David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

aggregates resources from all the VCs. For instance, tracking ‘months-of-runway’ combined with the month-over-month change to that metric allows us to rapidly identify companies that may be distressed. You might hire a really amazing designer, and perhaps even charge companies for their service for cost recovery purposes.

Private Equity 78

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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. Was the variant designed mobile-first? In the same vein, consider a metric like ‘time on site.’.

Chad 112

Chad Mobile Technical Review Aggregator 112

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Google Analytics switched its default metric from “sessions” to “users” in 2018, mirroring Mixpanel’s emphasis on users over pageviews. Google’s dominance of the ad market has bolstered its primacy for acquisition metrics—integrations with Google Ads (search and display) are comprehensive and seamless.

Analytics 119

Analytics Technical Review Acquisition Retention 119

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

An investor had few hard metrics other than the actual financials, and little technology to make the process scaleable. Over the past few decades, better metrics became available, and investors could take a more analytical, data-driven approach. Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

ConversionXL

JULY 21, 2022

By focusing intently on a single measurement, known as a north star metric. The north star metric defines success for the whole company and aligns teams on a growth trajectory. In this article, you’ll learn how other growing companies use the north star metric to achieve customer success. Customer-centricity. Accountability.

Metrics 120

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Nowadays nearly every online shop utilizes some sort of product recommendation engine, which is no wonder, as these systems, if set up and configured properly can significantly boost revenues, CTRs, conversions, and other important metrics. This is a very important metric when evaluating a recommender system.

Conversion 48

Conversion Product Technical Review Widget 48

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

Intellectual Property 175

Intellectual Property Aggregator Startup IP 175

The Startup Magazine

JULY 16, 2021

Understanding your market segments will not only help you to drive profitability, it will help you to understand business risk and better design an adaptable business model. . We should no longer think in broad market terms but in terms of segments. Clarify What Your Company’s Profit Segmentation Is.

Business Model 167

Business Model Aggregator Revenue Analytics 167

Version One Ventures

AUGUST 16, 2017

Let’s think about the typical (and simplified) data flow in a company: raw data is aggregated, normalized or processed and then stored in a data warehouse. As a company grows bigger, dashboards sprout up all over the organization with KPIs and metrics that mean different things to different people. What’s the problem with this?

San Francisco 87

San Francisco Metrics SQL Portfolio 87

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 12, 2015

At the core of everything you will do in digital analytics is the concept of metrics. How do you define a metric: It is simply a number. Your digital analytics tools are full of metrics. Helpful post: Best Metrics For Digital Marketing: Rock Your Own And Rent Strategies.]. Now you have your foundation, metrics and KPIs.

Analytics 60

Analytics Metrics Web Leadership 60

klinger.io

JANUARY 17, 2014

Andreas Klinger #product #metrics #marketing Startup Lessons Learned. A Primer on Startup Metrics – Which Analytics Tool to pick. A Primer on Startup Metrics – Which Analytics Tool to pick. Accounting are the metrics we track over time. Follow @andreasklinger. On this website I share notes & thoughts. ?.

Analytics 67

Analytics Metrics Startup Database 67

Hearpreneur

JULY 8, 2017

Some innovators with integrated business models like Kaiser Permanente are making great strides in aggregating your patient data and making it accessible to you. I love how the restaurant chain Season’s 52 was designed with most menu items having 475 calories or less. Aligning incentives with good health is one step in that direction.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire 48

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

In a startup context, numbers like gross revenue are actually vanity metrics, not actionable metrics. Similarly, it’s easy to generate large aggregate numbers by simply falling back to non-disruptive or non-sustainable tactics (see Validated learning about customers for one example). June 8, 2009 1:16 AM Colin said.

San Francisco 102

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

So while many usability heuristics remain the same in B2B website design and functionality , much of what goes into lead gen, sales, and analysis is different. What Are Your Goals, and What Are Your Metrics? There you want to look at things in clumps and aggregates. To what points in the customer journey do they correspond?

B2B 48

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule. Time-to-complete-a-sale is not a bad metric for validated learning at this stage.

Customer 167

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

The Startup Magazine

JULY 16, 2021

Understanding your market segments will not only help you to drive profitability, it will help you to understand business risk and better design an adaptable business model. . We should no longer think in broad market terms but in terms of segments. Clarify What Your Company’s Profit Segmentation Is.

Business Model 78

Business Model Aggregator Revenue Analytics 78

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Despite all the energy invested in talking to authors about the size of their platform, very few gatekeepers have a rigorous set of metrics for measuring it. The problem is that there are no other metrics they can look at to judge the content of a book to know if it’s worth reviewing. Is that a lot? In that I see opportunity.

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

BeyondVC

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Wait, isn’t user engagement more of a consumer metric? It is, but it is equally as important to focus on this metric in the enterprise. Another important metric to optimize for would be expansion of users within an existing account. My answer is the less obvious one?—?focus

Revenue 60

Revenue Customer Metrics Aggregator 60

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 13, 2015

So by segmenting your data, you can learn things you couldn’t from the aggregate data. You design an A/B test where the A group sees a red button and the B group sees a blue one. Will this cohort help me improve that metric?”. Their metric was revenue: Image Source. What targets do I need to hit this year?

