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Startup Metrics

TechEmpower

Proving your Business Model Works - Build, Define, and Review But how do you prove your numbers? Next, define what you need from a metrics and reporting standpoint. The metrics, and how they relate, are captured in his slide: Note the relationship between retention/referral efforts and lifetime value.

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Ecommerce Trendwatching: How To Find, Follow, and Set Trends

ReadWriteStart

For instance, the research conducted by The Economist revealed that searches for environmental goods have grown by 70% since 2016. As for Metaverse — businesses should keep an eye on it as it is not clear yet whether this is hype or a trend. TikTok and Influencers One viral video on TikTok can reach 1.5

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Investors, MVPs and Evidence of Traction

SoCal CTO

If you do build the MVP and show it to them, they will ask you about your metrics. They really want metrics, not a product. Often you can't tell if something like a search engine or matching algorithm is really going to have better results until you use it. Results of Algorithms. Investors demand more than that.

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

In it, I got asked a question I often hear: “What if we have a web-based business that doesn’t have revenue or paying customers? What metrics do we use to see if we learned enough in Customer Discovery ? I gave my boilerplate answer, “I’m a product guy and I tend to invest and look at deals that have measurable revenue metrics.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 The three drivers of growth for your business model. 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. Choose one.

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Acquire New Users by Adding Growth Hacking to your Marketing Strategy

ConversionXL

Airbnb and Dropbox are textbook examples of how growth hacking can transform a business from a niche offering into a household name and market leader. Airbnb learned its audience used Craigslist to list and search for accommodation. Neither would have achieved virality had customers not received something tangible for their efforts.

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Startup Metrics

SoCal CTO

A post by Fred Wilson pointed me to Dave McClure's Startup Metrics presentation. Normally, when I am talking to the founder of any startup trying to figure out what they need to do, one of the things I always try to do is understand their business at its core. You only build what you need to prove that model. Great stuff.

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