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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

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Having a set of metrics that you watch & that you feel are the key drivers of your success helps keep clarity. And the more public you can make your goals for these key metrics the better. You will likely have multiple sets of metrics you keep depending on the company’s stage, one’s function in the company and level.

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Twitter Delivers You 4x More Traffic Than You Think. Here’s Why …

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Most web publishers measure where their traffic is coming from using an analytics package such as Google Analytics, Omniture or Core Metrics. story of why: Take a look at the Google Analytics log for BothSidesofTheTable.com for yesterday. I understand why he would think that – Google Analytics tells him so.

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

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And finally, Scott demonstrated his internal management tool for managing the metrics of his business. A social analytics platform for Facebook app developers and publishers that provides detailed demographic and engagement data. Analytics also extend to iPhone and web apps using Facebook Connect. It’s awesome.

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How to Solve the Biggest Frustration Marketers Have With Social

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It is what is commonly referred to as “vanity metrics” as in, “Look at how many more followers I got us! has announced that it has built a visualization and analytics tool for marketers at agencies , brands or frankly any business that has a need to more effectively run social campaigns. End of story. Today awe.sm

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What I’ve Learned About Venture Funding

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We’ve had just one market since then and it could confuse one into thinking: every deal finds downstream investors, every company good or bad finds a home, you know anything at all about brazil, india, china or even saas sales, ecommerce or analytics (you know all these in a bull market).

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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

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Google Analytics vs. Facebook’s new analytics tool. Company grew by more than “400% each year” for past few years [assume growth metric = revenues]. Metrics: 2.5mm members, 1,000 brands, 2,500 sale events to-date. Metrics: 50mm users (up from 40mm in Dec 2009), -Competition includes: Spotify , Last.fm.