Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 31, 2016

As an investor and former founder, I know that scalable growth (and the pretty hockey stick graph) is the holy grail for every startup. About five years ago, we saw the early waves of growth – typically an individual or two (“growth hackers”) who were championing growth within product development.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2019

There are tons of metrics you can monitor: Conversion rate; Bounce rate ; Click-through rate ; Pageviews; Lead captures; Purchase conversion rate. Setting up your experiments for success: Define success metrics. Statistical ghost: When you think your test has impacted your metric, but in reality there’s no impact.

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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. Flexible VC 102: Variations.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 8, 2014

He believes that you are more likely to develop great ideas when: You explore and experiment in different areas. You allow your idea to develop slowly, over time. At Palo Alto Software, we use our own product – LivePlan – to manage and keep track of key business metrics. You are a part of a ‘liquid’ network.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule. And what of the product development team? And yet, their investors are frustrated.

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 10, 2020

When the Airbnb founders walked me through their model, how the hosts were also guests, how their community was developing, and what they’d learned from different markets like Barcelona and New York, it showed me that they were on top of Airbnb’s key business challenge, which is to build powerful marketplace dynamics.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Turns out, they were incredibly well-credentialed graduate students who had, in fact, developed some interesting new robotics technology. Most important slide: hockey stick Micro-scale results Key questions: who is the customer, and how do you know? But you wouldnt have known that from their pitch.)

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. They never understood Market Type. Why does Market Type matter?

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Rob Go

AUGUST 12, 2013

More and more firms are employing developers and data-scientists internally to mine the trove of publicly available data to provide signals for companies that are exhibiting attractive momentum. A popular meme in startup investing right now is on the increasingly data-driven nature of the industry.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

” Our featured speaker was Caroline Cummings, the VP of Business Development at Palo Alto Software. Food, technology, bioscience, services, you need to know the metrics for your model. These are the metrics for the SaaS model that we have. If you’re sure … Peter I think you need to mute yourself again.

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Professor VC

AUGUST 26, 2011

The objections range from "its hard", "nobody believes them" to "all hockey sticks look alike". What are the key drivers and metrics? Byron Deeter has a good blog post on SAAS metrics. I like to have one tab with assumptions and one tab with summary financials and key metrics. How do you think?

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