Up and Running

MAY 10, 2021

The engineers can produce various models in a matter of seconds. Simply research the company with its portfolio. What metrics are you tracking? Simply because the consumers love it. Today, AR and VR are increasingly used in gaming, hi-tech shop displays, healthcare, entertainment, and more. Suppose you want to design a room.

Artificial Inteligence 150

Artificial Inteligence Developer Development Team Review Mobile 150

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

The Yin and Yang of Product and Engineering - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 22, 2010 For a tech company, product and engineering are the heart and soul of the business. Last week I was having coffee with an ex engineering student of mine now on his second startup (and for a change it wasn’t a Web 2.0 Here’s why.

Fractional CTO 248

Fractional CTO Startup Venture Capital Cofounder 248

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. VCs crave the ability to help portfolio companies. You may know how much to pay in cash or equity for your new VP Engineering. Always seek input.

Advisory Board 365

Advisory Board CTO Hire Fractional CTO Los Angeles 365

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

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. You'd only need your iPhone to manage this content and analyze these metrics so you can work anywhere else in the world as long as there is an internet.

Software Review 114

Software Review Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur 114

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. ” Historically, investing was a manual, artisan process. VC Firm. $ Tech % of workforce.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

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. The first thing that started to change our minds was the team – Giacomo , Hadi , and Darius.

Portfolio 115

Portfolio Partner Algorithm eCommerce 115

View from Seed

JULY 14, 2020

Today, one of our most recent portfolio companies, Opus , announced its rebrand as well as their $2M seed round. When we first met Rachael Nemeth and learned about Opus, we were impressed both by the product engagement metrics and her product insights around the best way to deliver high-impact training to frontline workers.

Portfolio 177

Portfolio Leadership Metrics Employee 177

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

Management Product Technical Review Software Review 85

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

As an analyst, I was upset that this change would hurt my ability to analyze the effectiveness of my beloved search engine optimization (SEO) efforts – which are really all about finding the right users using optimal content strategies. We are headed towards having zero referring keywords from Google and, perhaps, other search engines.

Search 154

Search SEO Analytics Engineer 154

View from Seed

JUNE 5, 2018

Last week, we hosted our very first portfolio-only Hiring Bootcamp in NYC, led by NextView’s talent advisor Kristen Caldwell. Intense discussion on what are the right metrics to track around recruiting. Metrics, metrics, and metrics! Without metrics you cannot manage (and improve).

Hiring 120

Hiring Portfolio Metrics B2C 120

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

Metrics Design Entrepreneur Startup 55

YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2019

What makes it such a game-changer is that it provides target metrics, strategies and tactics that early stage startups can use to guide them through the crucial go-to-market phase. Market-Engineering. So, what is ”market-engineering”? But to win the hand, you must also be able to engineer a market for it.

Cleveland 196

Cleveland Early Stage Framework Startup 196

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

kaChing launched a virtual portfolio management game on Facebook in January 2008 and a similar version shortly thereafter on kaChing.com. Because kaChing prefers its portfolio managers to have a long track record, the marketplace launch (i.e., A portfolio manager’s entire track record & holdings had to be disclosed.

San Francisco 158

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment SEC 158

Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

To move innovation faster, we now have 21 st century tools — Business Model Canvas , Customer Development , Agile Engineering – all adding up to a Lean Startup. Lean is The Engine for the Ambidextrous Organization. Fast forward to today. We can adapt these startup tools for use inside the corporation. Get to Yes.

Lean 120

Lean Management Business Model Incubator 120

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

Analytics Artificial Inteligence Algorithm Campaign 131

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." key metrics or a dashboard showing how you've made progress in whatever the key metrics for your business are. You should do your own due diligence on the investors.

Investment Bankers 153

Investment Bankers Technical Review Cofounder Due Diligence 153

Cracking the Code

MARCH 24, 2015

We were fortunate to host very talented speakers from our portfolio (Ilya Sukhar from FB/Parse, Steve Marx from Dropbox, Bill Ready from Braintree, Ali Rayl from Slack, Eric Wittman from Atlassian, Sam Mac Donnell from HotelTonight.)

API 48

API Fractional CTO CTO Hire San Francisco 48

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

Analytics Hiring SQL Forecast 149

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

Conversion Product Technical Review Widget 48

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

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Austin 48

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

This structure allows for alignment on the front end, and real-time flexibility for performance metrics,” says Samira Salman , a family office investor and advisor. . Flexible VCs have created structures based on other company performance metrics than revenues, such as profits or founder salaries. Flexible VC 102: Variations.

