Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. As we are entering a new year, I thought it would be interesting to publish every quarter an update on the state of the 13 public SaaS/Cloud companies in the Index. Cloud Computing. (1). Friday, March 12, 2010.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. In order to achieve 20x growth, Snap needs grow both of those metrics 4–5x. Snap will need to build foundational cloud service APIs that tech giants have been building for 5–10 years such as maps, identity, authentication, etc.

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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. Similarly, it’s easy to generate large aggregate numbers by simply falling back to non-disruptive or non-sustainable tactics (see Validated learning about customers for one example). If it costs $0.10 But $10.00?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

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. I’ve met a lot of gatekeepers in the past few months.

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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. First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. And yet, their investors are frustrated.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 10, 2019

Form analytics provide quantitative data on metrics such as field timings, field re-entries, last field before abandonment, completion rates by segment, etc. Some of the tools below track dozens of metrics—even aggregating them into broader field “health” metrics—and visualize those metrics in clear reports.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Wize provides consumers with a unique way to leverage the online wisdom by aggregating the opinions of millions of users and by letting people ask questions about a specific product or need to the Wize community.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

The consequences of being late or making critical mistakes tally up into the millions, yet McKinsey estimates that 90% of projects suffer cost overruns – and two thirds are at least 40% late. ICAS® will give customers real visibility over their project, its metrics and progress – ultimately better serving their needs.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

At a high level, user experience is the aggregate and subjective experience of using a product such as a website or app. It’s a great test for clarity, and you get a nice world cloud to show your design team or boss. You might improve user satisfaction metrics with a set of changes, but revenue per visitor goes down.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

In my presentation this morning, I emphasized three key areas: reducing the personal cost of failure for entrepreneurs, innovation-friendly legal reforms, and access to the digital means of production (slides from my White House presentation are available at the end of this post). Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

Javascript tag driven click data processed in the cloud provided through a web based front end that allows you to segment and create meaningful views of the data unique to you. Because every tool uses its own sweet metrics definitions, cookie rules, session start and end rules and so much more. This instant. success measures.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 20, 2013

The cloud above is a rough to-scale approximation of their current traffic sources. As is common in these types of educational companies, aggregators rule the roost. The above image only illustrates three segments and their conversions – search, referrals, and aggregators – purely for the sake for simplicity. They do everything.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Since you have access to intelligent information, the question becomes — how will you aggregate and leverage all this data? Today’s best SMB-focused CRMs capture metrics more effectively than ever before. Reach For Cloud-Based Solutions. You’ll receive digestible and actionable information in one space.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

For example, while the data aggregation process in Google Analytics seems like a “normal” feature, it might be a hurdle if your business needs to process data at the hit level instead of by sessions or campaigns. Ad cost attribution. Custom dimension and metrics. Custom or calculated metrics. A cloud-based CRM system.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 3, 2024

trillion in annual global productivity , and global payments company Klarna recently said it saves $10 million in costs every year by using GenAI to generate images and reduce their reliance on external marketing partners. According to a recent McKinsey report, GenAI in marketing and sales could reap an estimated $3.3 make a product sticky.

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Up and Running

JUNE 22, 2021

In that scenario, a B2B firm would save on their own labor as well as on the cost of the collections process. And after the data gets centralized in a cloud database, it then gets cleaned and standardized for analysis, all without any further intervention. Stabilize accounts receivable and invoicing.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 30, 2012

When it comes to data analysis, you are usually more likely to see me share guidance on advanced segmentation or custom reports or advanced social metrics or controlled experiments or economic value or competitive intelligence or web analytics maturity or one of an infinite number of difficult, if hugely rewarding, things. Not today.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In an ecosystem, each participant acts according to its own imperatives, but these selfish actions have an aggregate effect. In an ecosystem, each participant acts according to its own imperatives, but these selfish actions have an aggregate effect. Why vanity metrics are dangerous What is Lean about the Lean Startup?

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Occam's Razor

JULY 15, 2014

It also handy explanations of the metrics, with key context where necessary. These will sound like: Metric x is down because of our inability to take advantage of trend y and hence I recommend we do z. It provides a brief snapshot of the entire business. From 3rd grader attendance to new artworks on view to expenses to (hurray!)

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 15, 2019

When it comes to infrastructure, you can choose from an on-premise solution, a cloud-based solution (such as Amazon Redshift or Google BigQuery) , or a hybrid solution. uptime; Cost-effective; Secure; Strong supporting infrastructure (Compute Engine, Data Prep, etc.). Does everyone understand the metrics in the same way?

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Effectively measuring and understanding your CAC and CLTV metrics are key to future success. You put into words what we were thinking for our cost of client. Cracking The Code. Friday, October 10, 2008. Great list!

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

This has two major drawbacks: the central directory can become a single point of failure, and there is a performance cost for having to consult the directory ever time you want to access data anywhere in the cluster. This scheme maintains a lookup table somewhere in the cluster, that simply keeps track of which data is stored on which shard.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2014

11: Close to zero aggregated analysis exists, everything's segmented. #10: They are generic mash-ups that tailor to almost no one's needs, and more often than not contain awful things like nine not-really-thought out metrics for one dimension in a report. All data in aggregate is crap. " Kisses. Angels singing!

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. This introduction was also the opportunity to illustrate the amazing growth of our software and saas portfolio in the past years, with aggregated revenues reaching $1.2B Cloud Computing. (1). Cracking The Code.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

. + Traffic Trends Key Metrics Analysis. Onsite Behavior Key Metrics Analysis. Since Pooja's likely to miss some folks walking in (gosh darn clouds!), I tend to use Hitwise a lot less, or not at all, because it is a very hard to use, it is slow, the UX/UI, metrics and reports have not really evolved over the years.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Our solutions provide peace of mind, improve quality of life and save costs to users and service providers. Free roaming technology – unique roaming solution which eliminates roaming costs in more than 150 countries. Allot Communications. 4G/LTE and WiMax networks and provide full cell awareness. BoomeRing Communication.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2018

But, in 2018, incremental gains no longer cost $1 million either: You have more data; Storage is cheap; and. Cloud computing is almost infinitely scalable. Massive, cloud-based repositories of customer interactions, often called data lakes, are the raw source material for predictive analytics applications. Outside vendors.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 15, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. The next wave of internet will come from companies aggregating these various data sets and leveraging them to provide more value to the user. Cloud Computing. (1). SaaS business metrics: why are they different?

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Aptana Cloud (svn, IDE, php, java, rails etc…). Cloud Infrastructure. see the Libcloud -compatible cloud providers. Startup Metrics for Pirates â?? SaaS Metrics Tutorial â?? tells you how much adwords cost. cloud-based survey, free account. Cloud-based drawing tool. Contractor Management.

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