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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klinger.io

JANUARY 17, 2014

Andreas Klinger #product #metrics #marketing Startup Lessons Learned. A Primer on Startup Metrics – Which Analytics Tool to pick. As a analytics consultant I am working with a lot of startups and help them in the topics of metrics, analytics, retention and growth. The Segmentation of web analytics. ⇓ Work. ?.

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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. 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

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. It is a really good metric. There are many spectacular reasons for why Like (and +1s, Followers) is a horrible metric.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

" ~ Web Metrics: "What is a KPI? " + Standard Metrics Revisited Series. Key To Your Digital Success: Web Analytics Measurement Model. Six Tips For Improving High Bounce / Low Conversion Web Pages. How To Excite People About Web Analytics: Five Tips. Who Owns Web Analytics? How to focus?"

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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. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, cause disaster.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Overall, I spent about 1/3 of my time looking at Web 2.0 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. SaaS business metrics: why are they different?

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Effectively measuring and understanding your CAC and CLTV metrics are key to future success. Keep up the blogging and web casts and we will keep listening and growing. Bessemer SaaS Law #1: Your key monthly business metrics are: CMRR (Committed Monthly Recurring Revenue), Churn, and Cash flow - “Bookings” is for suckers.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

It has been awesome, flattering, and humbling to see that post went viral and has been seen by so many thousands of people — mainly aspiring entrepreneurs — and has been translated into many languages. The time to start thinking mobile first vs. web first was 6 months ago. We do twice-yearly reviews of all Fab team members.

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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.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 15, 2008

the rise of CleanTech, and the next wave of web applications and services, with a hint to the potential of the baby boomers. The idea is that all your personal data captured when you browse and transact on the web today is held in silos (Amazon, Netflix, Google.) SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Save the planet!

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Brandanew

JANUARY 8, 2016

It trolls the web and targets each conversation that is talking about the monitor you set up. 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. Lots of advantages to the platform!

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

There's a good enough vaccine to get the virality rate below one. There are entrepreneurs who have a background in biotech, but were doing a non biotech thing, who put their web services or whatever company on hold and said, "I know something that could be helpful to people trying to produce a vaccine here.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

For that year, the metrics look amazing. Their growth came from users, and they had true virality. Just remember that true virality is really rare. But in aggregate, they can make a big difference. After all, conversion rates can go only so high. I’ve done this multiple times across multiple companies. Conversions are up.

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