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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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

In comparison, Facebook Live shows overview metrics like minutes viewed, average percentage completion, and unique viewers.). Loom doesn’t require an Internet browser; Soapbox, on the other hand, is a Chrome extension. Brightcove analytics aggregated data effectively across those platforms.

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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. 2) Raise capital.

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SVPG

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Note: For the purposes of this article, consider the terms: “analytics,” “data,” “KPI" (Key Performance Indicator), and “metrics" to be synonymous. The data we aggregate (from all sources) can be a gold mine. I attribute this change to several factors. Inspire Product Work.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 5, 2023

Fortunately there’s some case law here which might help, and we only have to go back to earlier Internet days and the concept of safe harbor. And some sort of transparency statistics on these issues in aggregate. And it made my career possible, working with user generated content (UGC) at Second Life, AdSense, and YouTube.

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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. Today, many of these businesses are suffering because the ecosystem no longer balances thanks to the Internet. If you are building a large, viral, ad-support consumer internet property, you just want to go big!

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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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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

goods and services, especially services, and they are expanding in aggregate at a rate that even 10% U.S. A strong results and metrics-focused approach. The great thing is that via the Internet we CAN copy the principles of the best of them – Zappos’ and Mind Valley’s and scores of others are online for all to see.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 8, 2017

The first goal of the company was to invent an Internet-enabled biometric monitoring device—called the HEALTHspot®— that would allow people to privately track their weight loss and blood pressure results and earn cash rewards for sustained improvements in their health. What is unique about being a Healthy CEO?

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Meyler Capital is taking the analytical rigor of modern internet marketing and applying it to fund marketing. . Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking. I used Ipreo heavily at one of my prior VC funds. .

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Two others – that each team member give their input independently and that the results be objectively aggregated – are also key parts of building a meritocracy. Diversity is not the only requirement for making good group decisions. So why is demographic diversity important? So why is demographic diversity important?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 9, 2019

Click maps show you a heat map comprised of aggregated click data. It’s also easy to take in aggregate click data quickly and see broad trends. Sites have been using well-selected images to boost conversion rates since the dawn of internet, and with good reason. Just because it’s “instant” doesn’t mean it’s magic.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

And thanks to the radical transparency enabled by the internet, the quality of these proposals is actually constantly rising, to the point that it’s almost impossible to judge the quality of the final product – because all the proposals look polished and professional, even the terrible ones. Is that a lot?

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

It also puts another chink in the armor of the meme that monster internet companies can only be built in Silicon Valley (LivingSocial, Kayak, Gilt Groupe, CSN Stores, et al doing damage here too). The company is currently unprofitable, though generating meaningful free cash flow.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

The boom in Internet startups would last 4½ years until it came crashing down to earth in March 2000. The valuations for acquisitions were nothing like the Internet bubble, but there was a path to liquidity, difficult as it was. My own metric is that you need experience >= 1.5 Warning sign? At best. ~ Is 20 years enough?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

Why don't we just put this plan on the internet? It kind of aggregates technology content, I suppose. I think it was December of 2010, and happened to just be reading that paper on the internet one day and just immediately captivated my attention. And I actually really liked doing this. So that was my first interaction with it.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

For those who are less internet savvy, this is an area of internet marketing called competitor analysis. Researching this information using the internet doesn’t require years of working in the industry; it only requires patience and a bit of hard work – and what you do with the information is your remit.

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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. 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!

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. Time-to-complete-a-sale is not a bad metric for validated learning at this stage. Thank you for your simple, insightful explanation of why that is the wrong metric to use.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2016

Though speculation has bubbled over the past four years that such tactics were losing efficacy in a world where younger internet users, in particular, were showing preference for fast-paced messaging services, data shows that email use has actually risen substantially during that time period.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

When I was a kid, the way I logged onto the internet for the first time (to play MUDs, naturally) was through an open dial-up console at San Diego State University. No logins, no codes, just raw uncensored internet access. But aggregated across many schools, there are thousands or tens of thousands of them.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 26, 2022

You’d like to believe the world is completely meritocratic—that you’ll put your heads down to work on your company, hit all your metrics, and just show up on the doorstep of a VC firm who will just be bowled over at the fantastic little company you’ve created. What are those people finding when they poke around your internet presence?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

20:32) On believing in the internet as an immune system, then learning it's not and taking responsibility.(22:55) People, not just metrics. No longer even in the era of internet, a product customers actually liked. And this was mid '90s internet kind of philosophy. That the internet is an immune system.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Maybe you are wondering which metrics to track, or whether or not you should take out a loan for your business. Which metrics do you most rely on to understand your business itself. The question is what metrics do you most rely on to understand your business’s health? What specific metrics should they be monitoring?

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 30, 2008

In order to get optimal results from a group-based effort, you need three things: diversity, Independence , and an objective method for aggregating results. Aggregate results carefully. Let me briefly summarize the part of the book I find most helpful (leaving a few out, which arent germane to todays topic). Not all crowds are wise.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Conversion rate is one of those metrics that I strongly encourage you only create benchmarks for from your own data. … You can see the wisdom of not just setting a 20% aggregate conversion rate, based on the above benchmarking data. The above graph shows you the dangers of setting targets on aggregated benchmarking analysis.

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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. Steve believes these baby boomers will become a large market of internet savvy people up for grab. internet. (6). Cracking The Code. Thursday, May 15, 2008. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends. anecdotes. (13).

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ConversionXL

MARCH 26, 2014

The Service Provider is simply the name of the Internet service providers (ISPs) used by visitors to your site. verizon|communication|isp| comcast|tele|internet|dsl|road runner|pool|service provider|embarq|address| vodafone|sprint|network|cable| alltel|wifi|telkom|bellsouth|. You can now see 3 metrics called. (1) page load time.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Examples of things I monitor are the numbers of user activations, active users, and aggregate page hits to user galleries. Examples of things I monitor are the numbers of user activations, active users, and aggregate page hits to user galleries. Application level diagnostics Despite the best testing, defects still happen.

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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.

Software Review 48

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Using memcacheds multiget, which allows the fetching of many keys in parallel, I have written code to aggregate all the shard lookups for a given page and prefetch them, reducing the overhead even further. The mappings never change (unless you build a data migration tool, in which case they change rarely) and so are easy to cache.

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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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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

" ~ Web Metrics: "What is a KPI? " + Standard Metrics Revisited Series. "Engagement" Is Not A Metric, It's An Excuse. Defining a "Master Metric", + a Framework to Gain a Competitive Advantage in Web Analytics. Aggregation of Marginal Gains: Recession Busting Analytics!

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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 internet. (6). Cracking The Code. anecdotes.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Branding seconds is a compound metric that shows how much attention the logo earns, a strong predictor of likability. These are the metrics to keep in mind when designing for lasting positive memories. Recently, Sticky and ConversionXL Institute released an original study on logos. However, what truly mattered was recall.

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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. The first internet wave managed to solve pretty well the "Where to buy" problem, with sites like Kelkoo , Shopzilla , NextTag , PriceGrabber, or Shopping.com. internet. (6). How the use of internet is transform.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

I love looking at cost per account acquired as a key metric to share with potential acquirers. Well, in order to be “bankable,” meaning a company that a bank would lend to, you have to have some of these metrics dialed in. They can simply grow quite quickly by winning new customers. John Jantsch: Nor have I.

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