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. Products can find sources of validation with impressive stats along a number of dimensions, such as high engagement, viral coefficient, or long-term retention.

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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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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

There has never been a viral outbreak of such magnitude before. Consequently, you’ve decided to utilize this passion and expertise to collect and aggregate social media data from some of the popular social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, CrunchBase, and LinkedIn. Final thoughts.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

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. " Become.com is a search engine designed to help consumers searching for products on the web. software. (10).

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Coalesce address the more general problem of searching through large data sets for best fits. Pacer is useful to search prior litigation, bankruptcies, etc. Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking.

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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. In a previous post , I covered the three main drivers of growth: Paid, Sticky, and Viral. Let’s look at a viral growth company, like Facebook. A successful startup strives for this latter case.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 19, 2014

But the problem is that single golden metrics hide valuable insights and, more often than not, drive bad behavior. Here's my proposal: If you are pushed to have a single golden metric, give it a partner. The BFF metric you find should not be one that is very far away. So, great metric. Honestly, who can blame them.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 16, 2016

Net Promoter Score is a customer loyalty metric developed by (and a trademark of) Fred Reichheld, Bain & Company, and Satmetrix. Instead of distributing bulky customer satisfaction surveys, where even your managers don’t know what to do with the results, you have only one question, one metric to deal with. Beauty in Simplicity.

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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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Brandanew

JANUARY 8, 2016

My two go-to Twitter analytics and search tools? Twitter’s own analytics and search. I have tested a lot of tools that do a great job of measuring aggregate data and spitting out a recap, but NUVI has a unique way of score influencers, color coding sentiment, and finding trends in real-time. You work smart.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Effectively measuring and understanding your CAC and CLTV metrics are key to future success. Bessemer SaaS Law #1: Your key monthly business metrics are: CMRR (Committed Monthly Recurring Revenue), Churn, and Cash flow - “Bookings” is for suckers. Brian, Paglo www.paglo.com. Great list! Great list! Philippe Botteri.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

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 What metrics should I be using to drive a saas business? If you want to learn more on SaaS metrics, you can read my previous blog post. software. (10).

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 29, 2013

Many used some data, but they unfortunately used silly data strategies/metrics. And silly simply because as soon as the strategy/success metric being obsessed about was mentioned, it was clear they would fail. 1 Search Results Ranking = SEO Success. It is a really good metric. Silly not in their eyes, silly in my eyes.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 15, 2008

The next wave of internet will come from companies aggregating these various data sets and leveraging them to provide more value to the user. In search of Europe's next tech stars. SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Small and medium businesses. (2). software. (10).

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