Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, December 23, 2009 Why vanity metrics are dangerous In a previous post, I defined two kinds of metrics: vanity metrics and actionable metrics. In this post, Id like to talk about the perils of vanity metrics. My personal favorite vanity metrics is "hits."

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Up and Running

MAY 3, 2021

To answer this question, you need to have a set of metrics that give you a clear picture of what’s going on in your business. Likewise, your website , the digital representation of your business, and the means through which people find you and connect with you, also needs to have metrics in place to know how it’s doing. Site speed.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

The same lesson applies to our daily life of data and metrics. If a metric is important enough to watch it every day, and to act if its behavior deviates from expectation, then it’s important enough to be double-checked. We had been flying for four hours, but both gas gauges still read “full.”

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Kevin Federline Search Engine Just saw a post - Sleep with a pop star, get your own branded search engine. talking about Prodeges Search with Kevin Site - [link]. I actually think this is a pretty innovative model. in Computer Science.

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Mucker Lab

JULY 11, 2023

Understanding the Search Engine Results Page (SERP) A good way to think about search is essentially as roadmaps drawn by targeted keywords, which branches outward to create intersections that become digital real estate - websites, media, ads, and more. High authority often leads to higher search engine rankings.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2020

Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. Investors check your burn rate to assess your efficiency, and project your remaining runway before you run out of money and into a brick wall.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2022

But it is an important metric for firms in pursuit of explosive growth. Tech companies see engineers move frequently, integrate their products tightly, and often find themselves acquiring or merging with counterparts. Raising capital isn’t the be-all and end-all of startup success. It decreases your odds of being bought.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 21, 2021

SEO – Search Engine Optimization for Online Marketing Concept. Next, they optimize the content with keywords to rank highly in the Google search engine results page (SERP). These search engine optimization (SEO) skills are absolutely essential for digital marketers. Is it any wonder they’re essential?

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This isn’t just our opinion - our startup metrics prove it! To get to what’s right for you, you need a tech partner with a deep understanding of your business needs, software development experience, data engineering skills and AI expertise. Everyone struggles with empty text boxes. It means wasted advertising spend and lost goodwill.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

As with most platforms, there are metrics that matter, and vanity metrics. With YouTube, for organic, average view duration (AVD) and click-through rate (CTR) should be prioritized over YouTube search optimization, descriptions, tags, and other vanity metrics. Both metrics represent high engagement.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 26, 2020

Connected car devices can help you measure engine performance, fuel efficiency, fluid levels, and other metrics that can give you insights into a vehicle’s condition. 2) Measure Every Metric that Can Be Measured. You really can’t measure too many metrics when it comes to keeping your fleet vehicles in great condition.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Its a nice complement on the product engineering side to his customer development methodology.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

An SEO audit is simply the process of identifying issues on your website that could be limiting your ability to rank on Google or other search engines. A poor site experience makes it less visible in search engines. Metrics : Website visitor data. What is an SEO audit? Why do an SEO audit? Cost: Free. Google Search Console.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 18, 2018

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) can be challenging for many businesses, however it can be even more puzzling for startups. If your business is only ranking on page 4 or 5 on a search engine, it is practically guaranteed that valuable leads are not finding you. Search engines will then only index that one page.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. This engineering manager is a smart guy, and very experienced.

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Up and Running

JULY 6, 2021

These black hat strategies pushed irrelevant content up the search engine results pages, which made Google act in the form of the Penguin update. The update caused their rankings to tank or their websites failing to show up on search engines at all. With Google, check Google Search Console and look for warnings in the message menu.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2016

The single most important SaaS metric is retention , because cancellations indicate lack of product/market fit, no matter the cause (price, features, severity of need, duration of need). If it cannot be fixed, it means the business is a failure even if other metrics are stellar. Once you’re scaling (i.e. Once you’re scaling (i.e.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Automated Root Cause Analysis – there’s an opportunity for automated root cause analysis to substantially improve incident resolution time, and the experience for engineers. A lightweight “agent” with access to logs and metrics can, to start, retrieve relevant information (e.g.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. Investors check your burn rate to assess your efficiency, and project your remaining runway before you run out of money and into a brick wall.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2016

