YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

There isn’t a perfect metric for how much you should spend on digital marketing, as it really depends if your goal is building a brand (optimize for impressions on your website), closing sales (optimize on conversion rate), keeping cost low (optimize for cost of acquisition) and much more. Another often large expense is digital marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Alibaba, today the counterpart in China to Amazon, Ebay, and Google here, has demonstrated leadership in this area, and provides guidance for all of us to learn from in a new book, “ Smart Business ,” by Ming Zeng. Only smart software can plow through the volume of live data, recognizing trends, customers, and match offerings to reality.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

However, this primarily applies to businesses within China and India, where these big firms reside, as they rarely invest in startups outside of those two countries. As I touched on before, China and India have the most mature VC communities. Valuations are based more on typical later-stage type of metrics.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 24, 2020

Simply put, IoT is a combination of sensor and data analytics systems, helping businesses aggregate metrics to make more accurate decisions. For example, in China, a taxi company discovered a new business area by using AI to monitor what people were saying on social networks.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2013

The 6 Marketing Metrics Your CEO Actually Cares About [Cheat Sheet] | Hubspot Blog - [link]. The 6 Marketing Metrics Your CEO Actually Cares About [Cheat Sheet] | Hubspot Blog - [link]. Verizon finds US developer outsourced his job to China so he could surf Reddit and watch cat videos - [link]. SEO For Facebook Graph Search?

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

7 Companies in China have raised more than $1 billion in an IPO this year. And with their capital and confidence, China and India are stretching their wings. Action Point: Core to every strategic session for any company of ambition should include these simple questions: • What is your China strategy? In the U.S.

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Seeing Both Sides

MAY 19, 2019

This year, I added companies from India and China with the help of a number of friends from those communities?—?a CO : Boom Supersonic, Cloud Elements, CyberGRX, FullContact, GoSpotCheck, Ibotta, JumpCloud, LogRhythm, Quantum Metric, Red Canary, TeamSnap, Welltok. a nod to the growing global importance of those two startup ecosystems.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

They will need two different implementations, it is quite likely that you will end up with two sets of metrics (more people focused for mobile apps, more visit focused for sites). Mobile content consumption, behavior along key metrics (time, bounces etc.) If you have ecommerce you will see key metrics related to money making.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 8, 2020

It is most often missed assumptions about the market, the competition, the speed of adoption, or other critical metrics you’ve researched, or selected, or even just guessed at to create your plan. The “Gloves in China” syndrome. We call that the “gloves in China” syndrome when analyzing assumptions within business plans.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

Facing continuous disruption from globalization, China, the Internet, the diminished power of brands, changing workforce, etc., They measure their success on metrics that reflect success in execution, and they reward execution. These metrics stack the deck against a company that wants to invest in long-term innovation.).

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

As a consequence, corporations used metrics like return on net assets (RONA), return on capital deployed, and internal rate of return (IRR) to measure efficiency. These metrics make it difficult for a company that wants to invest in long-term innovation.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Times China bureau chief Julie Makinen , who is on a JSK journalism fellowship at Stanford , and is part of our mentorship team, has been taking notes on Weeks 7 and 8. The teaching team delivers comments, pulling no punches. It’s tough. She shares her observations below.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Times China bureau chief Julie Makinen , who is on a JSK journalism fellowship at Stanford , and is part of our mentorship team, has been taking notes on Weeks 7 and 8. The teaching team delivers comments, pulling no punches. It’s tough. She shares her observations below.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 18, 2015

The company plans to expand into Japan, China, Portugal, and Spain by the end of the year – marking only the beginning of their international expansion strategy. The success of Netflix can be attributed to business intelligence principles and metrics. Netflix focuses on customer experience metrics.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 5, 2023

During my time at the world’s largest video site, I coined the ongoing public metric ‘# hours of video uploaded every minute” to help put YouTube’s growth in perspective and frame for regulators how unfathomable and unreliable it would be to ask human beings to screen 100% of content manually. Whatcha think?

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Artificial Inteligence Framework Aggregator China 63

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

Last year, the co -founders of B ack to the Roots talked about their innovation accounting and how they were ignoring sales metrics in order to grow. Oh, and your salespeople have to make sure bookstores will stock it, and your marketing and PR people will have to make sure readers know it exists.

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Lean Technical Review Startup Software Review 165

YoungUpstarts

JULY 31, 2019

They are the injection molding China experts, and China’s lower cost of labor means you can afford to make injection molded prototypes to show to your customers and investors. Flexibility. The Ability to Handle Complex Parts. Injection molding can be used to make very complex parts.

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China Design Metrics Cost 133

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 19, 2020

Throughout, he's remained firmly grounded by these ideas: measure success by decades not quarters; consider all stakeholders not just short-term investors: think about people, not just metrics. First came their early awareness of the virus as business in China began to plummet. Principles can be abstract, though.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. You won’t impress investors by claiming that everyone in China needs one, and nobody else has exactly the right features to compete with you. Financial forecast and metrics.

