Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

The following is a guest post by Kirsten Cluthe and Ritika Puri from The Lean Startup Conference team Wondering what’s new in the Lean Startup community? Every year, our team conducts more than 500 customer development calls to understand what challenges the community is facing. Here are some of our favorites: 1.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2013

For www.ti.com the content clusters might be: Products, Applications, Tools & Software, Support, Community, Sample & Buy etc. Extra work for you to download the data and aggregate it, but it is very valuable data so put in the extra effort. The Ad Groups view is pretty helpful from an aggregated perspective.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. to motivate their angel community to support their startups. are using AngelMob.co

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . Investors are also mining for leads such sources as: – product crowdfunding sites ( Indiegogo *); – tech communities ( Producthunt ); – angel group platforms ( Gust ); – expert networks (e.g., 1) Manage the firm .

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

Since many of us in the Web Analytics community don’t have optimal awareness of this methodology we’ll go into some detail about how lab usability tests are conducted. Aggregation of Marginal Gains: Recession Busting Analytics! Share your experiences, feedback and critique via comments.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

For that year, the metrics look amazing. Contrast this with a marketing team going after any particular channel—events, paid, SEO, community, PR, whatever. But in aggregate, they can make a big difference. After all, conversion rates can go only so high. I’ve done this multiple times across multiple companies. Leads are up.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Effectively measuring and understanding your CAC and CLTV metrics are key to future success. Bessemer SaaS Law #1: Your key monthly business metrics are: CMRR (Committed Monthly Recurring Revenue), Churn, and Cash flow - “Bookings” is for suckers. Brian, Paglo www.paglo.com. Great list! Great list! Philippe Botteri.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 8, 2017

Some innovators with integrated business models like Kaiser Permanente are making great strides in aggregating your patient data and making it accessible to you. To this end, we will be expanding our platform with more and more organizations that are looking to improve the health of their communities.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

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. Let me introduce other material that may be good for our community. SaaS business metrics: why are they different?

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Before there was Fab there was fabulis, a social network meets places guide targeted to the gay community. If it’s done right, feedback and postmortems are regular activities and reviews are just the official aggregation of such feedback.?. Jason is also an investor in and Board Member at RJ Metrics. Fab Culture.

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Up and Running

JUNE 23, 2015

90 percent of our clients are ordering more than one product at a time, so we’re an aggregator. The more moms we can save, the healthier and better those communities and families will be. Allyson offers a concise description of what Maternova does: “We’re almost like Amazon in the sense that we’re click-and-ship.

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

Most project creators describe their project using aggregate framing. But indirect reciprocity plays a powerful role in online communities, such as open-source development. Crowdfunding communities are no different. Before launching your campaign, build your community reputation. The problem? This strategy is my favorite.

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www.subelsky.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Because it has an RSS feed, one could also use "Unresolved Hoptoad Errors" as a metric influencing the continuous deployment system. This isnt Rails-specific, but we use SimpleDB for dumping a lot of important metrics data, like performance measurements, which we then turn into metrics. May 17, 2010 9:44 PM Chris said.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

I’ll cover: How to avoid “blank page panic” by using templates; How to turn disparate data points into an intuitive flow; How to save time with data manipulation (and get cleaner data); How to aggregate data from different sources in the same dashboard. Use the Bar format to represent the metrics. Data Studio Report Gallery.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 8, 2011

and partly because all they do is present data in the aggregate (a punishable criminal offence if there ever was one!). As a cure to this malaise, I’ve encouraged y’all to switch to using only custom reports (bring just relevant metrics and dimensions into one place, and throw away 90% of web analytics data that does not apply to you).

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

They need to reduce volatility, be more bearish on what might happen, and also prioritize their obligations towards their employees, communities and themselves as people. (29:24) What have you noticed in that kind of the startup community's ability to move fast and kind of double down on this? SA : I think he's great.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

I've known Brian Chesky, Co-Founder, CEO and Head of Community at Airbnb for a long time. People, not just metrics. Brian Chesky : I am Brian Chesky, co-founder, CEO, and head of community at Airbnb. Well the same could be viewed as a community, a marketplace, social media company, anything. Broadly shared prosperity.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Team Aggregate DB, which is working on how the State Department can better gather and leverage information on informal leaders in foreign countries, was called on the carpet for failing to call on some high-level contacts provided by the professors that could potentially change their mission model. (Not

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Team Aggregate DB, which is working on how the State Department can better gather and leverage information on informal leaders in foreign countries, was called on the carpet for failing to call on some high-level contacts provided by the professors that could potentially change their mission model. (Not

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 4, 2011

Any application of algorithmic intelligence , weighted sort , expected range for metric values ( control limits ), or anything that even remotely smells of ever so slightly advanced statistics is a good sign. "All data in aggregate is crap." Unknown unknowns are what it's all about! Loads and loads and loads of context!

