YoungUpstarts

JUNE 22, 2020

Good content that’s likely to impress search engines contains the following metrics. Good content offers the ability to generate leads, warm them, and transit them into the later stages of the sales journey. Good content can get your potential clients conversing either in the website comment section or on social media handles.

Affiliate 230

Affiliate Startup Later Stage Search 230

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

An investor had few hard metrics other than the actual financials, and little technology to make the process scaleable. Over the past few decades, better metrics became available, and investors could take a more analytical, data-driven approach. ExitRound helps early stage companies identify buyers. 6) Negotiate deal.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

17:16] Is there a small set of metrics that you rely on? [19:43] John Jantsch (10:49): Now let's hear from a sponsor, you know, today everybody's online, but are they finding your website, grab the online spotlight and your customer's attention with Semrush from content and SEO to ads and social media. Maybe these are hard.

SEO 84

SEO Channel Campaign Audience 84

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

He is currently CEO of Bubbly , a social media startup backed by Sequoia Capital, SingTel Innov8, and JAFCO. The rest of Asia is still developing with far more angel and early-stage investors than mid-to-later stage folks. Valuations are based more on typical later-stage type of metrics.

Asia 132

Asia Silicon Valley India Term Sheet 132

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

a “Bitcoin Fund”, a “Social Media Fund”, a “Nanotech Fund”), you’re going to raise capital from Limited Partners who are very focused on Theme X. In venture capital, in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

a “Bitcoin Fund”, a “Social Media Fund”, a “Nanotech Fund”), you’re going to raise capital from Limited Partners who are very focused on Theme X. In venture capital, in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

Our venture was selected for competitive accelerator spots & recognition from media and mentors from Austin, Chicago and Silicon Valley to work on this problem and capture the value its solution provided. Where there isn’t consensus is what metrics meet the bar for “early traction” and who qualifies as a “great team”.

Silicon Valley 54

Silicon Valley Startup B2C Sweat Equity 54

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2018

You can go with the base plan for starters and choose to upgrade in the later stages for additional features such as full API access and multiple monetization options. Video performance analytics to see video metrics, audience metrics, and popular content trending on the platform. Multiple monetization options.

Software 105

Software Bandwidth API Flash 105

David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

You may think, “But I don’t use social media, and neither do my (conservative, old-school) potential investors!” The reality: you and your target investors are in the social media matrix whether you like it or not. For early-stage founders, I suggest AngelList and Crunchbase. Prove more through metrics.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Advisory Board Greece Cofounder 60

K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

One of the people I respect the most in the VC/PE media ecosystem is Dan Primack. If the Micro-VCs are looking for Series A-like metrics, what does a company do when it’s just getting started? Because of this the first mention of a company in the press/media is usually concurrent with their Seed round financing announcement.

Seed Stage 82

Seed Stage Finance Later Stage Equity 82

View from Seed

JUNE 16, 2015

Editor’s note: Local tech media company BostInno (a division of the American City Business Journals) hosts an annual Boston State of Innovation conference. For series A or later investment rounds, the dynamic is similar, but there are some benchmarks that might be helpful to target to know if you are at least in the ballpark.

Boston 120

Boston Syndicate Syndication eCommerce 120

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Going to business school and becoming a startup founder are often positioned as conflicting choices by the media and startup bloggers. That’s a pretty astounding figure, especially when you consider that many students in the latter years of that cohort have yet to raise or have yet to raise later-stage, larger rounds.

North America 120

North America Founder Cofounder San Francisco 120

View from Seed

MARCH 10, 2015

What about the sports media landscape overall? Whereas ESPN only promotes ESPN content in their app and other channels, we could include the big, national outlets plus local coverage, social media discussion, and more. NVV: What key metrics did you track to make sure you were heading in the right direction?

Mobile 120

Mobile San Francisco Curation Seed Stage 120

K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 12, 2015

This includes, but is not limited to money from China, India, Middle-East and also from “retail” investors (or otherwise unsophisticated investors who are attracted to a market simply because of the amount of press/media attention it gets). A 20x return becomes a 10x return and a 1x return could easily become a 0.5x

Venture Capital 48

Venture Capital Seed Stage LP Valuation 48

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Instead, I predict 2016 will be the year of alterna-metrics.” (via Acquisio). Jen Havice of Make Mention Media wrote an incredible article for ConversionXL on creating data-driven personas, How To Create Customer Personas With Actual, Real Life Data. Focusing on the Wrong Metrics. In fact, 43% plan to spend over 2.5

PPC 48

PPC Matching Campaign San Francisco 48