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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

Both Sides of the Table

Customer Acquisition. Those two things together would lower your acquisition costs nearly in half to $6.11. Ironically, there are times where it may actually pay to INCREASE your customer acquisition costs. Measuring customer acquisition is clearly not enough because not all customers stick around. lowering $1.50

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Open Angel Forum San Fran – Team Calacanis Raises the Bar

Both Sides of the Table

They called themselves a “social OS.&# Essentially I see it as two things: 1) an aggregator of social content from multiple places including Twitter, Facebook and soon even Gmail. The idea of aggregation is powerful in a world where your social communications are fragmented and increasingly hard to manage. Team Pip.io

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Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project

Steve Blank

The solution I’m exploring is a just in time learning methodology that accelerates founders’ learning curve by aggregating relevant content, peers and mentors.&#. We found 4 different major groups of startups that all have very different behavior regarding customer acquisition, time, product, market and team. Congratulations.

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FLoC: Google’s Plan to Kill Off Third-Party Cookies

ConversionXL

They aggregate far more of your clicks across the Internet and power the hyper-relevant ads you see (e.g., Many users’ updates are aggregated (B) to form a consensus change (C) to the shared model, after which the procedure is repeated. Users can block first-party cookies, but doing so often impacts the user experience (e.g.,

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Search Intent: How to Analyze and Optimize Your Site

ConversionXL

The goal or activity may be to download, to buy, to obtain, to be entertained by, or to interact with a website or app.” Those informational queries are often the highest volume terms a site targets—key drivers of awareness and acquisition. Aggregators? Blue links of aggregator sites with “Best Restaurants” lists.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Now that Google’s acquisition of ITA is closed, following lenghty FTC review, it would appear Kayak is poised to proceed with their IPO in the coming months. =. paying for travel data from ITA or others (customers acquisition spend is not included in COGS). This was the large round to fund the acquisition of Sidestep.

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Search: Not Provided: What Remains, Keyword Data Options, the Future

Occam's Razor

Aggregated search engine level analysis. 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. See Page Value there? Ditto for Clicks.

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