View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This post is inspired by some of the earliest conversations I have had with the team here at NextView and since the beginning of my VC journey. Warning – this assumes some basic knowledge of VC performance metrics. Building off Rob’s original post, let’s continue to look at the 2007 vintage. Ok, let’s jump in.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 20, 2017

The field uses the broader term “gender” rather than “female” because, as the Stanford Social Innovation Review states, “Using ‘gender’ brings both men and women into the conversation. The movement’s objective is to look at the entire financial and social system, not just at women.”

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This post is inspired by some of the earliest conversations I have had with the team here at NextView and since the beginning of my VC journey. Warning – this assumes some basic knowledge of VC performance metrics. Building off Rob’s original post, let’s continue to look at the 2007 vintage. Ok, let’s jump in.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 5, 2013

Want to know how to deal a serious blow to your landing page conversions? In other words, one of the best ways to improve landing page conversions is to maintain scent: make pre-click and post-click message + look & feel match. While people are browsing your site, they’re having a silent conversation in their mind.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This post is inspired by some of the earliest conversations I have had with the team here at NextView and since the beginning of my VC journey. Warning – this assumes some basic knowledge of VC performance metrics. Building off Rob’s original post, let’s continue to look at the 2007 vintage. Ok, let’s jump in.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Business model viability, in the majority of startups, will come down to balancing two variables: Cost to Acquire Customers (CAC) The ability to monetize those customers, or LTV (which stands for Lifetime Value of a Customer) Successful web businesses have long understood these metrics as they have such an easy way to measure them.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

US Median Income – 1947 to 2007 – 20th, 40th, 60th, 80th, 95th Percentiles (Photo credit: Wikipedia). As an entrepreneur, I encourage you to think hard about whether the right thing to compare a particular metric to is median vs. average.

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Austin Startup

JULY 2, 2021

Chargify’s new BI tool has taken our speed-to-calculate and accuracy of MRR and financial metrics and reduced it down to a mere dashboard refresh with 100% accuracy,” said Jenny Leman, President of CareerPlug. About CareerPlug Since 2007 CareerPlug has worked to make hiring easier for over 12,000 growing companies in the U.S.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 27, 2015

But now your conversion rate looks the same as when you started. In fact, it’s easy to project the predicted ROI of optimization ( click here to download conversion optimization ROI calculator ). If asked to measure improvement in conversion rate due to optimization efforts, most people would point to Google Analytics.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 10, 2009

United apologized, plans to use the video internally to help " change its culture ," and, according to a spokeswoman for the carrier: "We are in conversation with one another to make what happened right." ► 2007. (10). SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

What are those metrics? Andrew : If you are a travel company right now, I think you’re seeing very specific metrics dropping. As a result of that, all of those metrics go up. Transcript: Hi, and welcome to the a16z podcast. I’m Lauren Murrow. ” We have to watch our cash.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

" ~ Web Metrics: "What is a KPI? " + Standard Metrics Revisited Series. Six Tips For Improving High Bounce / Low Conversion Web Pages. Multichannel Analytics: Tracking Offline Conversions. "Engagement" Is Not A Metric, It's An Excuse. Is Conversion Rate Enough? How to focus?"

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 21, 2013

I was having a conversion on Friday with Brad Bernthal , an Associate Professor at Colorado Law School who directs the Silicon Flatirons Center’s Entrepreneurship Initiative. The first Techstars class matriculated in 2007. TBD, but traditional metrics won’t capture its benefits. How important is Techstars’ economic impact?

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

With standard conversions, people receive value immediately. Given the difficulty with prosocial conversions, always provide some type of reward to potential donors. Harms (2007) found that economic value was one of the strongest motivators for crowdfunding supporters. Crowdfunding is painful. They buy your product. 2013 , pp.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Paul Graham When I moved to the east coast in 2007 I made it a goal to see Joel Spolsky and Paul Graham speak at some point. Overall, Dharmesh’s talk was filled with behind the scenes metrics from his company, HubSpot , and actionable points for SEO, Twitter, and social media. Kathy Sierra “Don’t build a better [X].

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Life Beyond Code

JULY 10, 2010

The event typically begins with no agenda and quickly develops into a a series of conversations finally resulting in deep relationships with a small number of people. The goal is not in getting a large number of people but have quality conversations among a small set of people.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

Monday, February 12, 2007. ▼ 2007. (10). SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. on a scale of 1-4). on a scale of 1-4).

