Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

How many through affiliate deals? How many social networks, picture sharing sites, new aggregators or blogs can we really spend time on? At the highest level you’ll obviously want to track how many customers your adding every month (and for some businesses that have hit scale this is measured on a daily basis).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I believe that many social networks confused this idea. They already had a completed product and a distribution deal with the largest affiliate network company, Commission Junction. The affiliate networking market alone is about a $2 billion industry now. Not necessarily in the shopping mindset.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

While currently free to angel groups, their business model revolves around aggregating the angel investment data. According to their research, overall returns on group-affiliated angel investments average to a 2.6X According to their research, overall returns on group-affiliated angel investments average to a 2.6X

Pre-Money Valuation 28

Pre-Money Valuation Angel Investor Angel Groups Valuation 28

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. Foundry Group is using their portfolio company Monday to aggregate portfolio companies’ job postings on their own jobs page; Point Nine Capital uses Recruitee for the same purpose.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Occam's Razor

JULY 18, 2011

Measure retention rate over time in aggregate – or for optimal health, segment retention rate – and measure it for the various objectives you have set for your email marketing program. Four simple metrics that help you understand how effective you are in the acquisition stage of your email marketing. More ideas here and here.

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VC Cafe

JULY 15, 2011

They plan to scale by using ecommerce aggregators as affiliates. According to the founders, Eyal Yair and Ron Hartman, the main benefit of the system is the ability for artists to distribute their music and charge for downloads, across social networks, but especially on Facebook.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Even if you and I are in the same sector (ecommerce) or the same business (social networking) it is important to know that we will usually drive different objectives, and hence different KPI's. You have a social networking application. Use data sampling if you have to. Remember the reward is well worth it. #4:

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