Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 7, 2016

Set business goals and milestones, and use metrics to track performance. In this era of rapid technology advancement, an open mind must be the norm in leveraging the latest tools and process architectures. Continuous improvement applies to the business model as well as the product. Enable team members to run the business as their own.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 11, 2019

Architectural and software design integrity is very important to us. Typically, the solution will be presented in graphical form, such as a system architecture with flow diagrams. Technical design quality. At Shippo, we also consider tech debt in our definition of code quality. Not all code needs to be scalable.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Establish a Conversational Track Architecture Implementing a conversational track architecture through ABM involves segmenting personas and buyers to create tailored conversations. These metrics must align with the goals of delivering messages to target accounts and ensuring a positive customer experience throughout the engagement.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 4, 2018

There will also still be some amazing companies that raise their Series C, D and beyond funding rounds with scaling metrics. We are at the beginning stages of one of the biggest IT shifts in history as legacy workloads in the enterprise continue to move to a cloud-native architecture. Serverless technologies….

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 29, 2018

Non-standardization of IT architectures hinders the achievement of cost-effective. Establishment of objectives with specific trackable metrics is the key to successful automation. Lack of organizational maturity and appropriate skills are the main inhibitors for automation process success. Source: Pixabay.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

A CTO will guide your product strategy, market validation, architectural decisions, process optimization, recruiting, and hiring. They adopt, measure, and manage key product performance metrics. A CTO is in the business of scale, for whatever an organization has as its core metrics.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? That means knowing whats written and whats not, what the architecture can and cant support, and how long it would take to build something new. Thats more than just drawing architecture diagrams, though.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

As a consequence, corporations used metrics like return on net assets (RONA), return on capital deployed, and internal rate of return (IRR) to measure efficiency. These metrics make it difficult for a company that wants to invest in long-term innovation.

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

The implementation and architecture can also suffer if the team under or over invests engineering time, implementation of standards, or testing discipline in the wrong areas. decide on success metrics, measure, and then decide if additional investment is warranted. This, in some way, is a byproduct of self organization.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 12, 2012

With these building blocks in place, you’ll have the architecture to build a sustainable culture that delivers outstanding service every day. Service Measures and Metrics. Surveys are a great example of how Service Measures and Metrics can become disconnected from the practical levers of power. Common Service Language.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Good whitepaper on advertising measurement metrics | by Ben Kunz – crowdspring.co/HsVIMR. Good whitepaper on advertising measurement metrics | by Ben Kunz – crowdspring.co/HsVIMR. Good whitepaper on advertising measurement metrics – crowdspring.co/HsVIMR. Commuting’s Hidden Cost | NYT - crowdspring.co/1aR15fY.

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Up and Running

APRIL 17, 2018

Plan your website architecture. For more information about website architecture, check out this article from Matrix Marketing Group. How will you know if your website is working for you if you never look at your metrics? This is called internal linking. Measure and analyze your success (and failure).

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Conversely, the things you measure well, with easily understood and visible metrics, tend to improve without much extra push. The architecture/capabilities needed to build out a more resilient communication network. More like a surgical strike. 1 is measurement. If you can’t measure it you can’t manage it.

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ConversionXL

JULY 22, 2021

This makes website architecture an important technical SEO factor. As well as prioritizing key pages in your site architecture, an audit helps convince Google of a page’s importance by: . Each of these tools will display metrics in a different way. Review your site architecture and sitemap to make content accessible.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 7, 2016

Richard Thaler and and Cass Sunstein wrote in Nudge about a concept called “ choice architecture ” – swaying decisions towards the best option through a variety of small tweaks called “nudges.” One example that comes to mind is metrics. What’s the one metric of success that will define your tests? Totally awesome.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Many of the newer service marketplaces feel more like “movements” rather than “businesses,” and actually require very careful architecture of the end-to-end experience both online and offline, including areas such as culture and workflow. In the early days of e-commerce, sales were typically the most important metric for success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Metrics are required for ensuring the return to a known good baseline. Maximize technology architecture and standards. Continuous innovation to maintain your competitive advantage does not mean that you can ignore current architectures and standards. These must always be leveraged produce optimal intended product outcomes.

