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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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Textio’s Founder Kieran Snyder on the Two Advantages Startups Have in AI (While Remaining Skeptical Of The Funding Gold Rush)

Hunter Walker

I was publishing quite a bit of original research about bias in workplace documents like performance reviews and job posts, a bunch of it went viral, and I got to know a lot of people who eventually became Textio customers. But investors rarely use their analytical skills in the context of understanding their own interactions with founders.

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27 Entrepreneurs Share Tips on Building an Ecommerce Business

Hearpreneur

As soon as you have 2-3 months' worth of sales data to work with, use a formula to calculate stock reorder levels to ensure you always have stock ready to go, especially if you're promoting your products on platforms known for viral content, like TikTok. Every element on the page needs to be tuned to help convert visits into sales.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

Both Sides of the Table

Because it can be hard to define or agree company objectives at an early stage I believe most people avoid them. Measuring viral adoption is obviously important. 10% of our revenue is coming from direct sales of our banner inventory. If you change your company objectives or measurements later that’s fine.

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Lean Analytics

Startup Lessons Learned

Lean Analytics is the latest addition to the Lean Series. If you're working on the Sticky Engine of Growth , you're focused on very different metrics from those that you care about in the Viral Engine of Growth. In the early days of a SaaS business, churn really doesn’t matter that much.

Analytics 167
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How to Raise Money – It’s a Journey Not An Event

Steve Blank

For startups the early stage funding landscape looks like this: Step 1: The Pre-seed round – you raise $100-$750K. In the seed round you have an early product and by the end you’ve found product/market fit and understand the scale of what you’re building and the levers that you can pull to accelerate growth.

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The Very Best Digital Metrics For 15 Different Companies!

Occam's Razor

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. B2B / Enterprise Sales: Salesforce. Please be creative and don’t take no for an answer when it comes to the value of analytics.

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