ConversionXL

JANUARY 6, 2021

You can assess your ability to rank by looking at two primary metrics: Domain-level link metrics like Moz Domain Authority or Ahrefs Domain Rating (DR). Page-level link metrics like Moz Page Authority or Ahrefs URL Rating. Side note: Always use images in your blog posts as images can boost your conversion rate.).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Excellent detailed resources are everywhere, including a new book, “ The Startup Checklist ,” by serial entrepreneur and founder of the New York Angels, David S. Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 8, 2013

Publicity Stunts: When Good Ideas Go Bad | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. 5 Customer Experience Metrics Every Successful Company Tracks | The Buffer blog – [link]. The Ultimate Guide to Customer Acquisition | KISSmetrics Blog – [link]. 5 Startup Costs You Might Not Have Thought About – [link].

Social Media 105

Social Media Small Business Design Media 105

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 13, 2014

Brand NEW edition of Empower Your Small Business, crowdSPRING’s small business newsletter – crowdspring.co/1gnb0N1. The Essential Email Marketing Metrics You Should Be Tracking | Hubspot blog – crowdspring.co/1gY786G. The Rise and Future of the New York Startup Ecosystem | Nick Beim – crowdspring.co/1gYew1W.

Social Media 96

Social Media Small Business Design Media 96

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 4, 2010

blog comments powered by Disqus Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe via email Blog Archive ▼ 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?) Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 25, 2020

The traditional blog format—regular, sequential publishing of diary-style entries—no longer makes sense for most businesses. The CXL blog started in 2011 and, currently, includes about 700 articles. This post details our process to start the transition from a “traditional” blog into a modern resource center for marketers.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

1) It all starts from the Growth Hacking Funnel - in the early stages, startups should not just focus on top/bottom line metric like unique users and revenue. In a nutshell: Acquisition - Get people to hear about your product from press, blogs and social channels. KISS Metrics – How to Run A/B Tests that Get REAL Results.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

In a lot of cases, this requires a lot of energy invested in talking to customers or metrics and analytics. As I present in my blog, defining the MVP requires answering the following question: "Will our customers be willing to buy the product with these features - available at this date - at this price?"

San Francisco 168

San Francisco Product Lean Continuous Deployment 168

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 2, 2010

Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable Beware of Vanity Metrics For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable Beware of Vanity Metrics For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? Startup Lessons Learned season one : Every post from the blogs first year in print form.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Bending over: How to sell to large companies - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 24, 2010 This is a guest post by Steve Hanov , who blogs about programming and startups. Stay Tuned.

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Fractional CTO Startup Venture Capital Cofounder 248

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

The number of Lean Startup meetup groups has crossed 100, spreading out from traditional startup hubs like San Francisco and New York to a wide variety of places. For readers of this blog, Steve needs no introduction. No BS, no vanity metrics, no launches, no PR. And last but never least, our third keynote is Steve Blank.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable Beware of Vanity Metrics For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable Beware of Vanity Metrics For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? Startup Lessons Learned season one : Every post from the blogs first year in print form.

Software Review 141

Software Review San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 141

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2010

Beyond my own efforts on this blog ( and more ), there is now an amazing variety of resources for lean startup practitioners. Some of the most active: SF , New York , DC , Chicago - but there are many more listed here. And Steve Blank (a long-time mentor) has made the leap to blogging in impressive fashion.

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ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

Probably not, according to Matthew Brown , a consultant who previously managed SEO for The New York Times : You’d have to get really aggressive with metering to see a significant negative ranking impact. The New York Times ) can be undone simply by disabling JavaScript. Don’t nest content sections.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 25, 2012

Since this is not a blog about legal issues (and I'm not a lawyer!) My hope is to simply help you internalize the impact of these decisions on reports, which metrics might be impacted and which will be fine, as well as what types of decisions you can still make with confidence and which decisions you might make with a grain of salt.

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View from Seed

MARCH 1, 2016

She became a prolific writer—12 books, while you and I struggle with one email or one blog post! He played for the New York Yankees between 1920 and 1934. Because of insights A/B/C, if we build D/E/F, we’ll grow fast in markets J/K/L, and you’ll know we’re on the right path because of metrics that look like X/Y/Z.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, October 4, 2008 About the author ( Update January, 2010: This post originally dates from October, 2008 back when I first started writing this blog. I hope you take something of value from this blog. Eric, love the blog. Thanks for your professional blog. So thats me, your author.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 12, 2009 New York: three straight days of Lean Startup (two of which are free) Greetings from Europe, where Im just wrapping up an incredible (and exhausting) speaking tour. Expo in New York, theres good news. Expo in New York, theres good news.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, February 8, 2010 Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Review) The next article in my series on entrepreneurship for Harvard Business Review is live today. Once again, we revisit the topic of Actionable metrics and their nemesis: Vanity metrics. Remember "metrics are people, too."

