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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Tech IPO prices exploded and subsequent trading prices rose to dizzying heights as the stock prices became disconnected from the traditional metrics of revenue and profits. Massive liquidity awaited the first movers to the IPO’s, and that’s how they managed their portfolios. Then one day it was over. IPOs dried up.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

Use that intelligence to inform product portfolio and investment choices.”. Jocz , you may need to change how you segment your audience: Marketers typically segment according to demographics (“over 40,” say, or “new parent” or “middle income”) or lifestyle (“traditionalist” or “going green”).

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Twitter Link Roundup #178 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

The critical metrics for each stage of your SaaS business | by Lars Lofrgren – [link]. Men and Hard-to-Reach Audiences Are Spending More Time Streaming Digital Video | Adweek – [link]. 15 Beautiful and Awesome Examples of Portfolio Designs | Silky Designs – [link]. 10 Myths about Startups – [link].

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19 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

As a group, we thought about a play on words and eventually settled on MissHeard, which highlighted our youth audience, and a feeling that I wanted to combat: the feeling that girls often have of being misheard or misunderstood. Ebooks4fashion was a very short name, easy to remember and it works perfectly for my audience.

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Who can build the marketing machine?

This is going to be BIG.

Fab.com (First Round portfolio company) just announced a new round of funding and that they reached 350,000 subscribers. Show that you know how to target, acquire, and profitably build up a subscription customer base, all while tracking the right metrics, and *boom* you're hired. In New York City, that just shouldn't happen.

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Cracking The Code: Getting through the downturn: a few thoughts.

Cracking the Code

A few days ago, Bessemer West Coast SaaS Practice - David Cowan , Byron Deeter and myself, hosted a CFO Dinner for our SaaS portfolio at John Bentleys in Redwood City. Fifteen CFOs participated - about half of them from Bessemer portfolio SaaS companies (Cornerstone On Demand, Intacct. Portfolio. (3). anecdotes. (13).

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Brand Measurement: Analytics & Metrics for Branding Campaigns

Occam's Razor

Remember: Engagement is not a metric, its an excuse. ]. The ideal metrics for this desired outcome are Visitor Loyalty & Visitor Recency. You can compute two important metrics: Likelihood to Recommend / Brand Lift. There are a number of wonderful metrics you can use to measure online success of such marketing campaigns.

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