YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2019

At Wildcat, we’ve organized these steps into the Traction Gap Framework – a centralized strategy that codifies key lessons learned by me and my founding General Partners over the course of our decades-long operating and venture investing experience. And so the Traction Gap Framework was born. It’s brutal out there.

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Cleveland Early Stage Framework Startup 217

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

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. Dave McClure has some great metrics…” It was an honest but vaguely unsatisfying answer. It’s an impressive portfolio.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Creating and showing constant momentum through personal portfolio projects and volunteering is a powerful means of landing a new job as a product manager, especially if one has never officially held the professional title “Product Manager.” Use frameworks in interviews to explain your qualifications and show your thought-processes.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

An investor had few hard metrics other than the actual financials, and little technology to make the process scaleable. Over the past few decades, better metrics became available, and investors could take a more analytical, data-driven approach. Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Recently, I’ve been working with a few of our portfolio companies to help them think about how to recruit and interview their first analytics hire. Analytics is about designing, reporting, and leveraging operating metrics to aid strategic and functional decision-making. Analytics vs. Finance?—?what’s

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

When I do a quick mental query of headcount across our entire portfolio of ~30 companies, I think at least 50% and maybe as much as 60% of the entire headcount of our portfolio is in either product or engineering. it’s about measuring online influence and I’m big on metrics as a key element of business planning; 2.)

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

Frameworks for businesses during a crisis. Each study, however, offers a framework to help with decision making. Use that intelligence to inform product portfolio and investment choices.”. Our CRO team uses ResearchXL , which is a comprehensive framework for identifying test ideas, though its methods apply broadly.

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Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

Cracking the Code

JUNE 23, 2008

Portfolio. (3). SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Design courtesy of Ashley Cecil. may be it works! Posted by Philippe Botteri. at 7:14 PM. 1 comment: Anonymous said. ???? , ???? , ???? , ???? , ???? CornerstoneOnDemand. anecdotes. (13). Cloud Computing. (1). Europe Consumer. (1). Favorite Podcasts. (1). internet.

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Software Review Technical Review Viral Europe 48

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. LiveRoad : A Great IDE for design is very helpful. Express : Express is built on NodeJS framework. Color Scheme Designer. Web frameworks. Zend Framework (PHP). Startup Metrics for Pirates â?? Eventbrite.

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

ConversionXL

JANUARY 9, 2019

A high-level stakeholder can overrule research-based decisions, designers can clash with optimizers, and the bevy of simultaneous changes can make it impossible to identify which changes are to blame if a redesign performs worse than its predecessor. Flash) or one whose design is clearly dated. But first, a note on “radical redesigns”.

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Design Software Review Audio Technical Review 131

Hearpreneur

MAY 4, 2019

Conversely, the integrated mindsets, mechanics, and methodologies of entrepreneurship and venture capital are designed and calibrated to discover new customer needs and devise innovative and new-to-the-world solutions. My ID Magazine win in college was a big deal for me and for my university in terms of our place on the world stage of design.

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Cofounder Founder Entrepreneur Venture Capital 64

Occam's Razor

JUNE 11, 2014

You just get a little nicer talent, you get a different design group (internal or external) and you let your mind be open to new possibilities. Design a glorious purchase experience. If you refuse to have a true mobile-awesome experience, at least suck-less by using responsive design - like this blog. Take any metric you want.

Design 150

Design Software Review Technical Review Mobile 150

Hunter Walker

JULY 29, 2017

I saw our hardware portfolio companies struggling with their supply chains; they were overly reliant on expensive air freight because the ocean freight market was so opaque. Engineers and designers have a lot of power here, and I think design ethics is going to be an increasingly important priority for tech companies.

Social Media 81

Social Media Campaign Media Marketing 81

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Effectively measuring and understanding your CAC and CLTV metrics are key to future success. Bessemer SaaS Law #1: Your key monthly business metrics are: CMRR (Committed Monthly Recurring Revenue), Churn, and Cash flow - “Bookings” is for suckers. Brian, Paglo www.paglo.com. Great list! Great list! Philippe Botteri.