Cofounder 78

Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Good whitepaper on advertising measurement metrics | by Ben Kunz – crowdspring.co/HsVIMR. Good whitepaper on advertising measurement metrics | by Ben Kunz – crowdspring.co/HsVIMR. Uber — What’s Fueling Uber’s Growth Engine? Good whitepaper on advertising measurement metrics – crowdspring.co/HsVIMR.

Social Media 94

Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 2, 2013

Like everything in life, you want a balanced portfolio (left). On top of the graph click on Select A Metric and choose Goal Conversion Rate. It has unique built in drill-downs, customized metrics that give you the ability to deeply analyze mobile data by devices, search behavior and content content consumption (click on each tab).

Analytics 159

Analytics Search Campaign eCommerce 159

Version One Ventures

JANUARY 14, 2020

One topic that I’m excited to dig into deeper is KPIs / metrics. Specifically, one approach is applying Kaplan-Meier (KM) curves to see how trailing metrics like conversion rates are trending over time vs. waiting for a fixed period (60, 90, 120 days etc.) The first example is looking at our in flight metrics (e.g.

Metrics 87

Metrics Framework .Net Conversion 87

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

Technical Review Venture Capital Russia China 165

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

What guidance for your portfolio companies? I think every company’s portfolio is different, so they’re all different sizes, different stages, different geographies, different cash positions, and different market leadership positions. . I will say the one thing we tell all our portfolio companies is to get fit and lean in.

Partner 132

Partner Cofounder Retention Acquisition 132

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 10, 2013

The critical metrics for each stage of your SaaS business | by Lars Lofrgren – [link]. Reverse Engineering Your Startup’s Success - [link]. 6 Interesting Facebook Tricks You Might Not Know | Search Engine Journal – [link]. 15 Beautiful and Awesome Examples of Portfolio Designs | Silky Designs – [link].

Social Media 93

Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

SVPG

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Portfolio Thinking = Portfolio Grooming. Metrics = KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators). ” Eric associates the term prototype with the engineering perspective, where a prototype is mainly about assessing technical feasibility. Large Batch = Big Bang/Waterfall. Early Adopters = Earlyvangelists.

Lean 63

Lean Stealth Portfolio Engineer 63

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. They may also target ads to specific audiences and track real-time metrics like views, clicks and demographics. The value of image alt-text is growing exponentially.

Artificial Inteligence 106

Artificial Inteligence Software Review Technical Review Entrepreneur 106

Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

Across our portfolio and in my own entrepreneurial experience, I have seen three main sales models work successfully in scaling B2B sales: 1) Enterprise; 2) Telephone; and 3) Developer-driven. To that point, a well-run telesales operation will be super metrics-driven. 3) Developer Driven Sales. Related articles. Scaling is Hard.

Sales 50

Sales Technical Review Software Review B2B 50

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 Jacksonville Algorithm 48

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 11, 2015

You hear about the proverbial Silicon Valley VC who cuts bait in tough times and moves on to other, less problematic portfolio companies. We brought on Nanea Reeves as President to shore up quality on the product, engineering and ops side. That’s not Matt. He’s a gentleman.

Silicon Valley 150

Silicon Valley Los Angeles San Francisco Portfolio 150

abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

I immediately reached out to the founder and CEO, Katrina Lake , who had previously worked for another Benchmark portfolio company in the fashion space, Polyvore. For starters, the business metrics are quite compelling. Lastly, I asked a few women that were not customers to try the service.

eCommerce 62

eCommerce Technical Review North America San Francisco 62

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Key Takeaways Embark on a transformative journey with Ryan Deiss in this Duct Tape Marketing Podcast episode, where he unveils strategies unlock scalable business growth, gain insights into the power of value engines, strategic rhythms, and high-output teams. 07:42] How many value engines are needed to run a business? [09:07]

Engineer 70

Engineer Software Review Operations Founder 70

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2013

They’re using metrics that are often unworkable in the current business environment, causing growing businesses to look elsewhere for capital and increasingly towards alternative forms of financing. Another is Google Ventures, which works with portfolio companies full-time on design, recruiting, marketing, and engineering.

Advisory Board 229

Advisory Board Entrepreneur Portland Oregon 229

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

It’s this elusive quality that helps organizations achieve more volume and value in their innovation portfolio. Be careful not to over-engineer that discipline and measurement, but you can’t improve what you can’t measure! But innovation comes in many other forms and should be thought of in a portfolio fashion.

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Government Channel Metrics Portfolio 100