Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

It all started with a small group of founders and product enthusiasts who self-aggregated into an online community. She shares: “We now use metrics like cost-per-learning and validation velocity to show progress since traditional things like ROI weren’t applicable.” Dun & Bradstreet is undergoing a big cultural shift.

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Board Effect

JUNE 14, 2019

With the rapid progress of cyberthreats and the power and fortitude of modern cybercriminals, nonprofits need to persevere and enlist the help of experts and management software programs to improve their efforts to face the future’s trials. Data Breach Exposes Vulnerabilities of Services for Vulnerable Populations. People Inc., People Inc.,

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Aggregated search engine level analysis. This is a simple custom report I use to look at the aggregated view: As the report above demonstrates, you can still report on your other metrics, like Unique Visitors, Bounce Rates, Per Visit Value and many others, at an aggregated level. See Page Value there?

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Hearpreneur

JULY 8, 2017

The second goal for incentaHEALTH was to develop a comprehensive behavior change program to help people engage in healthy eating and active living. The daily program encourages a balanced eating plan of fruit, vegetables, lean protein, and complex carbohydrates while monitoring portion sizes. What is unique about being a Healthy CEO?

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Occam's Razor

JULY 12, 2010

Please click on the above image for a higher resolution version , including all the other metrics.]. I love the data you saw in the very first screenshot, and I absolutely love this… [Please click on the above image for a higher resolution version , including all the other metrics.]. Say it ain't so! :). Why is this cool?

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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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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

How They Do It: Build email list of consumers interested in local deals (mainly via paid search & social network ads), sell coupon programs to merchants via telesales. 4) Unique Reporting of Accounting: Much has been made in the press that Groupon has chosen to report alternative non-GAAP metrics in addition to GAAP accounting.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Remember: Engagement is not a metric, its an excuse. ]. The ideal metrics for this desired outcome are Visitor Loyalty & Visitor Recency. You can compute two important metrics: Likelihood to Recommend / Brand Lift. You can measure this at an aggregate level, or you can measure it just for your campaign traffic.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Iterative testing is a core component of an optimization program, and therefore, someone who joins this year will not have the same experience as someone who joins next year. So by segmenting your data, you can learn things you couldn’t from the aggregate data. Will this cohort help me improve that metric?”.

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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.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 18, 2011

You must use metrics that are unique to the medium. Ready for the best email marketing campaign metrics? So for our email campaign analysis let’s look at metrics using that framework. Optimal Acquisition Email Metrics. Allow me to rush and point out that this metric is usually just directionally accurate.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. Time-to-complete-a-sale is not a bad metric for validated learning at this stage. Thank you for your simple, insightful explanation of why that is the wrong metric to use.

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eranki.tumblr.com

JULY 13, 2012

App-specific metrics. Another thing that became increasingly useful was to have thousands of custom stats aggregated over thousands of servers graphed. As an idea, you could have a server that just sits there and plays back 10% of your read-only logs at your frontend and can be switched off as necessary.

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Hippoland

MARCH 14, 2013

We had submitted our idea: “ ShinyOrb : Kayak for Weddings” I’d envisioned a one-stop site that aggregated bridesmaid dresses, wedding gowns, shoes, jewelry, invitations… . So, I was super excited with our progress when we made it as a finalist for the Lightspeed Summer Fellowship Program. . At Lightspeed.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

In order to achieve 20x growth, Snap needs grow both of those metrics 4–5x. Had Facebook not purchased Instagram, Facebook’s aggregate numbers likely would have dipped as millennials have largely abandoned Facebook for Instagram and Snapchat. Let’s look at each figure. 2 years ago my grandmother didn’t have Facebook.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 20, 2010

It shows the distribution of the pages people see on your site (not the "silly" metric, average page views per session). It is trivial to measure the base metrics for your website for your Social Media segment. Look at the Depth of Visit report (standard report in GA in the Visitors section). and so on and so forth.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Examples of things I monitor are the numbers of user activations, active users, and aggregate page hits to user galleries. Examples of things I monitor are the numbers of user activations, active users, and aggregate page hits to user galleries. Application level diagnostics Despite the best testing, defects still happen.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

That’s why, just halfway through the class, they’ve already talked to 550 beneficiaries (users, program managers, stakeholders, etc.). By equipping all evaluators with such a tool while they’re in the midst of the process, State may be able to standardize metrics and readily compare and analyze the performance of different peacekeeping units.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

That’s why, just halfway through the class, they’ve already talked to 550 beneficiaries (users, program managers, stakeholders, etc.). By equipping all evaluators with such a tool while they’re in the midst of the process, State may be able to standardize metrics and readily compare and analyze the performance of different peacekeeping units.

