francisco 87

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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.

Analytics 60

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klinger.io

JANUARY 17, 2014

Andreas Klinger #product #metrics #marketing Startup Lessons Learned. A Primer on Startup Metrics – Which Analytics Tool to pick. A Primer on Startup Metrics – Which Analytics Tool to pick. Accounting are the metrics we track over time. Follow @andreasklinger. On this website I share notes & thoughts. ?.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 8, 2017

Some innovators with integrated business models like Kaiser Permanente are making great strides in aggregating your patient data and making it accessible to you. I love how the restaurant chain Season’s 52 was designed with most menu items having 475 calories or less. Aligning incentives with good health is one step in that direction.

Technical Review 48

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

In a startup context, numbers like gross revenue are actually vanity metrics, not actionable metrics. Similarly, it’s easy to generate large aggregate numbers by simply falling back to non-disruptive or non-sustainable tactics (see Validated learning about customers for one example). June 8, 2009 1:16 AM Colin said.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Since you have access to intelligent information, the question becomes — how will you aggregate and leverage all this data? Today’s best SMB-focused CRMs capture metrics more effectively than ever before. You’ll receive digestible and actionable information in one space. Experience is the New Journey.

Artificial Inteligence 127

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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Milestones and Metrics. Ideally your executive summary will be 1-2 pages at most, designed to be a quick read that sparks interest and makes your investors feel eager to hear more. Milestones and Metrics. Metrics are the numbers that you watch on a regular basis to judge the health of your business. Read more ».

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

So while many usability heuristics remain the same in B2B website design and functionality , much of what goes into lead gen, sales, and analysis is different. What Are Your Goals, and What Are Your Metrics? There you want to look at things in clumps and aggregates. To what points in the customer journey do they correspond?

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule. Time-to-complete-a-sale is not a bad metric for validated learning at this stage.

Customer 167

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 16, 2021

Understanding your market segments will not only help you to drive profitability, it will help you to understand business risk and better design an adaptable business model. . We should no longer think in broad market terms but in terms of segments. Clarify What Your Company’s Profit Segmentation Is.

Business Model 78

Business Model Aggregator Revenue Analytics 78

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Despite all the energy invested in talking to authors about the size of their platform, very few gatekeepers have a rigorous set of metrics for measuring it. The problem is that there are no other metrics they can look at to judge the content of a book to know if it’s worth reviewing. Is that a lot? In that I see opportunity.

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

The Next Web

MARCH 2, 2014

To measure the return on investment – or ROI – of your SEO campaigns, utilize the information aggregated from Positionly and Google Analytics to pull through the data and analyze patterns in traffic, increases in links, sustainable traffic and above all, increases in revenue. Increased inbound links. Inbound links are the lifeblood of SEO.

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BeyondVC

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Wait, isn’t user engagement more of a consumer metric? It is, but it is equally as important to focus on this metric in the enterprise. Another important metric to optimize for would be expansion of users within an existing account. My answer is the less obvious one?—?focus

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 13, 2015

So by segmenting your data, you can learn things you couldn’t from the aggregate data. You design an A/B test where the A group sees a red button and the B group sees a blue one. Will this cohort help me improve that metric?”. Their metric was revenue: Image Source. What targets do I need to hit this year?

Conversion 48

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

19:36) Brian on his background as a RISD-trained industrial designer. (20:32) 19:36) Brian on his background as a RISD-trained industrial designer. (20:32) People, not just metrics. I'm a designer. I went to Rhode Island School of Design. And I was an industrial designer. 37:30) Compassion in layoffs. (39:37)

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2016

In such a world, knowledge is power, which is why we were so excited to take a look at IBM Marketing Cloud’s 2016 Email Marketing Metrics Benchmark Study. There is distinctive benefit in establishing a frequency balance. It’s the law of numbers: more opportunities to generate results tends to add up. What about you?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Sharding for startups To support a single partitioning scheme is easy, especially if you design for it from the start. It also doesnt make sense to design your app for scalability from the start, since you may have to create many iterations before you find a version that requires any scalability at all. 21comments: Imran said.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

In fact I've gone so far as to say: "All data in aggregate is crap." " That's certainly a bit melodramatic, but beyond the most bare bones "ahh, I see something is happening" you are unable to get anywhere with aggregate data. Your effort will make this post 100x more valuable.

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