View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Warning – this assumes some basic knowledge of VC performance metrics. One thing that jumps out quickly is that TVPI between 2004-2010 (avg 2.6x) has underperformed 2011-2017 (avg 3.0x). The key takeaway is that it seems like the top of the pack is moving further away from the rest, and the power law is increasing.

Valuation 295

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Distribution Early Stage 295

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Why marketer misuse of metrics may be an addressable cultural issue – [link]. What Are You Willing To Do For The Rest of Your Life? Today’s issue of crowdSPRING’s smallbiz newsletter (marketing, strategy, 2011 outlook) – [link]. Attn Google: The Rest of My Sci-Fi Wish List – [link].

Social Media 91

Social Media Small Business Design Media 91

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Warning – this assumes some basic knowledge of VC performance metrics. One thing that jumps out quickly is that TVPI between 2004-2010 (avg 2.6x) has underperformed 2011-2017 (avg 3.0x). The key takeaway is that it seems like the top of the pack is moving further away from the rest, and the power law is increasing.

Valuation 156

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Distribution Early Stage 156

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

May 26, 2011. The rest, as they say, is history. We’ve had a supportive board and encouraging metrics and a helpful climate for our community news notion (now 51 sites in 3 states). © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. It was a $4.7M

Term Sheet 178

Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

In late 2011, Google announced an effort to make search behavior more secure. This is a simple custom report I use to look at the aggregated view: As the report above demonstrates, you can still report on your other metrics, like Unique Visitors, Bounce Rates, Per Visit Value and many others, at an aggregated level. Crazy idea?

Search 154

Search SEO Analytics Engineer 154

Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

By 1923, 2/3rds of the courses at Harvard were taught with the case method, and the pattern was set for business education for the rest of the 20th century. Launched in 2011, the Lean LaunchPad capstone entrepreneurship class was unique in that it was: team-based. Entrepreneurship Becomes a Subject in Business Schools. experiential.

Lean 436

Lean Agile Business Model Business Plan 436

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 20, 2010

End of a minor web analytics lesson on going beyond obvious metrics and never, ever, never forgetting context. Of course look at our favorite metric bounce rate by keyword (that tells you if you can get people to give you one solitary click , the most primitive measure of SEO success). Now go plan for 2011. Back to our story.

Analytics 90

Analytics Search SEO Metrics 90

dontbesoanalytical.blogspot.com

MAY 13, 2012

Inside the development organization, this Director attends to staffing, training, workload and productivity metrics, budget, and scheduling. should rest with a COO; the CTO is a research and ad tech discipline in the strategic planning domain. March 1, 2011 12:31 PM. On the Use, and Misuse, of Software Test Metrics.

CTO 40

CTO Technical Review Technology Software Review 40

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

And it’s more important than ever to communicate to their customers, prospective customers, and the rest of their industry.”. 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. By 2011, we had 50 customers; today we have over 2,000.

Marketing 121

Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

Rob Go

OCTOBER 14, 2012

In the rest, we were part of the first “institutional round” We have not participated in any seed extensions or full-blown series A investments as our first check into a company. In either case, it’s a decent enough quantitative metric and an interesting data point at this stage in the portfolio’s progress.

New Hampshire 50

New Hampshire Croatia Omaha Portfolio 50

VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

The first chart shows the pace of deals (measured by number of rounds) by category: Pretty hard to miss the huge blip in Seed/Angel deals in 2013 (but really from 2011 and continuing through 2015, with a peak at 2013). Obviously, start with building a great business and stand out because of your metrics.

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Deal Flow Finance Metrics Restful 48

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Before starting out in brokering, Thomas bought and sold websites himself, which is how … Read the rest of this entry » Download the Text Transcript in PDF Subscribe to this Podcast in iTunes Thomas Smale is a website broker, who founded Flipping Enterprises. Flippa, we did a lot in 2011.

RSS 77

RSS Analytics Portfolio Metrics 77

Agile VC

MARCH 18, 2012

The rumors and estimates vary, but the most widely cited for 2011 was eMarketer’s guesstimate of $140M. Compared on typical media metrics of reach and engagement, Facebook stands apart which is why it’s both much larger as a business (30-40X bigger in revenue) and a far more valuable company. Previous Entries.

Media 113

Media Advertising Silicon Valley Revenue 113

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. All rights reserved.

Metrics 49

Metrics Social Media Small Business RSS 49

Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2012

There are a ton of lessons you can learn from this controlled process that you can then turn around and implement on the rest of your web experience (and your SEO efforts!). Never create a custom report without Acquisition, Behavior, Outcome metrics. Be insanely relevant (pick the critical few metrics ). In this case.

Analytics 127

Analytics Campaign Search Customer 127

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

They need a combination of capital and experience to separate from the rest of the pack – the low cost of starting a business means it is even more vital to become the market leader more quickly. By 2010-2011 this had shrunk by half again, averaging under $15 billion. By the end of 2011 the Internet population was estimated at 2.3

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch.

Atlanta 52

Atlanta Marketing Social Media RSS 52

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! The management happens with the following up on the metrics. That leads to revisions and course corrections.

Marketing 40

Marketing Matching Social Media Cofounder 40

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! Do the previous nine steps and, as Matt Heinz says, “Don’t invent new metrics.

Social Media 41

Social Media Small Business Matching RSS 41

Pascal's View

AUGUST 21, 2011

… We have a stock market that works for one kind of buzzy (Demand Pull) stock but is a disaster for the rest of the economy. On August 11, 2011 Dan Primack wrote on this topic in Term Sheet and concluded differently: “I believe that the current Internet bubble is economic. I do not think we are in a Bubble per se.”.