Conversion 48

Conversion Retention Acquisition Metrics 48

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2016

In such a world, knowledge is power, which is why we were so excited to take a look at IBM Marketing Cloud’s 2016 Email Marketing Metrics Benchmark Study. There is distinctive benefit in establishing a frequency balance. It’s the law of numbers: more opportunities to generate results tends to add up. What about you?

Email 48

Email Marketing Metrics Campaign 48

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. Your effort will make this post 100x more valuable.

Analytics 145

Analytics Green Metrics Web 145

ConversionXL

MARCH 13, 2013

Traffic volume is a vanity metric. So I was a bit too caught up in vanity metrics like traffic volume and I was happy to say I was getting 10-15K visits a month but is that even good? Look I’m not going to tell you that vanity metrics are useless and you shouldn’t look at your traffic stats. What are vanity metrics?

Metrics 111

Metrics Analytics Aggregator Revenue 111

Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

While the group sentiment for 2010 did not improve significantly vs. November 2009, the projections for 2011 are now a lot more optimistic - 42% higher 2011 aggregated EBITDA announced in March 2010 vs. the November 09! SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Design courtesy of Ashley Cecil. SaaS 13 Index Valuation.

Software Review 63

Software Review Technical Review Cloud Forecast 63

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

I see people using total search traffic or total site traffic or… other imprecise metrics. All numbers in aggregate are at best marginally useful, and that rule applies to this one too. But like the other metrics above, there is a pattern between brand and non-brand (with brand higher on this metric).

Analytics 136

Analytics Metrics Search Aggregator 136

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

My own metric is that you need experience >= 1.5 A serious study here: [link] concluded that younger people being more creative is a highly predictable at the aggregate level. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Warning sign? Say 40 years = 20 years real direct experience. At best. ~ Is 20 years enough?

Silicon Valley 223

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 223

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Prior to starting any maker activity, I clearly identify what needs to get done (the goal) and sketch out how it needs to get done (the design). Examples of things I monitor are the numbers of user activations, active users, and aggregate page hits to user galleries. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23.

Continuous Deployment 151

Continuous Deployment San Francisco Lean Wiki 151

www.subelsky.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

His descriptions of lean startup techniques and philosophies have had a big influence on the way I design and build software. Because it has an RSS feed, one could also use "Unresolved Hoptoad Errors" as a metric influencing the continuous deployment system. I'm a lighting audio and video designer.

Lean 41

Lean Baltimore Ruby Maryland 41

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Team Aggregate DB, which is working on how the State Department can better gather and leverage information on informal leaders in foreign countries, was called on the carpet for failing to call on some high-level contacts provided by the professors that could potentially change their mission model.

Eritrea 255

Eritrea Lean Libya Silicon Valley 255

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Team Aggregate DB, which is working on how the State Department can better gather and leverage information on informal leaders in foreign countries, was called on the carpet for failing to call on some high-level contacts provided by the professors that could potentially change their mission model.

Eritrea 255

Eritrea Lean Libya Silicon Valley 255

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 2, 2016

One of the major benefits of the digital age is that marketers now have far more meaningful metrics by which to evaluate the success of their initiatives. Even when metrics are not tied to dollar amounts, collect, organize, and analyze trends in performance. Contextualize all available data relative to aggregate spend.

Marketing 48

Marketing Metrics Aggregator Social Media 48

abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Over 13 years ago, in March of 2000, I wrote a blog post titled “ The Most Powerful Internet Metric of All. ” The key thesis was this: if an Internet company could obsess about only one metric, it should be conversion. As such, it is time to pound the table again – conversion is by far the most powerful Internet metric of all.

Metrics 93

Metrics Conversion Internet Acquisition 93

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.

Valuation 48

Valuation Technical Review Forecast Social Network 48

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

The digital platform ICAS®, Integrated Construction & Architecture Software, completely digitizes the design, procurement and logistics process of building healthcare facilities. Their rapid process from design to installation of healthcare facilities is helping to improve quality healthcare around the world.

Technical Review 128

Technical Review Founder Saudi Arabia Cofounder 128

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

Additionally, “a startup is usually a company designed to effectively develop and validate a scalable business model. Year-on-year growth metrics in unique site traffic is 7.8 My blog has some useful marketing strategies –that are designed to drive unique, authoritative traffic to the brand’s website.

Bootstrapping 85

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

These 6 KRIs are The CHICAGO MetricsR and are the result of an aggregation algorithm based on any number of tactical metrics. Since basis of the company was to create, track, and report out on metrics it fit with the theme and the name, hence, CHICAGO MetricsR. Thanks to EdwardMarchewka, CHICAGO MetricsR ! #3- It took me 2.5

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Naming India Chicago Entrepreneur 152

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. Early this year, SlideShare launched custom channels.

San Francisco 167

San Francisco Lean Analytics Continuous Deployment 167

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 28, 2011

A market merely defines the aggregate of demand for a product or service and every organization, whether for profit or not participates in one. Just as businesses large and small use analytics tools to understand their traffic, their customers, and their conversion metrics, NFPs can also benefit from the tools used for this.

Lean 91

Lean Marketing Public Relations Social Media 91