ARR/FTE as *a* metric for India SaaS
Lightspeed Venture Partners
NOVEMBER 10, 2023
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Choose Your VC Investor Carefully
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 25, 2009
They’re easily impressed when you’re selected for TechCrunch50 but not easily engaged in a detailed discussion about your conversion metrics. At my first company, which was based in London, we decided to set up a development facility in India. He also had experience in setting up tech development centers in India.
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How to raise money for your startup from VCs and investors in Asia
The Next Web
SEPTEMBER 13, 2013
However, this primarily applies to businesses within China and India, where these big firms reside, as they rarely invest in startups outside of those two countries. As I touched on before, China and India have the most mature VC communities. Sequoia , Accel , NEA , etc.). Of course, there are exceptions, but they are minimal.
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Five case studies you'll see at the Lean Startup Conference 2015
Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 31, 2015
Prerna began her startup journey after leaving a job as a management consultant, and launched Yaari, a youth-oriented social network in India. She shares: “We now use metrics like cost-per-learning and validation velocity to show progress since traditional things like ROI weren’t applicable.”
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Starting Your StartUp Career: The Rocket Ship Startup List
Seeing Both Sides
MAY 19, 2019
This year, I added companies from India and China with the help of a number of friends from those communities?—?a CO : Boom Supersonic, Cloud Elements, CyberGRX, FullContact, GoSpotCheck, Ibotta, JumpCloud, LogRhythm, Quantum Metric, Red Canary, TeamSnap, Welltok. a nod to the growing global importance of those two startup ecosystems.
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[Singapore] JFDI.Asia’s Second Accelerator Program This Year Receives Overwhelming Response
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 1, 2013
“The range of business ideas and the level of expertise we see on our doorstep here in Asia is truly impressive and our metrics show that the startups we accelerate do as well as any of their peers in Europe or the US outside Silicon Valley.”
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Your Invoice Has Been Rejected: Top 8 Tips for Invoicing Corporations
Up and Running
NOVEMBER 22, 2016
Metrics in a Minute. Some countries, like India, make it extremely difficult to process wire transfers in foreign currencies. See Also: The 7 Key Metrics Every Business Owner Should Monitor. See Also: What Is Accounts Payable? Know where your invoices actually go. Be extra careful when you deal with such.
Entrepreneurship in the Fast Lane
Growthink Blog
NOVEMBER 8, 2010
And with their capital and confidence, China and India are stretching their wings. Your India strategy? • A strong results and metrics-focused approach. In the U.S. so far, no company has raised more than $700 million and it is somewhat of a sad commentary that the biggest U.S. These are fantastic new markets for U.S.
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The Impact of Community
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.
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25 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names
Hearpreneur
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
These 6 KRIs are The CHICAGO MetricsR and are the result of an aggregation algorithm based on any number of tactical metrics. Since basis of the company was to create, track, and report out on metrics it fit with the theme and the name, hence, CHICAGO MetricsR. 17- India is quite an interesting name. 3- Name description.
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UK: Tech talent remains
The Equity Kicker
DECEMBER 6, 2016
What’s interesting is that this is a self-reinforcing metric. The UK has always been a very open country, and immigration from the US and India (two countries with whom we have strong historical ties) are a big driver of this statistic – although we are also the top destination for intra European tech migrants too.
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Datablindness
Startup Lessons Learned
JUNE 8, 2009
That’s because many of our reports feed us vanity metrics: numbers that make us look good but don’t really help make decisions. Yet even among those who have access to good actionable metrics, I’ve noticed a phenomenon that prevents taking maximum advantage of data. Too much of this data is non- actionable.
The Seeds Have Changed: An Epilogue to The New Venture Landscape
K9 Ventures
JUNE 5, 2015
As the check size increases, investors tend to look for more traction, established revenue models, proven unit-economics, and other metrics that were previously associated with later stage companies. So if the Micro-VCs are looking for Series A-like metrics, what does a company do when it’s just getting started?
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Five Sweet Web Analytics Resolutions To Kick It Up A Notch
Occam's Razor
JANUARY 6, 2010
No longer can tools or "analysts" just puke 15 metrics on a report and hope to survive. What's the difference between US traffic and India? Here is a post with seven different strategies: Brand Measurement: Analytics & Metrics for Branding Campaigns. 2 Learn basic statistics. All free from Compete.
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The Case For A Five Hour Workday
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 7, 2016
Germany’s NPR station interviewed me that same week, and dozens of articles flooded Germany, Austria, Switzerland, India, the UK, and Canada within a week. Our revenue is still up, and all the metrics are going in the right direction. If we don’t change something fast, that strangle hold on first place will be disrupted.
Geography of The Great Resignation: What Is the Global Impact?
Board Effect
APRIL 18, 2022
One survey of garment workers in Honduras, Myanmar, Ethiopia, and India found that many had no choice but to borrow money and go into debt. Indeed, a swathe of metrics all point to one of the hottest labour markets coming out of the pandemic.” It has been devastating in an industry with a reputation for human rights abuses.
