SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 19, 2012

He is not a technical person, but is somewhat web savvy. It's the same as when I've created financial models and then have it reviewed by a hard-core CFO, sophisticated investor or similar kind of expert. Conversations with a technical advisors or possible developers should be iterative. Go find a new technical resource.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

FBe's recommendation was (paraphrasing a 35 min talk): Don't invent new metrics, use online versions of Reach and GRPs to measure success. Because we don't understand the uniqueness, we fall back on profoundly sub-optimal old world metrics like Reach or Online GRP equivalents. Metrics are a problem.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Google Analytics switched its default metric from “sessions” to “users” in 2018, mirroring Mixpanel’s emphasis on users over pageviews. Hundreds of user reviews of both platforms on G2 Crowd reveal the key benefits—and shortcomings—of each. G2 Crowd, a business technology review site, has almost 3,000 reviews of Google Analytics.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 25, 2023

As soon as you have 2-3 months' worth of sales data to work with, use a formula to calculate stock reorder levels to ensure you always have stock ready to go, especially if you're promoting your products on platforms known for viral content, like TikTok. Next, technology is your ally. Thanks to Dani Mechlowitz, Delta Fulfilment ! #6-

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

That last bit should sound familiar if you follow theories of Startup Laws & Metrics. Similarly, we hold up “viral growth” as the best sort of growth, because exponential curves overwhelm all others, thus once the mechanism is stable and the company gets large enough to be noticed, it’s neigh-impossible for competitors to catch up.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 6, 2019

But there are technical and strategic keys to smart deployment. Don’t copy the style of a popular video (especially a “viral” one) if you’re trying to drive home your unique value proposition or establish your brand. LinkedIn video ads: tech specs, targeting, metrics, and cost. LinkedIn video ad tech specs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2015

The law of large numbers, platforms that can make your company blow up unexpectedly and the trendy nature of tech markets can be deceiving. Or app companies that went viral due to spammy friend requests to download in an app store only to have a community backlash and subsequent crash. Not vanity metrics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2014

As a long-time mentor to entrepreneurs, here is my collection of smart risks that investors and I look for in new startups: Focus on a tough customer problem rather than a fun technology. Investors hate technology solutions looking for a problem, due to the high risk of no customers. Customers like leaders, not followers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

As a long-time mentor to entrepreneurs, here is my collection of smart risks that investors and I look for in new startups: Focus on a tough customer problem rather than a fun technology. Investors hate technology solutions looking for a problem, due to the high risk of no customers. Customers like leaders, not followers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

According to a recent Harvard Business Review article , only 60% of companies today use social media for marketing, and only 12% of those feel that they are using it effectively. Read everything you can about viral marketing. Define relevant metrics and measure. So print it off and deliver it to a friend who is not so high-tech.

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Social Media Small Business Media Technical Review 289

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 23, 2013

These are the first six key metrics non-robots must track to understand Facebook Page performance, why you need them and where to find them. #1: Viral reach (views) consists of posts viewed as a result of a friend’s actions (sharing, liking, commenting). Why your fan reach metrics are likely the most important.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 12, 2010

Let's go look at some tools… Measuring "Invisible Virality": Tynt. Please click on the above image for a higher resolution version , including all the other metrics.]. Goes viral. I can measure the "invisible virality" / "spread" by this big huge non-commenting, non-tweeting audience.

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Analytics Viral Web Mobile 96

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 31, 2016

When we think about this question, it’s important to remember that startups today fail due to lack of distribution and product-market fit – not because of technical problems that they were unable to solve. In other words, if you’re looking at generic metrics, you’ll end up with a generic strategy.

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Software Review South Africa Hockey Stick Viral 60

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

As a long-time mentor to entrepreneurs, here is my collection of smart risks that investors and I look for in new startups: Focus on a tough customer problem rather than a fun technology. Investors hate technology solutions looking for a problem, due to the high risk of no customers. Customers like leaders, not followers.

Forecast 120

Forecast Startup Stock Options Technical Review 120

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I’d argue that the same type of technologies that have revolutionized dating can revolutionize our industry. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Cracking the Code

AUGUST 3, 2011

In search of Europes next tech stars. In search of Europe's next tech stars. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends. SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. My Yelp reviews. Cracking The Code.

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Software Review Europe Technical Review Search 67

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The goal of growth hacking as marketing is rapid growth, using strategies and tactics that leverage (and even exploit) technology, platforms, and behavior to reach an end goal. Neither would have achieved virality had customers not received something tangible for their efforts. Activation.