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Hippoland

MARCH 14, 2013

We had submitted our idea: “ ShinyOrb : Kayak for Weddings” I’d envisioned a one-stop site that aggregated bridesmaid dresses, wedding gowns, shoes, jewelry, invitations… . So, I was super excited with our progress when we made it as a finalist for the Lightspeed Summer Fellowship Program. . At Lightspeed.

Product 48

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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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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

Most project creators describe their project using aggregate framing. In the official program, publicize the names of donors based on their donation amount: High Donations : Executive Producers. Because that number provides a strong influence in donating, you should inflate that metric as much as possible. The problem?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

First of all, Dave McClure introduced the idea of modifying an existing immigration program. Unfortunately, this program applies to the investor who holds the capital, and not the entrepreneur who discovers how to put that capital to use. First of all, Dave McClure introduced the idea of modifying an existing immigration program.

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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. 18- After Fonzie from the television program Happy Days!

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

Designed for large businesses, the channels let a company share several types of documents, brand the channel with their own design elements, and then include display advertising, contest promotions, blog aggregation, social media integration and metrics reporting. The idea seemed to SlideShare to be a natural direction.

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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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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 8, 2010

The key ingredient in goal-setting is a defined metric, and the ability to measure progress towards that goal is via (duh) the data that must be tracked and gathered. This data is aggregated in a spreadsheet, which allows a quick update every week. Sort and prioritize. Different people look at data differently.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Eloqua is bringing this revolution to the B2B marketers by providing on-demand applications and best-practice expertise for B2B marketers to execute, automate and measure effective marketing programs that drive revenue. SaaS business metrics: why are they different? We decided to fund Wize.com to answer this question. ► 2007. (10).

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2017

You have to sign up for a free Moz account in order to see the metrics, but it’s well worth it. There are also online data aggregators that have agreements with a large volume of online directories and when you sign up with an aggregator they will “push” all of your information out to hundreds of online business directories at once.

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ConversionXL

MAY 16, 2018

Know the difference between leading and lagging metrics. While it’s always necessary to keep track of lagging indicators to evaluate ongoing performance, as marketers we want to understand what causes those metrics to move either up or down. As you can see, leading metrics differ wildly depending on the brand and industry.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Most often, however, holdouts are used not to measure lift from a single test but lift for an entire experimentation program. For many, holdouts are a gold standard for testing because they measure the value not just of a test but of a testing program. Does a coupon program ultimately decrease purchases of non-discounted items?

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

At a high level, user experience is the aggregate and subjective experience of using a product such as a website or app. Despite sometimes small sample sizes , you can calculate confidence intervals, and with some of them, compare your metrics to a database of other companies and competitors. Does it feel seamless and fun?

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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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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

By interconnecting the design, procurement, and construction process into a single software platform, we provide customers with an “aggregated source of truth” for their projects delivering a unified offering to them that streamlines the entire process.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

My whole growth system fell apart, and I learned a lot of tough lessons about the limits of growth programs. Finding winners was never my biggest problem when running a growth program. A methodical program built on data and testing won’t spare you from the internal conflicts that happen at every company. Things…did not go well.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2014

That’s why you need to be simultaneously feeding your growth engine , while monitoring churn and your other startup metrics. They refer to these differences as “ Red Flag” Metrics (or RFMs). Total number of logins also proved to be an important metric, though not as much so as the former two. times per day on average.

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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Milestones and Metrics. Instead, they prefer to buy through large distribution companies that aggregate products from lots of suppliers and then make that inventory available to retailers to purchase. Milestones and Metrics. Traction could be some initial sales, a successful pilot program, or a significant partnership.

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