Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

By contrast, predictive analytics uses data patterns to make forward-looking predictions that guide you to where you should go next. According to Eric Siegel in the updated version of his classic book “ Predictive Analytics ,” it’s the power to predict who will click, buy, lie, or die. Additionally, predictive analytics can help make the best medical decision at the point of care. Big Data Eric Siegel predictive analytics startup

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 23, 2019

If you’ve ever dreamt of setting your own hours and being your own boss, consider switching to a career in business analytics. Turns out, just about every business from Main Street to Wall Street needs business analytics to maximize their potential growth.

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deal architect

MARCH 14, 2018

I spent a few hours at Anaplan’s annual Hub conference in Vegas. It is my first time at an Anaplan event and I sensed the buzz of a vendor going through a phase of rapid growth and having to manage. Cloud Computing, SaaS Enterprise Software (other vendors

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deal architect

MAY 24, 2018

Very few vendors actually do that but transaction processing vendors are constantly claiming to add analytical capabilities. Us analysts like to ask vendors: what next? I am constantly asking them to verticalize.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Instead, we’re comparing Mixpanel and Google Analytics in the terms that drive business growth—identifying the core use cases for each tool and the business problems they solve, while highlighting the features that make it possible. Google Analytics excels at revealing your traffic sources.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Recently, I’ve been working with a few of our portfolio companies to help them think about how to recruit and interview their first analytics hire. Analytics vs. Finance?—?what’s When to make your first analytics hire. What to look for in your first analytics hire.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2019

My professional areas of interest cover Customer Service, User Experience and Finance, though here on Occam’s Razor my focus is on influencing incredible Marketing through the use of innovative Analytics. First… The Analytics top ten things to focus on to elevate your game this year….

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

We hear a lot about the use of analytics to measure online statistics or in social media, but how using it to improve education? Others analytics data anaylytics education intelligent data learning online education

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ConversionXL

APRIL 10, 2019

If you’re not tracking form analytics, you don’t know. Form analytics can illuminate potential issues. Form analytics provide quantitative data on metrics such as field timings, field re-entries, last field before abandonment, completion rates by segment, etc. Digital Analytics

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Funnel tracking in Google Analytics is one of the best ways to identify—in detail—where you’re going wrong. I’ll show you six funnel features in Google Analytics to boost your conversions by understanding where prospects falter in their journey. Custom Funnels in Google Analytics 360.

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YFS Magazine

MAY 15, 2018

When it comes to website analytics, consider the areas you want to improve and then take the time to measure and track your progress on a monthly basis. Grow Marketing & Sales company website data intelligence marketing website analytics

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 16, 2018

A relatively new concept, data analytics is the wave of the business current and future. Safety is another advantage of data analytics. For example, Beantown looks to data analytics jobs Boston police can rely upon to determine where in the city crime occurs for officer distribution.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 13, 2018

For many, Google Analytics 360 is a black box. That disconnect exists because many, myself included, have understood Google Analytics 360 primarily as an expansion of the data caps we encounter with the free version. Google Analytics 360 overview. Digital Analytics

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 21, 2013

Lean Analytics is the latest addition to the Lean Series. For example, in the revenue stage—where the company is busy growing revenues and pouring a percentage of them back into user acquisition—there are several places where analytics and iteration can help increase revenues.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

The universe of digital analytics is massive and can seem as complex as the cosmic universe. Even simple questions like “ How effective is our analytics strategy? Both pictures above are frighteningly complex because the analytics world we occupy is complex.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 24, 2017

More than ever, businesses need to take full advantage of automation, data, and analytics to run their business more productively and competitively. Let the data and the analytics suggest the questions you need to ask, not the answers. Keep your eye on the data and the analytics.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 30, 2017

It’s implications are far and wide, even in the narrow scope that I live in (marketing, analytics, influence). Machine Learning | Analytics. Machine Learning | Analytics. More and more humans are going to be transitioned out of the business of analytics. A rare post today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2013

By contrast, predictive analytics uses data patterns to make forward-looking predictions that guide you to where you should go next. According to Eric Siegel in his new book “ Predictive Analytics ,” it’s the power to predict who will click, buy, lie, or die.

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deal architect

MARCH 14, 2018

I spent a few hours at Anaplan’s annual Hub conference in Vegas. It is my first time at an Anaplan event and I sensed the buzz of a vendor going through a phase of rapid growth and having to manage. Cloud Computing, SaaS Enterprise Software (other vendors

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YFS Magazine

MAY 26, 2017

Here's how startups and small businesses can tackle data analytics and stay ahead of the curve. Grow Technology big data data analytics data intelligence data management technologyBig data is the talk of the town.

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deal architect

MAY 24, 2018

Very few vendors actually do that but transaction processing vendors are constantly claiming to add analytical capabilities. Us analysts like to ask vendors: what next? I am constantly asking them to verticalize. Analysts also love to create new market categories. Cloud Computing, SaaS

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Every post is about unleashing the power of digital analytics (the potent combination of data, systems, software and people). But we've never stopped to consider this question: What is the return on investment (ROI) of digital analytics? Analysts: Put up or shut up time!

