VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Electric Vehicles – Lower battery costs powering adoption mean EV sales could reach 74 million in 2030. Bitcoin Allocation – Growing the role of bitcoin in investment portfolios. A lightweight “agent” with access to logs and metrics can, to start, retrieve relevant information (e.g.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

I''ve been thinking a lot lately about scaling sales. . Before this occurs, the sales process is a craft or an art - custom-made by the founder or evangelist sales VP. How do I build a repeatable, scalable sales process that is like an industrial machine - not a crafts project? 1) Enterprise Sales.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2021

Product/regions/channels. The benchmark for the beautiful metric AVOC is 15.3%. Now repeat this across many, many metrics, for many dimensions, in the three clusters you see above. sales) impact of my brand marketing? How does the portfolio of all our activities – owned, earned, paid media, promotions etc.

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David Teten

JANUARY 23, 2021

In particular, highlight the metrics by which you measured your past activities: size of exit, number of people you managed, $ budget you were responsible for, etc. Also note, many institutional investors don’t really allocate to VC asset classes directly due to the size of their portfolios. We are using Digify to manage this.

Private Equity 78

Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review 78

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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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. Blog About Log in Register Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior Great companies are almost always run by great management teams.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. Instead of making a few dollars per sale and hoping for thousands of sales, you sell to only a few customers, and charge much higher rates. it’s about measuring online influence and I’m big on metrics as a key element of business planning; 2.)

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Omni-channel messaging will become even more crucial as more organizations adopt this strategy, especially during a pandemic. Consumers make purchases through a number of channels, ranging from YouTube to Facebook, making it difficult to categorize their behavior. 10- Use of telephone sales and sales automation.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 24, 2015

We were fortunate to host very talented speakers from our portfolio (Ilya Sukhar from FB/Parse, Steve Marx from Dropbox, Bill Ready from Braintree, Ali Rayl from Slack, Eric Wittman from Atlassian, Sam Mac Donnell from HotelTonight.) gathered at the event. It is not very polished but was designed for a fast read. . -

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VC Cafe

APRIL 22, 2020

By Lihi Pinto-Fryman, co-founder and CRO and Gal Aga, VP of Sales at Syte.ai , a visual search startup and Remagine Ventures portfolio company. Social distancing measures are in place for an indefinite period, and sales teams have to quickly adapt to reach customers and prospects solely through virtual meetings and channels.

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Sales Cofounder Channel Revenue 113

Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 6, 2020

As the Greylock team has learned after decades of partnering with early-stage founders, the best approach is establishing a core set of fundamental questions that can be tailored to each individual company, rather than looking at a rigid set of metrics. WHAT METRICS SHOULD A FOUNDER SHOW TO RAISE A SERIES A FROM A VC FIRM LIKE GREYLOCK?

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Technical Review Seed Stage Software Review Early Stage 69

ReadWriteStart

JULY 18, 2011

Years later Clavier's name now comes up all the time when one of his portfolio companies finds success; his exits include Mint, Tapulous, and UserPlane, other investments include Mashery (a ReadWriteWeb sponsor), Rapleaf, Fitbit, bitly, GroupOn, Twitter and many more. Do not read from your slides, engage with the person being pitched.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 3, 2015

These include making deposits, transferring funds, paying bills and managing stock portfolios. FICO credit scores, business cash flow and business debt are being joined by cash-flow reports, direct deposit data and, in some cases, social media reviews and metrics during the approval process. Small Business Loan Overview. How it Works.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 2, 2013

Like everything in life, you want a balanced portfolio (left). Multi-channel attribution was the flavor of the month for every month in 2012. Conversions > Multi-Channel Funnels > Assisted Conversions. If email assists, can we understand its order in the conversion process and which channel it most assists?

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

Although the company created an incentive plan to boost sales, its sales growth fell from 19% before the recession to 8% after—five percentage points below Staples’ postrecession sales growth rate. Use that intelligence to inform product portfolio and investment choices.”. but polls and surveys are obvious choices, too.

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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.” Galyen cautions that many PMs get stuck inside what he calls “four walls.” or developers?—?are

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand. Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. Posted by Philippe Botteri.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

The startup didn’t work out, but I found ways to be around it, whether it was on the sales side in Goldman for a few years. What guidance for your portfolio companies? I will say the one thing we tell all our portfolio companies is to get fit and lean in. Jonathan Siddharth. Sounds great. David Zhang. Jonathan Siddharth.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Recently, however, we have seen the rapid emergence of hyper-growth businesses in the PaaS and IaaS markets demonstrating that these will soon be independent, multi-billion dollar segments in their own rights with the potential for massive sales volume and attractive cash flow characteristics. Portfolio. (3). sales and marketing. (10).

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Software Review Cloud Technical Review Sales Cycle 48

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

A few times per year, Bessemer organizes a CxO event for our portfolio companies and we decided to focus our first session of 2008 on Software-as-a-service (SaaS). This invite-only event for our portfolio companies and close friends of the firm was designed to be fairly intimate and interactive. Monday, February 04, 2008.