Metrics 121

Metrics San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 121

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

Sean Murphy has an excellent and comprehensive roundup of resources about the conference: all of the slides, videos, summaries, notes and write-ups are listed on his blog here. You can read the rest of his posts on his blog : Introduction , Part 1 , Part 2.) All video from the conference is available for free at Justin.tv

San Francisco 133

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 7, 2010

Although much of it will sound familiar to readers of this blog, whats new is my first step towards the " new entrepreneurship " that is my goal for 2010. Unlike previous cross-posting Ive done for blogs, where a lot of the discussion happens here, Id like to ask you to take a minute and click through to read the full article.

San Francisco 119

San Francisco Management Continuous Deployment Lean 119

www.clickz.com

JANUARY 7, 2013

Ad Industry Metrics. Specifically, research by Shop.org, comScore, and The Partnering Group found that 70 percent of consumers click through on a retail blog to the firms website and 68 percent of consumers use YouTube to browse and research products. Actionable marketing tip: Build owned media in the form of a blog and video.

Social Media 86

Social Media Media B2C New York 86

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 28, 2009

I used to think that investments in metrics were a form of waste. Customers dont care if you have good metrics, only if you have a good product. The only reason we learned the art of metrics-based decision making at IMVU was out of necessity. that justify decisions already made. I think it was $350 the next, and so on.

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San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC 98

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Great blog! April 30, 2010 12:14 PM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Subscribe via email Blog Archive ► 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?) Good stuff.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

This structure allows for alignment on the front end, and real-time flexibility for performance metrics,” says Samira Salman , a family office investor and advisor. . Flexible VCs have created structures based on other company performance metrics than revenues, such as profits or founder salaries. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5%

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Up and Running

MAY 20, 2014

In an industry that lauds performance metrics to constantly track progress, there’s something fluffy about a professional degree that is not a prerequisite for anything. There is a tendency in the start-up community to be skeptical towards MBAs. Unlike medical school or law school, you don’t need an MBA to go into business.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 15, 2010

Behind this analysis is a spreadsheet model, complete with detailed metrics for a set of customer behaviors that show just how valuable the new product will be. They are long-term bets on the development of a new line of business, a new technology platform, or the creation of a new market. Read the rest here.

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Hockey Stick San Francisco Entrepreneur Lean 105

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, July 28, 2010 Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot (The following guest post is a new experiment for this blog. And if you’re a regular reader of this blog, you may know that IMVU started out as an instant messaging add-on. Please give us your feedback in the comments.

San Francisco 158

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment SEC 158

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 2, 2008

0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Subscribe via email Blog Archive ► 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?) Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23.

San Francisco 125

San Francisco Software Review Technical Review Continuous Deployment 125

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.

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San Francisco Continuous Deployment Agile Lean 94

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 9, 2009

Answering that question is what Im striving to do on this blog (and at future webcasts and workshops ). dalelarson : "Metrics are people, too." leanstartup ericnsantos : #w2e #leanstartup Metrics should be Actionable, Accessible and Auditable. Metrics are a key questions startups face. No engineering team. Great post.

San Francisco 132

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean Agile 132

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Subscribe via email Blog Archive ► 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?) Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Audience San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean 119

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

Departments were built and were even metrics-driven. But there was no feedback loop to help the company find the right metrics to focus on. 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

MARCH 16, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. Brilliant insights, advice and information on your blog. Startup Lessons Learned season one : Every post from the blogs first year in print form.

Agile 111

Agile Customer Development Developer San Francisco 111

Growthink Blog

AUGUST 26, 2015

Last week , I wrote about all of the amazing lessons of the world and science of Sports Metrics has to offer business. Well, with the 2016 Presidential Campaign heating up, let's talk how just as in sports the use of metrics in politics has jumped a full generation ahead of business. read more.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Or follow all of the New York Times columnists equally? This is good news for everyone except those who have huge legacy investments in large-batch distribution. Despite all the energy invested in talking to authors about the size of their platform, very few gatekeepers have a rigorous set of metrics for measuring it.

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