Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. Products can find sources of validation with impressive stats along a number of dimensions, such as high engagement, viral coefficient, or long-term retention. This wasn’t very impressive, but we had two things going for us: A hockey stick shaped growth curve.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

Where do you search for a co-founder who might help you with this pitch and planning process? Food, technology, bioscience, services, you need to know the metrics for your model. These are the metrics for the SaaS model that we have. I wanted to make sure we got it out there, the idea of how does one find a good co-founder?

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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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