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

By contrast, predictive analytics uses data patterns to make forward-looking predictions that guide you to where you should go next. According to Eric Siegel in his newly updated book “ Predictive Analytics ,” it’s the power to predict who will click, buy, lie, or die.

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deal architect

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Analytics has replaced Quality as Job 1 and no wonder CEO Alan Mullaly has been rumored as a Microsoft CEO candidate As Ford rolls out the 6th generation of its iconic Ford Mustang, Computerworld reports "Historically, you didn''t want to

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2016

And, as if unlimited is not enough, nearly every month your analytics vendors release new features, you discover new analytics solutions, and as your business is more successful (hurray!) What guarantees that agility and innovation are present in your analytics practice?

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 10, 2015

In a Q&A after a keynote a couple of years ago, I was asked: " When will traditional business analysis subsume the web analytics silo? " " My reply: " All business will ultimately be digital, so, if anything, web analytics will subsume business analysis! "

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 12, 2015

The world of digital analytics seems to be insanely complicated. I led a discussion the other day with a collection of people who were brand new to the space and some who were jaded long-term residents of Camp Web Analytics. Digital Analytics Ecosystem: The Inputs.

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Brandanew

JANUARY 8, 2016

Social analytics and video marketing are likely to be the key marketing trends for 2016. We talked to global social media experts and influencers to share with us their top social analytics tools for the coming year. 16 Top Social Analytics Tools For 2016.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 11, 2015

You can download them into your Google Analytics account via one click (along with some lovely Advanced Segments and a Dashboard). Many custom reports are wrong because we mess up the fundamental data model in analytics. Standard reports stink. Custom reports rock!

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

This post covers an important evolution in Google Analytics' segmentation power. You are going to love analytics and analysis so much more by the time you are done with this post! Google Analytics: New Segmentation User Experience. Google Analytics: Cohort Analysis.

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deal architect

JANUARY 10, 2014

Cloud revenues are just 4% of total 2013 revenues. Three of its senior cloud executives from SuccessFactors and Ariba acquisitions have moved on in the last year. Its own internally developed BYD shows little traction after years of investment. Enterprise Software (IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Like this blog, it will be particularly relevant for those who are in digital analytics and digital marketing. The first two are from editions of my newsletter, The Marketing – Analytics Intersect (it goes out weekly, and is now my primary publishing channel, sign up!).

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2017

by Andrew Wells and Kathy Chiang, co-authors of “ Monetizing Your Data: A Guide to Turning Data into Profit-Driving Strategies and Solutions “ Data and analytics have redefined the way we compete. There are five keys to leading in the age of analytics: 1.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

The outcome of book smart is rarely better for analytics practitioners then folks trying to learn how to fly an airplane from how-to books. This is all the way from Aug 2009: Web Analytics Career Advice: Play In The Real World! Go to the Analytics Help Demo Account page.

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deal architect

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

Nate Silver, the election forecaster was on CNN this morning. Try as hard as he might, Fareed Zakaria could not get very specific answers about November from Nate. I found that segment part frustrating because of Nate’s evasiveness, part fascinating

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Predictive analytics, in other words, wasn’t a panacea. This post details those changes and shows how several businesses—and not just behemoths—have cultivated the predictive analytics landscape. Increasingly powerful systems cracked open the door for real-time predictive analytics.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 1, 2017

Luckily, much of the guesswork in measuring ROI has become much more easy to track: analytics allow you to establish data-driven goals and measures across marketing channels, streamlining and focusing your efforts. Analytics can also point out market limits. by Lewis Robinson.

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YFS Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2019

AI and advanced analytics are truly transformative technologies, but they are not magic pills your company can swallow to instantly become the next Amazon. Grow Technology artificial intelligence big data data analytics data intelligence technology

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 28, 2018

With this transition, data becomes the underpinning factor and companies are to concern themselves what data they need, how it is shared, where it stored, how fast it moves and the analytical power to trigger the next business decision. by Lynette Seah, founder of Alpha7.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 13, 2015

The 80/20 rule applies to our use of web analytics tools as well. I recommend that periodically you gather folks around you for lunch, pull up Adobe Analytics on the big screen in the conference room, let each person expose one hidden report or feature.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 5, 2016

I am insanely excited that we can track ad blocking behavior in Google Analytics, so easily. Setting Google Analytics front end elements (custom dimensions, advanced segments). Let now go and configure the Google Analytics front-end. Go to any report in Google Analytics.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Remember, when someone says mobile analytics, first ask the clarifying question: Do you mean mobile application or mobile website ? Then approach each separately (even though there are tools like Google Analytics that will do both). Analytics > Mobile > Overview > Devices.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Most testing tools have gotten better at it over the years, but still lack what you can do with Google Analytics – which is like everything. You need to integrate each test with Google Analytics. Otherwise you risk overwriting some of the test data stored in Google Analytics.

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