ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

There has never been a viral outbreak of such magnitude before. Additionally, “a startup is usually a company designed to effectively develop and validate a scalable business model. Year-on-year growth metrics in unique site traffic is 7.8 Unfortunately, these numbers seem to be increasing rapidly without an end in sight.

Bootstrapping 85

Bootstrapping Global Startup Hungary 85

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Wize provides consumers with a unique way to leverage the online wisdom by aggregating the opinions of millions of users and by letting people ask questions about a specific product or need to the Wize community. " Become.com is a search engine designed to help consumers searching for products on the web. Become.com crawls over 3.2

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Los Angeles Europe 48

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.

Customer 156

Customer San Francisco Viral Lean 156

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.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

It other words, it’s a team of designers and engineers. We had a designer, a front-end engineer, and a data scientist. Then, I evolved it into a growth team by hiring a designer and two engineers. Every team included a mix of designers, engineers, marketers, and copywriters. The growth teams that I’ve built.

Conversion 133

Conversion Technical Review Channel Engineer 133

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.

Metrics 159

Metrics Analytics SEC Acquisition 159

ConversionXL

MARCH 16, 2016

Net Promoter Score is a customer loyalty metric developed by (and a trademark of) Fred Reichheld, Bain & Company, and Satmetrix. Instead of distributing bulky customer satisfaction surveys, where even your managers don’t know what to do with the results, you have only one question, one metric to deal with. Beauty in Simplicity.

.Net 48

.Net Metrics Retention Aggregator 48

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 30, 2008

In order to get optimal results from a group-based effort, you need three things: diversity, Independence , and an objective method for aggregating results. Aggregate results carefully. Let me briefly summarize the part of the book I find most helpful (leaving a few out, which arent germane to todays topic). Not all crowds are wise.

San Francisco 83

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 83

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. Likewise, not a single designer gets approved to sell on Fab without Bradford’s input, review, and approval. Fab Culture.

Technical Review 108

Technical Review Technology Software Review Valuation 108

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Effectively measuring and understanding your CAC and CLTV metrics are key to future success. Bessemer SaaS Law #1: Your key monthly business metrics are: CMRR (Committed Monthly Recurring Revenue), Churn, and Cash flow - “Bookings” is for suckers. Brian, Paglo www.paglo.com. Great list! Great list! Philippe Botteri.

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

Brandanew

JANUARY 8, 2016

I have tested a lot of tools that do a great job of measuring aggregate data and spitting out a recap, but NUVI has a unique way of score influencers, color coding sentiment, and finding trends in real-time. Click on the “trending now” tab and you can also see which articles are going viral across the web.

Analytics 100

Analytics Social Media Marketing Media 100

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

This invite-only event for our portfolio companies and close friends of the firm was designed to be fairly intimate and interactive. This introduction was also the opportunity to illustrate the amazing growth of our software and saas portfolio in the past years, with aggregated revenues reaching $1.2B Do I need a second data center?

Software Review 48

Software Review South Korea IPO Portfolio 48

Cracking the Code

MAY 15, 2008

The next wave of internet will come from companies aggregating these various data sets and leveraging them to provide more value to the user. 80 percent voted “Yes” 6) Evolution trumps design (Steve) Artificial Intelligence algorithms will be necessary for each great invention (e.g., Design courtesy of Ashley Cecil.

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review San Jose Venture Capital 48