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 4, 2008

Customer satisfaction report : You can have this aggregated or segmented by months or weeks. Task completion rate : My all time favorite #1 Web Analytics Metric ( booo conversion rate! ). It is the most optimal way for you to get support, ask other questions, make suggestions and generally have a ball with the community.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In aggregate, long-tail queries can drive a ton of traffic. If nothing else, this update may be a good reminder for the search community to: Focus on giving useful answers. Leave quality-degrading metrics like “keyword density” behind. Image source ). Create content covering more related questions and topics.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 9, 2020

Improve traffic figures, metrics and digital performance. For example, listing your business to aggregator sites, setting up your own e-commerce presence, or even opening up your blog to guest posting possibilities. SEO is the process of ranking your website for your industry-relevant keywords on search engines.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 22, 2015

people writing the content are doing it for the sake of ranking better (get conversion optimization keyword traffic, backlinks), and not to actually add value to the community. The latter is much more important, it’s the key metric you want to pay attention to. It’s hard to fix this issue, so be careful whose advice you buy.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

While not obvious on the surface, there has been a fundamental sea-change in the investment community that has made the incremental Unicorn investment a substantially more dangerous and complicated practice. Anything that hints of a down round brings questions about the success metrics that have already been “booked.”

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 28, 2011

A market merely defines the aggregate of demand for a product or service and every organization, whether for profit or not participates in one. Just as businesses large and small use analytics tools to understand their traffic, their customers, and their conversion metrics, NFPs can also benefit from the tools used for this.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 26, 2022

You’d like to believe the world is completely meritocratic—that you’ll put your heads down to work on your company, hit all your metrics, and just show up on the doorstep of a VC firm who will just be bowled over at the fantastic little company you’ve created. Unfortunately, this has real consequences for founders.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 9, 2019

As a social enterprise, we give a big percentage of our profits from the sale of our emergency kits to local groups helping vulnerable women and children in disaster-affected communities across the U.S. Since our tool didn’t JUST monitor press but incorporated different metrics like Facebook reactions, citations, various indices etc.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

To be fair, “familiarity” and “Ever listened to” aren’t really great metrics that translate to consumption. In 2013 Mazda started installing Stitcher – the second most popular podcast aggregator – in the actual dashboards of their cars. Grow a 100-person Elite Mastermind community. The reason for including Stitcher?

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

John Jantsch: Well, and let’s not forget to throw in the aggregators that are out there doing the 10 best blah, blah, blah in their city. I mean, they’re essentially national lead aggregators and they’re messing up the local results. It becomes a very active landscape. It seems like Google right now likes them.

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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. And passionate players are often the backbone of game communities – especially online. We cultivated a passionate community that nurtured a skilled set of developers.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 13, 2015

You can simply click on either one of the two above and see the valuable-drilldown view… All the standard Acquisition, Behavior and Outcome metrics you are used to can be leveraged to identify valuable segments. I mean, take advantage of our community of amazing peers who have already created an incredible collection of solutions!

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

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. The problem is that there are no other metrics they can look at to judge the content of a book to know if it’s worth reviewing. Is that a lot? In that I see opportunity.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

We also learned that law is code , and that leadership was needed to build thriving communities in a digital age. But aggregated across many schools, there are thousands or tens of thousands of them. You can find the origins of many successful companies in these early lessons. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

But, ultimately, it generates paying customers—and that’s the only metric that really matters. They just happen on sites like Quora, Reddit, and Stack Exchange—localized, industry-specific communities on forums and discussion sites. Answer hyper-specific questions in industry-specific forums and communities. Conclusion.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

VC Platform community has grown approximately 120% in the last 3 years. aggregates resources from all the VCs. For instance, tracking ‘months-of-runway’ combined with the month-over-month change to that metric allows us to rapidly identify companies that may be distressed. AskAnything.VC

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