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Advice On How To Make Your First Analytics Hire

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Recently, I’ve been working with a few of our portfolio companies to help them think about how to recruit and interview their first analytics hire. Analytics vs. Finance?—?what’s Analytics is about designing, reporting, and leveraging operating metrics to aid strategic and functional decision-making.

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Saving the Web from the Tyranny of the Click [Traction #17: Tony Haile, Chartbeat]

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When Tony first became CEO of Chartbeat, the analytics startup based in New York City, he faced this massive problem of an internet teeming with clickbait headlines and short-term thinking. He also faced challenges like competing directly with Google Analytics (and the annoyingly competitive price point of “free”).

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What Makes a Great Consumer Startup Marketer?

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VP Finance and Analytics. Clearly, being analytical isn’t all there is to being a great marketer. The raw material of analytical people. First is this idea of the “raw material” of insanely analytical people. Of course, every company talks about being analytical. BA in economics. Business Ops.

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What Do My Partners REALLY Care About When You Pitch Them?

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He tends to love founding team that have analytical, quantitative marketing DNA. You should never say anything like “demand won’t be a problem” or “people will choose us because we have the best product” I wouldn’t just spew out a laundry list of obvious digital marketing channels either.

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The Everyday Economy Is Not a Vertical Strategy

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As a monitoring and analytics software for DevOps, there are relatively few end users that live in their software day in and day out. This doesn’t mean that these companies are any less exciting — just that they aren’t quite for us. For example, Datadog is an extraordinary company that doesn’t quite fit in this lens.

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6 More Days to Apply – Calling All Founders

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We are going to quickly take some proactive steps to try to promote the program among audiences that may be outside our typical channels, and we would welcome any other suggestions of things we can do to bring in a more diverse set of applicants (please share suggestions in the comments below).

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