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SuperMac War Story 9: Sales, Not Awards « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

And the final lesson was that we were keeping score on our packaging with the wrong metrics – it wasn’t about awards, it was about sales in the retail channel. Hopefully you and your co-founders are experts in one or two parts (agile development, SEO/SEM, etc.) After that you’ve become a battle-hardened realist.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

Great article youre now in my rss feeds :) October 2, 2008 4:37 AM kamilski81 said. Hi Eric, Great article - Ive added you to my regular RSS reads. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

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Cracking The Code: Getting the most of your online marketing: the In.

Cracking the Code

Getting the most of your online marketing: the In & Out of SEM/SEO. Add RSS feed. SaaS business metrics: why are they different? on a scale of 1-4). on a scale of 1-4). The videos can be watched at Bessemer Online Marketing Portal (the other materials are not public). Anonymous said. Post a Comment. Newer Post. Older Post.

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Cracking The Code: Unveilling of the Bessemer's 10 laws of Cloud.

Cracking the Code

Your caution in Law 6 about over-estimating the impact of SEM and other lead-generation activity is particularly astute. SaaS companies use different metrics to calculate renewals. Add RSS feed. SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Posted by Philippe Botteri. at 7:42 PM. Excellent update to your 10 Laws.

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Knowledge

Occam's Razor

" ~ Web Metrics: "What is a KPI? " + Standard Metrics Revisited Series. "Engagement" Is Not A Metric, It's An Excuse. Defining a "Master Metric", + a Framework to Gain a Competitive Advantage in Web Analytics. Podcast: Measuring Rich Media (Ajax, Flash / Flex, RSS & Blogs).

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Web Analytics Technical Implementation Best Practices. (JavaScript Tags)

Occam's Razor

9: Don’t forget Flash, Flex, RIA, RSS, Videos etc. Redirects are nifty little things, they can direct traffic in a nice way in case links change or if your SEM / Ad / Whatever agency can track data or, in the good old days of web logs, you wanted to capture clicks where you send data off to other websites (domains).

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Internet Ad Frenzy – what’s next?

BeyondVC

I am not going to dive into the metrics here, but let me say that I still believe we are just in the second inning of this shift from offline to online advertising and that we should start looking for the next battleground. I would go small and focus on building its publisher base where Google gets over 1/3 of its revenue.