This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

VP of Engineering, AppNexus - New York, NY "It's over a billion ad impressions a day, we got a full tank of venture capital, half a pack of cigarettes, the future of ad networks is dark, and we're wearing sunglasses. We are looking for a seasoned engineer with management experience to take ownership of our engineering team.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. ” Historically, investing was a manual, artisan process. VC Firm. $ Tech % of workforce.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

In fact I've gone so far as to say: "All data in aggregate is crap." " That's certainly a bit melodramatic, but beyond the most bare bones "ahh, I see something is happening" you are unable to get anywhere with aggregate data. Google Analytics: New Segmentation User Experience.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The more well-known your company becomes, the harder it gets to directly impact primary KPI’s at the aggregate level because the majority of customers who buy are going to do so irrespective of if your button color is red or blue. For example, Adobe Analytics (Omniture) only allows the use of historical data for personalization.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 1, 2019

The advanced technical knowledge of university professors in engineering and science, for example, makes it harder for them to teach first-year students effectively. Analytics data is one piece of the puzzle to be paired with qualitative research. Search Engine Journal does this with their blog.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

Bonus: The best computation of conversion rate is orders divided by users (the default in your analytics tool is sessions). Go to the Multi-Channel Funnels folder in Google analytics and look at two other yummy reports: Time Lag and Path Length. Yet, I bet you’ve rarely seen the use of this aggregated information to deliver nudges.

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

the “TOPSCAN” framework from my research study on value creation by VCs ): T eam-Building – We aggregate openings across our portfolio on our jobs page. – Aggregation, ranking, and discounts from service providers. I’m very interested in additional ways to use technology to extend each of these! – OKRs for CEOs.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 9, 2018

Businesses can aggregate information about customer demographics, pain points, organizational objectives, timelines, contact preferences and much, much more. Today’s CRM technology includes features such as voice interaction, predictive analytics and various other forms of artificial intelligence (AI) functionality.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm . 3) Raise capital.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 13, 2015

The 80/20 rule applies to our use of web analytics tools as well. I recommend that periodically you gather folks around you for lunch, pull up Adobe Analytics on the big screen in the conference room, let each person expose one hidden report or feature. Google Analytics Shortcuts: Save Your Complex Views. This hurts my feelings!

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eranki.tumblr.com

JULY 13, 2012

any real-world engineering project ;-). Another thing that became increasingly useful was to have thousands of custom stats aggregated over thousands of servers graphed. Poor man’s analytics with bash. If people find this useful, I’ll try to come up with more tips and write a part 2. Run with extra load.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Ministry of Supply Puts MIT Engineering Cred Into Dress Shirts. of Computer Science and Engineering, Univ. The firm, Correlation Ventures, is using predictive analytics technology to tilt the odds in its favor. Subscribe for Free. Xconomy San Diego. Our Cities ▾ Boston ›. View More in Boston ›. View More in Detroit ›.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

The outcome of book smart is rarely better for analytics practitioners then folks trying to learn how to fly an airplane from how-to books. This is all the way from Aug 2009: Web Analytics Career Advice: Play In The Real World! And, happily, it has almost all of the Google Analytics features implemented correctly.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Google BigQuery is a warehouse for analytics data. Still, why would you go beyond your usual digital analytics tool and try a cloud solution like BigQuery? When you work with Google Analytics or other digital analytics tools, you usually have control only over data collection and analysis. What is Google BigQuery?

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

The search queries by these users would hence be encrypted and not available to website owners via web analytics tools such as Omniture, WebTrends, Open Stats, Google Analytics etc. Most analytics vendors, including Google Analytics, reacted immediately to the change in order help us quantify the impact of this change in multiple ways.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2013

One would think that designing a medical device would be a simple engineering problem, and startups would be emerging right and left. Incremental advances are driven by the existing medical device companies, while truly innovative devices often come from doctors and academia. Life Sciences II – Medical Devices.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

If you've read my first book Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, you know that I've advocated this strategy since 2008! There are four reasons, again from Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, from 2008 (!): This has never been true – not even for people who use the same analytics tool. See Page 269. :). Thank you.).

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

The best video hosting platform varies business by business, depending on factors like: How often you’re uploading; How you plan to use the video; The viewing experience you want to give your audience; The analytics you need; The cash you have to spend. The plan targets data scientists and video engineers. Image source ).

