SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. Many of these founders have talked with several developers or development firms about their plans. What are your key Startup Metrics ? Search - is there search? Other types of users?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

And then in the late 90’s money crept in, swept in to town by public markets, instant wealth and an absurd sky-rocketing of valuations based on no reasonable metrics. During this era, from 2009–2015, most founders I knew were in it for building great & sustainable companies.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 11, 2022

Why Call Tracking Metrics Matter To Your Marketing Efforts written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Husband and wife co-founders, Todd and Laure Fisher founded CallTrackingMetrics in 2011 in their basement and together have grown it into an Inc. Marketing Podcast with Todd and Laure Fisher. This is John Jantsch.

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Metrics Marketing Software Review Cofounder 84

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2023

Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Hire a professional marketing and public relations agency once you have a good revenue stream but you don’t need them to start a free blog, establish Facebook and Twitter accounts with initial content and complete the basics of search engine optimization.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2010

Show me how much each unique visitor is going to cost you in search engine optimization and pay-per-click search engine expense. And it’s surprising how few startup founders think in those terms. Part of those questions are around Startup Metrics. Good founders will have ideas about all of these at a fine grain.

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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]. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

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Technical Cofounder Southern California Search Engineer 150

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. Image and Video Packs: Rows of images or videos related to the search query.

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SEO Technical Review HTML Software Review 78

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Ego Metrics: What Measurements Matter? The problem is that some of these metrics aren’t meaningful. In fact, some of the most visible metrics are the most misleading. This is possibly the most visible metric in social media, but many of those followers are inactive or even inhuman robots. So what metrics really matter?

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Metrics Social Media Widget Chicago 71

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2020

Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Hire a professional marketing and public relations agency once you have a good revenue stream but you don’t need them to start a free blog, establish Facebook and Twitter accounts with initial content and complete the basics of search engine optimization.

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Burn Rate Hockey Stick Salary Angel Investor 310

The Startup Magazine

JULY 21, 2021

Kevin Wu, co-founder and CEO of job search optimization program Pathrise , says “Digital marketer roles are some of the most in-demand positions in the tech industry.” SEO – Search Engine Optimization for Online Marketing Concept. These search engine optimization (SEO) skills are absolutely essential for digital marketers.

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Technical Review PPC SEM Marketing 148

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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Metrics San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 167

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Jeff Katzenberg has a great track record – head of the studio at Paramount, chairman of Disney Studios, co-founder of DreamWorks and now chairman of NewTV. Tech IPO prices exploded and subsequent trading prices rose to dizzying heights as the stock prices became disconnected from the traditional metrics of revenue and profits.

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Lean Burn Rate Startup IPO 335

View from Seed

MARCH 1, 2016

Trying to recruit a co-founder or key-employee? Search lights would pass right through where the statue used to stand. Because of insights A/B/C, if we build D/E/F, we’ll grow fast in markets J/K/L, and you’ll know we’re on the right path because of metrics that look like X/Y/Z.” Go Forth and Story Tell.

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Founder Technical Review Cofounder Non-Compete 120

VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Most startups equate the process of fundraising to dating – founders have to typically kiss a lot of frogs until the find the right fit. A lightweight “agent” with access to logs and metrics can, to start, retrieve relevant information (e.g. trillion by 2030. and generate a post mortem.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review Generative AI 177

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 18, 2018

by Jamie FitzHenry, founder of Grizzly. 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. This is not the same.

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SEO Startup Metrics Engineer 100

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

GrowthHackers founder and former Head of Growth at Dropbox, Sean Ellis , coined the term: “A growth hacker is a person whose true north is growth. In his course on Growth Mindset (part of CXL’s Growth Marketing Minidegree ), WeTheFuture.org founder John McBride describes three key components of a successful growth marketer: 1.

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Retention Marketing Acquisition Channel 113

The Startup Magazine

JULY 21, 2021

Kevin Wu, co-founder and CEO of job search optimization program Pathrise , says “Digital marketer roles are some of the most in-demand positions in the tech industry.” SEO – Search Engine Optimization for Online Marketing Concept. These search engine optimization (SEO) skills are absolutely essential for digital marketers.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review PPC SEM Marketing 78

SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

Yesterday, I was talking to a startup founder about their MVP and they said something that finally got me to write this post: "I have a few investors interested but they want to see a product." If you do build the MVP and show it to them, they will ask you about your metrics. They really want metrics, not a product.

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Algorithm Metrics Viral Venture Capital 264

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Hire a professional marketing and public relations agency once you have a good revenue stream but you don’t need them to start a free blog, establish Facebook and Twitter accounts with initial content and complete the basics of search engine optimization.

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Burn Rate Hockey Stick Startup Salary 223

YoungUpstarts

JULY 9, 2019

by Christian Carere, founder of Digital Ducats Inc. The websites that have been around longer than you have the advantage of having earned more trust with the search engines (provided they haven’t been penalized for less than scrupulous web practices). Optimize for voice search. Compete for the featured snippet.

