Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

By definition, second-stage ventures generally have 10 to 99 employees and/or $750,000 to $50 million in revenue, and see that as just the beginning. You don’t have the bandwidth to keep filling positions with more helpers. Switch your attention from product development to sales. Managing business growth is more than metrics.

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Mezzanine Private Equity Startup Bandwidth 141

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

By definition, second-stage ventures generally have 10 to 99 employees and/or $750,000 to $50 million in revenue, and see that as just the beginning. You don’t have the bandwidth to keep filling positions with more helpers. Switch your attention from product development to sales. Managing business growth is more than metrics.

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Mezzanine Private Equity Bandwidth Metrics 240

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

By definition, second-stage ventures generally have 10 to 99 employees and/or $750,000 to $50 million in revenue, and see that as just the beginning. You don’t have the bandwidth to keep filling positions with more helpers. Switch your attention from product development to sales. Managing business growth is more than metrics.

Mezzanine 120

Mezzanine Private Equity Startup Bandwidth 120

The Next Web

JULY 13, 2013

The firm was one person, me, analyzing web metrics and writing copy for clients. When I had a sales meeting, I rode my bike to the meeting because I didn’t know how to drive a car. Once inside, I had a sales pitch where I constantly referred to my company in plural. I didn’t park my bike in front of the company building.

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Bandwidth Employee Analytics Metrics 122

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

— Unremarked and unheralded, the balance of power between startup CEOs and their investors has radically changed: IPOs/M&A without a profit (or at times revenue) have become the norm. Typically, this caliber of bankers wouldn’t talk to you unless your company had five profitable quarters of increasing revenue.

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Founder Technical Review CTO Hire IPO 252

Venture Chronicles

MARCH 30, 2010

I downloaded the Admob Mobile Metrics Report and it is very clear, this chart is derived from an analysis of Admob’s network traffic, not mobile network traffic by device or by carrier. This leads me to the main point of this post, which is to ask the question what matters more, how many devices are sold or how consumers use them?

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Sales Bandwidth SMS Minnesota 40

ConversionXL

JULY 22, 2021

Understand and maintain them and your website can rank prominently, drive traffic, and help boost sales. By disallowing them, Unbounce is able to save on bandwidth and crawl budget —the number of pages Googlebot crawls and indexes on a website within a given timeframe. Each of these tools will display metrics in a different way.

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Technical Review SEO Software Review XML 162

ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Facts don’t change minds – true for both sales and customers. mobile is ~50% of revenue, shorter form works better. Flip your funnel – only 5% of revenue comes from optimisation but 92% of revenue from retention. Work hard to define meaningful product metrics – enabler of team success.

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Retention Artificial Inteligence Channel Email 106

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Two of the teams focused on the two main sources of revenue, one team on inbound leads, and the last team on site conversion rates. Design, Product, Marketing, and Sales get pissed that you’re not in sync. We were optimizing revenue from these campaigns by testing different versions. Things…did not go well.

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Conversion Technical Review Channel Engineer 133

ConversionXL

APRIL 11, 2016

Using video demos on product pages increased Zappos’ sales by up to 30%. If your video is over 4 minutes long, use Apple’s HTTP Live Streaming , which “responds to a client’s bandwidth capacity and adjusts the quality of the video stream between multiple bitrates and/or resolutions.” How to Measure Video. Engagement?

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Video Conversion Mobile Search 48

om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

called The Rise of a Insta-Company, which theorized that open source, cheap bandwidth and increasingly falling cost of infrastructure would result in companies being built at a dramatically lower cost than ever before. But that is the real metric of success as far as I am concerned. ARE YOU WINNING AS A FOUNDER?

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Founder Conversion Distribution Silicon Valley 80

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

This highest quality of the traffic information, never achieved before, together with the perfect applications generate significant revenues for the operator and maintain customers’ loyalty. Craze Productions. GoNet Systems. GoNet Systems provides outdoor Wi-Fi infrastructure solutions for urban, 3G offload deployments. IXI Mobile. -

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Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103