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

This can include data points like their purchase history, how they communicate with you , customer service interactions, and even notes from conversations. While the data that you care about will likely differ based on your business type, you can bucket it all under general customer satisfaction metrics.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

SlideShare, founded in 2007, started experimenting with MVPs and A/B testing this year. Between the metrics and the direct customer questions, SlideShare had what Sinha calls “minor learnings and then major shifts.&# ’&# They removed the core plan, and conversions went up. What prompted the process change?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

Look for numbers like sales, units, leads, presentations, page views, downloads, and conversion rates. The management happens with the following up on the metrics. Develop measurement to set your marketing goals so you can track and measure your progress. You track plan vs. actual results and look carefully at the difference.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2014

That’s why you need to be simultaneously feeding your growth engine , while monitoring churn and your other startup metrics. They refer to these differences as “ Red Flag” Metrics (or RFMs). Total number of logins also proved to be an important metric, though not as much so as the former two. times per day on average.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 29, 2017

I started Ignite Social Media in 2007 after working in a mid-sized regional ad agency. And at the root of all cultures and so many conversations is food. 10- Address financial and operating metrics. Photo Credit: Jim Tobin. I actually started two businesses for similar reasons. The model and the timing were good.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

I have tried to find some metric that mixes Y/Y and M/M, but to no avail. Here's me comparing performance of this blog over two years for the Visitors metric: Overall happiness reigns, I think. Let's say I did lots of things to drive SEO from Nov 2007 to May 2008. Do you have any thoughts on this matter?

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

More detail on those techniques, and three more, are in this blog post: Multichannel Analytics: Tracking Offline Conversions. But each keyword gets "credit" for other metrics. These are also reasons why click attribution to multiple campaign prior to conversion is such a thankless exercise. i.e. Con +2%, T +10%.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

17:16] Is there a small set of metrics that you rely on? [19:43] Time in the second square we're on behalf our conversation, right? I don't have the result yet, which is kind of a let down for this kind of conversation. Is there a small set of metrics that you rely on as. He is the CMO of Semush. We'll talk about that.

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Professor VC

AUGUST 26, 2011

To that last one, there is certainly some truth as the standard time vs. revenue chart in most business plans looks like this: Im not teaching Entrepreneurial Finance this semester for the first time since Fall 2007. What are the key drivers and metrics? Byron Deeter has a good blog post on SAAS metrics. How do you think?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 4, 2023

17:16] Is there a small set of metrics that you rely on? [19:43] That half our conversation, right , it's an online visibility management SaaS platform that is used by millions of marketers worldwide, including this one. Is there a small set of metrics that you rely on as. He is the CMO of S e m, rush Sam Rush.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 5, 2014

Then we went into my 3 favorite methods for increasing conversions by improving the search experience. In one line, he couldn’t be clearer as to why you must pay attention to these metrics. In another case study , LED HUT was able to increase site search conversions by 200%. But we’ve only just scratched the surface.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. Building Metrics / Usage Reports / KPI 3. Product/Metrics (70%/30% time) * Get your product activation (sign-up + meaningful action) to 60% * then, Get your product retention to 20% weekly. 10) Metrics.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 5, 2019

One of the words that came up during a few conversations was true. I started building an invoicing application in 2007 to help startups and freelancers to organize their billing, clients and most important automate reminders and recurring invoices. The next step was finding an available domain — no easy feat! 22- Two-word Combo.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

It is something I talk about often, but mostly with my team members and in one-on-one conversations. Conversations with some of my fellow bloggers (thanks Rafat and Mike) only convinced me that it was time to jump into the deep-end. That conversation ended with two decisions. At GigaOm, we are story tellers. Back to the top.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

After the iPhone launched in 2007 to mass adoption, analytics were never the same. Mobile traffic looks less conversion-ready (and less valuable) than desktop traffic. The challenge of deterministic attribution is precise stitching of a conversion with an initial traffic source.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

After looking at many extensions, we came up with the word ‘metrics.’ Metrics are defined as a standard of measurement. In 2007 our agency started to service the Medicare market. 30 – About Conversations. I also thought Simon Says was a good tie-in with social media since social media is about conversations.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 10, 2007

Wednesday, January 10, 2007. When you activate it, it reduces the sound level from your iPOD and enables a conversation without removing your earphones. ▼ 2007. (10). SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. Cracking The Code. ► 01/27 - 02/03. (1).

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

You can listen to the conversation on the Greymatter podcast here. And it was 2007. And I think one of the things that we’ve learned is, when I came to Silicon Valley in 2007, we were starting Airbnb in 2008, it was a marketplace. “Conventional wisdom says, ‘Don’t get too close, don’t get emotionally attached.’

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

You can listen to the conversation on the Greymatter podcast here. And it was 2007. And I think one of the things that we’ve learned is, when I came to Silicon Valley in 2007, we were starting Airbnb in 2008, it was a marketplace. “Conventional wisdom says, ‘Don’t get too close, don’t get emotionally attached.’

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

However, in 2007, “familiarity” jumped to 37%, and in 2012, it was 45% – that’s a 105% difference!! To be fair, “familiarity” and “Ever listened to” aren’t really great metrics that translate to consumption. Extra Lucrative Conversion Advice Blog' In 2006 it was a mere 11%, and in 2012 it hit 29%. featured image source.

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