Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2011

The solution I’m exploring is a just in time learning methodology that accelerates founders’ learning curve by aggregating relevant content, peers and mentors.&#. Founders that learn are more successful : Startups that have helpful mentors, track metrics effectively, and learn from startup thought leaders raise 7x more money and have 3.5x

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Up and Running

AUGUST 24, 2020

Simply put, IoT is a combination of sensor and data analytics systems, helping businesses aggregate metrics to make more accurate decisions. In the supply chain management space, businesses are leveraging these data sources in app development for smart inventory management, logistics, and merchandising.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

Nick Kim , Crosscut’s Head of Platform, in his presentation at the 4th Annual VC Platform Summit, shared their Platform development methodology, which he viewed as an exercise in product development. For example, recruiting writ large is useful at all stages of development. aggregates resources from all the VCs.

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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. You’re second-guessing different motivations/segments and developing different solutions for context.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior Great companies are almost always run by great management teams. Good metrics should also be actionable, and drive successful behavior. In a follow up post, I will use this technique to walk through the design of a set of metrics for a SaaS company.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

Every year, our team conducts more than 500 customer development calls to understand what challenges the community is facing. It all started with a small group of founders and product enthusiasts who self-aggregated into an online community. ReadyTalk became interested in Lean Startup principles to develop new lines of business.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

While it doesn’t eliminate great investor judgment, pattern recognition skills and mentoring, we’ve developed an Investment Readiness Level tool that fills in these missing pieces. The Power of the Investment Readiness Level: Different Metrics for Different Industry Segments. Or watch the video here.). Medical Devices.

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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.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2016

Inspired by the movie ‘Moneyball,’ MoneyBall syndrome refers to the fact that companies aren’t looking into the right metrics when measuring the effectiveness of their mobile website. Some marketers try looking at conversion as a solo metric of determining how their CTAs perform on mobile. Revamp Mobile Metrics to Combat Moneyball.

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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. ” Historically, investing was a manual, artisan process. VC Firm. $ 17% (13 / 80).

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Steve Blank

APRIL 21, 2011

Virtual channels include Dedicated e-commerce, Two-step e-distribution and Aggregators. Last week we challenged the team that unless they developed hardware which could tell the difference between a weed and a plant, their business model would be just another set of PowerPoint slides. The Nine Teams Present. All that we expected.

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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.

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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.

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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. One thing to make clear, StartupRoar is a jump off point.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 16, 2021

As we have said, the trouble with focusing on broad markets, aggregate revenue and gross margins, is that this approach does not show us what the bottom line is for every transaction. If you can unlock the secrets of your customers, understand them better than any other company, developing solutions for them will be easy.

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Board Effect

JUNE 14, 2019

The nonprofit’s response indicates that a growing number of organizations are taking their responsibilities of developing a data breach response plan more seriously. This defense also covers control frameworks, defines the metrics for KRIs, and performs risk assessments. The second line of defense is risk management.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 5, 2023

An AI Safe Harbor Provision Would Create Guidelines For Development & Safety Without Premature Regulations The conversation around Artificial Intelligence has started to take on a binary quality, rather prematurely, as if we were debating the two sides of a coin rather than a more complex shape. Let builders build as is” vs “Regulate.”

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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?

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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.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

All successful media companies had at their heart a series of editors, producers, and agents tasked with discovering and developing new talent. 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. Is that a lot? Is that good?

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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. And what of the product development team? And yet, their investors are frustrated.

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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.

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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. ?.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Venture Capitalists on your board developed the expertise to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits. Warning sign? At best. ~

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

What Are Your Goals, and What Are Your Metrics? They ask and negotiate budgets for technology or corporate development. What this means depends on the company, but it can take into account different metrics like pathing, time on site, video engagement, company size, role, etc. There are more conversations around buying.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 16, 2021

As we have said, the trouble with focusing on broad markets, aggregate revenue and gross margins, is that this approach does not show us what the bottom line is for every transaction. If you can unlock the secrets of your customers, understand them better than any other company, developing solutions for them will be easy.

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Up and Running

JUNE 23, 2015

Maternal health is a concern the world over, especially in developing nations. According to the World Health Organization, 800 women die every day during childbirth, with 99 percent of those deaths taking place in the developing world. 90 percent of our clients are ordering more than one product at a time, so we’re an aggregator.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 18, 2010 Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events The following is a case study of one entrepreneurs transition from a traditional development cycle to continuous deployment. Managing weekly releases got a lot harder once I started doing customer development.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 8, 2017

The second goal for incentaHEALTH was to develop a comprehensive behavior change program to help people engage in healthy eating and active living. Some innovators with integrated business models like Kaiser Permanente are making great strides in aggregating your patient data and making it accessible to you.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Cliff also sparked an idea that along with using in a separate conversations sparked the idea that we should be using Southern California Tech Central as a means of helping to aggregate the conversation. For example, I think that looking at Startup Metrics and the implications around that would be a really interesting conversation.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Naively thinking that the problem was our own capacity to sift through the large quantity of startups (and not the fact that there is a large noise to signal ratio), I asked myself, what if I just developed a model to find more companies? I then applied some ML algorithms in an attempt to predict startup success.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2016

That doesn’t mean that email strategies are easy to develop and execute. 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.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2019

A report that can be filtered and aggregated by data points like team, portfolio, or customer, also acts as a KPI that allows teams to identify which projects need attention, which are profiting, and which are facing losses. He has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry and has managed dozens of software development projects.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 14, 2015

One of Eric’s pieces of advice is to ‘make your problems tangible’ At the time he is recommending companies use cohort analysis instead of aggregated customer analytics so they can see whether changes to the product are making any difference. It’s a very good book and deserving of it’s reputation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

But its not very open, and not very programmable, unless you have an expensive Mac and an approved developer license. Not only are there free compilers and development systems, but there are also a number of efforts to develop development systems and languages specifically aimed at teaching kids to program.

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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.

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www.subelsky.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Eric asked me what specific tools Rails developers could use when building a lean startup. Because it has an RSS feed, one could also use "Unresolved Hoptoad Errors" as a metric influencing the continuous deployment system. For our metrics we mainly use Graphite , the graphing and analysis system open-sourced last year by Orbitz.

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