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Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 283

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Zhang’s program solves this problem by including access to his own dedicated fulfillment team in China. A solid understanding of the key performance metrics and strategies for scaling is key. This team is able to provide excellent service along with detailed tracking information to Zhang’s students. Facebook Advertising Wisdom.

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eCommerce Programming Advertising United States 98

Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

When we looked at the color graphics board market, our competitors had defined the market as one measured by technical metrics: screen resolution, number of bits of color, screen refresh rates, acceleration, etc. It didn’t take much imagination to realize that what we had to do was to tell our story around one key metric performance ?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. You won’t impress investors by claiming that everyone in China needs one, and nobody else has exactly the right features to compete with you. Financial forecast and metrics.

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Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 290

VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Thought 1: What happens in China isn’t all that important to the US stock market. Yes – China is a large trading partner, but if you look at its effects on the overall US market, we’re not likely to see a large, near-term effect from a drop in either the Chinese stock market or their currency. They’re not.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 5, 2013

It is most often missed assumptions about the market, the competition, the speed of adoption, or other critical metrics you’ve researched, or selected, or even just guessed at to create your plan. No-one challenged this number, and it became an unattributed source of the metric for market size for years. Or cost estimation.

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China Metrics Demand Business Plan 95

Gust

AUGUST 5, 2012

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. You won’t impress investors by claiming that everyone in China needs one, and nobody else has exactly the right features to compete with you. Financial forecast and metrics.

Business Plan 182

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 182

K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

As the check size increases, investors tend to look for more traction, established revenue models, proven unit-economics, and other metrics that were previously associated with later stage companies. So if the Micro-VCs are looking for Series A-like metrics, what does a company do when it’s just getting started?

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Leaders (company is leaving China, our IPO is next week, 1,800 new stores are being opened in 180 days, our new IRR is 8%). Conversion rate is one of those metrics that I strongly encourage you only create benchmarks for from your own data. You have the standard metrics like Time on Site, Pages/Visit and Bounce Rate.

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Analytics Vertical Metrics Web 133

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

The results confirm what all binary options traders already know: gasoline prices have greatly receded on the back of an oversupply of crude oil, slowing demand from China and the competition between Brent crude oil and WTI crude oil, among others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. You won’t impress investors by claiming that everyone in China needs one, and nobody else has exactly the right features to compete with you. Financial forecast and metrics.

Business Plan 186

Business Plan Exit Strategy Sweat Equity Intellectual Property 186

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 5, 2020

This means that creating a simplified and easy-to-navigate software that allows real-time metrics and communication to be had in a professional management environment is currently an industry for the taking. The SARS outbreak in 2002 leads to the tremendous growth of online marketplace platforms in China. 16- Coffee.

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Technical Review Software Review Entrepreneur China 157

YoungUpstarts

MAY 22, 2015

Online sales metrics have reached a high of $248.7 US and China top the charts accounting for more than 50% online sales of the entire world, despite the fact that US is seeing a recession, which asserts the prominence of e-market. So if you want to see your business flourish in future, it is vital to imbibe the trend.

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Growthink Blog

JULY 23, 2012

And with their capital and confidence, China and India are stretching their wings. Action Point : Core to every strategic session for any company of ambition should include these simple questions: • What is your China strategy? A strong results and metrics-focused approach. These are fantastic new markets for U.S.

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Africa Brazil India China 76

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

We’ve had just one market since then and it could confuse one into thinking: every deal finds downstream investors, every company good or bad finds a home, you know anything at all about brazil, india, china or even saas sales, ecommerce or analytics (you know all these in a bull market).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2022

Pick a single metric that is the focus for all growth. Today’s world is full of metrics leading to business growth, including customer logins, revenue per customer, retention, and average solution price. Too many choices confuse all customers, and make your job in marketing, distribution, and support much more difficult. Less is more.

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Jeff Hilimire

MARCH 24, 2020

We have been watching this virus hit countries to our east, starting in China and working it’s way west. On top of our normal transparency, we’re also now showing metrics to everyone in our company that indicate the health of our business and the time/scenario that will require us to make changes. Trust and problem solving.

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Lean China Salary Metrics 68

The Startup Magazine

MAY 31, 2022

As a true pioneer of the circular economy movement, Claudia is Technical Panel Member for UL STP3600 Standards, the standards for the Circular Economy and the metrics, processes, and procedures for the circularity of materials and operations. Freed is a global thinker and living proof that purpose-driven businesses transform lives.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 14, 2012

Bonus One: Read: Brand Measurement: Analytics & Metrics for Branding Campaigns ]. There are many different tools, both online and offline, that measure the elusive metric called brand strength. If I were doing this analysis in Russia I'd be using Yandex, in China I'd use Baidu, etc.

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