ConversionXL

JANUARY 9, 2019

Using a combination of Google Analytics , heat mapping, and session recordings , they uncovered three recurring patterns related to FAQs, pricing, and product information. Engineering. Is it higher usability metrics, like task completion and conversions, or something beyond analytics, like revenue? Development and IT leaders.

Design 131

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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. Julia Rhee , Advisor to Typhon Capital Management, observes, “You need to reverse-engineer institutions’ checkboxes. See How to Sell Your Professional Background.

Private Equity 78

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

Customers who conduct business online should feel confident that their financial information is protected within their online accounts. Many of our clients have expressed an interest in using video as part of their online marketing efforts, and we have seen firsthand the impact of videos on search engine results.

Software Review 114

Software Review Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur 114

The Equity Kicker

MAY 6, 2014

We’re really happy to welcome Stylect to our portfolio. Stylect is a shoe shopping app for iOS which employs a Tinder-esque UI on top of it’s recommendation engine to help women find and purchase the perfect pair of shoes. This is the sense in which swiping is the new liking.

Portfolio 115

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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.” Are you passionate about creating great user experiences within a product? Both internal and external.

Management 85

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

It’s a data-informed strategy that justifies tactics and aligns their goals. Content creation, the engine of inbound marketing, creates the draw (i.e. Inbound marketing has also transitioned the mode of information delivery: Whitepapers now allay fears that a visit from a salesperson once did. Visitors request demos.

Demand 132

Demand Vertical Campaign Channel 132

Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

As more investors have more touch points with a “Softbank round” in their portfolio, a picture emerges — rounds here often take a long time to close. Also during this time, the underlying metrics in that business can change positively, potentially trapping companies to accept the initially-agreed upon valuation.

Technical Review 165

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

It is written using the information that the company voluntarily shared, and therefore reflects their current thinking and recollections. kaChing launched a virtual portfolio management game on Facebook in January 2008 and a similar version shortly thereafter on kaChing.com. I am particularly interested in feedback on this case study.

San Francisco 158

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment SEC 158

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

ICAS® can then be scaled up across the customer’s portfolio bringing enterprise-wide benefits. ICAS® will give customers real visibility over their project, its metrics and progress – ultimately better serving their needs. His specific expertise is in Information Communications Technologies and Software Systems Integration.

Technical Review 110

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2021

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. Now repeat this across many, many metrics, for many dimensions, in the three clusters you see above. You have the start of a fabulous in-flight optimization engine.

Analytics 131

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Nowadays nearly every online shop utilizes some sort of product recommendation engine, which is no wonder, as these systems, if set up and configured properly can significantly boost revenues, CTRs, conversions, and other important metrics. What is a recommendation engine, exactly? How Recommendation Engines Benefit Sites.

Conversion 48

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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

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 18, 2011

Jeff Clavier was the first tech investor I ever met; he was introduced to me years ago by some hip engineers in a bar as "one of the few cool VCs." My notes from his very informative presentation are below. key metrics or a dashboard showing how you've made progress in whatever the key metrics for your business are.

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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. Good metrics should also be actionable, and drive successful behavior. In a follow up post, I will use this technique to walk through the design of a set of metrics for a SaaS company.

Metrics 55

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

Before graduating, I decided to forgo the finance path and instead dove into engineering and later sales and product management roles at VersaSuite (health IT) in Austin. We invest in protocols that meet our quantitative and qualitative metrics. 3) Rebalancing — we rebalance portfolios monthly. We were infatuated with tech.

Technical Review 48

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

That means: All of these metrics are off. Start with models like Time Decay and Position Based to understand what the conversion portfolio might look like (last two columns above) and create hypotheses about what a better budget allocation might look like. It's just missing information I can't use? Rinse and repeat.

Analytics 124

Analytics Channel Metrics Web 124

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

and suddenly your voices/words will have 10x more confidence informed by real-world usage. 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. Awesome, right? That's ok.

Analytics 60

Analytics Metrics eCommerce PPC 60

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

My macro goal is to make you dangerously informed. The outcome in either scenario is a restructuring of the organization that is exquisitely geared towards taking advantage of portfolio optimization. You can even get great first-step guidance about how to rebalance your portfolio from that last column. From a Venn -diagram.

Channel 161

Channel Analytics Campaign Conversion 161

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Rather than depending just on SEO, marketers will need to optimize picture sitemaps and employ descriptive filenames for photos that are identified by search engines. You can create an application that analyzes a large quantity of data that provides vital information and helps in the decision-making process for real estate market players.

Artificial Inteligence 106

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

So, Google (and other search engines) are highly unlikely to penalize for A/B testing. Search engines don’t penalize them because that unique content is only found on their domain and no where else. You know all about vanity metrics , and how you shouldn’t be obsessed with them. today host the same content in different formats.

SEO 48

SEO Technical Review Algorithm Jacksonville 48

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

And to combine all that information, it’s just not practical. Edwin: Yes, the challenge that I have is the product does a lot of stuff, it does meetings, and it organizes information. And same with all information in one tool and one place. So you have this cross- filtering or cross-information.

