Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

In addition to providing customer care and assistance, a virtual assistant may also develop web pages or compose blog entries, administer email newsletters, carry out sales and marketing chores, generate sales leads, and conduct a variety of other jobs. Then, you may begin to promote your items on your blog and social media profiles.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Great post on the most important internet metric of them all – CONVERSION – crowdspring.co/18u6N8Y. Great post on the most important internet metric of them all – CONVERSION – crowdspring.co/18u6N8Y. Great post on the most important internet metric of them all – CONVERSION – crowdspring.co/18u6N8Y.

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VC Adventure

AUGUST 31, 2017

If you read my blog regularly you know I love (LOVE) metrics. They took the 92 public SaaS companies and analyzed their key operating metrics. The valuation metrics show this clearly. And as a rule of thumb for businesses in our portfolio we target payback periods of 12 months or less. on average.

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IPO Vertical Balance Sheet Valuation 113

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, July 28, 2010 Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot (The following guest post is a new experiment for this blog. And if you’re a regular reader of this blog, you may know that IMVU started out as an instant messaging add-on. kaChing has been very active in the Lean Startup movement.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment SEC 158

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

So what are Rob’s secret hacks that he didn’t spill in his blog post? . Key point – if your emails are as long as my blog posts you’re forked. He did it yesterday, “Mark, I’m going to write a blog post following on from your VC’s aren’t dumb. That in itself is quite a challenge.

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Advisory Board CTO Hire Fractional CTO Los Angeles 365

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior Great companies are almost always run by great management teams. Good metrics should also be actionable, and drive successful behavior. When we look to design metrics, we are looking to deepen our understanding of the machinery, and how it works.

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Metrics Design Entrepreneur Startup 55

OnlyOnce

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Follow up with an all-hands meeting to explain what happened, why you made the choices you did—preferably with metrics to back up your decisions—what’s next for the company, and whether people who weren’t laid off are at risk in the future. (Be Promoting the profiles of your former employees on job boards, portfolio lists, etc.,

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Bending over: How to sell to large companies - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 24, 2010 This is a guest post by Steve Hanov , who blogs about programming and startups. Stay Tuned.

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Fractional CTO Startup Venture Capital Cofounder 248

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Good whitepaper on advertising measurement metrics | by Ben Kunz – crowdspring.co/HsVIMR. Good whitepaper on advertising measurement metrics | by Ben Kunz – crowdspring.co/HsVIMR. Entrepreneur PSA – Advertising Businesses are Hard | Seth’s Blog - crowdspring.co/1aHHgHS. 1auNoEG.

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

work (collection, processing, reporting, analysis), processes, org structure, governance models, last-mile gaps , metrics ladders of awesomeness , and… so… much… more. Remember, tools, work, processes, org structure, governance models, last-mile gaps, metrics ladders of awesomeness, and… so… much… more. The Implications of Complexity.

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Analytics Framework Metrics Algorithm 93

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

What metrics do we use to see if we learned enough in Customer Discovery ? I gave my boilerplate answer, “I’m a product guy and I tend to invest and look at deals that have measurable revenue metrics. Dave McClure has some great metrics…” It was an honest but vaguely unsatisfying answer. It’s an impressive portfolio.

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Customer Development Web Developer Customer 224

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Recently, we looked at our own portfolio at NextView Ventures to dig a little deeper on how startups actually raise that next round of financing. in our portfolio. In a past blog post, I characterized four winning strategies which startups could employ to successfully raise a Series A. The mean Series A size was $5.2M.

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Syndicate Syndication Seed Stage Startup 333

View from Seed

JULY 14, 2020

Today, one of our most recent portfolio companies, Opus , announced its rebrand as well as their $2M seed round. When we first met Rachael Nemeth and learned about Opus, we were impressed both by the product engagement metrics and her product insights around the best way to deliver high-impact training to frontline workers.

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Portfolio Leadership Metrics Employee 177

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Creating and showing constant momentum through personal portfolio projects and volunteering is a powerful means of landing a new job as a product manager, especially if one has never officially held the professional title “Product Manager.” Other key questions he looks to answer: What metrics did they track to define success?

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Management Product Technical Review Software Review 85

Board Effect

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Boards can also develop a platform for strategic decision-making that defines the fundamentals of the business portfolio and the dominant business model that will help determine the future allocation of resources and capabilities. Choosing Metrics to Monitor Strategy Implementation.

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Management Software Review Acquisition Merger 64

The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

If the product is great customer numbers will be increasing, per customer usage (often termed engagement) will generally be increasing, customers will be expressing their love for the company on blogs and in reference calls, analysts will be saying good things, and the price point will often by higher than for competing products.

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Technical Review Product Venture Capital Valuation 123

View from Seed

OCTOBER 28, 2019

But this financing contour description is just a proxy for underlying business metrics. So even if the earliest of concept stage investment is a rarity addition to its portfolio, venture firms cite a lone example as illustrative of their broad openness to companies and founders of all types.

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Seed Stage Finance Dilution Early Stage 247

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2012

I’ll write up some thoughts in a blog post format soon. I’ve been spending time looking at marketing conversion metrics at portfolio companies lately. Do vanity metrics matter? I recently spoke at the Blue Glass conference on the topic of marketing. How well do “sponsored stories” work?

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Marketing Metrics Campaign Portfolio 297

Up and Running

MARCH 6, 2013

2: Not bringing a portfolio of your work : When interviewing for a position on a marketing team, ALWAYS bring a portfolio to your interview. 3: Not talking results : In today’s world of marketing, everything needs to be about metrics. When in doubt, wear a suit. This is true for any marketing activity today.

