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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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Some bits and pieces could be found in Google Analytics, while other data was stored in BigQuery and ProfitWell. This arrangement made it challenging to give a quick answer to basic questions on user conversions or to comment on traffic rates and MRR. The stage in which a customer makes a purchase. The Sign-up stage.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

So I generally feel right at home in these conversations. Most importantly, it’s now possible to have detailed analytics on exactly what’s happening to messages and ideas as they flow through word-of-mouth channels. When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

It requires separating the product launch from the marketing launch (see Dont Launch ) as well as other staple Lean Startup tactics: minimum viable product, split-testing, customer development and the pivot. ’&# They removed the core plan, and conversions went up. The idea seemed to SlideShare to be a natural direction.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Remember, radio programs get no realtime analytics, no click maps, no funnel reports. And Red Room founder/CEO Ivory Madison on popular metrics that everyone should stop using. And Sincerely’s Matt Brezina on the secrets of developing mobile apps quickly. And Tendai Charisika on creative ways to get out of the building.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 11, 2016

We did three iterations of the product in less than 12 months, each one progressively going off of different consumer metrics that we found and then partner feedback. Oh we had a happy, fun conversation over a couple of beers, but we did not sit down and say, ‘Hey wait, where’s everyone want to go with their life?”.

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conversionxl.com

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Extra Lucrative Conversion Advice. Conversion Optimization Services. Conversion Research. We’ve organized everything to best simulate a visitor’s experience on a landing page from first click to final conversion. These questions help you uncover trends within your market and tell you things analytics alone can not.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Joe Kindness, co-founder at Agency Analytics, says, “Since Blake and I were both developers (and still are), we were able to create this company without any funding or additional resources. Noah Parsons says, “Start collecting contact information for interested, prospective customers. Step 8: Track your metrics.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 11, 2016

We did three iterations of the product in less than 12 months, each one progressively going off of different consumer metrics that we found and then partner feedback. Oh we had a happy, fun conversation over a couple of beers, but we did not sit down and say, ‘Hey wait, where’s everyone want to go with their life?”.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JULY 1, 2010

Analytics You need to understand your customers/users better. I am slowly going away from Google Analytics in favour of Clicky (although this is an affiliate link, I genuinely recommend this tool). Out of the box, Clicky gives you actionable metrics, rather than a awful lot of useless data. Amazingly quick and easy tool.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JULY 1, 2010

Analytics You need to understand your customers/users better. I am slowly going away from Google Analytics in favour of Clicky (although this is an affiliate link, I genuinely recommend this tool). Out of the box, Clicky gives you actionable metrics, rather than a awful lot of useless data. Amazingly quick and easy tool.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 4, 2013

And that’s not to mention the advice for very early-stage companies on topics like getting your first users, or choosing metrics. If you already know the topics that interest you, you can browse all the talks and events on that theme—whether it’s MVPs, Analytics, or Education—on our “ sessions by theme ” page.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

Slowly, over time, we optimized (or eliminated) each step in the process of becoming a customer by giving us money. In the process, we had also built a simple cohort-based analytics system. And then we would use that simple analytics system I mentioned to monitor the conversion rates of customers from each campaign.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2009

LIKED: Y startups fail, cont deployment vs waterfall vs agile, small batches & learn fr biz metrics #leanstartup As concise a summary as Ive ever seen. Trial and Error + Analytics? With so many deployments how do you deal with database schema changes and data conversion for these schema changes? made a big impression.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 28, 2014

Yet, only just over a quarter (28%) report being satisfied with their conversion rates. In our own research at Convert.com, we analysed 700 experiments and found again that 1 out of 7 experiments (14%) ran made a positive impact on the conversion rate for all clients that were not an agency. Ok now back to Dennis.).

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

In the big picture, “conversion optimization” boils down to getting more of the right people clicking on the things you want them to click. Dave McClure’s conversion metrics visualize where different conversion optimization opportunities lie—including those for acquisition. Image source ). By Gagan Mehra.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

In that case, metrics and analytics are really important. LK: At that point, it''s all about early user research and customer development. I think there''s a really nice method for doing this, which is imagine your successful customer. Don''t just imagine them, use metrics to figure out who they are.

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2014

“Conversion Rate Optimization” principles don’t just apply to landing pages or capturing emails. In a big picture, can’t “Conversion” really be boiled down to getting more of the right people clicking on the things you want them to click ? So Where Exactly Does “Conversion” Happen? image source.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Google Analytics. Site Pulse – Live Web Traffic Monitor and Analytics. SEO and Analytics Tutorials. Startup Metrics for Pirates â?? SaaS Metrics Tutorial â?? Analytics review â?? mixpanel vs kissmetric vs google analytics review.

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