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No More MBOs

Feld Thoughts

I’ve only worked in what could be considered a “big” company for 18 months (1993 – 1995) and that was the company (AmeriData) that bought my first company (Feld Technologies). Quantitative metrics are either too easy to hit, or completely impossible. This is totally messed up in a startup.

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User Experience Testing: A Conversion-Focused Guide

ConversionXL

A paper by Griffin and Hauser in Marketing Science (1993) defined four aspects to take into consideration when conducting voice of customer research: Customer needs described in the customer’s own words. You might improve user satisfaction metrics with a set of changes, but revenue per visitor goes down. Hierarchical grouping of needs.

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

alexpoole.info

1993 ; Moriarty & Scheiner, 1984 ; Poulton, 1965 ; Coghill, 1980) ). Sassoon, 1993 ; Rubinstein, 1988 ). Eyetracking metrics (book chapter). There are plenty of studies that show no difference between the legibility of serif and sans serif typefaces ( Tinker, 1932 ; Zachrisson, 1965 ; Bernard et al., 2001 ; Tullis et al.,

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Bitcoin: things only grow this fast when something important is happening

The Equity Kicker

This slide stood out for me: Looking at the massive year on year increases in most of these metrics I’m reminded of some wise words from Jeff Bezos. You can see from the chart below that the number of internet hosts grew 10x from 1989 to 1993 – that’s roughly 2x a year.

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Falling Out Of Love With Being CEO

Feld Thoughts

But we stayed after it and built a successful company that was consistently profitable and acquired by a public company in 1993 for a few million dollars. Rand wrote an epic blog on the financing titled Moz’s $18 Million Venture Financing: Our Story, Metrics and Future. At the time it was acquired, we had 20 people.

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[Interview] Tony Saldanha, Author of ‘Why Digital Transformations Fail: The Surprising Disciplines of How to Take Off and Stay Ahead’

YoungUpstarts

When I left Procter & Gamble as VP in Global Business Services and IT after a career of 27 years, I’d been associated with setting up the first shared services operation in the Philippines in 1993 — program managing an $8 billion dollar outsourcing deal. And the success metrics show that.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

I believe it’s important for leaders to visually see if business metrics are being met. I began my career as an engineer and have always been committed to solving problems and running smooth business operations. In the Lean world, “green” means project details are on track. Red” means a deadline is not being met. 18- Based on our tagline.

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