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. Time-to-complete-a-sale is not a bad metric for validated learning at this stage. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Luckily, the metrics helped us figure out the difference. Question 2: If your product has areas where people read and then different areas where people interact, are there ways to do metrics to determine where people spend their time? Were looking to metrics to determine how users interact with our product. Expo SF (May.

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The Startup Toolkit

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Folks who know nothing about your business will evaluate it based on the default metrics: traffic & revenue. Accepting the default metrics is bad. The default metrics are dangerous because they compel you to scale prematurely and kill your company. Picking good metrics. Focus on retention. Focus on referral.

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klinger.io

JANUARY 17, 2014

Andreas Klinger #product #metrics #marketing Startup Lessons Learned. A Primer on Startup Metrics – Which Analytics Tool to pick. A Primer on Startup Metrics – Which Analytics Tool to pick. Accounting are the metrics we track over time. Follow @andreasklinger. On this website I share notes & thoughts. ?.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

I think its helpful to think about two kinds of competition for distribution: acquisition competition and retention competition. On the web, we have many of these channels: SEM, SEO, world of mouth, PR and viral. Retention competition is how you get people to come back to your app. My advice: dont launch big.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

What are those metrics? Andrew : If you are a travel company right now, I think you’re seeing very specific metrics dropping. As a result of that, all of those metrics go up. In a lot of the startup conversations I’ve been having, if you lean too far that way, it doesn’t resonate with people.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

” April, 2012 – Andrew Chen writes Growth Hacker is the new VP Marketing , which goes viral (2.4K This means users love it, that there’s lots of retention and engagement, even at small numbers. Without metrics or data, a growth hacker can feel out of place and uncomfortably exposed. ” Creativity.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 16, 2016

See, when people lean on NPS like it’s a magic number, it doesn’t do much good. Net Promoter Score is a customer loyalty metric developed by (and a trademark of) Fred Reichheld, Bain & Company, and Satmetrix. If you have a bunch of customer success metrics but don’t use them for anything, you’re wasting your time.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Just as.NET is both a lock-in and very restricting, and Java violates both “lean cuisine class hierarchy” and “objects if necessary, but not necessarily objects”, the “we’ll just use XML” mantra deserves to die. That would have given you a trifecta. Only like minds want to work for someone like that.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 6, 2016

Claire Vo: CRO Metrics for Performance and Insight. Wrong Success Metric (OEC). Revenue is usually a good metric to use to evaluate effectiveness of test. Stephen Pavlovich: SaaS Optimization – Effective Metrics, Process and Hacks. Strategy & Testing: The a-ha moment is the tipping point for retention.

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