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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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Meyler Capital is taking the analytical rigor of modern internet marketing and applying it to fund marketing. . Pro Publica has a Nonprofit Explorer database searchable by principal name on all nonprofit filings, so you can see a person’s nonprofit activities. . Other VCs use Contently * or Social Native * to create relevant content.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

The boom in Internet startups would last 4½ years until it came crashing down to earth in March 2000. The valuations for acquisitions were nothing like the Internet bubble, but there was a path to liquidity, difficult as it was. We have in our partnership a gent by the name of Barry Fidelman who puts us all to shame with his intensity.

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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. Now, whenever I screen resumes, I ask the recruiter to black out any demographic information from the resume itself: name, age, gender, country of origin.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. Now, in some situations, this over-selling would lead to a secondary problem, namely, that customers would realize they had been duped and refuse to re-subscribe. First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. While the group sentiment for 2010 did not improve significantly vs. November 2009, the projections for 2011 are now a lot more optimistic - 42% higher 2011 aggregated EBITDA announced in March 2010 vs. the November 09!

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Imagine you want to store data about customers, each of whom has "last name" field in your database. The problem should be familiar to anyone who plays Scrabble: not all letter are equally likely to be used as the first letter of someones name. Give each entity a name. For example, consider this simple scheme.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

But each keyword gets "credit" for other metrics. This way GA will show you both keywords while the aggregate for visits will not be skewed – as technically it is just one session. ]. What's the best way to aggregate to understand clearly how to improve? My advice would be this: 1.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Maybe you are wondering which metrics to track, or whether or not you should take out a loan for your business. My name is John Bates. Which metrics do you most rely on to understand your business itself. The question is what metrics do you most rely on to understand your business’s health? Thank you very much.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

20:32) On believing in the internet as an immune system, then learning it's not and taking responsibility.(22:55) People, not just metrics. No longer even in the era of internet, a product customers actually liked. And this was mid '90s internet kind of philosophy. That the internet is an immune system.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

I love looking at cost per account acquired as a key metric to share with potential acquirers. Well, in order to be “bankable,” meaning a company that a bank would lend to, you have to have some of these metrics dialed in. It’s developed by a guy named Fred Reichheld, made famous by Scott Cook at Intuit.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Ive previously named his post Achieving Flow in a Lean Startup as one of my favorite blog posts of 2009. Examples of things I monitor are the numbers of user activations, active users, and aggregate page hits to user galleries. Ive previously named his post Achieving Flow in a Lean Startup as one of my favorite blog posts of 2009.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. The first internet wave managed to solve pretty well the "Where to buy" problem, with sites like Kelkoo , Shopzilla , NextTag , PriceGrabber, or Shopping.com. internet. (6). Cracking The Code. Happy New Year 2008!

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

" ~ Web Metrics: "What is a KPI? " + Standard Metrics Revisited Series. "Engagement" Is Not A Metric, It's An Excuse. Defining a "Master Metric", + a Framework to Gain a Competitive Advantage in Web Analytics. Aggregation of Marginal Gains: Recession Busting Analytics!

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. 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 Cracking The Code. Monday, February 04, 2008.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2017

Online directories are sites that scrape the Internet looking for businesses’ information – at a minimum they’ll include a company’s name, address and phone number (NAP) — to pull into their master database of businesses. You have to sign up for a free Moz account in order to see the metrics, but it’s well worth it.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

At one end of the spectrum, the data collected is simply the websites visited, and at the other end, the monitoring software records the credit cards, names, addresses, and any other personal information typed into the browser. Check the definitions of various metrics. Varying degrees of data are collected from a panel.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

I don’t think we as busy professionals and Internet junkies know how to sit still and self-reflect. In the early days, my belief was that blogs (or as I called them micro-pubs back in 2002) would grow really fast and it would allow me to aggregate large subsets of audiences around specific niches. Name (required).

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David Teten

MARCH 2, 2013

Assuming you have a large amount of capital to invest, the relatively easy decision is to invest in one of the brand-name, multi-billion dollar VCs. Tom draws on two metrics to demonstrate that larger funds are, in fact, more likely to be top performers. The worst-performing funds fall out of the data altogether.

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Growthink Blog

JULY 23, 2012

goods and services, especially services, and they are expanding in aggregate at a rate that even 10% U.S. A strong results and metrics-focused approach. The great thing is that via the Internet we CAN copy the principles of the best of them - Zappos’ and Mind Valley’s and scores of others are online for all to see.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 30, 2012

When it comes to data analysis, you are usually more likely to see me share guidance on advanced segmentation or custom reports or advanced social metrics or controlled experiments or economic value or competitive intelligence or web analytics maturity or one of an infinite number of difficult, if hugely rewarding, things. Seems odd, right?

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

. - Aerotel Medical Systems is a world leading manufacturer of modular, home and mobile telecare and telemedicine solutions designed to transfer essential data over the telephone, mobile phone and the Internet. Flash Networks’ Harmony Content Control enables safer, more productive mobile use of the open Internet for consumer or business use.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

In comparison, Facebook Live shows overview metrics like minutes viewed, average percentage completion, and unique viewers.). Here’s a demo featuring my name: Who is personalized video right for? Loom doesn’t require an Internet browser; Soapbox, on the other hand, is a Chrome extension.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Add a class name to buttons, forms, quotes, etc. Startup Metrics for Pirates â?? SaaS Metrics Tutorial â?? Likelihood of Confusion -trademark, copyright and Internet Law. aggregation. Internet trends. Internet TV. State of the Internet. Eventbrite. Women Focus. Girls in Tech. Analytics blog â??

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 25, 2018

John Jantsch: Yeah, and… Ryan Urban: They just didn’t come up with a GDPR name for it. They don’t know how the Internets work, so the government enforcing this, that’s never gonna happen. Ryan Urban: But people look at the wrong metric they look at the unsubscribe rate. I think it’s just U.S.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 28, 2016

If you want to bring a smile to people’s faces when they hear your company name, you’ll need to understand how memory works and how you can design for it. Branding seconds is a compound metric that shows how much attention the logo earns, a strong predictor of likability. How Memory Works. via Adaptive Path).

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ConversionXL

MARCH 26, 2014

The Service Provider is simply the name of the Internet service providers (ISPs) used by visitors to your site. The good folks at LunaMetrics have a post where they suggest excluding the following regex in order to have the “real named” corporate ISPs float to the top. You can now see 3 metrics called. (1)

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Many have noted that the aggregate shareholder value created by all of the Unicorns will vastly overshadow the losses from the inevitable failed unicorns. The same thing happened to many Internet stocks. Anything that hints of a down round brings questions about the success metrics that have already been “booked.”

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

To be fair, “familiarity” and “Ever listened to” aren’t really great metrics that translate to consumption. Podcast consumers also reported spending more time on the Internet than non-consumers, to the tune of over 60% longer every single day. Name your podcast. In 2006 it was a mere 11%, and in 2012 it hit 29%. Record your mp3.

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