500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

One other firm that doesn’t always get a lot of popular acclaim but has a ton of operational expertise & widely global reach is Rocket Internet. Scaling Up & Out: The Valley is Flat (and Global). And of course then there is our own fund, 500 Startups. Why should VCs be any different?

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 8, 2009

He thinks as far as he offers an ERP on a monthly basis with a web interface, then he's offering cloud computing. Portfolio. (3). SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Global warming: a plague for humanity? Global Warning! Labels: SaaS , software , Venture Capital. 1 comment: 3DX. Post a Comment.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 23, 2008

In addition, Cardo got a lot of press for this initiative - so, overall great PR at minimal cost and this shows how web 2.0 Portfolio. (3). SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Global warming: a plague for humanity? Global Warning! but it also shows the power of "Sticky" ideas. anecdotes. (13).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine. In 1997, the year the Kauffman Report begins its analysis; there were 70 million users online globally.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

on a global stage) and specifically the Bay Area (within the U.S.) Now that everyone knows the stakes of a Facebook-like outcome, there’s more money looking to fund and fuel web-scale network-effect businesses. I am expecting a downturn at some point. Maybe it will be 2019, or 2020 — or even 2021.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 23, 2007

Popular Media is a hosted, web-based technology platform that enables customers to quickly create, optimize, and scale viral marketing programs - and it seems to work pretty well. Portfolio. (3). SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Global warming: a plague for humanity? Global Warning! anecdotes. (13).

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

There are more mistruths and F U D about Web analytics out there than I think is reasonable. Web Analytics, this beautiful child, was born just the other day in the midst of tumultuous times, quite literally, when everything changes every day. The web is changing too fast. Here are ten web analytics ground truths… 1.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Antonio has a portfolio of Web-based business process management applications for small businesses with 10-100 employees. Cristina currently has a couple of large customers in pilot mode, and is starting to show metrics on how much improvement IDES can deliver over existing analytics engines.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Overall, I spent about 1/3 of my time looking at Web 2.0 " Become.com is a search engine designed to help consumers searching for products on the web. William Smith -- Overview of Become.com [link] Become.com is a comparison search engine designed to help consumers doing product research on the web. Portfolio. (3).

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 28, 2006

Foo Casts: Podcasts from OReilly & Friends : A 30mn peak into the Web 2.0 Portfolio. (3). SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Global warming: a plague for humanity? Global Warning! More consumer oriented than WSJ - a nice complement. Recent interviews include Jack Ma, Eric Schmidt and Jeff Bezos.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

Labels: internet , Portfolio. Portfolio. (3). SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Global warming: a plague for humanity? Global Warning! on a scale of 1-4). The videos can be watched at Bessemer Online Marketing Portal (the other materials are not public). Posted by Philippe Botteri. at 8:53 PM.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

We'll start with digital at the highest strategic level, which leads us into content marketing, from there it is a quick hop over to the challenge of metrics and silos, followed by a recommendation to optimize for the global maxima, and we end with the last two visuals that cover social investment and social content strategy.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 11, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The Most Important Marketing Metrics – Duct Tape Marketing – [link]. The Most Important Marketing Metrics – Duct Tape Marketing – [link].

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Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

My solution to these problems was to create a simple framework we can use to put our customers first, evaluate our marketing programs, and right-align our view of success (metrics). Identify gaps in our content/engagement/channel strategy on the web, 2. I believe it has to do with choosing the wrong success metrics.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

To ensure customer delight was delivered in a timely manner, it was also decided that Average Call Time (ACT) would now be The success metric. The success metric, ACT, did go down. That ACT was an activity metric was terrible – if you have a The success metric, it should always be an outcome metric. Another issue.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Step 1: Optimal Metrics. You'll find it here: Digital Metrics Ladder of Awesomeness. The metrics ladder lays out a path that will get you there, step by step while ensure your org is coming along with you. Step 1: Optimal Metrics. Tough metrics. Smart metrics. Wait, Wait, What the Heck is Attribution?

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Occam's Razor

MAY 19, 2014

But the problem is that single golden metrics hide valuable insights and, more often than not, drive bad behavior. Here's my proposal: If you are pushed to have a single golden metric, give it a partner. The BFF metric you find should not be one that is very far away. So, great metric. Honestly, who can blame them.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 20, 2018

NorthSide Metrics is a digital marketing agency based in the Chicagoland area. The colors + location were combined with my love of data to bring in the metrics. I had a few variations of the name and after asking 3-5 people which they liked or hated I ended up settling in on NorthSide Metrics. Thanks to Ebooks4fashion ! #6-

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Cracking the Code

MAY 25, 2010

Portfolio. (3). SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Global warming: a plague for humanity? Global Warning! anecdotes. (13). Cloud Computing. (1). Europe Consumer. (1). Favorite Podcasts. (1). internet. (6). McKinsey highlights. (1). Online Gaming. (1). sales and marketing. (10). Small and medium businesses. (2).

