Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Focus on the output metrics of that part of the product, and you make the problem a lot more clear. To promote this metrics discipline, we would present the full funnel to our board (and advisers) at the end of every development cycle. Max Levchin of Slide and Paypal has noted that 10% of Slides headcount is devoted to metrics only.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

I hope to show why lean and agile techniques actually reduce the negative impacts of technical debt and increase our ability to take advantage of its positive effects. Yet other agile principles suggest the opposite, as in YAGNI and DoTheSimplestThingThatCouldPossiblyWork. Reconciling these principles requires a little humility.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 24, 2017

Everyone has railed against these practices ( including us , many times), but it still seems that much of the industry is focused on short term metrics and surface level changes. With agile development cycles and uncertain monetization models, they live and die by data and experimentation. Image Source.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Once you build it, they will now ask you about the key metrics that they need proven in order to see if you really are a good investment. The real reason to build an MVP is to do early tests of key Startup Metrics for the business. " Once you have the metrics defined, it focuses your effort. To prove/disprove a hypothesis.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 17, 2011

Think of this as akin to agile management and don't be afraid to take small risks to learn how to improve your offerings. But you need to understand how the daily tweaks that Google makes to its algorithm will influence your rankings and what you have to do to adjust your page content accordingly.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Prescriptive analytics The digital analytics metrics you need to know How to use analytics to improve marketing campaigns Define your mission, goals, and KPIs Set key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure marketing performance What to look for in a digital analytics product 9 tools for your digital analytics stack 1.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

The six key attributes spell ABCDEF: Agility. When talking about their past experience, candidates with agility will know why they did what they did in a given situation. To probe for agility, you have to ask the candidate questions involving something that they know little about. Expo SF (May.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

Google's search algorithm was just better, therefore they won the eyeballs, therefore they were able to monetize. Google has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on their search algorithm, the single biggest focus of the company even today, a decade after they decided that was their One Thing. Yes of course I'll share details!).

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Because five whys kept turning up a few key metrics that were hard to set static thresholds for, we even had a dynamic prediction algorithm that would make forecasts based on past data, and fire alerts if the metric ever went out of its normal bounds. You can even read a cool paper one of our engineers wrote on this approach).

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2015

Or should it be a part of the development organization or in the Agile development environment? Does that sit into the Agile scrum team? For example, you can do big, strategic, changing the site search algorithm, and cart checkout, navigation, headers and footers whatnot. We have a lot of measures, a lot of metrics.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

But each keyword gets "credit" for other metrics. Parleo_ Q : what is most superficially tempting metric that is almost never worth worrying about? See #1 in this post from 2006: Competitive Intelligence Analysis: Metrics, Tips & Best Practices. They have been extensively covered here and in both my books. . #2:

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 7, 2010

At least, not in the traditional sense of trying to squeeze every tenth of a point out of a conversion metric or landing page. Even if it shows improvement in some micro metric, does that invalidate the overall design? Those of us with a computer science background call it the hill-climbing algorithm. No one feature is to blame.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

More common is to use a one-way hashing algorithm to map the data to be accessed to one of the shards that store it. Theres no complex algorithm to go wrong, just a simple lookup table. Of course, you could use URL-based sharding to "wrap" a CH algorithm (or any hashing scheme you wanted). Expo SF (May.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2014

Most C-suites and shareholders speak the language of the hard edge: metrics, analytics, logistics, strategies, and a well-defined and easy-to-see ROI. A strong soft edge makes a company resilient and agile — even in the face of the occasional C-suite disagreement. Be as transparent as possible. Invite scrutiny.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

Youll need bundles, promotions, category and segment managers, and algorithms for upsell, cross-sell, and conversion optimization. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Expo SF (May.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 9, 2012

If you are doing lame stuff, why try harder in an analytics context by asking for Economic Value or Visitor Loyalty or Conversation Rate or a thousand other super powerful and insightful metrics ? The web demands immense agility and flexibility from every company. Fill it with the best web metrics to measure success.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

While there is a great deal of appreciation for the power of metrics/data, I've come to realize that Sr. Leaders don't quite appreciate the deep, and often corrosive, consequences of choosing metric x over metric y as a key performance indicator (KPI). It is a standard metric. Don't believe me?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

Build a world-class technology platform, with patent-pending algorithms and the ability to scale to millions of simultaneous users. This is why agility is such a prized quality in product development. Departments were built and were even metrics-driven. Labels: agile , customer development 5comments: William Pietri said.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2019

What to do with AI: Predict churn ; Identify which offers to send to an individual; Accelerate innovation; Personalize content; Account-based marketing ; Algorithmic attribution; Forecast future lift; Predict blame. Setting up your experiments for success: Define success metrics. Try out different tactics, tools, offers, and designs.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Fun does not include ERP or accounting or any other algorithmically non interesting character shuffling or dynamically generated SQL queries, so that you can collect micropayments from already broke teens. Basically, any Algorithm-able person cannot be a bad programmer. Its the algorithms, logic and organization that are important.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

These days, successful programming is as much about processing data as creating algorithms. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Expo SF (May.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 19, 2019

Set targets: metrics to tackle the overarching goal for your product lifecycle. We need a metric or KPI that shows how good we are at increasing the likelihood that someone will convert in the future. André Morys: Why “Agile Teams” Fail (And You Might Be the Only Savior). Agile teams usually focus on efficiency.

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