If you’re moving slowly or have yet to implement search engine optimization (SEO) strategies as part of your overall marketing efforts, you’re falling behind your competitors. Once we settled on a defined conversion, it was much easier to make decisions and look at comparative metrics. Image Source: SEO Linkbuilding.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Because you already thought about success metrics in the planning stage, you should be ready to measure whether or not it was successful. Tools that will help with this include those that surface sales and ops metrics. Planning measurement, and reflection are important steps to ensure success.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 30, 2017

Although there are many different actions you can take to gain search engine recognition, content creation is the one with the most staying power. Similarly, you can update the old post for even longer on-page time metrics, as well as more recognition from Google Search. Consider Outsourcing Your Content.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

It starts with setting goals and then tracking your website performance metrics. For those who aren’t sure where to start, use this useful guide to help you accurately track performance metrics. Know which metrics to watch. How can you know how to track your performance metrics if you don’t know which ones to watch?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 23, 2013

These are the first six key metrics non-robots must track to understand Facebook Page performance, why you need them and where to find them. #1: The fan reach metric is not available in the Facebook statistics interface; that would be way too easy for hard working marketers like us, right? 1: Fan Reach. Here’s the scoop-.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 21, 2021

SEO – Search Engine Optimization for Online Marketing Concept. Next, they optimize the content with keywords to rank highly in the Google search engine results page (SERP). These search engine optimization (SEO) skills are absolutely essential for digital marketers. Is it any wonder they’re essential?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2019

In the first post , we drilled down into the often-overlooked notion of “market-engineering” and why it’s so critical. And given the paucity of business metrics at this point in a startup’s lifecycle, spreadsheet analysis is of little help. As you develop your product, you must concurrently invest in market-engineering tasks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2019

It has proven to be a huge customer growth engine, and now has over 100 million members globally. Incorporate AI-powered data and metrics systems. For example, when delivery costs and delays were still a major online sales hurdle, Amazon Prime membership was invented to offer free next day shipping.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 24, 2019

The reason is that b2b fundraising is largely driven by data and metrics, and pre-seed dollars usually don’t get you to many meaningful data points. Most series A’s in B2B require a minimum level of top line revenue and a minimum amount of historical data to prove retention and some sort of repeatable growth engine.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

But it is an important metric for firms in pursuit of explosive growth. Tech companies see engineers move frequently, integrate their products tightly, and often find themselves acquiring or merging with counterparts. Raising capital isn’t the be-all and end-all of startup success. It decreases your odds of being bought.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

This is the fourth article in a series on novel ideas for SaaS metrics, which started with The unprofitable SaaS business model trap , COC: a new metric for cancellations , and The mistake of 1/c in LTV. I like this model, and we’ve used it to-date at WP Engine. Here’s a way to do it.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2013

Through rapid experimentation, short product development cycles, and rigorous measurements of the right metrics, they can ascertain what customers really want. Through learning milestones approximated to stages of a company’s development, one could achieve positive improvements in a it’s core metrics.

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David Teten

MAY 20, 2016

My colleague Sebastian Soler, software engineer at ff Venture Capital, is leading the launch of a new Meetup with me. Engineers, product managers, and platform managers building tech solutions for private market investing. I asked him to write a guest post: Hi! We posted on our site a more in-depth overview of ff’s Tech Platform.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 21, 2021

In addition to enjoying hyper-targeted localization and a better return on your marketing investment, you get to track metrics. It’s also worth paying attention to movement in the use of data visualization tools, native advertising, local search engine optimization, influencer marketing, and user-generated content. Live Video Content.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2017

The other departments gave the same type of logistical answers; the product-marketing department, for example, said their job was to get the product specs from engineering and write data sheets. Help Engineering understand customer needs. And the results weren’t the traditional PR metrics of number of articles or inches of ink.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 24, 2024

It is a quantified metric that focuses on the speed of turning prospects into customers. Focus on Creating Content That Drives Pipeline Forward High-quality content is a powerful engine for attracting, nurturing, and converting leads – supercharging that pipeline velocity. rank higher in search engine results.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Without it, the page will take longer to load, which can damage the user experience and, ultimately, search engine rankings. More recently, Google Search Console rolled out a Core Web Vitals section, which tracks a set of website performance metrics that focus on user experience. Image source ). Measure your server response time.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

My good friend Alexander Osterwalder , the inventor of the business model canvas (one of foundations of the Lean Methodology) has written a playbook (along with his associate partner Tendayi Viki ,) From Innovation Theater to Growth Engine to explain how to build and implement repeatable innovation processes inside a company. .

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