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Kung Fu

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Sometimes that’s product design so thrilling that every customer spreads the word to five more. There isn’t one most important SaaS metric. Being focussed on SaaS metrics is not incompatible with valuing employee fulfillment and customer happiness. You still have to get the first customers, and most of the rest, yourself.

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Why you probably don’t need an API strategy

The Next Web

In other words, the API is the target of a distinct business and opportunity (with its own metrics), which will then have a range of tactics to support it. Instead, most companies should be focusing on their core business and then designing APIs that support larger strategy. Design & Dev Entrepreneur Analysis and Opinion'

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The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development

Startup Lessons Learned

Brant and Patrick undertook a difficult challenge: to provide a generally accessible introduction to Customer Development, without diluting its impact or dumbing-down its principles. You can easily take from it whatever makes sense for your business, and leave the rest. On the minus side, that has made it a wee bit hard to understand.

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How to Segment A/B Test Results to Find Gold

ConversionXL

In any experiment, some metric within some group usually changes, but whether we’ve invested in the statistical rigor to discover it is another question altogether.”. Knowing these finer details can help meaningfully shift your metrics in a positive direction, where they may have once been plateauing. Image Source. Possibly not.

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3 Unorthodox Methods To Enhance Matured Optimization Programs

ConversionXL

Seasoned experts suggest that you should optimize for a metric which can affect the bottom line of your business. These metrics ensure that most of your efforts can be tied to monetary values. The downside that all those metrics have in common is that they only measure the short-term effects gained with your tests.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

But, as any startup can tell you, this opens up a tremendous set of opportunities for the rest of us. Despite all the energy invested in talking to authors about the size of their platform, very few gatekeepers have a rigorous set of metrics for measuring it. The old models are broken, and we do not yet have new models to replace them.

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What’s The Most Difficult CEO Skill? Managing Your Own Psychology

Ben's Blog

Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared to keeping my mind in check. Raise money in a highly dilutive way. It’s f@#ked up when your mind’s playin’ tricks on ya. The Geto Boys, Mind Playing Tricks on Me. Sell the company or 3.