The Next 10 Years Of Infocomm Technology
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 7, 2013
Over the next few decades, this young cohort would comprise a rising proportion of citizens in Asia (31%-40% in Singapore, Korea, Hong Kong and Japan, and more than 51% in Malaysia, Philippines, India and Indonesia). To gain resonance, IT plans need to consider the goals and metrics of the business and not just technology KPIs alone.
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How To Lose Fat And Gain Muscle With Venture Capital
David Teten
APRIL 6, 2015
The industry standard metric for tracking the severity of disease is disability-adjusted life years ( DALYs ), i.e., the number of healthy life years lost due to the disease or risk. As he observes, behavior change (such as prevention) is possible, it’s just expensive.
Cracking The Code: Bessemer Venture Partners Expands BVP VII.
Cracking the Code
FEBRUARY 27, 2009
Over the last century, Bessemer Venture Partners and its predecessor funds have invested in more than 100 companies that have gone public on exchanges in Canada, India, London, and the United States. SaaS business metrics: why are they different? To learn more, visit [link]. 2009 Bessemer Venture Partners. ► 01/27 - 02/03. (1).
Cracking The Code: State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment
Cracking the Code
MARCH 12, 2010
mba india. SaaS business metrics: why are they different? You named 3 in your post, but what are the 10 others? Thanks for the great post ! Amit said. I was looking for such post.I would like to read more about this topic. Finance Dissertation Help. thanx and good job. The 10 laws of SaaS unveiled at Bessemer CEO Summi. ► 2007.
Saturday Startup Spotlight: Zirtue
Austin Startup
SEPTEMBER 6, 2019
Assuming we hit our metrics, we’ll do our Series A which will be used to expand the geos outside the United States into Mexico, India and other parts of Latin America as well. It’s a million dollar raise that’s going to get us through the next 9 months to a year; all of that money is going towards user acquisition.
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The Future is Better than You Think
Growthink Blog
JULY 23, 2012
And with their capital and confidence, China and India are stretching their wings. Your India strategy? • A strong results and metrics-focused approach. In that same time frame, United States IPO volume declined 75% in real terms and now accounts for less than 11% of the global total. These are fantastic new markets for U.S.
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76 Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs, Angels, Incubators, Accelerators - What Are You Doing With Your Rejects?
ReadWriteStart
FEBRUARY 24, 2011
Next, Taariq Lewis presented Bizeque, a business analytics company, with the observation that the C-suite at different companies is still unable to access critical business metrics (e.g., Who are my most profitable customers?) because they are dependent on database administrators (DBAs) to set up queries. CricketWeekly. Discuss.
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Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 20, 2015
We’ve had just one market since then and it could confuse one into thinking: every deal finds downstream investors, every company good or bad finds a home, you know anything at all about brazil, india, china or even saas sales, ecommerce or analytics (you know all these in a bull market).
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8 Growth Practices That Every Startup Needs To Follow
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 17, 2022
Pick a single metric that is the focus for all growth. Today’s world is full of metrics leading to business growth, including customer logins, revenue per customer, retention, and average solution price. Too many choices confuse all customers, and make your job in marketing, distribution, and support much more difficult. Less is more.
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5 KPIs that All Local Businesses Should Track On Your KPI Dashboard – And 5 They Shouldn’t
Duct Tape Marketing
NOVEMBER 5, 2015
But which metrics should you track? A KPI is a key performance indicator – the metrics by which you measure your success. It’s a good idea to decide on the metrics that you care most about and put them together in a dashboard to make tracking easier/quicker. All of them? Do: Traffic Sources. Do: Phone Calls.
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Strategy Roundtable: Convert Potential Competitors to Partners
ReadWriteStart
OCTOBER 28, 2010
Cristina currently has a couple of large customers in pilot mode, and is starting to show metrics on how much improvement IDES can deliver over existing analytics engines. IDES is an analytics enhancement for fraud prevention systems addressing the credit card fraud market. It works well with other fraud detection systems like FICA.
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How to Know When to Close Your Business and Start Over
Up and Running
JULY 23, 2018
A few years back, I was working as a business consultant for a venture located in a small city in India. Make sure your really on top of your financial metrics so you’re not suddenly surprised that even though you’re bringing in revenue, you don’t have enough cash flow to survive. .
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When should you use email marketing? Best practices to retain and grow your user base
The Next Web
NOVEMBER 21, 2013
A new startup named Bootstrapp has an interesting challenge: introducing recommerce to India. Keep an eye on engagement metrics, such as open rate and click through rate,” says Leigh. Co-founder Saptarshi Nath says email is a great way to education customers on what they do. Monitor the effectiveness of your emails.
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2021 was a record breaking year for Israeli startups. What now?
VC Cafe
JANUARY 14, 2022
The only countries that saw higher growth in tech investments were Germany (170%) and India (164%). India: $42 billion ??U.K.: R&D expenditure as a percentage of GDP – Israel ranks 2nd globally in this metric, following closely after South Korea. 2021 Tech Trends: Israel is winning the global race for tech funding.
