Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

If its part of a viral loop, its probably trying to get them to invite more friends (on average). Focus on the output metrics of that part of the product, and you make the problem a lot more clear. To promote this metrics discipline, we would present the full funnel to our board (and advisers) at the end of every development cycle.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

It’s easy to overestimate the impact of this kind of traffic because it just feels good to have your name and company featured. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. It strokes your ego.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

The company, which the founder cleverly named “Stitch Fix,” had a remarkably unique offering compared to other women’s fashion experiences. Awareness of the service was clearly spreading virally through word of mouth. For starters, the business metrics are quite compelling. https://stitchfix.com/gifts.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. Now, in some situations, this over-selling would lead to a secondary problem, namely, that customers would realize they had been duped and refuse to re-subscribe. Time-to-complete-a-sale is not a bad metric for validated learning at this stage.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. You named 3 in your post, but what are the 10 others? internet. (6). SaaS business metrics: why are they different? How the use of internet is transform. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2018

New Customers: People are still searching everywhere on the internet and SEO sometimes goes outside of the regular boundaries of just a search engine like Google/Bing/Yahoo. Try to keep up with that while you’re scaling resources, growing the team and also trying to push your metrics through the roof. How SEO can contribute to Growth?

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. The name of the bird is PiccoZ. internet. (6). SaaS business metrics: why are they different? How the use of internet is transform. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. at 8:29 PM.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, March 24, 2009 The metrics and levers of engagement, presentation on Engagement Loops for Facebook Developer Garage SF Ill be presenting a talk at the Facebook Developer Garage SF Wednesday evening. Unfortunately, its easy to lose track of positioning effects when optimizing for a single metric.

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Cracking the Code

APRIL 18, 2007

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Labels: anecdotes , internet , Online Gaming. internet. (6). SaaS business metrics: why are they different? How the use of internet is transform. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing.

Software Review 48

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. The first internet wave managed to solve pretty well the "Where to buy" problem, with sites like Kelkoo , Shopzilla , NextTag , PriceGrabber, or Shopping.com. internet. (6). How the use of internet is transform.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. In 2004, investors regained interest in the consumer internet again. We are the leader in the professional domain with viral growth. the evolution of LinkedIn as a company. Reid Hoffman.

Entrepreneur 111

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

" ~ Web Metrics: "What is a KPI? " + Standard Metrics Revisited Series. "Engagement" Is Not A Metric, It's An Excuse. Defining a "Master Metric", + a Framework to Gain a Competitive Advantage in Web Analytics. Overview & Importance of Qualitative Metrics. How to focus?"

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Analytics Metrics SEM Web 124

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. By the end of 2011 the Internet population was estimated at 2.3 They compete on features, price and execution.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In a previous post , I covered the three main drivers of growth: Paid, Sticky, and Viral. A business that strives for something like this should absolutely be charging money from day one, in order to establish baselines for their two key metrics: CPA (the cost to acquire a new customer) and LTV (the lifetime value of each acquired customer).

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 28, 2021

When e-commerce first took off in the 1990s, web traffic was regarded as the most critical metric for measuring a website’s popularity. Other metrics to measure online performance did not yet exist. Long-tail keywords do not account for the bulk of internet searches. Make sure your website is mobile-friendly.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

This is completely analogous to the situation elsewhere on the internet, where launching a new website, product, or service with PR is getting harder and harder. On the web, we have many of these channels: SEM, SEO, world of mouth, PR and viral. Acqusition competition is how new apps get new customers. Its like knowing the future.

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San Francisco Lean Retention SEM 68

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Meyler Capital is taking the analytical rigor of modern internet marketing and applying it to fund marketing. . Pro Publica has a Nonprofit Explorer database searchable by principal name on all nonprofit filings, so you can see a person’s nonprofit activities. . Other VCs use Contently * or Social Native * to create relevant content.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Some have experimented with virality ( Pepsi Test Drive or Dove Beauty , etc.), Put the company name on the stadium? On one of the most visited page on the internet. For display ads, standard web analytics metrics apply: Click-through rate, % Assists (this is glorious!), I'm not a fan of compound metrics.

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Analytics Marketing Audience Channel 149

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I had a lot of fun learning what the internet could do for me. In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. I changed the name, by the way, to MTGParadise.com. In 2004 I began blogging.

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Technical Review Software Review Prospectus Audience 76

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

All I see is a name, an icon, a price, the developers name, and a review star-rating. On Facebook, viral distribution has proved decisive. Those companies who have learned to build apps that optimize the viral loop dominate in every category where they compete. And what distinguishes a good app? I cant really tell.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Ironically, meetings like this had given data and experimentation a bad name inside this company. Every experiment has to be evaluated based on a single standard report of 5-10 (no more) key metrics. True split-test experiments are easy to classify as successes or failures, because top-level metrics either move or they don’t.

