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14 Interesting Findings From The Startup Genome Project

YoungUpstarts

Startups that have helpful mentors, track metrics effectively, and learn from startup thought leaders raise 7x more money and have 3.5x more likely to successfully scale with sales driven startups than with product centric startups. Founders overestimate the value of IP before product market fit by 255%.

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Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project

Steve Blank

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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Is This Startup Ready For Investment?

Steve Blank

Since 2005 startup accelerators have provided cohorts of startups with mentoring, pitch practice and product focus. We collect the complete narrative of what they discovered talking to customers as well as aggregate interviews, hypotheses to test, invalidated hypotheses and mentor and instructor engagements. Or watch the video here.).

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A Quick Primer on B2B Conversion Optimization

ConversionXL

So instead of simply increasing the volume of leads on a landing page, you’re suddenly also supposed to factor in quality of leads, lifetime value, sales productivity, etc. So, you have lots and lots of products and that brings complexity. What Are Your Goals, and What Are Your Metrics? Whitepapers are a classic.

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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

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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Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox, part 1

eranki.tumblr.com

App-specific metrics. Another thing that became increasingly useful was to have thousands of custom stats aggregated over thousands of servers graphed. GeoIP for mapping IPs to locations. Unlike product, which is harder to reason about, backend engineering is fairly objective (optimize page load time, uptime, etc.)

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7+ Under-Utilized Google Analytics Reports for Conversion Insights

ConversionXL

Craig Sullivan, @OptimiseOrDie : I’m a performance junkie – because I started life as a network and security engineer with routers, TCP/IP and lots of cool tools for analyzing and fixing problems. You can now see 3 metrics called. (1) Case study: The impact of HTML delay on mobile business metrics [link].com/2011/11/23/case-study-

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