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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm . 3) Raise capital.

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Product Design for SaaS Startups: Best Practices and Examples

ReadWriteStart

It’s disheartening, but sadly, this is one experience that many startup founders face. I understand the struggles that come with being a startup founder. Use data analytics: Data analytics can provide valuable insights into how users interact with your product. The good news is that there’s hope!

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Critical Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Founders

Up and Running

However, as a founder of a small business or startup, you’re juggling many things. Use current analytics to identify which business processes should be measured and who the stakeholders are. KPIs Every Founder Should Track. Customer churn rate: shows the percentage of customers lost in a given period (e.g.,

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Social Media Analytics: Twitter: Quantitative & Qualitative Metrics

Occam's Razor

When it comes to marketing because of the old world thinking from the worlds of sTelevision and Magazines, and when it comes to measurement because of the world of traditional web analytics. My new book Web Analytics 2.0 Most twitter analytics tools just do data puking. Twitter Analytics. Quantitative Metrics / Analyses.

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Acquire New Users by Adding Growth Hacking to your Marketing Strategy

ConversionXL

GrowthHackers founder and former Head of Growth at Dropbox, Sean Ellis , coined the term: “A growth hacker is a person whose true north is growth. In his course on Growth Mindset (part of CXL’s Growth Marketing Minidegree ), WeTheFuture.org founder John McBride describes three key components of a successful growth marketer: 1.

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Lean Analytics

Startup Lessons Learned

Lean Analytics is the latest addition to the Lean Series. Here's what they have to say about churn rates in SaaS businesses: The best SaaS sites or applications usually have churn ranging from 1.5% When they started, founders Ben Baldwin and Jamie Schneiderman offered a $99/month (per job posting) package. “We

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The Lean Analytics Cycle: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act

Occam's Razor

This thought was in my mind as I was reading Lean Analytics a new book by my friend Alistair Croll and his collaborator Benjamin Yoskovitz. In this post, we’ll look at each of the four steps in the Lean Analytics Cycle in more detail. Let’s say, for example, that you’re trying to lower the churn rate on an application.

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