Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, August 24, 2009 Marching through quicksand I have been spending a lot of time lately talking to people in various media companies: editors and agents, executives, journalists, producers and directors. For established media empires, this is a scary fact.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

In order to achieve 20x growth, Snap needs grow both of those metrics 4–5x. Had Facebook not purchased Instagram, Facebook’s aggregate numbers likely would have dipped as millennials have largely abandoned Facebook for Instagram and Snapchat. Let’s look at each figure. 2 years ago my grandmother didn’t have Facebook.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. As we are entering a new year, I thought it would be interesting to publish every quarter an update on the state of the 13 public SaaS/Cloud companies in the Index. Cloud Computing. (1). Friday, March 12, 2010.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

But each keyword gets "credit" for other metrics. This way GA will show you both keywords while the aggregate for visits will not be skewed – as technically it is just one session. ]. Landin Gee: Besides compete.com, where else can I access free competitive intelligence (excluding social media tools)?

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

For example, while the data aggregation process in Google Analytics seems like a “normal” feature, it might be a hurdle if your business needs to process data at the hit level instead of by sessions or campaigns. Custom dimension and metrics. With Google Analytics 360, you can have 200 custom dimensions and 200 custom metrics.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Media Temple. Aptana Cloud (svn, IDE, php, java, rails etc…). Social Media Tracking/Marketing. Cloud Infrastructure. see the Libcloud -compatible cloud providers. Startup Metrics for Pirates â?? SaaS Metrics Tutorial â?? analytics for social media and online. Email Integration.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In an ecosystem, each participant acts according to its own imperatives, but these selfish actions have an aggregate effect. Now consider a traditional media business. The value of the attention that the media company collects determines how profitable it is. A successful startup strives for this latter case. Sorry about that.)

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Occam's Razor

MAY 20, 2013

The cloud above is a rough to-scale approximation of their current traffic sources. As is common in these types of educational companies, aggregators rule the roost. The above image only illustrates three segments and their conversions – search, referrals, and aggregators – purely for the sake for simplicity. They do everything.

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www.subelsky.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Because it has an RSS feed, one could also use "Unresolved Hoptoad Errors" as a metric influencing the continuous deployment system. This isnt Rails-specific, but we use SimpleDB for dumping a lot of important metrics data, like performance measurements, which we then turn into metrics.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 15, 2019

When it comes to infrastructure, you can choose from an on-premise solution, a cloud-based solution (such as Amazon Redshift or Google BigQuery) , or a hybrid solution. Now, this data is automatically imported with the Cloud Dataprep service by Trifecta. Ile de Beaute chose Google Cloud Storage for its connection to Google BigQuery.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. This introduction was also the opportunity to illustrate the amazing growth of our software and saas portfolio in the past years, with aggregated revenues reaching $1.2B Cloud Computing. (1). Cracking The Code.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Wize provides consumers with a unique way to leverage the online wisdom by aggregating the opinions of millions of users and by letting people ask questions about a specific product or need to the Wize community.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 15, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. The next wave of internet will come from companies aggregating these various data sets and leveraging them to provide more value to the user. Cloud Computing. (1). SaaS business metrics: why are they different?

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 30, 2012

When it comes to data analysis, you are usually more likely to see me share guidance on advanced segmentation or custom reports or advanced social metrics or controlled experiments or economic value or competitive intelligence or web analytics maturity or one of an infinite number of difficult, if hugely rewarding, things.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2014

11: Close to zero aggregated analysis exists, everything's segmented. #10: They are generic mash-ups that tailor to almost no one's needs, and more often than not contain awful things like nine not-really-thought out metrics for one dimension in a report. All data in aggregate is crap. " Kisses. Angels singing!

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

Designed for large businesses, the channels let a company share several types of documents, brand the channel with their own design elements, and then include display advertising, contest promotions, blog aggregation, social media integration and metrics reporting. The idea seemed to SlideShare to be a natural direction.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Effectively measuring and understanding your CAC and CLTV metrics are key to future success. The traditional metric of Bookings would value Customer A at $120,000 and suggest Customer B is more valuable at $180,000.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Ceedo’s unique PC software delivery platform can virtualize standard Windows applications, mobilize them through a cloud-based application marketplace and manage them on an isolated virtual workspace that runs from a USB device or PC. Logia has the unique combination of being both a content aggregator and a billing aggregator.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 9, 2019

From there, it was obvious that the name should also pertain to our unique position as a cloud-based service, so we thought about scalability and this became the Scale. Initially, when Mediametric was just founded, it was called Pandorama and was designed to aggregate fun news and trending content with a cute Panda being the logo.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

It kind of aggregates technology content, I suppose. But email quickly moved into the cloud. It was stored in the cloud. You can go read about it on Wikipedia and whatnot, but it's sort of a metric that economists use to look at the various countries of the world and measure how economically free those places are.

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