View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This post is inspired by some of the earliest conversations I have had with the team here at NextView and since the beginning of my VC journey. Warning – this assumes some basic knowledge of VC performance metrics. Q: What is going to happen to the cost of capital? Q: What is the opportunity cost of not being in tech?

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This post is inspired by some of the earliest conversations I have had with the team here at NextView and since the beginning of my VC journey. Warning – this assumes some basic knowledge of VC performance metrics. Q: What is going to happen to the cost of capital? Q: What is the opportunity cost of not being in tech?

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

You’d think conversion optimization and SEO should play together nicely, right? In theory, conversion optimization aims to improve the user experience, which, conveniently, is what Google wants to do as well with their top search results. How do you balance traffic acquisition with conversion optimization?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Im constantly frustrated by conversations that take place in discussion groups that cant cross the border into the blog world. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

Finally, we’ll zoom out and assess the big picture: how various categories of company may be impacted long-term, how this crisis compares to 2008 (and what that means for early-stage founders), and the industries and business models that are now prime for growth. What are those metrics? I’m Lauren Murrow.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 10, 2009

It all started on March 31, 2008. United apologized, plans to use the video internally to help " change its culture ," and, according to a spokeswoman for the carrier: "We are in conversation with one another to make what happened right." 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 ► 2008. (11). Happy New Year 2008!

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 19, 2020

This was supposed to be Airbnb's biggest year by many measures, including its IPO, which was one of the most anticipated since the 2008 financial crisis. Raise money and cut costs. Instead, the global pandemic has turned 2020 into its most harrowing year. Principles can be abstract, though. The worst decision is no decision.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This post is inspired by some of the earliest conversations I have had with the team here at NextView and since the beginning of my VC journey. Warning – this assumes some basic knowledge of VC performance metrics. Q: What is going to happen to the cost of capital? Q: What is the opportunity cost of not being in tech?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

The way forward requires getting everyone together in a room, and having a conversation about where were headed. My aspiration with the Lean Startup methodology has always been to provide such a framework, so that we have more intelligent conversations about what works and what doesnt for startups. Thats what this conference is for.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 19, 2009 Lean hiring tips In preparing for the strategy series panel this week, I have been doing some thinking about costs. I want to talk specifics, and when you come right down to it, most technology startups dont have a very interesting cost structure.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

In a startup context, numbers like gross revenue are actually vanity metrics, not actionable metrics. For example, say that your business model calls for a 4% conversion rate – as ours did initially at IMVU. After a few months of early beta at IMVU, we discovered that our actual conversion rate was about 0.4%.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Your conversion rate is not what it could be – and you know you need to do something about it. If you just go ahead and redesign your site, chances are that it will fail – conversions / revenue per visitor actually go down. The development takes way longer, and ends up costing way more. Probably not though.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

If you've read my first book Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, you know that I've advocated this strategy since 2008! Outcomes of the conversations with your Finance team and Sr. Conversion rate is one of those metrics that I strongly encourage you only create benchmarks for from your own data. See Page 269. :).

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Up and Running

MAY 30, 2016

Like the rest of the hospitality industry, after a major slowdown following the 2008 economic collapse, the numbers are gradually getting stronger as the current decade moves along. This factors in costs for remodeling to meet regulations as well as brand new bedding, towels, appliances, fixtures, and decorative effects for the room.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

So I generally feel right at home in these conversations. As the costs of production fall, it’s getting easier and easier to send in a proposal or even a complete work. Despite all the energy invested in talking to authors about the size of their platform, very few gatekeepers have a rigorous set of metrics for measuring it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. They know how much it costs to bring in a customer and they know how much money they can expect to make on each one. Our cost to acquire a customer on AdWords was only a few cents. Time-to-complete-a-sale is not a bad metric for validated learning at this stage.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

As I already mentioned, the cost of playing at Vegas is much higher. You have your room fee, your plane ticket, the cost of eating out while there, etc. 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 ► 2008. (11). The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008 Release. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

Although there is cost and overhead associated with continuous deployment, the benefits are immense. Split-testing is great for linear optimization; making our landing pages, conversion rates, and retention metrics incrementally better day-in day-out. Danger, Will Robinson. If youre not doing both, youre missing out.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Although it costs to pay down the principal, we gain by reduced interest payments in the future. In addition, third-party services and API’s enabled us to do more with less, but at a cost: taking on the technical debt of products and teams outside our direct control. For example, how fault tolerant should it be?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

In comparison, Facebook Live shows overview metrics like minutes viewed, average percentage completion, and unique viewers.). Wistia has been around since 2008. Wistia’s analytics can help connect the dots between video consumption and conversions. The plan targets data scientists and video engineers. Image source ).