Technical Cofounder 220

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

Because every tool uses its own sweet metrics definitions, cookie rules, session start and end rules and so much more. If you don't kill 25% of your metrics each year, you are doing something wrong. Allow me to point out that only 50% of the metrics I love exist in clickstream tools - like webtrends or xiti or unica.

Analytics 118

Analytics Web Metrics Channel 118

ConversionXL

AUGUST 2, 2017

Being metrics and business outcome focused throughout a product’s lifecycle is important to us, and using Amplitude allows us to measure and achieve our goals in that regard.”. Do we have the right information and skills to deliver this? Make a cheat sheet for them – 1 page with all the information.

Channel 84

Channel Partner Programming B2B 84

Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

Its job is also to provide information to people who want to learn and then call your phone center to buy. Here's your online data: You are capturing the above information using your web log based or javascript tag based web analytics tool. Or just submit a lead and have you call them. Well just assume. :). Nice ain't it?

Analytics 116

Analytics Conversion Campaign Redemption 116

ConversionXL

AUGUST 2, 2017

Being metrics and business outcome focused throughout a product’s lifecycle is important to us, and using Amplitude allows us to measure and achieve our goals in that regard.”. Do we have the right information and skills to deliver this? Make a cheat sheet for them – 1 page with all the information.

Channel 77

Channel Partner Programming B2B 77

Occam's Razor

APRIL 29, 2013

Many used some data, but they unfortunately used silly data strategies/metrics. And silly simply because as soon as the strategy/success metric being obsessed about was mentioned, it was clear they would fail. It is a really good metric. There are many spectacular reasons for why Like (and +1s, Followers) is a horrible metric.

Metrics 166

Metrics Marketing Search SEO 166

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 6, 2018

with the portfolio to show for it. but most informative?—?presentation. All metrics were revealed. And then Rafa Pereira, our Director of Software Engineering, really pushed us to embrace OKRs three quarters ago. in our Series A. First Round has been an incredible partner in our journey from startup to public company.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 15, 2020

They’re probably telling themselves that this is by design—that it’s part of a “portfolio management” strategy in which you accept lower performance from a (large) number of campaigns but balance that with higher returns from other areas. Optimize for the right metrics. It sounds good in principle (and actually used to work that way).

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Artificial Inteligence SQL Algorithm Metrics 99

500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

For many early-stage companies still working on their product or developing customers, most of their challenges do not require large amounts of capital nearly as much as they require expertise – particularly in engineering, design, and marketing. Why should VCs be any different?

Silicon Valley 74

Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

Start Up Blog

AUGUST 15, 2019

The Google Page Rank: Sergey & Larry said; ‘Yo, businesses out there, we are different to Yahoo and other searches engines (there used to be many). I wouldn’t be surprised if they launch an Instagram Influencers dashboard with metrics in the back end to control the money flows in the Influencer economy. Get on board.

Channel 48

Channel Portfolio Metrics Search 48

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Everything you needed to find information about startups. Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Rovi API has everything you need for information. Generate album/movie information on the fly! t need persistant information. Google Custom Search Engine. Google App Engine. But thatâ??s

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

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. We got everything from price comparison engines to aggregated user reviews to one-click checkout. A Lightspeed Portfolio company.

Internet 113

Internet eCommerce Advertising Flash 113

Hunter Walker

JULY 29, 2017

I was a market maker, so it was my job to build models to derive fair value for certain types of emerging market equity derivatives; it’s a fast-paced environment with incomplete information. In 2011, the market became less hectic and I started getting interested in pricing private companies—even less information!

Social Media 82

Social Media Campaign Media Marketing 82

VC Adventure

JUNE 8, 2010

As a quant-geek myself, I really appreciated what went into the design of their systems that would allow them to surface these operating metrics so easily (not to mention the mindset of Rodney and Mike to insist that they had access to this information at all times). Love your data. They’ll love you back!

Metrics 78

Metrics Database Cofounder Portfolio 78

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Running WP Engine takes all my time. I’m racing gazelle-like through an inbox bristling with questions and information actually related to my Real Job, and you’ve thrown up a roadblock. Most of the email is truly spam. But even for the legit stuff, the problem is time. The joke is: How much time does a startup take?

Internet 270

Internet Email Engineer Web 270

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 4, 2013

And that’s not to mention the advice for very early-stage companies on topics like getting your first users, or choosing metrics. If you already know the topics that interest you, you can browse all the talks and events on that theme—whether it’s MVPs, Analytics, or Education—on our “ sessions by theme ” page.

Lean 167

Lean San Francisco Conversion Startup 167

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2014

An example is: "We should add these 80 keywords to our PPC portfolio with a max bid of $14." All standard reports are simply the vendor engineer's attempt to showcase the data in the tool. the instinctive response of the Squirrels is to go grab the most obvious metrics and start partying. " Kisses.

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Analytics Web Metrics DC 140