SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 8, 2009

A post by Fred Wilson pointed me to Dave McClure's Startup Metrics presentation. This is a great presentation and one that I'm going to point out to startup / early stage company CEOs. Define what you need from a metrics and reporting standpoint. You only build what you need to prove that model. Great stuff.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2021

The presence of attractive deals and offers – Tailor-made coupons and discounts are present for the customers to reduce their total bill. Efficient payment management – In reality, t he admin ensures timely distribution of commission and bonus to the courier delivery personnel.

Technical Review 163

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Milestones and metrics that you’ll need to hit to be viable. Include these details in your marketing and sales plan : Positioning : Describe how you will present your company to the market with your positioning statement. Distribution. Milestones and metrics. Your key assumptions and risks. Marketing and sales plan.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

We realized that operating a business in distributed markets presented multi-city coordination efforts that we weren’t prepared for. were more distributed. presented pricing challenges when compared to a whole new set of offline competitors we didn’t know well.

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Operations New York City Technical Review Startup 286

ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

Interviewing them will provide you with their wants and needs from a messaging perspective and uncover topic ideas and distribution channels. Much like your audience analysis report, it will ensure everyone involved in the planning, production, and distribution process is aligned. Select your content distribution channels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2021

Decide early where and when money will come from, set some milestones and metrics, and work to a plan, or be caught short. To get the visibility and distribution you need will likely require one or two levels of partner relationships and a real model for marketing, events and promotions.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

You may have a thoughtful business plan, a proven team, and a great product, but if the market isn’t big enough to present them with an outsized opportunity to make money, they’ll pass. The market for our product was global, and we had unique advantages in terms of our product and how we distributed it to customers.

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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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Up and Running

OCTOBER 7, 2019

You need to use your time and resources productively by focusing on the right metrics so you can use data to help you implement improvements that matter. The first step is to formulate a KPI strategy by selecting the right metrics to track. The metrics should help you identify areas for improvement.

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Founder Retention Metrics Technical Review 71

Steve Blank

APRIL 21, 2011

Virtual channels include Dedicated e-commerce, Two-step e-distribution and Aggregators. The Nine Teams Present. Their value proposition had now changed from a wind turbine supplier to homes, to a distributed power supplier to cities and utilities. Take a look at their presentations and you decide – what should they do?

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2021

Heading back to the office will present some challenges of its own, especially if you don’t currently have an office to go back to. You could also establish a traditional office in your home city, while engaging with a much bigger remote workforce that is distributed across the country (or across the world). . Population segments.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Your boss is waiting for you to present results on quarterly marketing performance, and you have 75 dense slides. Your digital performance dashboard has 16 metrics along 9 dimensions, and you know that the font-size 6 text and sparkline sized charts make them incomprehensible. Focus only on KPIs, eliminate metrics.

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Metrics Analytics Forecast Non-Compete 263

ReadWriteStart

JULY 18, 2011

My notes from his very informative presentation are below. Clavier began his presentation at the beginning of a company's lifecycle, asking how many co-founders a startup ought to have. He says that one is too lonely, two is good and three is a great number if they can combine their skills to cover design, development and distribution.

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Investment Bankers Technical Review Cofounder Due Diligence 153

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

There is no golden metric for everyone, we are all unique snowflakes! :). and tell you what are the best key performance indicators (metrics) for them. In the past I’ve shared a cluster of metrics that small, medium and large businesses can use as a springboard…. If you want to play along. Don’t read what I’ve chosen.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 19, 2022

But since a majority of businesses receive dozens of sales presentations per day, gaining customer loyalty is more difficult than it sounds. They also play a vital function in sales by helping teams and individuals set the appropriate objective and measure the appropriate metrics. Cold-calling is no longer an option.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. It’s just taking some longer than others.

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San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

Entrepreneur Prerna Gupta believes that there’s a billion-dollar opportunity in bringing “Lean” principles to the development and distribution of mass-market fiction, and in presenting stories as a mobile-first experience. She wants to disrupt Hollywood with the Lean Startup method.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

If you can’t see the presentation click here. Think of it as sort of a carbon footprint-type schema that would be based on metrics such as time the object is to remain in orbit, its specific orbital location, and its mass. If you can’t see the presentation click here.

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Silicon Valley Washington United Kingdom Lean 120

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

If you can’t see the presentation click here. Think of it as sort of a carbon footprint-type schema that would be based on metrics such as time the object is to remain in orbit, its specific orbital location, and its mass. If you can’t see the presentation click here.

