View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Back in 2018, my colleague Rob wrote a blog post about how the VC asset class is doing. Warning – this assumes some basic knowledge of VC performance metrics. This is particularly relevant for VC funds because they do not follow a normal distribution, they follow the power-law curve. Source: AngelList.

Valuation 156

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Distribution Early Stage 156

ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

Though it wasn’t intended, the last two articles I wrote on the PlainFlow blog have formed a series: The Modern SaaS Stack and the Unexploited Amount of Data is a walkthrough that shows how companies use Modern SaaS Stack to cover their Marketing/Support/Sales activities from day-0. A Brief History of Marketing Technology Software.

Customer 92

Customer Marketing Artificial Inteligence Clickthrough 92

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Bootstrapped startup Omnisend carved out a $19 million niche in an already saturated vertical. Demand generation marketers create and distribute strategic content (mostly for free) to build awareness and demand for their brand or product. Demand generation vs. lead generation: Critical differences. Take sales CRM Pipedrive.

Lead Generation 107

Lead Generation Demand Audience eCommerce 107

Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

This is when metrics come into play. See Also: The Top 10 Tools for Tracking Your Web Metrics. This optimization results in emails with an open rate greater than 60 percent and a click through rate greater than 20 percent—an unimaginable metric if we were just sending emails blindly. Don’t underestimate small blogs!

Revenue 60

Revenue Acquisition Channel Campaign 60

Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

movie box office - traditionally the holy grail of movie industry metrics -- become increasingly irrelevant? Is it a 3-year fad, or will new technologies like 3-D keep going to the movies from being relegated to the dustbin of history like Vaudeville, the afternoon newspaper, the evening news, the variety show, and the compact-disc?

Los Angeles 85

Los Angeles Silicon Valley Technical Review Distribution 85

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Conversion rate is one of those metrics that I strongly encourage you only create benchmarks for from your own data. One of the easiest ways to improve outcomes on your website, it is great to make sure that people don't say this via your bounce rate metric : I came, I puked, I left. None of the four other methods are advisable.

Analytics 133

Analytics Vertical Metrics Web 133

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Venture Capitalists on your board developed the expertise to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits. Blog at WordPress.com.

Silicon Valley 233

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 233

Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

SuperMac sold our graphic boards for the Macintosh through multiple distribution channels: direct sales to major accounts, national chains, independent rep firms, etc. And the final lesson was that we were keeping score on our packaging with the wrong metrics – it wasn’t about awards, it was about sales in the retail channel.

Sales 120

Sales Silicon Valley RSS Las Vegas 120

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

They work to improve top-of-funnel metrics like brand awareness and identify opportunities to improve customer activation, retention, and referral efforts. If your campaign works and your brand awareness metrics improve, you win. Then, compare any change in the awareness metrics you’re measuring in that region with other markets.

Framework 102

Framework Marketing Acquisition Retention 102

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Building a cache of user data in a CRM that’s strong enough to inform demand gen campaigns—what content to produce, where to distribute it—can take years, according to Brandt Bogdanovich of MST Solutions. Create and distribute content to those segments. What happens when Google’s algorithm cuts organic visibility for your blog in half?

Demand 132

Demand Vertical Campaign Channel 132

ConversionXL

JUNE 9, 2019

In 2010, Dr. Anne Aula, a Senior User Experience Researcher at Google, presented some disappointing findings about mouse tracking: Only 6% of people showed some vertical correlation between mouse movement and eye tracking. This blog post criticizing heat maps for soccer players’ movements puts it well: “What do heat maps do?

Algorithm 111

Algorithm Analytics Conversion Stock 111

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking. See their blog post on multiples.). The simplest way to track a company’s performance: have them give you access to their internal metrics dashboard. the Untouched Vertical.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

Looking across these nearly 50 companies, the study finds that founding CEOs consistently beat the professional CEOs on a broad range of metrics ranging from capital efficiency (amount of funding raised), time to exit, exit valuations, and return on investment. He even added retail stores. Total commitment to the long term.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 78

ConversionXL

AUGUST 5, 2014

In one line, he couldn’t be clearer as to why you must pay attention to these metrics. ” The article also quotes Devitt as using phrases like “bigger customer base” and “lowest distribution costs” for hotels, all hallmarks of a company that takes Conversion Rate Optimization seriously. Conclusion.

Search 107

Search Design eCommerce Technical Review 107

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

For example, Friendster was famously vertically partitioned at one time in its growth curve. I normally recommend you just store this directory on your master database, but you could use a standalone vertical shard (or even a key-based partition!) This is great for something like a huge DHT or a distributed work queue.

San Francisco 151

San Francisco Architecture Startup Database 151

Growthink Blog

JUNE 19, 2010

movie box office - traditionally the holy grail of movie industry metrics -- become increasingly irrelevant? Is it a 3-year fad, or will new technologies like 3-D keep going to the movies from being relegated to the dustbin of history like Vaudeville, the afternoon newspaper, the evening news, the variety show, and the compact-disc?

Los Angeles 76

Los Angeles Silicon Valley Technical Review IP 76

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

His insights about how large companies are using the Valley is the core of this series of four blog posts. and concentrated on a single part of the supply chain – importing, distribution, wholesale, retail. This fourth structural shift in American commerce is the focus of this series of blog posts.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Venture Capital United States Technical Review 120

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

These obscure B2B niches seem completely resistant to content marketing, but they’re resistant only to one application of content marketing: writing blog posts to target high-volume keywords. Set up in 2003, the website has a strong network-effect moat that makes it harder for other blogs and publications to compete.

B2B 133

B2B Marketing SEO Search 133

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Regular readers of the blog know of my deep love for competitive intelligence analysis. My first blog post on the topic of CIA was on 14th Aug 2006! Traffic Trends Key Metrics Analysis. Onsite Behavior Key Metrics Analysis. Competitive Intelligence Analysis: Why, What & How to Choose. Incoming and Outgoing Traffic.

Metrics 60

Metrics Analytics Non-Compete Search 60

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Useful blogs and links for startups Click Here ————– 2. automatic links to generated images Rietveld - asynchronous code reviews on changesets Tech*if*er0*urs – blog on roadmap for learning rails Best free programming books Project Management Basecamp - web-based project management and collaboration tool.

Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110