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Web Analytics 101: Definitions: Goals, Metrics, KPIs, Dimensions, Targets
Occam's Razor
APRIL 19, 2010
"What is the difference between a metric and a key performance indicator (KPI)?" " "Are goals metrics?" There seems to be genuine confusion about the simplest, most foundational, parts of web metrics / analytics. Metric: A metric is a number. But not normal metrics. Dimensions.
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#PeakVC
K9 Ventures
OCTOBER 12, 2015
This includes, but is not limited to money from China, India, Middle-East and also from “retail” investors (or otherwise unsophisticated investors who are attracted to a market simply because of the amount of press/media attention it gets). That increases the overall money supply coming in to venture.
25 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Motivation to Grow Their Business
Hearpreneur
OCTOBER 23, 2020
Running an eCom business in India, a developing nation is a bumpy ride. Reaching my mini-goals and recording new numbers on the growth metrics going through thick and then is what keeps me going. Photo credit: Akram TariqKhan. There are new challenges and problems. Thanks to Akram Tariq Khan, YourLibaas ! #4-
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Hearpreneur
MARCH 2, 2018
5- Black Sheep by Metric. India Arie is a Grammy award singer with many songs. Headphones on and singing like I created that song myself inspires me to keep pushing back up this entrepreneurial roller-coaster. And when that song ends, I am cleared for The Eye of The Tiger, Katy Perry’s version. Photo Credit: Ashley Rose Marino.
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79 8 Positive Lessons From Facebook On Building Momentum
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 15, 2019
Pick a single metric that is the focus for all growth. Today’s world is full of metrics leading to business growth, including customer logins, revenue per customer, retention, and average solution price. Too many choices confuse all customers, and make your job in marketing, distribution, and support much more difficult. Less is more.
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Twitter Link Roundup #224 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More
crowdSPRING Blog
MAY 23, 2014
Klyati Trehan , a design student from India created a phenomenally impressive project, combining science and typography to visually represent 26 inventions that have changed the world. 3 Key PPC Metrics Are Lying To You. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week! Find Out How – crowdspring.co/1j0S8nO.
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93 Who Needs Freelancer Management Software ?
Transformify
DECEMBER 2, 2019
To make everyone’s life easy, Transformify Freelance Platform allows a variety of metrics and flexible project duration. Imagine that you have hired freelancers and contingent workers in the US, India and Korea. However, this is just the beginning as the recruiters need to manage all projects, deliverables and payments.
8 Principles For Building A Competitive Core Business
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 14, 2017
Pick a single metric that is the focus for all growth. Today’s world is full of metrics leading to business growth, including customer logins, revenue per customer, retention, and average solution price. Too many choices confuse all customers, and make your job in marketing, distribution, and support much more difficult. Less is more.
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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind
maplebutter.com
JANUARY 8, 2013
Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. Building Metrics / Usage Reports / KPI 3. Product/Metrics (70%/30% time) * Get your product activation (sign-up + meaningful action) to 60% * then, Get your product retention to 20% weekly. 10) Metrics.
6 Essential Principles Of Designing a High Converting Site Search Experience
ConversionXL
AUGUST 5, 2014
In one line, he couldn’t be clearer as to why you must pay attention to these metrics. In this article on DefinateEcommerce: India Edition , Flipkart’s VP of products says “Localization will be a large theme in eCommerce in the next one two years.”
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8 Strategies To Capitalize On Untapped Global Markets
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 22, 2023
It has played almost no role in the emergence of current non-US bred startups, including Alibaba in China, Waze from Israel, Paytm in India, and many more. With a singular focus on building unicorns, very rapid growth has been a key metric. In effect, Silicon Valley needs to take a more global perspective.
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7 Content Marketing Goals For 2016 That You Can Set For Your Brand
Brandanew
OCTOBER 13, 2015
Some of the quantitative metrics that companies use to measure their Content Marketing success include: a) Traffic. Myntra in India) are in fact moving to a mobile only model where they purely exist as apps and not as traditional websites. Your audience will trust someone who is an expert in the field. b) Sales lead quality/ quantity.
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Accel 2021 Euroscape: On the path to global dominance?
Cracking the Code
MARCH 28, 2022
To date, we’ve invested $7B+ in more than 300 companies globally and have worked with many exceptional cloud founders - from Australia to India, the US, Europe and Israel. All of the data points to the fact that Europe and Israel are on the path to be as fertile as the US - and potentially even more - in the coming years. vs US’ 2.4x).
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TNW Profile: Credictive founder Ela Madej on being ‘a woman in tech’, Rainbows and Unicorns
The Next Web
JUNE 19, 2012
Having said that, you have to be very careful with such lists and all other personal “vanity metrics” They tell the world that you’re doing something right but can have very little to do with the impact you have or how successful you are. These are the “metrics” you should live by.
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