Valuation 50

Valuation Social Media Media IPO 50

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JUNE 9, 2010

Raw CPC is not a good enough metric. What tips do you have for the rest of us? Flickr Search Copyright © 2011. by Aymeric on June 9th, 2010 What does cheap mean? When you run an ad campaign, you don’t want to minimize the cost per click, you want to minimize the cost per acquisition.

Norway 46

Norway South Africa Finland Ruby 46

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 19, 2015

Customer loyalty is just one of the analytics that I highlight in my new book (which is relevant for almost all leaders, considering the extent to which measures and metrics have crept into almost every aspect of doing business). In February 2011, the company’s NPS was very high at 73 percent. Netflix offers a great example.

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Customer Analytics Revenue .Net 100

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JULY 1, 2010

Out of the box, Clicky gives you actionable metrics, rather than a awful lot of useless data. Flickr Search Copyright © 2011. Visual Website Optimizer is a recent startup that simply rocks You just have to add a javascript code in your pages and you won’t have to touch your website again each time to create a new A/B test.

Lean 38

Lean Customer Ruby Startup 38

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JULY 1, 2010

Out of the box, Clicky gives you actionable metrics, rather than a awful lot of useless data. Flickr Search Copyright © 2011. Visual Website Optimizer is a recent startup that simply rocks You just have to add a javascript code in your pages and you won’t have to touch your website again each time to create a new A/B test.

Lean 32

Lean Customer Ruby Startup 32

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JUNE 9, 2010

Raw CPC is not a good enough metric. What tips do you have for the rest of us? Flickr Search Copyright © 2011. by Aymeric on June 9th, 2010 What does cheap mean? When you run an ad campaign, you don’t want to minimize the cost per click, you want to minimize the cost per acquisition.

Norway 28

Norway South Africa Finland Ruby 28

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.

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

Tim Keane

MAY 27, 2010

  They have a growth metric – one measurement of success – that focuses the attention of the entire enterprise.   The rest of the world has a long way to go. It’s ironic that just as the rest of the world is coming to America looking for entrepreneurial knowhow, we are in danger of becoming a European style bureaucracy.

Bootstrapping 60

Bootstrapping Startup America Employee 60

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Once the drop-cap hits him in the eye, he needs to know what the rest of the word is to close the loop. And once he knows the rest of the word, he needs to know the rest of the sentence. This metric is called x-height, and you want more of it on a screen font: Has the right personality.

Web 48

Web Design Vertical Technical Review 48

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

oz burgers as fast as possible, and commit the rest of your career to an endless series of McDonalds menus. March 25, 2011 at 7:00 am. March 25, 2011 at 12:58 pm. March 25, 2011 at 12:59 pm. March 25, 2011 at 1:04 pm. March 25, 2011 at 1:12 pm. March 25, 2011 at 1:13 pm. March 25, 2011 at 1:29 pm.

Java 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

So I have personal scars from what it means to over-index success using fundraising as the key metric. The companies most successful at fundraising have raised orders of magnitude more than the rest. In terms of outlier success, the Class of 2011 was by far the standout entrepreneurial class, with 58 founders cumulatively raising $1.15

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North America Founder Cofounder San Francisco 120

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

As the questions came in, I realized that my 2010 list was great for what I had learned as of 2 years ago, but it also was in desperate need of an update to include what I’ve learned more recently, especially as we’ve pivoted from fabulis to Fab in 2011 and then scaled Fab to more than 7.5 All the rest is noise. So, here goes.

Technical Review 108

Technical Review Technology Software Review Valuation 108

Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2019

So in 2011, with support from the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (the entrepreneurship center in the Stanford Engineering School), we created a new capstone entrepreneurship class – the Lean LaunchPad. If you had dropped by in 2011, the first time I taught the class, and then stuck your head in today, you’d say it was the same class.

Lean 254

Lean Business Model Balance Sheet Video 254

ConversionXL

MARCH 26, 2014

If traffic from one particular source or device behaves significantly different than the rest, it’s enough to screw up your test data completely – and thus also what you’re taking away from the test; in terms of insight as well as revenue. You can now see 3 metrics called. (1) What day of the week did they visit your website?

Analytics 131

Analytics Conversion Metrics Europe 131

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

And this is all the rest. So what I want to say is, conversion rate is maybe not the best metric we could use. And then look what happened, 2011, bam. These are the growth curves for top 10 e-commerce websites in Germany. How sad is this? Look at that. That’s Amazon in Germany. Very German. Number three, four, five, six.

Video 48

Video Germany Conversion Cost 48

Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

Yeah, that was 2011, that Churchill event. The burden [should] just be that we care; that if we learn something, we improve it, and that we don’t only use single output metrics and its growth at all costs. And I’m recalling the Churchill Club event we did, [which] might have been 11 years ago now. Brian Chesky: Thank you, Reid.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Hosting Rhode Island Design 69

Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

Yeah, that was 2011, that Churchill event. The burden [should] just be that we care; that if we learn something, we improve it, and that we don’t only use single output metrics and its growth at all costs. And I’m recalling the Churchill Club event we did, [which] might have been 11 years ago now. Brian Chesky: Thank you, Reid.

Silicon Valley 36

Silicon Valley Hosting Rhode Island Design 36

ConversionXL

MARCH 22, 2013

For Webundies.com, mobile sales in 2012 increased a whopping 169,2% from 2011. Then, after deploying the responsive conditions to the already live site, they monitored the same metrics for another three weeks. Webundies.com announced 2012 mobile commerce sales of $168,000, accounting for 5.4% of total sales.

Mobile 115

Mobile Conversion Design Dividend 115