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State of VC 2.0

View from Seed

Warning – this assumes some basic knowledge of VC performance metrics. Seed investors are being compensated for the risk because later-stage investors are paying higher prices, and diluting early-stage investors less. The chart below illustrates this, with the black vertical line representing the average VC return.

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State of VC 2.0

View from Seed

Warning – this assumes some basic knowledge of VC performance metrics. Seed investors are being compensated for the risk because later-stage investors are paying higher prices, and diluting early-stage investors less. The chart below illustrates this, with the black vertical line representing the average VC return.

Valuation 295
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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

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. And as everyone’s attention starts to focus on those same indicators, their value is being diluted. My blog has over 14000 subscribers, for example. Is that a lot?

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State of VC 2.0

View from Seed

Warning – this assumes some basic knowledge of VC performance metrics. Seed investors are being compensated for the risk because later-stage investors are paying higher prices, and diluting early-stage investors less. The chart below illustrates this, with the black vertical line representing the average VC return.

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How to Scale Organic Traffic (Without Writing a Million Blog Posts)

ConversionXL

The answer is given by user intent: If your existing pages already target a clear intent, and the new feature would dilute it, create a new page for it. Crawl your site on a staging environment with freshly deployed features and compare metrics like crawl depth and internal links to similar pages on the live version of your site.

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What is Brand Identity and How To Create a Great One: A Complete Guide for Marketers and Businesses (2019)

crowdSPRING Blog

There are three parts to a good competitive analysis: (1) defining the metrics and identifying the competitors you’re comparing, (2) gathering the data, and (3) the analysis. If your brand tries to be too many things at once, the message becomes scattered and the brand grows diluted. Start by defining what metrics are important.

Marketing 162
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Optimizing Your Agency For Profitability

Duct Tape Marketing

So if you can imagine you have a vertical access on that access, you have high value at the top. Marcel Petitpas (09:02): It makes it very fast and easy to on a tighter time horizon, get a sense of what's more or less efficient than another service offering. You low value at the bottom. And generally that comes down to two things.