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

Occam's Razor

MARCH 25, 2014

In a world of infinite choice, the ability to pick critical few metrics to focus on is, well…, critical. In this post I want to share that one-page list of the best metrics for digital content, marketing and business success with you. Best Digital Metrics: Own Existences/Strategies. It would not surprise me.

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Metrics Marketing Analytics Channel 155

reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

It doesn’t matter whether an entrepreneur is in our portfolio, whether we’re considering an investment, or whether we’re casually meeting for the first time. Analogies are a conceptual framework, so they’re not going to be 100% accurate. And show that you’re focused on the metrics that matter: revenue numbers, engagement traction, etc.

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Entrepreneur Revenue Viral Networking 111

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

Along the way I'll share some of my favourite metrics and analytics best practices that should accelerate your path to becoming a true Analysis Ninja. At this point you'll be a little confused about some metric or the other. Go, read one of the best pages in the Analytics help center: Understanding Dimensions and Metrics.

Analytics 60

Analytics Metrics eCommerce PPC 60

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

That year I had three different companies within our portfolio group that all grew enough to hit the ink, 500 or 5,000 lists of those three companies, one of 'em went on to experience really great success. What are the metrics that you believe we should track you by? 19:06): Are we achieving the metrics? Is that happening?

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Engineer Software Review Operations Founder 68

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Step 1: Optimal Metrics. You'll find it here: Digital Metrics Ladder of Awesomeness. The metrics ladder lays out a path that will get you there, step by step while ensure your org is coming along with you. Step 1: Optimal Metrics. Tough metrics. Smart metrics. Wait, Wait, What the Heck is Attribution?

Analytics 60

Analytics Metrics Technical Review Channel 60

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

Before, I was part of a portfolio, so an allocator who buys stuff and sells stuff, but I never ran anything. You actually have to design systems from the beginning so that the system itself has safety in every part and every check of every single product that you build. They were actually system designs that we started with.

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Iran Technical Review Non-Compete Lean 41

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

That means: All of these metrics are off. Start with models like Time Decay and Position Based to understand what the conversion portfolio might look like (last two columns above) and create hypotheses about what a better budget allocation might look like. A Framework For Critical Thinking. Rinse and repeat.

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Analytics Channel Metrics Web 124

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Frameworks, because if I can teach someone a new mental model, a different way of thinking, they can be incredibly successful. The challenge is that this annual, or semi-annual, update of the content or the website design, is a terrible way to win at digital. Two things I love a lot: 1. A vast expanse of our current existence.

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Analytics Marketing Social Media Technical Review 154

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Evolve: See – Think – Do – Care: An intent-centric marketing framework.). Well-designed experiments often prove us wrong – with data.). Don’t test for a vanity metric. Think needing to have 800,000 humans to go through an experimental design variation on the landing page to detect an impact on conversion rate. Billboards!

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Analytics Programming Global Campaign 101

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

More on that here: DC-DR-DA: A Simple Framework For Smarter Decisions.). Yes, cost per click is metric. You will never obsess about the cost per trade of your E-Trade portfolio, right? The metric CPC aside, we do present data like this all the time. When you design dashboards this is absolutely critical.

Analytics 144

Analytics Search Metrics Web 144

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2019

Businesses win when you optimize for a portfolio, because at any given time only a tiny fraction of people want to buy. With an obsession with data-driven attribution, you are also solving for a portfolio rather than a silo. Does free pickup in store result in higher attach rates? In addition to the macro-outcome of revenue).

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Analytics Marketing Algorithm Campaign 88

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2014

An example is: "We should add these 80 keywords to our PPC portfolio with a max bid of $14." They are generic mash-ups that tailor to almost no one's needs, and more often than not contain awful things like nine not-really-thought out metrics for one dimension in a report. " Kisses. Angels singing! Time on Site!

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