Software Review 48

Software Review South Korea IPO Portfolio 48

Hearpreneur

JULY 20, 2018

I was at a crossroads in my career and debating about starting my own sales and marketing consulting business. In my refreshed state, I reviewed what others said I had accomplished which was; empowering businesses with the ability to manifest sales results. NorthSide Metrics is a digital marketing agency based in the Chicagoland area.

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Naming OTC Entrepreneur PPC 71

YoungUpstarts

JULY 20, 2015

For example, the KPI (Key performance indicator) for your business may be to achieve sales of $10,000 in the first 12 months of operations. It is important for the business to have systems and processes in place that will track and manage their expenses, as well as to have a system in place that will fuel the growth of new business sales.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 18, 2011

Email remains an immensely credible and profitable channel, with an immense reach to boot. To not have it as an active part of your marketing portfolio is sub-optimal. You must use metrics that are unique to the medium. Your company cross-channel outcomes data. Ready for the best email marketing campaign metrics?

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 3, 2010

The key driver of this renewed confidence from brand advertisers is better measurement of brand metrics that can show the impact of online advertising beyond clickthrough. The Flash Sales sites and Local Deals sites both make shopping fun by offering deep discounts. Direct Response Advertising becomes ever more efficient.

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Internet eCommerce Advertising Flash 113

Brandanew

JULY 9, 2015

Most small business owners are focused on getting sales and direct business. The easiest way to understand whether or not you have found the right experts is to check their portfolio of work. All these would become automatically more difficult when we compared Twitter to Facebook to LinkedIn to X other social platforms and channels.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

You know all about vanity metrics , and how you shouldn’t be obsessed with them. You can usually tell this is the case when your SEO traffic converts well below other acquisition channels. Also note that often, organic traffic is one of the highest converting channels. Traffic Without Conversions is Worthless. Image Source.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Patrick: You can channel Cathy Sierra on this and say that the users, you become a Meeting King. And I really believe I can do, on the sales part, so much more if I have additional people. Jason: That’s true in engineering; it’s true in sales; it’s true in marketing. But listing these things? Edwin: Yes.

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Software Review Management 220

David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

Joe Chernesky, Vice President and General Manager of Global Licensing Sales, Intellectual Ventures. Kupietzky held a variety of management roles in marketing, sales and product management at world-class technology companies: Digital Insight (Intuit), Loudcloud/Opsware (Hewlett-Packard) and Siebel Systems (Oracle).

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 2, 2006

and so I think its a very, very big bet“ - Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft Indeed, the opportunity is large: with 11m+ SMBs in the US only spending more than $300B in IT.but so far nobody managed to "crack the code" and current sales model are facing diminishing returns: (1) HT companies have little insights in their SMB customers (e.g.,

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Europe Software 48

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

Along the way I'll share some of my favourite metrics and analytics best practices that should accelerate your path to becoming a true Analysis Ninja. At this point you'll be a little confused about some metric or the other. Go, read one of the best pages in the Analytics help center: Understanding Dimensions and Metrics.

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Analytics Metrics eCommerce PPC 60

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Step 1: Optimal Metrics. You'll find it here: Digital Metrics Ladder of Awesomeness. The metrics ladder lays out a path that will get you there, step by step while ensure your org is coming along with you. Attribution analysis will help you understand how to value Social Network AND the Direct channel AND Organic Search.

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Analytics Metrics Technical Review Channel 60

Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

My solution to these problems was to create a simple framework we can use to put our customers first, evaluate our marketing programs, and right-align our view of success (metrics). Identify gaps in our content/engagement/channel strategy on the web, 2. If we work in sales, all we care about are sales touch points.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

How do you come up with compelling analytics KPIs if there isn't a simple relationship between online activity and profit, for example when you sell online content via a traditional offline annual subscription sales process?? I believe these two posts with a collection of some of my favorite metrics will inspire you: 1.

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Analytics Marketing Campaign Metrics 131

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

We'll start with digital at the highest strategic level, which leads us into content marketing, from there it is a quick hop over to the challenge of metrics and silos, followed by a recommendation to optimize for the global maxima, and we end with the last two visuals that cover social investment and social content strategy.

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Analytics Marketing Social Media Technical Review 154

Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

The effort you invest in measuring offline impact will finally help your company understand how valuable the online channel is (or not!). You know exactly how much online contributed to offline sales, you know how to optimize your online campaigns (buy Apple iPod terms to increase Microsoft Zune sales!!), Two words: Primary Key.

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Analytics Conversion Campaign Redemption 116

Occam's Razor

JUNE 11, 2014

From simple and effective personalization on your owned channels (your site) to deep and profoundly impactful engagement on your rent channels (YouTube). And you are guessing why store sales are down (and because of such a simple fix!). Time to obsess about multi-channel outcomes. Offline sales. From B2C to B2B.

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Design Software Review Technical Review Mobile 150