Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Analytics spark more questions and discussion than almost any other aspect of the Lean Startup method. If you’re coming to them from outside the tech sector, the language around analytics can be particularly confusing. For those new to analytics, Alistair and Ben have a free Udemy course well worth checking out.

Analytics 167

Analytics Lean Widget Metrics 167

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

Because it can be hard to define or agree company objectives at an early stage I believe most people avoid them. If you can break this down by channel that you’ve acquired them from this is obviously better. Measuring viral adoption is obviously important. How many adds came through organic SEO? How many through SEM?

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

For startups the early stage funding landscape looks like this: Step 1: The Pre-seed round – you raise $100-$750K. You need to begin to “instrument” your customer acquisition process with analytics. Still, there are some benchmarks to keep in mind. Here’s the first 2½ years of a startup journey. The Startup Investment Landscape.

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Cofounder Seed Stage Valuation Metrics 431

View from Seed

OCTOBER 18, 2017

As a monitoring and analytics software for DevOps, there are relatively few end users that live in their software day in and day out. How Can Seed-Stage Startups Become Ubiquitous or Habitual? But this is difficult even for mature companies to accomplish, and most early-stage companies are just trying to succeed in one dimension.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Now more than ever, social media channels are increasingly the norm, so further investing in community activities like meet-ups and workshops can add a face-to-face element — one that is extremely valuable. Building and engaging a community through online forums and email lists is often a common first step. Publisher Platform (P3).

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France Marketing Social Media Startup 77

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

In the tactics section, list your sales channels and describe how you will be selling your products. He says, “Spending a few thousand on a domain could make a big difference long term, and give you the credibility and advantage over the competition, especially in the very beginning and early stages of the business.”.

Software Review 74

Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

Then, you would ensure the obsession your analytics strategy adopts this month/quarter/year for Assisted Conversion is to segment them for SDC to validate the impact of those high priority campaigns. Please be creative and don’t take no for an answer when it comes to the value of analytics. A quick best practice.

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Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 141

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

In my case (LucidEra -- a SaaS analytics provider focusing on sales, marketing, and financial analytics), weve found that success requires not only building some best practices for analytics into our solution, but also coming up with a repeatable and scalable way to show the customer how to use the analytics and how to interpret the results.

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48