David Teten

JUNE 1, 2011

Deal aggregation websites Increasing in popularity, trying to increase market efficiency. To maximize value and sale price, wider net is better There is a lot of un-invested capital sitting in funds and outside-in it is hard to tell the internal dynamics, so casting a wide net increases chances of a good outcome. Intermediaries.

Private Equity 122

Private Equity Deal Flow Equity Developer 122

Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Deciding on your price can feel more like an art than a science, but there are some basic rules that you should follow: Your pricing should cover your costs. There are certainly exceptions to this, but for the most part you should be charging your customers more than it costs you to deliver your product or service. Retail Distribution.

Business Plan 163

Business Plan Forecast Balance Sheet Distribution 163

ConversionXL

JULY 21, 2022

How did Outreach grow in just a few years to 50,000 monthly active users , $10 million in new bookings, and net revenue retention (NRR) of more than 140%? Customer acquisition cost (CAC). The average marketing and sales cost to win a new client. By focusing intently on a single measurement, known as a north star metric.

Metrics 120

Metrics Acquisition Revenue .Net 120

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Cover Upfront Costs. The proposed equity crowdfunding rules allow your business to fundraise up to $1 million per 12 month period in its aggregate equity crowdfunding campaigns. A successful campaign collects enough proceeds both to justify your business costs and satisfy your key business needs. Hire Attorneys and Accountants.

Equity 125

Equity SEC Technical Review Security 125

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. 2010 Net Income: $8 million. Filing Date: initial S-1 filed Nov 17, 2010 , updated March 9, 2011. Founding Date: 2004.

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The more well-known your company becomes, the harder it gets to directly impact primary KPI’s at the aggregate level because the majority of customers who buy are going to do so irrespective of if your button color is red or blue. But ultimately whether this is worth it depends on the cost to do this. So, it’s declared a winner.

Chad 112

Chad Mobile Technical Review Aggregator 112

abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

No other metric so holistically captures as many critical aspects of a web site – user design, usability, performance, convenience, ad effectiveness, net promoter score, customer satisfaction – all in a single measurement. Unfortunately, conversion improvements typically are the aggregate gain of 100 tiny improvements, not one silver bullet.

Metrics 93

Metrics Conversion Internet Acquisition 93

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

A hold-out group can deliver the answer, but, like everything, it comes at a cost. And while the value of testing may be apparent to those involved in it, individual test results do not aggregate into ROI calculations made in the C-Suite. But site development costs aren’t the only costs to consider. Image source ).

Artificial Inteligence 101

Artificial Inteligence Algorithm Audience Campaign 101

Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

Never bother to do a online usability study (it just costs $20 a pop!!). History, and historical comparisons, beyond the last 13 months are vastly overrated, and almost never worth the cost that data hangs around your neck. But even if 110% of the signs point to that first make sure you have aggregated all the marginal gains.

Analytics 119

Analytics Web Metrics Channel 119

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Throwing $300k at something that “feels right” could have huge opportunity costs. If you’re looking for how much money to invest in the mining location, net profit after one year may be a criterion. If you’d like to purchase the site, opportunity cost of investment may be the way to go. Labor requirements and costs?

.Net 69

.Net Net Present Value Cost Metrics 69

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Our solutions provide peace of mind, improve quality of life and save costs to users and service providers. Cost control & mobile least cost routing implementation. mobile telephone operators, broadcasters, content aggregators and media agents. A turnkey solution based on a fully telco-grade platform.

Mobile 109

Mobile IP SMS Networking 109

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

At a high level, user experience is the aggregate and subjective experience of using a product such as a website or app. Net Promoter Score (NPS). You can use eye-tracking on prototypes or early versions of a UI to mitigate risky mistakes and cheapen the cost of development. Does it feel seamless and fun? Does it work?

Conversion 103

Conversion Metrics Architecture Design 103

ConversionXL

MAY 16, 2018

Better examples of a falsifiable hypothesis might be: I believe my shoe business is losing money because our sneakers are priced too high and by reducing the cost we will increase sales by at least 50%. By reducing the cost of our sneakers, sales will not increase by at least 50%. Check out some examples of null hypotheses below.

