Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

How They Make Money: Groupon keeps a share of the coupon value (typically 40-50%) as its net revenue (1). in net revenue and passes $0.58 2010 Net Income: -$389M (net loss) (2). Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $713M. Run Rate Revenue: $2.6B (Q1 2011 annualized). 2010 Gross Profit: $280M. to the merchant.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

Facing continuous disruption from globalization, China, the Internet, the diminished power of brands, changing workforce, etc., They measure their success on metrics that reflect success in execution, and they reward execution. These metrics stack the deck against a company that wants to invest in long-term innovation.).

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2013

They’re using metrics that are often unworkable in the current business environment, causing growing businesses to look elsewhere for capital and increasingly towards alternative forms of financing. Startups are hungry for credit, but banks and other financial institutions have never been stricter with their financing parameters.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 3, 2016

Once you’re sure your analytics are healthy, you can begin trying to understand the five key elements of custom reports: users, sessions, hits, metrics and dimensions. Dimensions: Every report is made up of dimensions and metrics. Metrics: Every report is made up of dimensions and metrics.

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David Teten

AUGUST 6, 2015

I also spoke with Michael Hutchens , CEO & Cofounder of BPM Global , which helps organizations more efficiently build and maintain financial models. One of our biggest pet peeves is reviewing an operational model that starts in “Month 1″, and excludes anything that has happened in the past.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 15, 2019

During 2019, our Net Promotion Score has dropped 15 points. Bubble Kings most commonly reside in organizations where there is little to no accountability (or misplaced accountability, ex: celebration of vanity metrics). One person who demonstrated Curious One behavior to me was the recently ex-Global CEO of Unilever, Paul Polman.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

According to a McKinsey Global Innovation Survey , “although 84% of executives agree that innovation is important to growth strategy, only 6% are satisfied with innovation performance.” ” Many organizations claim innovation is a priority, but their high-level strategy and day-to-day operations say otherwise.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2013

It provides a basic introduction to analytics as they apply to Lean Startup, including sections on what metrics to use and how to interpret them. For instance, Ben lists out the worst of the “vanity metrics,” a term that describes appealing but meaningless or misleading numbers. Alistair: There are plenty. Consider a restaurant.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 27, 2024

Leverage KPIs and Benchmarks for Insight Key performance indicators (KPIs) are the metrics that track your progress towards specific financial goals. Operating cash flow, current ratio, net profit margin, and inventory turnover are examples of common financial KPIs. IFRS, used globally, focuses on broader principles.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

In normal times, every company operates against some hypothetical growth model—a data-driven framework that describes how your product grows and how you acquire new users. In normal times, every company operates against some hypothetical growth model—a data-driven framework that describes how your product grows and how you acquire new users.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Stage 1: Target the right metrics for an effective long game. Here’s what the engagement continuum looks like for a demand generation strategy : Based on this change, we need to rethink how we strategize (with attraction instead of casting a wide net) and how we’ll measure our marketing efforts. Demand generation is no exception.

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 10, 2020

And what are the metrics for customer love? The industry classic is NPS – the Net Promoter Score; and we encourage all our companies to track that as soon as they can. As you operate at the early stage, how do you help a company scale? What are your benchmarks? It’s easier at scale, right? We call it “Applied VC”.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. We are also seeing technology evaluation as an increasingly important part of LP operational due diligence. To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. .

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View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2016

My contact at Facebook assured me that this story wasn’t the only one of its kind, and that it was more common than you’d think in other offices they had globally. SMBs represent 55% of jobs and 66% of all net new jobs since the 1970s. In addition, look at Facebook’s revenue per user growth globally over the past few quarters.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Maybe you want to expand into international real estate markets and reach a global client base. Your operations plan. Milestones and metrics that you’ll need to hit to be viable. Operations. The operations section covers how your business works, from the logistics to the technology. Milestones and metrics.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 3, 2021

And not only that, I want my company to go global by signing on more international brands. 6- Transform into a global business. My BHAG is to transform my company into a global business by the end of 2022. But with other business aspects (accounting, metric monitoring, etc.), 12- Digitize operations.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

If leads-based B2B marketing is fishing with a net, ABM is using a harpoon. 2,320 sign-ups; 39% of attendees were net new accounts; 34 sales-qualified opportunities; 5 new customers immediately converted with LTV of over $100k each (normally a 9 to 12 month sales cycle). And yet, no one can agree on what account-based marketing is.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 3, 2024

Since sustainability is synonymous with business resilience, climate change regulation compliance, and long-term financial success, it’s a mainstream consideration for industries globally. As a result, the EU calls for a global ban on certain plastic products to combat pollution. trillion problem, and also a cost on the environment.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

With the help of advisors Ada Ryland and Wayne Lopez, we set up data-driven operation to get clarity on what and why we measured?—?and Related: when people say that execution is the most important metric of who will win, keep in mind that executing a fundraise is almost paramount. That’s a metric! and the outcomes. “If

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Effectively measuring and understanding your CAC and CLTV metrics are key to future success. Bessemer SaaS Law #1: Your key monthly business metrics are: CMRR (Committed Monthly Recurring Revenue), Churn, and Cash flow - “Bookings” is for suckers. Brian, Paglo www.paglo.com. Great list! Great list! Philippe Botteri.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

or Charles Hudson at Precursor Ventures the moment I started a new business that I felt had global potential. My goal is simply to point out that some of the most prominent myths Silicon Valley and the startup ecosystem have invented to propel the industry to global heights are just that: myths. Certainly. Most definitely.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2008

net which would make them third party cookies on that domain. ]. net third party cookies. net knows that I was at the Omniture site a little while back and then I went to eBay and then NYTimes. net (if it was a ad serving platform) could serve me a ad for Omniture next to the Maureen Dowd column. If yes, use those.

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David Teten

JUNE 12, 2014

We are also the second or third most active angel group in New York, depending on which metric you use. In the past four years, I’ve been fortunate to publish two research papers on investing best practices, on origination and portfolio operations , leveraging the insights I’ve gained through my work with HBSAANY.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

million FCC net neutrality comments, things people around the world identify as their biggest threat , water consumption of a burger patty vs. daily cooking , the religious gap on spanking children , or a simple graph that rises profound questions about where we donate vs. diseases that kill us. Be it looking at 1.1 Nothing complicated here.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Now let me clarify — NET is a dandy language. ” Don’t get me wrong: NET on your resume isn’t an instant showstopper. But just to clarify a couple points, 24-hours into the storm: Yes,NET developers are great at what they do. And at the time,NET was the best choice for those problems.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

and reorganized into operating divisions (by product, territory, brand, etc.), This strategy-to-structure shift from functional organizations to operating divisions was led by DuPont and popularized by General Motors and quickly followed by Standard Oil and Sears. each with its own profit and loss responsibility.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

A few weeks ago, Coinbase , which facilitates buying, storing and purchasing cryptocurrency and also operates a cryptocurrency exchange, went public. Coinbase was founded in 2012 and operates a cryptocurrency exchange. Brian is the CEO of Coinbase, a successful tech company, and one of 2021's most successful IPOs.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

3GVision is the global leader in mobile barcode services that use the camera phone to scan barcodes. i-nigma was successfully deployed by hundreds of enterprises, among them operators, advertisers, integrators and solution providers. Below are the 56 Israeli companies who will exhibit at the 2011 Mobile World Congress: 3G Vision.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

We set up a bunch of global surveillance systems like one called PREDICT that was supposed to find these diseases early on. So President Obama set up that office after I departed, put someone named Beth Cameron in charge of that office, a real global health expert. We created a pandemic response playbook that we wrote in 2015, in 2016.

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