www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Of course, if you find a rep with a high dial to demo ratio and high close rate, study them, spread the best practices across the team, and hire more people with the same profile. aggregate pipeline created in a given week) could be altered reflexively by their measurement -- a sort of Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle for high-velocity sales.

Metrics 55

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

ff Venture Capital hired two full-time engineers to build out Totem. The self-assessment methodology, pioneered by Village Capital, is called VIRAL, for “Venture Investment Readiness and Awareness Levels.” . Fund/SPV management services specifically are provided by Assure Services and Proteus Capital.

Technical Review 78

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Content aggregator app developer Timehop is an excellent example of this idea in action. They were linking the app to the viral hashtag #throwbackthursday, which was a natural fit for the brand. A good start is to get out in front of things like gender-neutral hiring. Most of all, they have to do it in a very public fashion.

PR 107

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BeyondVC

OCTOBER 2, 2015

This is also the reason why next to VP of Sales, I would argue a VP of Customer Happiness/Success is a crucial hire. In other words, how do you sell into one user and create viral loops (sharing dashboards, etc) and expand the active user base for the product.

Revenue 60

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BeyondVC

OCTOBER 2, 2015

This is also the reason why next to VP of Sales, I would argue a VP of Customer Happiness/Success is a crucial hire. In other words, how do you sell into one user and create viral loops (sharing dashboards, etc) and expand the active user base for the product.

Revenue 60

Revenue Customer Metrics Aggregator 60

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

As the members of Atomic Tom can attest, today’s quirky moments can become tomorrow’s viral sensations. Most labels have an agreement with a licensing aggregator, such as The Orchard , which is attractive to new bands in the short term because it makes their music available for sale on iTunes and similar services.

Mobile 82

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

How updating the communication device known as a “diploma” will help students acquire the right skills and help companies hire the right talent. And because a diploma from a four-year program is the mechanism a majority of employers use to screen potential hires, it’s both increasingly valuable and increasingly costly to obtain.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 1, 2015

These are the days of the meticulously crafted Likes and Shares and the cautionary tales of intimate affairs gone viral and private pictures haunting teenage girls. This is the time of the carefully thought out posts, the manicured pictures, and the well-formulated responses. If a Dog is Man’s Friend Then….

Social Media 28

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

I was hired to level-up the marketing team. Then, I evolved it into a growth team by hiring a designer and two engineers. Their growth came from users, and they had true virality. Just remember that true virality is really rare. But in aggregate, they can make a big difference. I Will Teach You to Be Rich.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Right now the most important role to hire in Twitter would be a seasoned marketing professional who could proactively change the conversation about Twitter and educate people about its significance as an information sharing tool. Twitter resurfaces things and can drive old content viral. I guess it wasn’t in their DNA.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

It is hard to understand the implications of the behavior inherent in Path Length – which means you’ll hire more clever Digital Analysts for hour business. Remember: All data in aggregate is crap, segment or suck. I have a massive bias against the current click-bait, let’s go viral , “hot story of the moment” traffic.

Metrics 143

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Paypal famously offered customers $5 to invite a friend, who would then also get $5 as part of a highly successful viral marketing campaign (they actually started at $20, and then reduced it to $10 and then ended at $5). Also, take a look at this critically important data point , also aggregated by Professor Jay Ritter.

IPO 82

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

There's a good enough vaccine to get the virality rate below one. All the other things that matter, aggregating talent, getting people to care, all of that stuff that's hard in a boom and easier now. Therefore, if revenue declines, you automatically cut back or don't hire or do whatever you need to do.

Silicon Valley 68

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand. To understand when the business has started to climb the sales learning curve and is in a position to hire more reps profitably, you have to think in terms of CMRR instead of bookings.

Software Review 48

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Like data segmentation , audience segmentation makes it easier to uncover optimization opportunities that you might not see when looking at aggregate data. Segmentation has many benefits. The other core benefits of audience segmentation are: Being able to assess the current value and potential value of your audience(s).

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

Aggregation of Marginal Gains: Recession Busting Analytics! Viral, Social, Sentiment, Mobile: 4 Delightful Web Analytics Solutions. Hiring a Senior Web Analyst? Web Analytics Segmentation: Do Or Die, There Is No Try! Analyze This: 5 Rules For Awesome Impromptu Web Analysis. Videos: Actionable Web Analytics Tips. 1: Visitors.

Analytics 125

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

There has never been a viral outbreak of such magnitude before. Consequently, you’ve decided to utilize this passion and expertise to collect and aggregate social media data from some of the popular social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, CrunchBase, and LinkedIn.

Bootstrapping 85

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 29, 2013

Measuring Visits and Conversions in aggregate first and segmented by keywords (or even key word clusters) will get you on the path to showing real impact. As you buy paid search tools, hire smart people/agencies, you should measure if you are able to make more and more profit. Did you earn any profit?

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

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 As soon as you’ve climbed the Sales Learning Curve, begin ramping your sales force by hiring renewal-oriented account managers. Stay local. One Datacenter.

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