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Retention Marketing Acquisition Channel 113

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 4, 2024

Learn crucial metrics for success, from open rates to the quality of subscribers. 15:09] What are some of the metrics that showcase success in Newsletter writing? [17:17] Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! There's not any new crazy technology necessarily that's showcased there, but I know it works.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

I did a presentation this week at Coloft that looked at how Non-Technical Founders can go about getting their MVP built. Once you build it, they will now ask you about the key metrics that they need proven in order to see if you really are a good investment. " Once you have the metrics defined, it focuses your effort.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Educational content covers videos like how-to’s, tutorials, documentaries, product reviews, and many more. Some of my favorite examples of channels that think outside the box with this are: What’s Inside ; Hydraulic Press Channel ; Primitive Technology ; Practical Engineering ; Rose Anvil. Key metrics (90% of your focus).

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Channel Metrics Algorithm Video 129

The Next Web

DECEMBER 12, 2013

In the early days of e-commerce, sales were typically the most important metric for success. Myth #4: It’s all about the technology, not the service. It’s easy, especially in Silicon Valley, to get hung up on all the whizbang new technologies available to developers.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 23, 2007

Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Popular Media is a hosted, web-based technology platform that enables customers to quickly create, optimize, and scale viral marketing programs - and it seems to work pretty well. In search of Europe's next tech stars. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2023

14:58] What are some of the metrics that show you’re doing things right? [17:02] Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! There's not any new crazy technology necessarily that's showcased there, but I know it works. And I'm not afraid to mess around that technology. Like this show? 16:13): Yeah, yeah.

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ChatGPT Advertising Email Viral 91

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

In comparison, the overall technology sector growth was projected at 9-10% in early 2010 and this forecast did not change significantly today. To justify a 60pts difference, we have to believe that the current growth rates of 10% for technology and 20% for SaaS will continue to hold for the next 9 years before converging. for Lawson?

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Business model viability, in the majority of startups, will come down to balancing two variables: Cost to Acquire Customers (CAC) The ability to monetize those customers, or LTV (which stands for Lifetime Value of a Customer) Successful web businesses have long understood these metrics as they have such an easy way to measure them.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 15, 2008 The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time Split-testing is a core lean startup discipline, and its one of those rare topics that comes up just as often in a technical context as in a business-oriented one when Im talking to startups. First of all, why split-test?

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

There is no golden metric for everyone, we are all unique snowflakes! :). and tell you what are the best key performance indicators (metrics) for them. All I have access to is just a cursory review of their digital existence. Here are six O, B, A metrics I would recommend for Betabrand’s strategic dashboard.

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Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 141

Up and Running

JULY 10, 2017

The tech-savvy millennials (me being one of them) are already familiar with the “shareware” concept that was turned into freemium. It’s critical to understand the metrics in terms of dollars per additional user, as you’ll have to spend this amount to serve thousands of your non-paying customers. Freemium isn’t free. Youtube ads. $1

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Startup Non-Compete Viral Software Review 110

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. We were post product and had viral growth, albeit at very small scale and still had to evangelize the concept of a vital coefficient w/ most investors. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 16, 2012

In search of Europe's next tech stars. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends. SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. My Yelp reviews. Venture Capital. (3). Blog Archive. ▼ 2012. (1). ► 2011. (2).

Software Review 95

Software Review Europe Technical Review Spain 95

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 28, 2006

Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. I make the most of this time by listening to my favorite tech and venture podcasts. In search of Europe's next tech stars. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends. SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Popular Media: the key to viral marketing.

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Technology San Francisco 48

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

In search of Europe's next tech stars. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends. SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. My Yelp reviews. Venture Capital. (3). Blog Archive. ► 2012. (1). ► 2011. (2).

Software Review 59

Software Review Technical Review Cloud Europe 59

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 1, 2009

In search of Europe's next tech stars. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends. SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. The recession created opportunities! Venture Capital. (3). Blog Archive. ► 2012. (1). ► 01/15 - 01/22. (1). BlablaCar - Travel Revolution.

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Cloud Europe 48

abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Awareness of the service was clearly spreading virally through word of mouth. Despite Benchmark’s strong association with ecommerce during the late 1990’s due to the success of companies like eBay, we have not been particularly active in ecommerce in the past several years. For starters, the business metrics are quite compelling.

eCommerce 62

eCommerce Technical Review North America San Francisco 62

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

In search of Europe's next tech stars. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends. SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. My Yelp reviews. Venture Capital. (3). Blog Archive. ► 2012. (1). ► 2011. (2).

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Software Review Technical Review Europe Venture Capital 54

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 9, 2009

However, as the second graphs shows, some companies such as Constant Contact, Vocus or Salesforce do start to show a stabilization or an improvement in their productivity metrics. In other words, how much of the decline in revenue growth is due to signing up fewer customer vs lower revenues from each new customer. Venture Capital. (3).

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

When you start with an honest and diligent effort to determine the truth of your situation, the right decisions often become self-evident.” — Jim Collins , author of Good to Great. In this post I’ll focus on benchmarking resources for seed and series A in the following three categories: SaaS B2C / Consumer apps Deep tech.

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