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Warrant Portfolio Metrics Software 91

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

This structure allows for alignment on the front end, and real-time flexibility for performance metrics,” says Samira Salman , a family office investor and advisor. . Flexible VCs have created structures based on other company performance metrics than revenues, such as profits or founder salaries. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5%

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Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Back in 2018, my colleague Rob wrote a blog post about how the VC asset class is doing. Warning – this assumes some basic knowledge of VC performance metrics. If I knew the answer to these questions, I probably would be doing something else and not writing this blog post.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Distribution Early Stage 319

Version One Ventures

APRIL 11, 2019

This time, I am very excited to introduce Sin-Mei Tsai , VP of Engineering at Shippo , a Version One portfolio company. With that said, I thought it would be great to share Sin-Mei’s insight and wisdom with our blog community. Our inaugural guest was Bala Subramaniam and we asked him three questions on marketplaces.

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Part-Time VPE Software Review Engineer Technical Review 99

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

The Metrics Required for Raising a Series A Round | EquityZen – crowdspring.co/ZEAcxq. How To Build A World-Class Design Portfolio | Co.Design – crowdspring.co/1uDPSu7. How to get your employees into fitness | Fortune – crowdspring.co/1saKodQ. 9 Twitter Chats on Marketing | Heroic Search – crowdspring.co/XuWOyO.

Social Media 91

Social Media Small Business Design Media 91

Cracking the Code

AUGUST 3, 2011

I feel like I’m often looking for interesting things to read about a variety of subjects, but I manage to include your blog among my reads every day. Note: high CAC ratio means high productiviy (see blog post for definition). Portfolio. (3). Blog Archive. SaaS business metrics: why are they different?

Software Review 67

Software Review Europe Technical Review Search 67

Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

Across our portfolio and in my own entrepreneurial experience, I have seen three main sales models work successfully in scaling B2B sales: 1) Enterprise; 2) Telephone; and 3) Developer-driven. To that point, a well-run telesales operation will be super metrics-driven. The Bridge Group''s Blog on inside sales. Related articles.

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Sales Technical Review Software Review B2B 50

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

They may also target ads to specific audiences and track real-time metrics like views, clicks and demographics. One future trend that will take over the food blogging industry will be the shifting from images to quick videos. It's safe to say that this method will be widely used in 2022. Thanks to James Green, Build A Head ! #16-

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Artificial Inteligence Software Review Technical Review Entrepreneur 109

View from Seed

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 is about designing, reporting, and leveraging operating metrics to aid strategic and functional decision-making.

Analytics 149

Analytics Hiring SQL Forecast 149

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Back in 2018, my colleague Rob wrote a blog post about how the VC asset class is doing. Warning – this assumes some basic knowledge of VC performance metrics. If I knew the answer to these questions, I probably would be doing something else and not writing this blog post.

Valuation 295

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Distribution Early Stage 295

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 16, 2012

Note: high CAC ratio means high productiviy (see blog post for definition). Portfolio. (3). Blog Archive. SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Favorite VC and Entrepreneur blogs. Started on Jan. 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 Public SaaS 13 Multiples. SaaS 13 Index Valuation. My Investments.

Software Review 95

Software Review Europe Technical Review Spain 95

Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 15, 2014

One of the first blog posts that Boris shared with me when I was starting out is “ Don’t forget your logged out users ” by Fred Wilson. This thinking inspired me to come up with a framework for a user engagement pyramid that I have been encouraging our portfolio founders to create for themselves. How is this beneficial?

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Social Network Metrics Framework Networking 167

View from Seed

MAY 31, 2019

Some of the founders in our portfolio have an exceptional ability to raise additional capital (and at loftier valuations) remarkably ahead of where the underlying metrics of the business current would yield. My partners and I most often talk about defying gravity in the context of fundraising.

Valuation 149

Valuation Portfolio Metrics Founder 149

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Note: high CAC ratio means high productiviy (see blog post for definition). Portfolio. (3). Blog Archive. SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Favorite VC and Entrepreneur blogs. Started on Jan. 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 Public SaaS 13 Multiples. SaaS 13 Index Valuation. My Investments.

Software Review 101

Software Review Technical Review Valuation Europe 101

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

What guidance for your portfolio companies? I think every company’s portfolio is different, so they’re all different sizes, different stages, different geographies, different cash positions, and different market leadership positions. . I will say the one thing we tell all our portfolio companies is to get fit and lean in.

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Partner Cofounder Retention Acquisition 132

Feld Thoughts

MAY 9, 2018

Alex has been the Managing Director of Techstars NY for a number of years and I think he’s now run seven programs and built an impressive portfolio of around 80 companies. Recently, he put together a bunch of great blog posts on his site under a heading Startup Hacks. I’m a huge Alex fan and love his writing.

Startup 77

Startup Angel Investor Portfolio Metrics 77

Genuine VC

MARCH 24, 2014

A couple years ago, my partner Lee penned a blog post about the milestone benchmarks for startups raising a Series A round of financing. This focus translates into big top line figures, (admittedly) vanity metrics, and pretty graphs with less substance on business metrics or even deep engagement for now.

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Seed Capital Metrics Cofounder Revenue 212

Rob Go

OCTOBER 14, 2012

OUR PORTFOLIO. I’ve done little portfolio overviews from time to time. In over half of our portfolio companies, we have invested pre-product. But there actually have been unifying themes (which I’ll blog more about another time). But we feel pretty good about the progress of the portfolio so far.

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New Hampshire Croatia Omaha Portfolio 50

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Note: high CAC ratio means high productiviy (see blog post for definition). Portfolio. (3). Blog Archive. SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Favorite VC and Entrepreneur blogs. Started on Jan. 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 Public SaaS 13 Multiples. SaaS 13 Index Valuation. My Investments.

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Software Review Technical Review Cloud Europe 59