Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 8, 2017

If you were watching the Oakland Raiders beating the hapless New York Giants (so sad about Eli) this past Sunday, you surely saw a scene like this one: Quarterback Geno Smith using his Microsoft Surface tablet to figure out how he added two more fumbles to this career total of 43. That would certainly impact sales – marketing or no marketing.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. And we can offer investors metrics to play Moneyball – with the Investment Readiness Level. We think we can do better. Here’s how.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 19, 2015

and how now the most successful teams are managed not by pep talks and gut but by and through data and metrics. Building on this long-term attention to detail and metrics, last year the Spurs became the winningest team in NBA history (to go along with their five league championships in 16 years). Some examples: FIFA.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2019

The team’s success centers on favoring the metric of “getting on base” over “swinging for the fences.” Teams don’t find product-market fit fast enough, or they can no longer raise the capital required to keep going. ” The Boston Red Sox won the 2004 World Series by adopting the same strategy.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

BookRenter – plus a discussion about Chegg … what is going on in the university book market? We talked about the analogies between what NetFlix achieved in movies and whether this is relevant to the book market. Company grew by more than “400% each year” for past few years [assume growth metric = revenues].

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 11, 2016

written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing has become a very data-driven discipline. Marketers spend a lot of time and energy looking at the metrics that illuminate the costs of finding new customers and keeping current customers. That was a very important metric for him. asks Allen.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

It’s about the Oakland A’s and their General Manager Billy Beane. A’s were able to win games cheaply by buying the qualities in a baseball player that the market undervalues, and selling the ones that the market overvalues. “ They measured every single thing ” by developing one massive database of key metrics.

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