View from Seed
DECEMBER 4, 2019
At the time, I spent most of my time describing the metrics themselves and how VCs and their LPs evaluate performance based on these measurements. If you aren’t familiar with these metrics, I recommend reading the original post to get a sense of the numbers that I’ll be reviewing here. The top quartile has distributed 2.03x (vs.
Gust
JANUARY 31, 2013
Compressing 80 years of history into a paragraph, securities regulation here is fundamentally a disclosure-based system. Nevertheless, selective disclosure could be said to unfairly benefit analysts and institutional investors at the expense of other stockholders, particularly individual investors, who lack access to the same information.
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ConversionXL
MARCH 19, 2020
In 2002, McKinsey published a study of 1,000 U.S. The questions that clients ask in the coming months are going to be more focused on business results and less on trends and vanity metrics. This means more people behind a screen, which means more opportunity across distribution channels. What the big studies have shown.
Feld Thoughts
APRIL 21, 2016
Anything that hints of a down round brings questions about the success metrics that have already been “booked.” In 2001 and 2002 I learned a brutal set of lessons, including experiencing that $100 million of paper money going to $0 when Interliant went bankrupt. However, the DPI is the interesting number from a real perspective.
Cracking the Code
DECEMBER 11, 2015
When Elon Musk received $200 million from the proceeds of the PayPal acquisition in 2002, he re-invested everything to build the next big thing: $100 million in SpaceX and $100 million in Tesla. In other words, there are universal metrics that smart investors require to make investing decisions. Talk about passion and commitment!
ConversionXL
SEPTEMBER 5, 2019
running regression analyses against success metrics), but we knew what our “ideal customer profile” looked like for the most part, and we knew which customer profiles were worth the most money to us generally. How are they organized and distributed? We never did a full structured analysis on behavioral correlations (e.g.,
om.co
FEBRUARY 5, 2013
We recently wrapped up our strategy offsite, an annual event that brings together the members of our very distributed team – 12 different cities in four different countries – to discuss what our aspirations and ambitions are for the coming year. But that is the real metric of success as far as I am concerned.
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