Up and Running

MAY 15, 2014

As an entrepreneur raised in the era of analytics, I want to find metrics for everything. When I was going through the co-founder “dating” process, I’d found a potential partner through my network who seemed to be perfect. The problem is that this is harder to do than it sounds. Why did I think that?

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Partner Cofounder Equity Metrics 113

David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

John Borchers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Decathlon Capital, claims to be the largest revenue-based financing investor in the US. RBI structures help to protect the equity of both founders and investors. However, according to Bryce Roberts, co-founder of Indie.VC, only 0.6%

Revenue 60

Revenue Term Sheet Founder Technical Review 60

ConversionXL

JANUARY 28, 2021

With marketing and analytics becoming increasingly complex, businesses need to know how to track and manage their data, and they need to know what to do with it. David Raab Founder at CDP Institute. Additionally, on average, businesses receive data and metrics from 28 unique sources. Use cases for CDP’s. Avoid Data Silos.

Technical Review 86

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

This post was co-written by Eric Ries and Sarah Milstein, co-hosts of The Lean Startup Conference. In this workshop, Fraser, Founder/CEO of LUXr and Klein, Director of Product & UX at One Jackson will offer practical techniques for getting and using customer feedback.

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Lean Cofounder Analytics Startup 154

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

A well-organized library of best practices for founders in your vertical, which you can share as appropriate. First Round Search , Startupschool , and GSV Passport are examples of comprehensive founder resources from investors. I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog. AskAnything.VC Advantages.

Private Equity 78

Private Equity Venture Capital Portfolio Equity 78

Campus Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

But Suhail Doshi, the 22-year-old co-founder of San Francisco analytics company Mixpanel, is far from average. via How Two College Students Found a Niche in Custom Web Analytics | Entrepreneur.com.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 25, 2011

The issue was that for the last two weeks in August, there were no VCs around to pitch, no distribution partners to meet with for biz dev deals, and seemingly no one else around actually working for me, the non-technical co-founder to push ahead toward milestones. Build up your analytics capability. Where should you be speaking?

Technical Review 121

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

However, about 5% of the VCs in our database, mostly younger ones, are trying to build a competitive advantage by crawling large amounts of publicly available data and building analytical functions to flag companies with accelerating traction to them. ” Historically, investing was a manual, artisan process. Two Sigma Ventures.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Strategy Adopted: Leveraging Social Media Analytics. Metrics on keywords, follower profiles and competitors all help define your target listener. Initially, your staff (even if that’s just you and a co-founder) will be your greatest asset in locating and connecting with your audience. Identify the audience.

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Social Media Media Viral Startup 158

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Analytics spark more questions and discussion than almost any other aspect of the Lean Startup method. If you’re coming to them from outside the tech sector, the language around analytics can be particularly confusing. For those new to analytics, Alistair and Ben have a free Udemy course well worth checking out.

Analytics 167

Analytics Lean Widget Metrics 167

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 12, 2017

In case you’re wondering, these sorts of statistics can be easily discerned by using Google Analytics or another web analytics tool.). Aside from event website conversion rates, other metrics worth tracking include, but are not limited to: Email open rates. Another during-event metric worth tracking is social media engagement.

Campaign 72

Campaign Marketing Social Media Software Review 72

The Next Web

MARCH 10, 2013

This is a guest post by Chris Hollindale, co-founder and CTO of Hasty. The analytics provided by WellnessFX can give you a detailed understanding of your own health, warn of any potential health risks, and is a great preventative measure. Hasty is a seed-funded stealth startup whose mission is to improve the health of humanity.

Entrepreneur 140

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 23, 2017

” I had the pleasure of speaking to Dr. Chip about customer journey and innovative service metrics. He also offered an example of a customer journey map for “Telephone Repairs,” from the book he co-authored, “Service Magic: The Art of Amazing Your Customers.” Leadfeeder. ” Click to enlarge. IdeaRocket.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Hard skills such as data analytics are essential to being successful as a product manager, but equally-valued are soft skills such as communication, collaboration and leadership. I usually ask an interview candidate a series of analytical questions to gauge intelligence and problem-solving ability.” from administration to politik?

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Management Product Technical Review Software Review 85

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Ming is the former chief of staff and strategy advisor to co-founder Jack Ma for over a decade, and outlines five key steps for automating decisions today as follows: Log and use consumer behavior and product transaction data. Intelligent real-time software decisions are quickly replacing after-the-fact analytics.

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Artificial Inteligence Algorithm API China 210

ConversionXL

JUNE 8, 2017

You can check the Web Marketing and Measurement Model by Avinash Kaushik (who is an analytics legend): Image Source. You are certainly already familiar with Google Analytics, but if you need to brush up your skills, there is a course by CXL Institute that can take you to the next level (or if you’re a total beginner try this one ).

Programming 97

Programming Revenue Analytics Software Review 97

ReadWriteStart

MAY 24, 2018

Eighteen months later, I’m keynoting at conferences and serving clients in London, Sydney, Singapore, Los Angeles, Lisbon, Vancouver, and 50 other cities,” says Logan Young, the co-founder of BlitzMetrics, a Facebook dashboard and advertising company. Learn, Do, Teach: Build Your Expertise First.

Technical Review 115

Technical Review Technology Louisville Los Angeles 115

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm . 3) Raise capital.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

ConversionXL

MARCH 24, 2016

Equally valuable is finding activities that correlate with higher customer success – whether that be RPV, LTV, or whatever metric you’re optimizing for. But how do you find these correlative metrics? What’s a Correlative Metric? But it does act as a predictive metric that you can explore with testing.