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Silicon Valley Washington United Kingdom Lean 120

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

This presents a great opportunity for entrepreneurs to launch their own businesses and capitalize on the latest technology. With the increased demand for video content, a video marketing agency can offer a wide range of services, from video production to distribution and analysis. Thanks to Michelle Wintersteen, MKW Creative Co. ! #3-

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Software Review Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur 121

Board Effect

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

They’re most interested in meaningful metrics and the standards you measure them against. Technology enables interconnectivity that allows ratings agencies and apps to draw data from multiple sources, consolidate it, and condense it before presenting it to stakeholders. Tap Into the Power of Digital Transformation.

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Salary Technical Review Social Media Employee 93

ConversionXL

MAY 19, 2020

Or maybe it’s your keyword well that’s reaching its limits, leaving you with plenty of ideas, but no clear path forward about how to prioritize them or the distribution channels for which they’re best suited. Map these metrics to the appropriate funnel stages, as well as the content types most commonly used to support them.

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Differentiation Sales Email Metrics 129

View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

When I’ve seen demo day presentations, founders generally weave a story about the problem and market, and close with something like “we are the right team to do this”. Trust me, almost every investor I know flips to the team slide first when they get a deck or are first hearing a presentation on the phone. Slide 2 : What do you do?

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Metrics Early Stage Distribution Audience 120

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

In addition to presenting the IMVU case, we tried for the first time to do an overview of a software engineering methodology that integrates practices from agile software development with Steves method of Customer Development. 2008 09 06 Eric Ries Haas Columbia Customer Development Engineering View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In fact, the business plan does not have to be a formal document at all if you don’t need to present your plan to outsiders. Milestones and Metrics. If you would like detailed information on how to write a business plan to present to banks or funders, there are plenty of online resources, including our own comprehensive guide.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

I think one of the most important things is there's a lot of focus on metrics, and I think metrics is important, but we get caught up in these sort of acronyms and these buzzwords, but really it's all about asking the right questions, right? It's as simple as that, and that is what metrics are to me. So that is the third thing.

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Community Kuwait Cofounder Bootstrapping 53

Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

Business plans presume that building a startup is a series of predictable steps requiring execution of a plan which assumes a series of known facts: known customers, known features, known pricing, known distribution channel. The teams present these reflections, along with required specific deliverables for each week.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Seasoned experts suggest that you should optimize for a metric which can affect the bottom line of your business. These metrics ensure that most of your efforts can be tied to monetary values. The downside that all those metrics have in common is that they only measure the short-term effects gained with your tests.

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Programming Audience Analytics Metrics 117

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Chris and I had the opportunity to present on our approach this past spring at the MySQL Conference. You can also download our presentation, " Just-In-Time Scalability: Agile Methods to Support Massive Growth." Update: PDF version for "lazy linux users" and others who love freedom. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23.

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San Francisco Continuous Deployment Agile Lean 94

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

dominated by a few very large incumbents who control much of the distribution or are you going into a market that is “fragmented” where nobody controls the industry. The metrics were good but we wondered how much better they would be when we expanded our product. ” Are you going into an industry (say, music?)

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Startup Seed Money DC Software Review 150

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Focus on the output metrics of that part of the product, and you make the problem a lot more clear. To promote this metrics discipline, we would present the full funnel to our board (and advisers) at the end of every development cycle. Its one of those situations where more data can impede learning.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

AUGUST 16, 2023

Getting Started NPS is one of the most popular customer satisfaction metrics used in the industry. Delighted is an easy-to-use platform that allows you to create an NPS question with a form and distribute it via SMS, email, website link, or a survey widget. A popular NPS survey tool that features a comprehensive set of NPS metrics.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

If you havent seen it, Pascals recent presentation on continuous deployment is a must-see; slides are here. They were interested in the tools and new distribution medium kaChing provided. If you havent seen it, Pascals recent presentation on continuous deployment is a must-see; slides are here.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment SEC 158

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

They use different technologies of course, and different distribution mechanisms. 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.)

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Analytics Metrics Mobile DC 141

ConversionXL

AUGUST 24, 2021

In this article, you’ll learn what you can expect in the role, how you can demonstrate your worthiness to become a marketing manager (at your current place or in greener pastures), and how to present your case for a promotion. If you’re managing a team, you’ll likely be distributing duties to team members and supporting them in their roles.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 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. How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Stage 1: Target the right metrics for an effective long game. Metrics for your demand generation funnel. Your number one metric for any marketing initiative should be revenue. Build a picture over time that tells you which metrics lead to revenue versus those that just make you feel good (i.e.

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