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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

Both Sides of the Table

Having a set of metrics that you watch & that you feel are the key drivers of your success helps keep clarity. And the more public you can make your goals for these key metrics the better. You will likely have multiple sets of metrics you keep depending on the company’s stage, one’s function in the company and level.

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Facebook Advertising / Marketing: Best Metrics, ROI, Business Value

Occam's Razor

FBe's recommendation was (paraphrasing a 35 min talk): Don't invent new metrics, use online versions of Reach and GRPs to measure success. Because we don't understand the uniqueness, we fall back on profoundly sub-optimal old world metrics like Reach or Online GRP equivalents. Metrics are a problem.

Metrics 165
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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

I’ve recently come across several of such lists and I thought it could be useful to aggregate them and share them here. A lightweight “agent” with access to logs and metrics can, to start, retrieve relevant information (e.g. and generate a post mortem.

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Viral, Social, Sentiment, Mobile: 4 Delightful Web Analytics Solutions

Occam's Razor

That's not including others I actively seek out around the web. Remember I am the creator of the 10/90 rule of investment in web analytics. Add a piece of javascript to your web page (do a View Source on this page to see it), and it will tell you how often your content is being copied. Simple right? First Some Context.

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3 Advanced Web Analytics Visitor Segments: Non-Flirts, Social, Long Tail

Occam's Razor

I am an unabashed segmentation fan: Web Analytics Segmentation: Do Or Die! It helps us get data-gasms, improve ROI for our web efforts and get our bosses promoted. Web Analytics or WebTrends or. It shows the distribution of the pages people see on your site (not the "silly" metric, average page views per session).

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How to Segment A/B Test Results to Find Gold

ConversionXL

If you segment your A/B test results by browser version, you might discover that customers coming from the Safari web browser are converting much better than the average. In any experiment, some metric within some group usually changes, but whether we’ve invested in the statistical rigor to discover it is another question altogether.”.

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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