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Up and Running

APRIL 27, 2012

Internet entrepreneurs in the UK need to push managing metrics right to the front of their to-do lists. They need to be relentless in their pursuit of identifying and tracking metrics across all aspects of their business. Most meaningful metrics. They need to re-embrace planning even if they have no desire for a business plan.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Real problems—when defined properly—have metrics that quantify the scope, magnitude, and impact. One of the biggest benefits to this process was that it helped shift the focus of the Marines from nebulous systems-centric thinking—“The network architecture sucks”—to identifying specific pain points impeding their productivity on the job.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Real problems—when defined properly—have metrics that quantify the scope, magnitude, and impact. One of the biggest benefits to this process was that it helped shift the focus of the Marines from nebulous systems-centric thinking—“The network architecture sucks”—to identifying specific pain points impeding their productivity on the job.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Alistair Croll will lead a session on Lean analytics for intrapreneurs —from introducing never-before-seen case studies to tracking a product through its entire development and demonstrating which data and metrics are useful in what kinds of situations. Which to implement and the order you choose depends on where you’re starting.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2011

Metrics are required for ensuring the return to a known good baseline. Maximize technology architecture and standards. Continuous innovation to maintain your competitive advantage does not mean that you can ignore current architectures and standards. These must always be leveraged produce optimal intended product outcomes.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

For example, at a previous virtual world company , we spent years developing an architecture to cope with millions of simultaneous users. The downside was that we had to combine dozens of projects whose internal architectures, coding styles, and general quality varied widely. That’s what Just-in-time Scalability is all about.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Use metrics such as time on task, success rate / failure rate, number of user errors, number of system errors, satisfaction rating. As Linn Vizard of Bridgeable explains, clear information architecture (IA) is key to good navigation, which is key to conversions. Have the user simply perform the tasks, not think out loud.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 11, 2017

For example, once a slimmed-down mobile navigation is used for the calculation of PageRank throughout the site, as opposed to a massive fly-out that flattens the site architecture for desktop crawlers, top pages may see improved rankings while lower taxonomy pages may suffer ranking losses. 2 – Improving Page Speed.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 3, 2020

As we have also intimated, your site architecture has myriad SEO benefits. You need to ensure that every visitor to your site can immediately garner a sense as to who you are and what you have to offer, and your site structure can contribute significantly to this understanding. Discoverability. The Right Site Structure for your Website.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 17, 2010

I suggested that we change the underlying architecture of our UI system so that the artists would be able to build their own UI pieces themselves and then integrate them into the product without requiring new code every time. The engineering team wasn’t happy either. The engineering team wasn’t happy either.

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Gust

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Metrics are required for ensuring the return to a known good baseline. Maximize technology architecture and standards. Continuous innovation to maintain your competitive advantage does not mean that you can ignore current architectures and standards. These must always be leveraged produce optimal intended product outcomes.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Why marketer misuse of metrics may be an addressable cultural issue – [link]. Information Architecture 101: Techniques and Best Practices – [link]. Optimizing Conversion Rates with 5 Quantitative & Qualitative Tests (Part 2) – [link]. Crowdsourcing Your Marketing Activities – [link].

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www.lanceglasser.com

MAY 13, 2012

Metrics for cyclical businesses. The greatest leverage is when the project is in its earliest phases, when we are deciding on architectures in the context of market requirements and when technology choices are being made. Business Essays, Blogs, and Musings. Finance and budgeting. A Model for Return on Engineering Expenses.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 28, 2009

A typical "new feature" release is, in my experience, about 80% changes to underlying APIs or architecture. Monitoring of real-world metrics. In order to make continuous deployment work, teams have to get good at automated monitoring and reacting to business and customer-centric metrics, not just technical metrics.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Open APIs architecture allows third-party integration effortlessly. Video performance analytics to see video metrics, audience metrics, and popular content trending on the platform. Player skin customization and skinning for a personalized experience. Ad integrations across various platforms to monetize the videos.

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TechEmpower

JUNE 6, 2018

Not just in measured results per second (several metric crap tonne), but in number of tests measured (~1830), number of framework permutations tested (~464), number of languages included (26), and total execution time of the test suite (67 hours, or 241 billion microseconds to make that sound properly enormous). It's lost in the noise.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 16, 2020

For one, you’re optimizing for micro-conversions—user engagement metrics that, you’re assuming, will translate into improvements at the macrolevel (i.e. Tests often include back-end and site architecture changes rather than just front-end tweaks that affect copy, images, layouts, etc. If they did, keep the new design live.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 29, 2012

Here are some tactics to work through: What accounts to follow : In our example, of course we’d follow people tweeting about homes, green construction, construction materials, architecture, and the building industry. Gardening, landscape architecture? Add Specific Metrics, Milestones, and Tracking. new follows to add each month.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 20, 2010

End of a minor web analytics lesson on going beyond obvious metrics and never, ever, never forgetting context. Of course look at our favorite metric bounce rate by keyword (that tells you if you can get people to give you one solitary click , the most primitive measure of SEO success). Back to our story. Directories. Clean url's.

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