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Among other things they conducted 240 A/B tests that resulted in a 49% increase in donation conversion (that was more than $80 million extra cash). Research shows that marketers are spending pennies on their conversion efforts. Just waste all that effort and money – only because their website is not optimized for conversions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 6, 2008 When NOT to listen to your users; when NOT to rely on split-tests There are three legs to the lean startup concept: agile product development , low-cost (fast to market) platforms , and rapid-iteration customer development. October 6, 2008 9:41 PM Eric said. Any thoughts?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 27, 2009

Do it right, and your conversion rates might be as high as 20%. Here the key is for your free customers to get value from the site that is greater than the costs they perceive by the fact that youre selling access to them. Do it wrong, and your LTV gets very close to zero. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 6, 2016

Then combine the data and focus on the most common and important issues, and you should see some results, both in NPS and conversion rate. Follow-up on the conversation via email with a plan to get them back on track toward their stated Desired Outcome. Find out what works more often than not for specific sites using industry research.

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www.rocketwatcher.com

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Rocket Watcher Product Marketing for Startups Product Marketing for Startups About Speaking Contact Email Posts Startups Product Marketing Messaging Social Media Commentary Uncategorized Marketing Metrics 101 for B2B Startups 13. Rocket watcher b2b marketing metrics View more presentations from April Dunford.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

This was supposed to be Airbnb's biggest year by many measures, including its IPO, which was one of the most anticipated since the 2008 financial crisis. You can listen to our conversation on Apple podcasts , Google podcasts , or wherever you like to download. In addition, a transcript of this first part of the conversation is below.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2009

If your startup is growing (or aspires to grow), then the costs of a mistake are always going up. Since the cost of failure is monotonically increasing, it actually makes sense to fail sooner, not later. Thats true as far as it goes, but its actually faulty reasoning in a lot of startup situations. Your support means the world to me.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

It is something I talk about often, but mostly with my team members and in one-on-one conversations. called The Rise of a Insta-Company, which theorized that open source, cheap bandwidth and increasingly falling cost of infrastructure would result in companies being built at a dramatically lower cost than ever before.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 13, 2008 SEM on five dollars a day How do you build a new product with constant customer feedback while simultaneously staying under the radar? Since we were only paying per click, it didnt cost us anything to cast a wide net. SEM is a simple idea.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 7, 2009

He summarized that conversation well, so rather than re-tread that material, Ill quote it here: One thing that I was surprised to learn was that IMVU started out with continuous deployment. The interesting thing about fear is that to reduce it requires two contradictory impulses. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Beyond just those who will be hearing about the lean startup for the first time, Im expecting to shake a lot of hands and have a lot of interesting side conversations. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 10, 2007

When you activate it, it reduces the sound level from your iPOD and enables a conversation without removing your earphones. It is a small GPS device that connects via bluetooth to any PC or mobile device (smart phone or blackberry) and cost less than $150. 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 ► 2008. (11).

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

You can listen to the conversation on the Greymatter podcast here. And I think one of the things that we’ve learned is, when I came to Silicon Valley in 2007, we were starting Airbnb in 2008, it was a marketplace. A lot of times with creativity, you can do things that don’t cost money. It cost us nothing.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

The difference here is the entry-level cost to buying web property, not physical property, is much lower than what it is to buy real-world properties. The great thing about this strategy is you already have a conversion mechanism. Improve conversions. Just do some basic conversion improvement. It’s entirely up to you.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 18, 2010

So it was with absolute delight that I wrote a detailed post about the release of Advanced Segmentation feature in Google Analytics in Oct 2008: Google Analytics Releases Advanced Segmentation: Now Be A Ninja! If you do your analysis right you can lower cost (by identifying and eliminating the losers!) Of course Yahoo! " Bam!

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Yaniv Masjedi: Exactly, in the early days we were essentially educating the market on moving away from traditional PBX, expensive, clunky, difficult phone systems to the cloud or VoIP back in 2008. I would say more and more when we first started in 2008 I think the early days it was just, “Let’s move fast and do what makes sense.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, December 16, 2008 Engagement loops: beyond viral Theres a great and growing corpus of writing about viral loops, the step-by-step optimizations you can use to encourage maximum growth of online products by having customers invite each other to join. Thanks for being part of the conversation.

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