Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2015

You have to build a web presence with marketing content to get visibility above the almost 300 million other new websites created last year, and attract the customers you need. Curation is humanly aggregating, filtering, and re-posting the best-of-the-best content on the web, relative to your product or service area.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

At Upfront when we know we have a winning hand we prefer to put more capital to work, which both helps the entrepreneurs succeed and drives more aggregate financial returns for our LPs. For start, there are many types of businesses that are large or complex “considered purchases” that have higher close rates over the phone than on a web form.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

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. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

And anytime you strike a deal for digital distribution of any content, insist that your creators be given real-time access to the big-picture metrics: not just downloads, but engagement, retention and replay. Though technology tools and Web 2.0 The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. ideas (e.g. Expo SF (May.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

This typically involves a CRM system or tool that helps automate and aggregate various customer touchpoints. In its simplest form, a CRM will help you increase customer retention, which in turn increases profits. It helps remove some of the busy work so that you and your team can focus on relationships. Organization and operations.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

" ~ Web Metrics: "What is a KPI? 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. The 10 / 90 Rule for Magnificent Web Analytics Success. Who Owns Web Analytics?

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klinger.io

JANUARY 17, 2014

As a analytics consultant I am working with a lot of startups and help them in the topics of metrics, analytics, retention and growth. Disclaimer: This post focuses on web products - but you could apply the same concepts for mobile. Disclaimer: This post focuses on web products - but you could apply the same concepts for mobile.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

The cloud-based Social Middleware Platform sits between business users and public social networks, giving enterprises the control, security and visibility they need to transform the social Web into a viable business channel.&# Companies and partners win by leveraging innovative technologies that are freely available.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2014

How to Improve Mobile App Retention Through Customization. In 2011, Fred Wilson cited the 30/10/10 ratio as a “law of web/mobile physics,” generally true regardless of business or industry—that is, 30% of customers will use a service each month, 10% will use it each day, and as many as 10% of daily users will be using it at any given time.

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ConversionXL

JULY 21, 2022

How did Outreach grow in just a few years to 50,000 monthly active users , $10 million in new bookings, and net revenue retention (NRR) of more than 140%? Marketing will need to focus on lead generation (new MQLs), and customer success will need to drive retention and feature adoption. Manny Medina, Outreach CEO [via Latka].

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

They are from my post The Biggest Mistake Web Analysts Make… And How To Avoid It! Remember: All data in aggregate is crap, segment or suck. There are multiple points of value from the Trailheads program (lower support costs, higher retention, faster time to value for clients etc.) Pharmaceutical: Humira. A quick best practice.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 18, 2011

A secondary thing would be to ensure, or your mom will really be mad, that *every* link in your email is tagged with campaign tracking parameters your web analytics solution needs (without this you can’t do the B and O analysis). Most good email providers will do this automatically for whatever web analytics tool you use.

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www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Statistically speaking, you’re probably reading it either through a feedreader or on an aggregator like Hacker News. I could practically justify my consulting rates just doing dramatic readings of that for the web teams at my clients. You might as well be saying, “Have you considered using… the Web?”

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2014

One of the many things I’ve learned about users’ online behaviour here at LoginRadius is that the younger demographic not only expect a seamless web experience, they know full well it’s available and are irritated if websites don’t offer that. The number of visitors directly correlates to revenue – whatever business you are in.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

Best Web Metrics / KPIs for a Small, Medium or Large Sized Business. I'll share the same advice with you I'd shared about choosing a web analytics tool in Sept 2006… Get the nicest free tag management tool you can find. If you have a lot of them, aggregate them up. Bonus: Web Analytics Data Sampling 411.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

No other metric so holistically captures as many critical aspects of a web site – user design, usability, performance, convenience, ad effectiveness, net promoter score, customer satisfaction – all in a single measurement. Unfortunately, conversion improvements typically are the aggregate gain of 100 tiny improvements, not one silver bullet.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

One of the many things I’ve learned about users’ online behavior here at LoginRadius is that the younger demographic not only expect a seamless web experience, they know full well it’s available and are irritated if websites don’t offer that. The number of visitors directly correlates to revenue—whatever business you are in.

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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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Occam's Razor

JULY 15, 2014

Here's another example: Those of you who've read Web Analytics 2.0 This is a nicely customized data puke for our Ecommerce and Customer Retention team. It will have an aggregated overview of performance at the aforementioned VP/EVP level (with some context about overall business performance). Still a data puke.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 14, 2016

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. Let’s explore.

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practicetrumpstheory.com

JULY 14, 2010

The opposite of actionable metrics are vanity metrics (like web hits or number of downloads) which only serve to document the current state of the product but offer no insight into how we got here or what to do next. 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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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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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Real time web usage outpaces business models. We got everything from price comparison engines to aggregated user reviews to one-click checkout. Competition shifts from user acquisition to user retention. Mary Meeker presents some great insight into the future growth potential of mobile in her Web 2.0

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Would that help retention and NPS (Net Promote Score)? Also, take a look at this critically important data point , also aggregated by Professor Jay Ritter. Do you think those customers would find that interesting and compelling? Would they be loyal? Damn straight it would. of VC-backed companies vs Buyout-backed companies.

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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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ConversionXL

JUNE 19, 2018

Aggregate data is crap as it hides the gold inside the segments. Engagement & Retention. Fitness – The fittest web page, the fittest radio antenna, training system. Data-driven is a tricky concept. Information does not tell you what to do. You are the lens that needs to figure that out. Acquisition. Monetization.

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