Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

To find out whether or not today’s public technology companies have hit bubble valuations, let’s compare some companies that survived the great bubble with their bubble era valuations: The Enterprise Value-to-Revenue multiple (EV/Rev) and Price-to-Earnings multiple (PE) are commonly used metrics to tell the valuation:value story.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2016

According to a 1996 HBR article , interactive marketing included “the ability to address an individual and the ability to gather and remember the response of that individual.”. No matter what purchase funnel model you’re looking at, they all usually start with some sort of “attention” or “awareness” metric. Image Source.

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Board Effect

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

They’re most interested in meaningful metrics and the standards you measure them against. Valve is a game developer corporation that started in 1996, making such electronic games as Alien Swarm and Left 4 Dead. Today’s stakeholders don’t just want any data, so don’t overwhelm them with meaningless data.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

I just dont comment. :) Steve, The term was in active use in 1996 in the MMO world, which predates Googles founding. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. January 7, 2009 9:28 PM Raph said.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

Looking across these nearly 50 companies, the study finds that founding CEOs consistently beat the professional CEOs on a broad range of metrics ranging from capital efficiency (amount of funding raised), time to exit, exit valuations, and return on investment. Let’s just say he didn’t have the benefit of the doubt.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 20, 2019

If you’re setting business goals – and you absolutely should be – CRMs can help you review your metrics (i.e. Zoho has been offering SAAS (software as a service) since 1996 and boasts a huge slate of apps. CRMs never forget and provide valuable statistics for predicting cash flow and future business. Need email ?

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

The success of business can be measured through many metrics — page views, revenues, profits, the number of employees, or an exit (either through a private or through a public sale). But that is the real metric of success as far as I am concerned. Back to the top. If life gives you barbed wire, figure out a way to make wine.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Palm in a New Market What makes this example really interesting is this: rewind the story 4 years earlier to 1996. In 1996 no potential customer had even heard of a Personal Digital Assistant. In 1996 Palm was selling a product that allowed users to do something they couldn’t do before. What do you think?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 30, 2023

That wasn't my intention in 1996. I mean there's obviously important metrics and stuff that we're sharing and important announcements throughout the seven minute huddle, but it always ends with leader's choice. Like what a great way to meet people, solve my own problem here and try running a business. It's always the exact same agenda.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 6, 2017

It also isn’t any less true than it was Bill Gates coined the phrase back in 1996. Of course, as the metrics (and the ways of compiling them) become more sophisticated, we start seeing how important other types of content really are. The notion that “content is king” isn’t a new one.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 25, 2011

Making lame metrics the measures of success: Impressions, Click-throughs, Page Views. Use metrics that matter: Loyalty, Recency , Net Profit, Conversation Rate, Message Amplification , Brand Evangelist Index , Customer Lifetime Value and so on and so forth. all stink worse than Amorphophallus Titanum. How can you not love that?

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BeyondVC

MAY 18, 2007

I first met David in 1996 when he made his move from offline to online advertising as my prior fund invested in the initial round of 24/7. Wow-what a past couple of days! First I would like to say congratulations to David Moore, CEO of 24/7 RealMedia, on the company’s pending sale to WPP Group for $649mm.

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BeyondVC

MAY 18, 2007

I first met David in 1996 when he made his move from offline to online advertising as my prior fund invested in the initial round of 24/7. Wow-what a past couple of days! First I would like to say congratulations to David Moore, CEO of 24/7 RealMedia, on the company’s pending sale to WPP Group for $649mm.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

I’m a partner at TCV, which we founded in 1996. Do you have other efficiency metrics that you look at when you evaluate businesses to check the quality of growth and the quality of the revenues? . I love how you’re very clear about the centering metrics in your mind with revenues, which reflect scale. . David Zhang.

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Up and Running

MAY 31, 2016

He started from his dorm room at the University of Oregon in 1996; he sold his company, Rumblefish.com, for $27 million in 2015. See Also: Use Milestones and Metrics to Turn Planning into Business GPS. Milestones and metrics. The metrics help you track progress. See Also: What Metrics to Track (and What Not to Track).

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 30, 2015

Would you be surprised to know that almost half of the dot com companies founded when the boom started in 1996 were still around in 2004--four years after the peak of the NASDAQ? They might even find themselves operating more efficiently than they ever had been--newly focused on core metrics.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 21, 2011

I will post separately on valuation metrics and the implications of the dichotomy between recent public company valuations and merger & acquisition statistics. This is similar in effect to the epic 1996-2000 Internet Bubble cycle but for the expansion of the players in the pre-IPO inner bubble circle.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

If PPC has been around since 1996 , why doesn’t it happen more often? Instead, I predict 2016 will be the year of alterna-metrics.” (via Acquisio). Focusing on the Wrong Metrics. If PPC has been around since 1996, why doesn’t it happen more often? ” That’s the ultimate goal, right?

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Dan’s second post did make it clear that there is considerable confusion over the relevant metrics to determine the health of the IPO market for small cap companies. .” Several readers, including me, again took Dan to task on this because we believe his facts are erroneous. IPOs were neither VC nor PE backed.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Maybe you are wondering which metrics to track, or whether or not you should take out a loan for your business. I have been involved in startups since I graduated from college in 1996. Which metrics do you most rely on to understand your business itself. What specific metrics should they be monitoring? What do you do?

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