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. Products can find sources of validation with impressive stats along a number of dimensions, such as high engagement, viral coefficient, or long-term retention.

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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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San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

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. What these products all have in common is the question their minimum viable product is attempting to answer: does this product have high natural retention built-in? Take the minimum viable product , for starters.

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Customer San Francisco Viral Lean 156

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. Most good email providers will do this automatically for whatever web analytics tool you use.

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Metrics Campaign Email Marketing 137

practicetrumpstheory.com

JULY 14, 2010

First, what is an actionable metric? An actionable metric is one that ties specific and repeatable actions to observed results. This distinction carries over to metrics too. For example, spending a ton of effort to drive sign-ups for a product with very low retention is a form of waste.

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Metrics Lean Retention Startup 51

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

" ~ Web Metrics: "What is a KPI? " + Standard Metrics Revisited Series. Key To Your Digital Success: Web Analytics Measurement Model. Six Tips For Improving High Bounce / Low Conversion Web Pages. How To Excite People About Web Analytics: Five Tips. Who Owns Web Analytics? How to focus?"

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Analytics Metrics SEM Web 124

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Amazon Web Services. Web Tools: Hereâ??s We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. Mobile Tools: If you are a web developer, you donâ??t

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Over 13 years ago, in March of 2000, I wrote a blog post titled “ The Most Powerful Internet Metric of All. ” The key thesis was this: if an Internet company could obsess about only one metric, it should be conversion. As such, it is time to pound the table again – conversion is by far the most powerful Internet metric of all.

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Metrics Conversion Internet Acquisition 93

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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Retention Churn Rate Metrics Software Review 106

Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

I believe these two posts with a collection of some of my favorite metrics will inspire you: 1. Best Metrics For Digital Marketing: Rock Your Own And Rent Strategies 2. Best Web Metrics / KPIs for a Small, Medium or Large Sized Business. If you have a lot of them, aggregate them up. The post provides more detail.

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Analytics Marketing Campaign Metrics 131

Occam's Razor

JULY 15, 2014

It also handy explanations of the metrics, with key context where necessary. Here's another example: Those of you who've read Web Analytics 2.0 These will sound like: Metric x is down because of our inability to take advantage of trend y and hence I recommend we do z. digital performance. So, I inspired one one above.

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Analytics Metrics Web Ohio 159

ConversionXL

JANUARY 14, 2016

The Real Metric: Install-to-[Value]. So we’ve established that focus is shifting from installs to retention , engagement, and lifetime value. If retention, engagement, and lifetime value are goals, determining which in-app events to measure is the means. Unlike the web, there are no hyperlinks in the mobile app environment.

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Mobile Conversion Retention Campaign 48

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2018

And who wouldn’t want to know the exact foot (or web) traffic by month, day, and hour to streamline staffing (or allocate server resources)? The resulting visualization shows the tool’s prediction performance and correlations between datasets and retention. Let’s take a look. They want to predict everything,” according to Underwood.

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Analytics Algorithm Artificial Inteligence Campaign 131