Metrics 48

Metrics Conversion Analytics Retention 48

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Enable Google Analytics tracking. You just have to sign up for Google Analytics, get your account number, and plug it into your site. Use Googles built-in Analytics/AdWords integration, to track the effectiveness of each ad you run. The nice thing about services like SnapPages is that they offer this built-in.

Demand 167

Demand San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 167

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

My experience has been this lever brings three benefits: it lowers origination costs because more founders want to raise capital from you; it enhances your leverage in negotiating with the CEO; and it lowers your failure rate. . – Incubating companies. – Internal diversity.

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Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

My experience has been this lever brings three benefits: it lowers origination costs because more founders want to raise capital from you; it enhances your leverage in negotiating with the CEO; and it lowers your failure rate. . – Incubating companies. – Internal diversity.

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Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

In the early fall of 2009, as kaChing prepared for its marketplace launch, the management team showed the app—which included real time market data, SEC-grade accounting, analytics, compliance and customer management tools—to a number of investment pros to get feedback and endorsements. The response was surprisingly positive.

San Francisco 158

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment SEC 158

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, February 8, 2010 Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Review) The next article in my series on entrepreneurship for Harvard Business Review is live today. Once again, we revisit the topic of Actionable metrics and their nemesis: Vanity metrics. Remember "metrics are people, too."

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Metrics San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 121

ConversionXL

AUGUST 13, 2019

SaaS sales and marketing teams can get overwhelmed by metrics. But without any metrics, it’s impossible to track growth. If growth is the best way to get out alive, marketing metrics do little unless they correlate with sales. According to Gartner , three metrics form the foundation for those growth levers: (Image source).

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Metrics SQL Retention Churn Rate 117

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 28, 2016

by Steve Hershberger, co-founder and CEO of SteadyServ Technologies. Steve Hershberger is the co-founder and CEO of SteadyServ Technologies , a data-as-a-service company that delivers real-time performance intelligence on draft beer consumption and inventory.

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Indianapolis Marketing Cofounder Cloud 100

Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

. (this post was originally published in Harvard Business Review and is co-authored with Nadav Benbarak of Okta.). They work cross-functionally with engineering, design, analytics, product management, operations, and marketing to design and execute growth initiatives. If data is the fuel of growth, then analytics is its engine.

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Management Analytics Technical Review Framework 20

Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

. (this post was originally published in Harvard Business Review and is co-authored with Nadav Benbarak of Okta.). They work cross-functionally with engineering, design, analytics, product management, operations, and marketing to design and execute growth initiatives. If data is the fuel of growth, then analytics is its engine.

Management 20

Management Analytics Technical Review Framework 20

abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

The company, which the founder cleverly named “Stitch Fix,” had a remarkably unique offering compared to other women’s fashion experiences. I immediately reached out to the founder and CEO, Katrina Lake , who had previously worked for another Benchmark portfolio company in the fashion space, Polyvore.

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eCommerce Technical Review North America San Francisco 62

ReadWriteStart

MAY 14, 2012

The best way for startup founders to improve their chance of success is by learning to make better decisions. This is a big-data approach to startup success,” says Startup Compass co-founder and serial entrepreneur Bjoern Lasse Herrmann. But startups don’t have any access to that kind of analytics. Don’t ignore customers.

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Churn Rate Cofounder Startup Acquisition 133

ConversionXL

MARCH 4, 2016

Examples: Clearslide , Salespatron (I’m a co-founder) and Brainshark. Business Intelligence/Analytics: Help generate critical and actionable insights from raw data combined from myriad sources. And typical success metrics for them would look like: email open rate. Examples: Yesware , ToutApp , Sidekick , Close.io.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 1, 2014

” For Lindsay Nelson, CEO and co-founder of Theme Dragon, Inc that opportunity was founding a tech company. She and original cofounder Megan Bradford poured their proverbial blood, sweat and tears into this enterprise. Their latest product, Statdragon, launched just last week. How do you balance it all?

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Bootstrapping Cofounder Portland Burn Rate 107

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

That’s because many of our reports feed us vanity metrics: numbers that make us look good but don’t really help make decisions. Yet even among those who have access to good actionable metrics, I’ve noticed a phenomenon that prevents taking maximum advantage of data. Too much of this data is non- actionable.

San Francisco 84

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 84

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

When it comes to identifying what has changed, Labay continues: I’d think the first stop is analytics—who dropped off, what channels, who remained, etc., The questions that clients ask in the coming months are going to be more focused on business results and less on trends and vanity metrics. Here are some things you can do.

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Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 15, 2023

She is the founder of Sleek Marketing, which offers hands-on education on digital marketing in the Boston area. When you use metrics and strategies in the same subtitle title, most businesses I end up running up against don't have a strategy, let alone a data-driven strategy. What do you see that businesses need to be doing? [21:35]

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Software Review Marketing Metrics Analytics 81

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

They’ll be heading up the team to develop new strategies, create new market segments , and define and measure metrics to demonstrate ROI to stakeholders. Market Recruitment co-founder Matt Dodgson’s recommended interview questions are heavily influenced by these factors: 1. “If Analytics platforms.

Demand 95

Demand Management B2B Campaign 95

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

They work to improve top-of-funnel metrics like brand awareness and identify opportunities to improve customer activation, retention, and referral efforts. If your campaign works and your brand awareness metrics improve, you win. Then, compare any change in the awareness metrics you’re measuring in that region with other markets.

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Framework Marketing Acquisition Retention 102