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Don’t test for a vanity metric. The individual is ignoring varied influence across product portfolios, seasonality, diminishing returns, changes in the audience, and a million other things. Global maxima, FTW. You start building out global partnerships across the company and its complexity, and start working on scaled processes.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

We wanted a name that sounded studious and statistical, and was one or two short words — and, the name should reflect our business, which was mainly reporting on the performance of apartment properties, submarkets, markets and portfolios. “We After looking at many extensions, we came up with the word ‘metrics.’

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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. Our sponsors include companies like Intuit, O’Reilly Media and Amazon Web Services. You’ll launch a startup in 54 hours, creating mobile, web and software innovations with a team of fellow participants.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Effectively measuring and understanding your CAC and CLTV metrics are key to future success. Keep up the blogging and web casts and we will keep listening and growing. Bessemer SaaS Law #1: Your key monthly business metrics are: CMRR (Committed Monthly Recurring Revenue), Churn, and Cash flow - “Bookings” is for suckers.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 19, 2021

Obviously, both founders and investors prefer when one gifted leader can guide the company from garage to global titan. In the early days of the Web 2.0 To paraphrase JFK, ask not what your portfolio can do for you, ask what you can do for your portfolio! I think that’s wrong as well.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 22, 2020

By Lihi Pinto-Fryman, co-founder and CRO and Gal Aga, VP of Sales at Syte.ai , a visual search startup and Remagine Ventures portfolio company. Sales reps prospect, engage, and convert leads to customers over the phone and web. Working from home, banning travel, and limiting the movement of people. We constantly document and update it.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 10, 2007

So, you can listen to music, watch videos, take pictures, look at pictures and slide shows, make calls, browse e-mails and calendar, send pictures, access Google map and weather information, and browse the web. Portfolio. (3). SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Global warming: a plague for humanity?

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

For four of the examples, I'll also share how the visualization inspired me to apply the lessons to my web analytics data. You can hover over each box to get a sense of the key metrics. Let's go back to our table, and global oil consumption. I've used Sunbursts to do the same with keyword portfolios.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

While there is a great deal of appreciation for the power of metrics/data, I've come to realize that Sr. Leaders don't quite appreciate the deep, and often corrosive, consequences of choosing metric x over metric y as a key performance indicator (KPI). The web is littered with examples of this awfulness.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And now all of a sudden you have got this global market of all these early adopters that have smartphones connected to the Internet, and they can just pick up their things and run with them. Alexia Tsotsis: Let’s see, what about other companies that aren’t in your portfolio? Marc Andreessen: Yeah, exactly! Exactly right!

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

Back in 1998 when Times New Roman was still widely used on the web, my then boss made sure we always designed our web sites with Arial, as she hated the look of serif fonts on the web. Sans serif are better on the web. 1995 , De Lange ), that shows no difference in legibility between serif and sans serif font on the web.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 3, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Not a good metric for small business – [link]. Global search ad spending up 17% in Q2 (but Europe only 2% growth) – [link]. 27 Controversial Print Ads – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

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." Most companies hire a Web Analyst, Sr. Digital Analyst, Web Analysis Guru, Digital Marketing Analyst, so on and so forth. the instinctive response of the Squirrels is to go grab the most obvious metrics and start partying.

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Analytics Web Metrics DC 140

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

A few times per year, Bessemer organizes a CxO event for our portfolio companies and we decided to focus our first session of 2008 on Software-as-a-service (SaaS). This invite-only event for our portfolio companies and close friends of the firm was designed to be fairly intimate and interactive. Monday, February 04, 2008.

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Cracking the Code

APRIL 13, 2007

The web has brought simplicity and transparency in a world of complexity and opacity, empowering a new generation of public software companies like Salesforce.com, NetSuite, Webex and WebSideStory who learned how to take advantage of it. And this human touch is necessary even if you have a free demo on available on the web.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

3GVision is the global leader in mobile barcode services that use the camera phone to scan barcodes. The solution provides a live, accurate status of customers’ level of satisfaction, according to metrics that are pre-defined and measured at the time of the customer experience. Flash Networks.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 15, 2008

the rise of CleanTech, and the next wave of web applications and services, with a hint to the potential of the baby boomers. The idea is that all your personal data captured when you browse and transact on the web today is held in silos (Amazon, Netflix, Google.) Portfolio. (3). SaaS business metrics: why are they different?

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Amazon Web Services. Web Tools: Hereâ??s We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. Mobile Tools: If you are a web developer, you donâ??t

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