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How is the VC Asset Class Doing?

View from Seed

At the time, I spent most of my time describing the metrics themselves and how VCs and their LPs evaluate performance based on these measurements. If you aren’t familiar with these metrics, I recommend reading the original post to get a sense of the numbers that I’ll be reviewing here. The top quartile has distributed 2.03x (vs.

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How Reed Hastings’ Facebook Status Update Landed Netflix in SEC’s Crosshairs

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Compressing 80 years of history into a paragraph, securities regulation here is fundamentally a disclosure-based system. Nevertheless, selective disclosure could be said to unfairly benefit analysts and institutional investors at the expense of other stockholders, particularly individual investors, who lack access to the same information.

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Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned

om.co

We recently wrapped up our strategy offsite, an annual event that brings together the members of our very distributed team – 12 different cities in four different countries – to discuss what our aspirations and ambitions are for the coming year. But that is the real metric of success as far as I am concerned.

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How to Build Robust User Personas in Under a Month

ConversionXL

running regression analyses against success metrics), but we knew what our “ideal customer profile” looked like for the most part, and we knew which customer profiles were worth the most money to us generally. How are they organized and distributed? We never did a full structured analysis on behavioral correlations (e.g.,

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

In 2002, McKinsey published a study of 1,000 U.S. The questions that clients ask in the coming months are going to be more focused on business results and less on trends and vanity metrics. This means more people behind a screen, which means more opportunity across distribution channels. What the big studies have shown.

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How to Build Robust User Personas in Under a Month

ConversionXL

One of the best definitions I’ve found, which expounds a bit more, comes from Tony Zambito circa 2002 : Tony Zambito: Buyer personas are research-based archetypal (modeled) representations of who buyers are, what they are trying to accomplish, what goals drive their behavior, how they think, how they buy, and why they make buying decisions.

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Welcome to the Widget Wars

Eric Friedman

The culmination of this brainstorming has left me thinking a lot about embeddibility and how the future of applications and software will be distributed. In most cases the metric of success varies greatly from widget to widget. This also helps my definition come into being; Below are just some of the metrics of success for a widget; 1.

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