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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

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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Analytics Hiring SQL Forecast 149

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MARCH 24, 2021

In this comprehensive template and guide we break down each of the nine core sections in the deck: intro , team , what do you do , is it working , why does it matter (market) , can you be the best in the world (product, growth, financial metrics) , where are you going , what do you want (the ask) , and appendix. Hiring Your Team.

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Seed Stage Hiring IPO Analytics 177

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JANUARY 21, 2016

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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Web New York City Analytics New York 120

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MAY 16, 2019

Here’s the layer cake: Growth and analytics types who work with cohort analyses will be very familiar with these, but for those who aren’t this chart basically shows how much recurring revenue Slack gets from customers who became paid subscribers in a given year.

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Lock-up Period Retention Azure .Net 168

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

So, I think it’s important to define your activation metric really precisely and really just take a bet that if you improve that it will result in more people discovering the other things down the line. Analytical Debt. Analytical debt is worse than product debt, and worse than technical debt.

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Product Vertical Non-Compete Analytics 52

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MAY 5, 2020

To this end, we took a quick look at out top-of-the-funnel metrics so far to determine how we are progressing with six days remaining before the application deadline. Melody : Democratization of data analytics, next-gen commerce/commerce infrastructure, modern loneliness.

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Founder B2B Business Model Analytics 156