VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

I’ve recently come across several of such lists and I thought it could be useful to aggregate them and share them here. A lightweight “agent” with access to logs and metrics can, to start, retrieve relevant information (e.g. and generate a post mortem.

Artificial Inteligence 176

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review Generative AI 176

View from Seed

MARCH 24, 2021

So, we decided to aggregate NextView’s “greatest hits.” Advice on How to Make Your First Analytics Hire “Analytics is about designing, reporting, and leveraging operating metrics to aid strategic and functional decision-making. What Are Your Valuation Expectations? ” (Melody Koh).

Seed Stage 177

Seed Stage Hiring IPO Analytics 177

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

My own metric is that you need experience >= 1.5 A serious study here: [link] concluded that younger people being more creative is a highly predictable at the aggregate level. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Warning sign? Say 40 years = 20 years real direct experience. At best. ~ Is 20 years enough?

Silicon Valley 237

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 237

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

These 6 KRIs are The CHICAGO MetricsR and are the result of an aggregation algorithm based on any number of tactical metrics. Since basis of the company was to create, track, and report out on metrics it fit with the theme and the name, hence, CHICAGO MetricsR. Thanks to EdwardMarchewka, CHICAGO MetricsR ! #3- It took me 2.5

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Naming India Chicago Entrepreneur 152

YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2011

Here’s another great resource for entrepreneurs – Tony Karrer ‘s StartupRoar ( www.startuproar.com ), which aggregates and filters entrepreneurial content from thought leaders such as Ben Yoskovitz , Vinicius Vacanti , Jill Hubbard Bowman and Steve Blank.

Aggregator 170

Aggregator Curation Widget Angel Investor 170

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule. Time-to-complete-a-sale is not a bad metric for validated learning at this stage.

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Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The more well-known your company becomes, the harder it gets to directly impact primary KPI’s at the aggregate level because the majority of customers who buy are going to do so irrespective of if your button color is red or blue. Was the variant designed mobile-first? In the same vein, consider a metric like ‘time on site.’.

Chad 112

Chad Mobile Technical Review Aggregator 112

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Google Analytics switched its default metric from “sessions” to “users” in 2018, mirroring Mixpanel’s emphasis on users over pageviews. Google’s dominance of the ad market has bolstered its primacy for acquisition metrics—integrations with Google Ads (search and display) are comprehensive and seamless.

Analytics 119

Analytics Technical Review Acquisition Retention 119

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 contains more than just good visual design or proper usability. We must strive to design navigable web sites and locatable objects, so users can find what they need. Accessible. Image Source. Card Sorting.

Conversion 103

Conversion Metrics Architecture Design 103

ConversionXL

MARCH 11, 2019

Good survey analysis starts with good survey design. The limitations of NPS are a useful way to understand how survey design impacts your analysis. Occasionally, you may want to design your survey to try to catch flatliners. Choose the right questions. Asking the right questions sets you up for success with your analysis.

Software Review 132

Software Review Customer Algorithm .Net 132

ConversionXL

MAY 16, 2018

Know the difference between leading and lagging metrics. Identify the key indicators of a well-designed offline experiment. While it’s always necessary to keep track of lagging indicators to evaluate ongoing performance, as marketers we want to understand what causes those metrics to move either up or down. Why do we test?

Marketing 133

Marketing Metrics Programming Design 133

ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2014

That’s why you need to be simultaneously feeding your growth engine , while monitoring churn and your other startup metrics. They refer to these differences as “ Red Flag” Metrics (or RFMs). Total number of logins also proved to be an important metric, though not as much so as the former two. times per day on average.

Retention 106

Retention Churn Rate Metrics Software Review 106

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Sharding for startups To support a single partitioning scheme is easy, especially if you design for it from the start. It also doesnt make sense to design your app for scalability from the start, since you may have to create many iterations before you find a version that requires any scalability at all. 21comments: Imran said.

San Francisco 151

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

That means: All of these metrics are off. Mark Tollerman: I've often observed insights to be the sole responsibility of analysts rather than designers, PMs, engineers and execs resulting in fear and lack of understanding of data and therefore increased use of opinion over fact. See my note to Mark above about how hard this is.

Analytics 125

Analytics Channel Metrics Web 125

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.

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

The interface is designed to keep people on the platform. In comparison, Facebook Live shows overview metrics like minutes viewed, average percentage completion, and unique viewers.). It’s designed for two core use cases: Internal training; Product demonstrations. All that said—YouTube has its downsides.

Hosting 127

Hosting Video Technical Review Software Review 127

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). June 8, 2009 1:16 AM Colin said.

San Francisco 102

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Startup 102

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Customer Relationship Management is a technology designed to help your business manage customer relationships and interactions in an organized way. This typically involves a CRM system or tool that helps automate and aggregate various customer touchpoints. How to choose a CRM for your business.

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Management Customer Software Review Technical Review 116

Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Milestones and Metrics. Ideally your executive summary will be 1-2 pages at most, designed to be a quick read that sparks interest and makes your investors feel eager to hear more. Milestones and Metrics. Metrics are the numbers that you watch on a regular basis to judge the health of your business. Read more ».