Marketing 133

Marketing Metrics Programming Design 133

abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

” David makes a powerful assertion — allowing the patient to rise to the forefront and to be truly be seen as a customer — will lead to not only more satisfied patients, but patients with better medical results and much lower costs. Additionally, the large employer motivations are likely contributing to rising costs.

Customer 59

Customer Technical Review Venture Capital Software Review 59

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Ultimately, finding a low-cost, repeatable way to show customers how to be successful with your solution is as important as the solution itself. You put into words what we were thinking for our cost of client. Michael Kassing. Let me just say "Thanks". You validated our business model and added huge value to our efforts.

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

To build the online media giants of tomorrow, companies need models where the costs of both content and distribution are near zero. These models allow scale to emerge at very low-cost. That is the fundamental conundrum of online media economics; by far, the most profitable models have zero cost of content and zero cost of distribution.

Social Media 47

Social Media Vertical Advertising Distribution 47

YoungUpstarts

MAY 20, 2013

According to the results of a new study examining the effect of net employment creation by startup businesses on state gross product, each net job created by startup firms is estimated to increase state gross product by that amount in a given year. Almost US$1.2 million, that’s how much.

Product 145

Product .Net Startup Aggregator 145

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

I love looking at cost per account acquired as a key metric to share with potential acquirers. In other words, my cost to acquire account is $333, that’s huge information for potential acquirer because guess what? And we use the standard kind of format that most acquirers have adopted, which is called Net Promoter Score.

Entrepreneur 69

Entrepreneur Switzerland Revenue Differentiation 69

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 4, 2022

Cost Per View. Media Costs is the amount you have to spend on advertising (a category that also includes your Owned and Earned efforts – after all SEO, Email, Organic Social all cost money). Cost of Goods Sold (CoGS) is the amount it costs you to manufacture the product or the service. Media Costs).

Conversion 129

Conversion Analytics .Net Metrics 129

View from Seed

OCTOBER 29, 2014

A smaller portion of the total capital in the VC ecosystem comes from high net worth individuals. Because of that structure, an investor in FoFs will end up paying more in fees and carry than if they invested directly in VC funds, but the benefits of access, scale, and staff often outweigh the costs for some potential LPs.

LP 335

LP Private Equity Institutional Investors Venture Capital 335

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

Yet, it's the startup community that has gone all in on decisive action, even though relatively speaking, the cost for some of these startups, it'll be suspending the whole company or maybe risking the whole company on the solution. The things that I always say you need for a startup to be successful are a fast cycle time and low costs.

Silicon Valley 68

Silicon Valley Technical Review Government .Net 68

View from Seed

MARCH 5, 2019

So it’s not really the case that Lyft’s riders (in aggregate) are using the service more often, but rather Lyft is getting much better at netting more revenue per active rider. So you can think of bookings as a GMV type figure and revenue as true net revenue to Lyft. Lyft’s Biggest Cost “Driver” Isn’t the Driver.

Aggregator 120

Aggregator IPO .Net Revenue 120

Up and Running

JULY 7, 2020

Product manufacturing costs and marketing expenses are what most entrepreneurs plan first, as they comprise a significant portion of the overall startup budget. But one major cost that often surprises new business owners and can make or break your business is the cost of shipping and fulfillment.

eCommerce 99

eCommerce Cost Forecast Operations 99

Venture Chronicles

MAY 26, 2010

I’d be willing to bet that more investors lose a great amount of aggregate capital here than at any other stage. Those activities cover the full spectrum and are people powered, and people cost money. As markets develop they go through a natural expansion stage followed by consolidation.

Lean 40

Lean Early Stage Valuation Startup 40

Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2015

You’ll be able to think through your assumptions, what you think you can charge for your product or services, and what you think it’s going to cost, and then you’ll be able to see the bottom line. A persona is an aggregate of all the traits that your customers have, so that it becomes your most common customer.