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Search Engineer Metrics SEO 127

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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Metrics Social Media Viral Technical Review 77

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Gavin Braman, Co-Founder @ Drifting Creatives. Just like Peep, other marketers from hypergrown products, such as David Cancel (founder at Drift) argue that product-based differentiation is vanishing. This defines how to connect problem themes to a metric strategy, building a metric-driven action system. How will you act?

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B2B Marketing Curation PPC 94

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Mastering SEO in the Age of AI written by Tosin Jerugba read more at Duct Tape Marketing  The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Stephan Spencer, an acclaimed SEO expert and founder of net Concepts, an interactive agency specializing in search engine optimization.

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SEO ChatGPT Technical Review Search 60

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Cashflow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Hire a professional marketing and public relations agency once you have a good revenue stream but you don’t need them to start a free blog, establish Facebook and Twitter accounts with initial content and complete the basics of search engine optimization.

Burn Rate 262

Burn Rate Hockey Stick Entrepreneur Salary 262

Eric Friedman

MAY 2, 2019

I have been working with early stage founders on sharing their narrative and story with others. One thing that stands out more than anything else is the ability to share their story arc in the context of a metric that they own. This metric became synonymous with Foursquare in the early days, now within Swarm, but the lesson was clear.

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Metrics Early Stage Internet Engineer 68

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 8, 2009

A post by Fred Wilson pointed me to Dave McClure's Startup Metrics presentation. Normally, when I am talking to the founder of any startup trying to figure out what they need to do, one of the things I always try to do is understand their business at its core. Define what you need from a metrics and reporting standpoint.

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Metrics Startup Retention Acquisition 225

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 31, 2017

While retention is probably the most important metric these organizations track, good CSMs don’t focus on renewal alone. Additional metrics beyond engagement and retention might include net promoter score (a customer’s likelihood to make a referral), actual referrals made, and willingness to serve as a reference.

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Customer Retention Software Review Metrics 171

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

and co-founder Dr. Paolo Coppola, and two years later the company was sold to CityMD––the leading urgent care provider in the New York metro area––after its rapid growth saw the company receive a compelling acquisition offer even sooner than anticipated.

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Private Equity Equity Technical Review Software Review 165

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Metrics like Return on Net Assets, Return on Capital and Internal Rate of Return are the guiding stars of the board and CEO. As Harvard professor Clayton Christensen noted, these efficiency metrics provided wise guidance for times when capital was scarce and raising money was hard. This never ends well. And if you do you are in luck.

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Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 326

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 7, 2016

Founders soon learn that customers only spend real money for solutions rather than ideas. Google , for example, was not the first Internet search provider (think Yahoo!, AltaVista, InfoSeek and others), but according to Investopedia , Google was the first to really monetize search. billion in 2015.

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Technical Review Architecture Agile Business Model 120

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, July 9, 2010 Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# theory of management At any given time, something like four percent of the US population is engaged in some form of new-company-creation. Are we solving the right problem? We can do better by focusing on process instead of personality.

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San Francisco Management Founder Lean 161

Up and Running

MAY 15, 2014

As an entrepreneur raised in the era of analytics, I want to find metrics for everything. When I was going through the co-founder “dating” process, I’d found a potential partner through my network who seemed to be perfect. The problem is that this is harder to do than it sounds. Finding the right business partner for me.

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Partner Cofounder Equity Metrics 113

ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

For this article, let’s consider just two metrics—an engagement metric—social shares and an SEO metric—keyword rank. Shares are often considered a ‘vanity metric’ in the sense they don’t always directly help a business generate more revenue. Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Generally posts have a short shelf life.

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SEO Metrics Social Media Audience 163

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2016

It must be written down, with measurable team objectives, validated by metrics and compared against competition. Many startup founders are great at putting out fires at the expense of urgent customer priorities. A mission of superior customer service is more than words in the board room or words in front of customers.

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Customer Technical Review Differentiation Metrics 120

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Hire a professional marketing and public relations agency once you have a good revenue stream but you don’t need them to start a free blog, establish Facebook and Twitter accounts with initial content and complete the basics of search engine optimization.

Burn Rate 120

Burn Rate Hockey Stick Startup Salary 120

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

by Hannah Sieber, co-founder and COO of EcoFlow Tech. For example, you can see if they landed on your page from Forbes.com, their search browser or your website. On the flip side, looking at your conversion rate is a great metric, but that doesn’t factor the cost you pay to acquire each consumer (COA).

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Campaign San Francisco Technical Review Flash 145

Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2010

The role of a founding CEO in a startup searching for a business model is radically different than a CEO building and growing a company. So if you’re the founder of a startup, you may want to consider who you take money from. Is Your VC Founder Friendly? How many of their founders are still with their company?

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