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San Francisco Lean Metrics Continuous Deployment 133

Occam's Razor

JUNE 11, 2014

Name, date, text comment. For now, take my word that by not making you learn to use the internet all over again the team at Cartier is unusual and worth admiring. You know because this internet thing is a fad. Yes these brands have YouTube channels and every once in a while they throw up a viral video and everyone oohs and aahs.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

You’re going to tell Jason and Bob just the name of your URL, nothing else, and see if Jason can figure out what it is. It helps you manage, at first a checking account, is where the name came from, through text messaging. It does a lot more than that now, but that’s where the name came from. Jason: Chext?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 21, 2013

If you're working on the Sticky Engine of Growth , you're focused on very different metrics from those that you care about in the Viral Engine of Growth. And getting the word out is what the Internet is for. Finding your One Metric That Matters But it's not enough just to know "normal". to 3% a month.

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Analytics Lean Metrics Churn Rate 167

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 7, 2010

At least, not in the traditional sense of trying to squeeze every tenth of a point out of a conversion metric or landing page. Even if it shows improvement in some micro metric, does that invalidate the overall design? That was evident in the metrics and in the in-person usability tests. No one feature is to blame.

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San Francisco Lean Metrics Design 154

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

If the viral coefficient is 0.9, Who doesnt want to see their name in print? Here was our experience at IMVU, which I have seen replicated at many other consumer internet startups. Know what the success metrics are for the launch. Pay attention to your fundamental driver of growth. keep iterating until its 1.1

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 13, 2010

One of the topics that came up in my post Mobile Internet Apple Facebook was around open vs. closed platforms. Obviously, the goal is to get viral spread through these actions – and to facilitate value for users. Take a look at Startup Metrics. And you can see two different profiles with different sets of content.

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conversionxl.com

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Ask Peep about analytics, and he’ll tell you, “Metrics are there to provide actionable insight. You need to look at a metric, ask “so what?” – and have an answer.”. Sidetrack: What Are The Elements of a Viral Pre-Launch Page? Your Name *. Hi, my name is Peep Laja. Step 1 – Set Up Actionable Analytics.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 13, 2010 The Superbowl ad test I am a firm believer in the danger of vanity metrics , numbers that give the illusion of progress but often mask the true relationship between cause and effect. Vanity metrics are generally bigger. Vanity metrics. The solution? Is that really news?

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San Francisco Metrics Lean PR 154

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Some new partners coming in, and at the end of it, it was really myself and another gentleman named Mike who was the CEO and I was basically the CTO and I was in charge of the product. You name it, we’ve got it. They were very much a luxury item. The guy I originally started the company with was no longer there.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 19, 2021

I’ve been on so many different boards now that I need to go back and count them up to name the number of different boards on which I’ve served. One of the reasons I joined Greylock is that I shared the firm’s philosophy on investors and entrepreneurs: namely, companies succeed because of the entrepreneurs and executives, not the investors.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 15, 2016

A trial-to-paid conversion rate or mobile user-to-customer conversion rate type metric is a good start. For example, Facebook has a seven friends in ten days metric. Inbound.org is self-described as “the internet’s smartest marketing community” Everything Inbound marketing is discussed there. via Inbound.org).

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 10, 2007

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Well, it is basically the mix of a video iPOD, a smart phone, a camera and an internet browser. Labels: internet. internet. (6). SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Cracking The Code.

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Video Europe 48

Cracking the Code

JULY 6, 2007

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Hi Philippe, My name is Andrei and I have two questions that I hope you can take the time to answer for me: 1. internet. (6). SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Cracking The Code. at 7:21 PM.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 4, 2011

For “Desired number of prospects or subscribers” I put “75,000″ If I could get 50 to 100 leads per day, and then work in a viral mechanism where readers invited new subscribers, this would happen within a year or two. And each time, I noticed the same familiar names in my inbox. My first raving fans!

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 4, 2011

For “Desired number of prospects or subscribers” I put “75,000″ If I could get 50 to 100 leads per day, and then work in a viral mechanism where readers invited new subscribers, this would happen within a year or two. And each time, I noticed the same familiar names in my inbox. My first raving fans!

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mashable.com

MAY 24, 2011

In its Keynote Mobile Commerce Performance Index , Internet Retailer ranks mobile commerce websites based on load time, success rate and other factors. Interestingly, the #1 mobile commerce site on Internet Retailer ‘s index, Walgreens, is nearly identical in appearance to its native iPhone app. ); // Welcome to Mashable!

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