YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 10, 2018
To give you a practical example, I’d like to analyze the reasons why my startup was rejected from participating in Start-Up Chile ’s Generation 17. More metrics need to be identified such as product testing, market validation, and/or customer validation in order to show that a market opportunity exists. After you are accepted.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 24, 2015
This entails reviewing aspects like business development, offer development, prices, and customer communication, and monitoring one or two key metrics (eg sales per day, sales conversion rate, leads per day, etc). We are also told to “work on our business” instead of just in our business (hat tip to The E-Myth Revisited ).
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Steve Blank
MARCH 3, 2015
(The irony is that once you’ve gone through the lean cycle, you have all the information that goes in a business plan: customers, sales strategy, product features, and financial metrics. It’s just that they are validated instead of made up.). The Business Plan is Dead. Berkeley peers got in Steve’s class. Clearly, lean works globally.
Occam's Razor
SEPTEMBER 15, 2014
They will need two different implementations, it is quite likely that you will end up with two sets of metrics (more people focused for mobile apps, more visit focused for sites). Mobile content consumption, behavior along key metrics (time, bounces etc.) If you have ecommerce you will see key metrics related to money making.
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 17, 2010
Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
JUNE 28, 2016
” Our “error” metric will confirm that this forecaster is a genius — exactly zero over a whole year of predictions! Consider the life of a forecaster in Antofagasta, Chile, where on average it rains only five days a year (for a grand total of 1.7 This metric — “uncertainty” — is computed as.
Occam's Razor
SEPTEMBER 7, 2010
As if massive data we have is not enough of a problem, we also rely on Averages, Percentages, Ratios and Compound/Calculated Metrics in a profoundly sub optimal way, as a drunken man uses lamp-posts – for support rather than for illumination. You saw this problem when I sorted descending or ascending for the metric bounce rate above.
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