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Their typical buyers—facilities managers, architects, and commercial designers—rarely used social media. Their content wasn’t designed to rank for popular keywords and harness existing search volume. We call this movement-first content : articles designed to inspire and build credibility, instead of educate and target keywords.

B2B 133

B2B Marketing SEO Search 133

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

Understand why I believe that as designed the default position based model is sub-optimal. You don't have to do attribution analysis for all your conversions in aggregate. See my perspective on first click attribution model above. Promise me you won't ever use the default one. Feel really great you dodged a bullet.

Channel 162

Channel Analytics Campaign Conversion 162

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Prior to starting any maker activity, I clearly identify what needs to get done (the goal) and sketch out how it needs to get done (the design). Examples of things I monitor are the numbers of user activations, active users, and aggregate page hits to user galleries. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23.

Continuous Deployment 151

Continuous Deployment San Francisco Lean Wiki 151

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

But aggregated across many schools, there are thousands or tens of thousands of them. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23.

Programming 143

Programming San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 143

SVPG

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Note: For the purposes of this article, consider the terms: “analytics,” “data,” “KPI" (Key Performance Indicator), and “metrics" to be synonymous. The data we aggregate (from all sources) can be a gold mine. I attribute this change to several factors. Prove If Product Ideas Work.

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Analytics Technical Review Aggregator B2B 87

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

In this post we’ll cover the grand daddy of UCD (User Centric Design) methodologies: Lab Usability Testing. Lab tests are conducted by a User Centric Design / Human Factors expert, who is typically supported by a note taker. Usability tests are typically held in a specially designed room called a usability lab.

Analytics 85

Analytics Web Software Review HTML 85

ConversionXL

JUNE 9, 2019

A good rule of thumb is 2,000–3,000 pageviews per design screen, and also per device (i.e. But the same study by PRS, showed that the algorithms are not sensitive enough to detect differences between designs, and are particularly poor at predicting the visibility levels of on-pack claims and messaging. Click Maps. Image Source).

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Algorithm Analytics Conversion Stock 111

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

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. You might hire a really amazing designer, and perhaps even charge companies for their service for cost recovery purposes.

Private Equity 78

Private Equity Venture Capital Portfolio Equity 78

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 3, 2010

The key driver of this renewed confidence from brand advertisers is better measurement of brand metrics that can show the impact of online advertising beyond clickthrough. We got everything from price comparison engines to aggregated user reviews to one-click checkout. Direct Response Advertising becomes ever more efficient.

Internet 114

Internet eCommerce Advertising Flash 114

Occam's Razor

MAY 19, 2014

But the problem is that single golden metrics hide valuable insights and, more often than not, drive bad behavior. Here's my proposal: If you are pushed to have a single golden metric, give it a partner. The BFF metric you find should not be one that is very far away. So, great metric. Honestly, who can blame them.

Metrics 160

Metrics Analytics SEC Acquisition 160

ConversionXL

JANUARY 21, 2020

Aggregate them and consider how those needs transfer to your web analysis tool: What do you want to analyze? Whether you use Google Analytics, Webtrekk , Matomo (formerly Piwik), or any other web analysis tool, the account taxonomy must also be designed in advance, especially when many websites are involved.

Technical Review 73

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Aggregator 73

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

1 year later we sat down and had an honest conversation with ourselves and realized that our One Thing, the thing we were most passionate about, that we could realistically be the best in the world at, and that was a huge untapped market opportunity was: Design. So, we pivoted from fabulis to Fab.?. Once you pivot, focus, and don’t look back.

Technical Review 108

Technical Review Technology Software Review Valuation 108

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

You regularly run A/B tests on the design of a pop-up. And while the value of testing may be apparent to those involved in it, individual test results do not aggregate into ROI calculations made in the C-Suite. Their initial A/B test revealed that a badge number increased daily active users by 7% and boosted key engagement metrics.

Artificial Inteligence 101

Artificial Inteligence Algorithm Audience Campaign 101

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

An investor had few hard metrics other than the actual financials, and little technology to make the process scaleable. Over the past few decades, better metrics became available, and investors could take a more analytical, data-driven approach. Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. For our content creation, we use tools such as Canva (graphic design) and GoToStage (webinars platform) to create and share content for prospects to find.”. It sounds simple; however, very few asset managers actually do it.” 3) Raise capital.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

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.

Intellectual Property 175

Intellectual Property Aggregator Startup Angel Investor 175

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 30, 2008

In order to get optimal results from a group-based effort, you need three things: diversity, Independence , and an objective method for aggregating results. Aggregate results carefully. Let me briefly summarize the part of the book I find most helpful (leaving a few out, which arent germane to todays topic). Not all crowds are wise.

San Francisco 83

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 83

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 12, 2015

At the core of everything you will do in digital analytics is the concept of metrics. How do you define a metric: It is simply a number. Your digital analytics tools are full of metrics. Helpful post: Best Metrics For Digital Marketing: Rock Your Own And Rent Strategies.]. Now you have your foundation, metrics and KPIs.

Analytics 60

Analytics Metrics Web Leadership 60