Forecast 60

Forecast Video Business Plan United States 60

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Some notable metrics are revenue growth rates, free cashflow, leverage ratios, historical financing amounts, returns on marketing spend, customer acquisition costs, lifetime value of customers, customer churn rates, and team social scores. Capital has built a free online tool for founders to calculate their cost of capital.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Agile VC

OCTOBER 29, 2014

A smaller portion of the total capital in the VC ecosystem comes from high net worth individuals. Because of that structure, an investor in FoFs will end up paying more in fees and carry than if they invested directly in VC funds, but the benefits of access, scale, and staff often outweigh the costs for some potential LPs.

Venture Capital 279

Venture Capital LP Private Equity Institutional Investors 279

SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

Of course, there are still caveats - can they pass data security audits, what is your downtime risk and cost of downtime, what's the risk of the platform vendor. Interesting term used in a ZD Net article - Platform as a Service (PaaS) Unfortunately, Peter sells the promise and ignores the reality. Server and client in Java.

Internet 150

Internet EC2 Java API 150

Agile VC

MARCH 5, 2019

So it’s not really the case that Lyft’s riders (in aggregate) are using the service more often, but rather Lyft is getting much better at netting more revenue per active rider. So you can think of bookings as a GMV type figure and revenue as true net revenue to Lyft. Lyft’s Biggest Cost “Driver” Isn’t the Driver.

Aggregator 100

Aggregator .Net Revenue IPO 100

Occam's Razor

MAY 18, 2010

I have said: All data in aggregate is "crap" Because it is. You can imagine then how absolutely heartbreaking it is for me to note that nearly all reporting that I see is data in aggregate. Tons of data "puking", all just aggregates. My love for segmentation as the primary (only?) All visits. Total revenue.

Analytics 124

Analytics Web Acquisition Metrics 124

David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

It is mathematically impossible for the median investor to beat a low-cost index, after expenses. (Of I don’t think that a Net Present Value calculation is appropriate for every company. In aggregate, angels are significant investors. million households in the US with a net worth of $1 million or more.

Management 114

Management Pre-Money Valuation Venture Capital New Hampshire 114

ConversionXL

JUNE 13, 2016

Ultimately, persuading customers to buy something that’s going to get returned is short-sighted and a net negative. Even though this has a little cost, filtering out outliers is worth doing it because you can often discover significant effects that are simply “hidden” by outliers. Statistics trap #4: Fear of Multivariate Tests.

Distribution 48

Distribution Conversion Non-Compete Revenue 48

ConversionXL

AUGUST 14, 2019

Similarly, as Morgan Jones details in a post for Practical Ecommerce , data blending can help calculate new metrics, like net profit by SKU. Jones’ example blends data from two sources: A table that includes products’ wholesale cost by SKU (“COGS”); Google Analytics sales data. More examples.

Analytics 123

Analytics Metrics eCommerce Search 123

Occam's Razor

APRIL 6, 2009

The first source of the data are the logs that store the queries that are done by users on google.com (logs that have this data in aggregate, not by individual histories – you'll see the latter is not necessary). Finally the Purple Box, at the very top, contains other filters (cost, competition, keywords etc etc).

Search 103

Search PPC Matching Analytics 103

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Many have noted that the aggregate shareholder value created by all of the Unicorns will vastly overshadow the losses from the inevitable failed unicorns. If you over-fund the industry, aggregate returns fall. Moreover, once high-flying startups began to struggle on the fundraising trail. Anxiety slowly crept into everyone’s world.

IPO 40

IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Automatic importing of AdWords cost data into Urchin. Analyzing data in aggregate is a crime. When you look at all that in aggregate you get nothing. Please only send a email (blog at kaushik dot net). AdSense now integrated into GA. Advanced visualizations: Motion Charts! Custom Reports! Advanced Segmentation!!

Analytics 105

Analytics Web Search Non-Compete 105

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2020

For instance, my post on Moz about the economics of link building, which included our link-building rates to help readers compare costs, brought me a number of inquiries. Another great example of linkable assets are pages that aggregate industry stats, like this one. There’s also a chance for referral traffic and leads.

B2B 142

B2B Social Media Email Campaign 142