Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 6, 2009

Hes a very smart guy who, as a Sequoia portfolio CEO, can tell you all about the " RIP good times " strategy. 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?

San Francisco 60

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC 60

Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

Then there is Agile for engineering. My solution to these problems was to create a simple framework we can use to put our customers first, evaluate our marketing programs, and right-align our view of success (metrics). I believe it has to do with choosing the wrong success metrics. And really the list is too long.

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Framework Marketing Metrics Audience 163

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. And we can offer investors metrics to play Moneyball – with the Investment Readiness Level. We think we can do better. Here’s how.

Oakland 326

Oakland Incubator Lean Metrics 326

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

21 Creative online portfolio sites and applications – [link]. 10 Things Clients Look For In a Design Portfolio – [link]. Startup Priorities: Is Design More Important Than Engineering? Entrepreneurs: Beware of Vanity Metrics - [link]. Showcase of Hotel Website Designs - [link]. – [link].

Social Media 77

Social Media Small Business Design Media 77

Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

Because every tool uses its own sweet metrics definitions, cookie rules, session start and end rules and so much more. If you don't kill 25% of your metrics each year, you are doing something wrong. Allow me to point out that only 50% of the metrics I love exist in clickstream tools - like webtrends or xiti or unica.

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Analytics Web Metrics Channel 118

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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Metrics Analytics Search Channel 152

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2014

An example is: "We should add these 80 keywords to our PPC portfolio with a max bid of $14." All standard reports are simply the vendor engineer's attempt to showcase the data in the tool. the instinctive response of the Squirrels is to go grab the most obvious metrics and start partying. " Kisses.

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Analytics Web Metrics DC 140

Cracking the Code

APRIL 13, 2007

4) Sales model: From seasoned sales people to a tiered sales engine To buy, people needs to be comfortable with the product. Successful companies have developed specific teams focused on developing and monitoring key usage metrics. What metrics drive the value of this new generation of software service providers? Portfolio. (3).

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Software Review Internet Software Technical Review 48

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Google Custom Search Engine. Google App Engine. Startup Metrics for Pirates â?? SaaS Metrics Tutorial â?? Search Engine Optimization Tools. Google App Engine â?? Twilio : Need to call/txt get a phone number from your web/mobile application?

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53