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Will there be a wave of ‘maker-centric’ companies?

The Equity Kicker

A number of factors are combining that enable faster product iteration in hardware. 3D printing is reducing the cost of prototyping. Arduino and other open source hardware platforms are reducing costs in the same way open source software reduced costs for web companies.

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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – VP of Sales, CTO, VP of Engineering

This is going to be BIG.

We realized that there were certain open positions in our portfolio we wanted to call extra attention to. The ideal candidate has experience with eCommerce systems, emerging mobile and social technologies, as well as RoR. One thing is for certain — you must have experience dealing with large scale distributed applications.

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Multi-Channel Attribution Modeling: The Good, Bad and Ugly Models

Occam's Razor

But how do we distribute credit for the conversions across all those channels? The outcome in either scenario is a restructuring of the organization that is exquisitely geared towards taking advantage of portfolio optimization. You can even get great first-step guidance about how to rebalance your portfolio from that last column.

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Be Real-World Smart: A Beginner's Advanced Google Analytics Guide

Occam's Razor

For our Market Motive Analytics training course , we provide students with access to one ecommerce and one non-ecommerce site because they simply can't learn well enough from my magnificent videos. Play with Enhanced Ecommerce Reports. Play with Enhanced Ecommerce Reports. That is why you need Enhanced Ecommerce.

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Dear Avinash: Attribution Modeling, Org Culture, Deeper Analysis

Occam's Razor

Start with models like Time Decay and Position Based to understand what the conversion portfolio might look like (last two columns above) and create hypotheses about what a better budget allocation might look like. Roll that out to your entire portfolio (or to a subset as a controlled experiment) and measure conversion improvements.

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Best Web Metrics / KPIs for a Small, Medium or Large Sized Business

Occam's Razor

As you improve the user experience, information architecture and relevancy of content on your site, it is important to keep an eye not on the rather useless metric of Average Page Views per Visit or Average Time on Site but rather on the distribution of page depth. Days to Conversion is in the Ecommerce section of your web analytics reports.

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Empowering Analysis Ninjas? 12 Signs To Identify A Data Driven Culture

Occam's Razor

11: Close to zero aggregated analysis exists, everything's segmented. #10: An example is: "We should add these 80 keywords to our PPC portfolio with a max bid of $14." 11: Close to zero aggregated analysis exists, everything's segmented. All data in aggregate is crap. That is worth fighting for.

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