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Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2013

Would you believe me when I say that your digital analytics data, from Google Analytics or WebTrends et. We do have A LOT of data in our analytics tools. But sometimes going outside our analytics tools can yield non-normal insights that can deliver a competitive advantage. Neither is an example of just site analytics.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 20, 2019

The analytics portal syncs with independent CRMs to wed engagement and sales data. The analytics data, in turn, prompts sales staff to follow-up with accounts that show increased interest based on browsing behavior, ad clicks, email opens, etc. Aggregate that data at an account level to know which accounts to target. Everstring.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 8, 2011

99.9996253% of Web Analytics reports produced are utterly useless. partly because they are out of the box standard reports that web analytics vendors create for “average” people (and we both know that you are not average!), Here’s a blog post: 3 Awesome, Downloadable, Custom Web Analytics Reports. do visitors value more?

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

Web Analytics usually simply helps us understand the “What” Clickstream data typically does not tell us why something happened. Since many of us in the Web Analytics community don’t have optimal awareness of this methodology we’ll go into some detail about how lab usability tests are conducted.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 10, 2015

Grounded in hardcore data-driven research (you can check out the MIT team’s academic articles here ), it distils social, analytical, computational and managerial sciences into a discipline which helps us understand how collective intelligence and social influence works. Marrying Big Data With Social Networks.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

There are more mistruths and F U D about Web analytics out there than I think is reasonable. Web Analytics, this beautiful child, was born just the other day in the midst of tumultuous times, quite literally, when everything changes every day. Here are ten web analytics ground truths… 1. Part of it fueled by Vendors.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 21, 2020

How do you coordinate the analytics setup of a web shop that sells their products all over the world—if you have to handle 10+ languages and currencies in over 80 countries? Aggregate them and consider how those needs transfer to your web analysis tool: What do you want to analyze? Can all data be stored within Google Analytics? .

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

Here you'll find all my blog posts categorized into a structure that will hopefully make it easy for you to discover new content, find answers to your questions, or simply wallow in some excellent analytics narratives. " ~ Digital Analytics: "Am I thinking right? How To Excite People About Web Analytics: Five Tips.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 20, 2013

" comfort zone, and out of your Google Analytics, Site Catalyst, WebTrends worldview silo. Part of the reason is that the data you to which you have access narrows your worldview – "Hey, all I have is Google Analytics, so all I'll look at is Google Analytics data!" The answer is simple: Aggregators.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

Rashmi Sinha, co-founder and CEO of SlideShare , describes an early version of the analytics package that’s part of the Pro accounts the company announced today. “Individuals and small companies wanted analytics, they wanted to know what was happening in social media [for their content], they wanted ad removal and lead gen.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 20, 2009

All web analytics tools have a smattering of metrics and key performance indicators that were created just because someone decided it would be cute to add / subtract / multiply / divide some numbers. " The answer? And this one: A Primer On Web Analytics Visitor Tracking Cookies. Guess what? It's true! Makes sense right?

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

There are few things more complicated in analytics (all analytics, big data and huge data!) I normally ask people to look at the Path Length report in the Multi-Channel Funnels standard report in Google Analytics (or equivalent tool if you are using SiteCatalyst or WebTrends or other web analytics tools). It is sweet.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

By now we all know that the largest part of the online spend has been SEM (search engine marketing) where people buy CPC (cost per click) links to display alongside the “organic&# search results in the search engine. initially captured the Internet portal revenues by aggregating eyeballs.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 30, 2012

It is painfully heartbreaking to realize that a very small tiny number of people who have access to web analytics tools actually use them. Nourish yourself with the "info snacks" the tool's engineers and product managers cooked up. In-Page Analytics – Re-imagine Traveling Through Data. #5. Ravage all the features.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 17, 2016

When using Google Analytics as your platform, it is possible to see where website traffic has come from, whether it is from a paid ad on Google, Facebook advertising, an organic listing or referred from another website – the list goes on. photo credit: Ashleigh Brown. How does it work?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

She was an engineering and product executive at Stripe and Facebook. They've brought together a group of passionate volunteers across engineering, data science, content strategy, design, logistics and supply chain and disaster response to assist with open source solutions. Eric Ries : This is a pretty sober and deadly situation.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

This post details the role that UTM parameters play in traffic attribution in Google Analytics. Here’s what I’ll cover: Why conversion attribution starts with traffic attribution How Google Analytics understands traffic sources What are UTM parameters? How Google Analytics understands traffic sources. HTTP Referrer.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

Rich Data Discovery Enhances Society The BlazingDB team is passionate about its ability to conduct and promote large scale analytics. Advanced analytic companies such as OneModel , have full deployments and are experiencing scalability, performance leaps and cost reductions.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

A couple weeks back I'd requested the nice folks following me on Google+ and Facebook to submit their most important digital marketing and analytics questions. Some tools do pan-session analysis better than others, and there are a number of relatively new analytics solutions on the market today.

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