Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

From New York, Philadelphia, and Boston to Los Angeles and San Francisco, entrepreneurs came out to share their enthusiasm -- you really are everywhere.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

Also, investors from the super-hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, or Boston), won’t assume anyone outside their domain has the savvy and resources to make it happen. But it is an important metric for firms in pursuit of explosive growth. Raising capital isn’t the be all and end all of startup success.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 10, 2011

These dynamics harm startups at all stages, because they pressure founders to engage in “success theatre” – trying to make themselves look successful by general management standards by focusing on vanity metrics , product milestones, and whiz-bang demos. Fraud, deception, and dishonesty undermine this moral calculus.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 15, 2023

She is the founder of Sleek Marketing, which offers hands-on education on digital marketing in the Boston area. When you use metrics and strategies in the same subtitle title, most businesses I end up running up against don't have a strategy, let alone a data-driven strategy. (06:07): Like this show? So Christina, welcome to the show.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 25, 2012

Over the last three weeks I’ve had numerous people ask me how my trip to Boston has been going. Tonight, after hanging out at the TechStars Boston Mentor evening and program kickoff, I got into a long discussion with a Bill Warner and Ken Zolot about Cambridge, Boston, and startup communities.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 18, 2019

Fractl’s case studies place metrics front and center: Kerry Jones, Director of Marketing at Fractl, says that case studies were a game changer for their B2B marketing efforts. The Boston Globe describes the phenomenon of how fluency shapes our thinking as: Easy = True. When your words create friction, you don’t just fail to earn trust.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

In comparison, Facebook Live shows overview metrics like minutes viewed, average percentage completion, and unique viewers.). Boston University used Vidyard to create personalized videos that encouraged people to promote their fundraising event, “Giving Day.”. Here’s a demo featuring my name: Who is personalized video right for?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

They measure their success on metrics that reflect success in execution, and they reward execution. For example, the Boston Consulting Group 2 x 2 growth-share matrix was an easy to understand strategy tool – a market selection matrix for companies looking for growth opportunities. Strategy Maps. By design not by exception.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 21, 2017

I was in Boston and was interviewed by The Growth Show about my current thinking about innovation in companies and government agencies.The interviewer was great and managed to get me to summarize several years of learning in one podcast. 32:05 No Innovation Pipeline, Guidance or Metrics. It’s worth a listen. 32:55 Teaching Lean.

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View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

Ellie Mirman was the first marketer hired by the CMO of HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing software startup that IPOed in 2014. If I had a business where there’s a six-month sales cycle instead, I’d need to wait longer and look for affects on some metrics that would provide an early indication of success or failure.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2021

There’s a reason that Silicon Valley and Boston are hubs for high-tech startups. Jointly define major milestones and key metrics for the startup. Use caution to avoid employer conflicts of interest and non-compete clauses. Relocate to a more likely geography. Finding a high-tech co-founder in the middle of Kansas may be a long search.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

He believes that one of the financial metrics taught at business schools and reinforced by Wall Street has accelerated offshoring of industries. New company in Boston with a model called “royalty capital.” We also spoke about technology systems in the perspective of global competition. Then there is a royalty rate.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

This was a really fun episode for me because Mo is informed and knowledgeable on so many topics and being a Boston / NYC VC it gave us so much to talk about relative to just covering California VCs. We discussed NY vs. Silicon Valley and NY vs. Boston. Metrics: 2.5mm members, 1,000 brands, 2,500 sale events to-date.

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Rob Go

OCTOBER 14, 2012

Geography: 18 of the 23 are in Boston or New York. Some of our most interesting companies have originated in places like Estonia (GrabCAD), Croatia (Farmeron) and Omaha (SkyVu), although all have either moved or have a significant presence in a major tech hub like SF, Boston, or NY. OUR INDUSTRY.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

INTRODUCTION This past fall, I attended the 20th annual Reaching Out MBA (ROMBA) conference in Boston, one of the best business school conferences in the world and the largest gathering of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) graduate business school students in the world. from administration to politik? or developers?—?are

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David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

While people think a Southern drawl is smooth, and a Boston accent is “so Boston”, unfortunately you’re going to be judged harshly (and quietly) based on how you speak. Prove more through metrics. I truly believe in the meritocracy of Silicon Valley – when you have solid metrics. Watch your dialect – I’m saying though!

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

I wound up seeing Joel, but I never caught Paul when I lived in New Haven or Boston. Overall, Dharmesh’s talk was filled with behind the scenes metrics from his company, HubSpot , and actionable points for SEO, Twitter, and social media. He spoke about 21 trends you should bet on, and 5 you shouldn’t.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2023

There’s a reason that Silicon Valley and Boston are hubs for high-tech startups. Jointly define major milestones and key metrics for the startup. Use caution to avoid employer conflicts of interest and non-compete clauses. Relocate to a more likely geography. Finding a high-tech co-founder in the middle of Kansas may be a long search.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

For starters, the business metrics are quite compelling. I began covering Dell as an equity analyst for First Boston in early 1994, and over the six years that followed, Dell’s stock would appreciate 100x; a remarkable and perhaps unprecedented run of value creation. The company has clearly “struck a chord” with consumers.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Founded in 2000 by Stephen Kaufer and Langley Steinert, Boston-based TripAdvisor is a travel website that provides reviews and other information for consumers about travel destinations around the world. TripAdvisor is more of a classic consumer Internet success story, but with even more powerful network effects and an amazing business model.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 9, 2019

When I was in Boston a while ago (it was very cold, so it must have been January), I had a wide-ranging conversation with Eric Paley. I’ve been thinking a lot about gross profit (and gross margin ) lately. Yeah, I know I can be riveting, but stay with me.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 9, 2019

He decided that moving fast was more his speed, so he joined Conduit Labs in Boston in 2007, who was purchased by Zynga 3 years later. So, I think it’s important to define your activation metric really precisely and really just take a bet that if you improve that it will result in more people discovering the other things down the line.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 7, 2023

It'll be in Boston from September 5th through the eighth. So if your frontline team doesn't have what they need, it shows itself in those experience metrics on the customer side. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! That's right. John Jantsch (06:25): So it would seem pretty logical.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 8, 2012

Creates a small number of metrics tied to The Main Thing. It’s important to define reality with data and to share what needs to change, and to describe the metrics that will be used to track those changes. Defines reality in terms of what needs to change. Identifies and eliminates operational and cultural barriers to execution.

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View from Seed

JUNE 16, 2015

Editor’s note: Local tech media company BostInno (a division of the American City Business Journals) hosts an annual Boston State of Innovation conference. I was recently asked to sit on panel with my fellow VC peers and some top entrepreneurs from the Boston tech community. What’s the real reason you didn’t invest?

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 8, 2010

When I moved here in 1995 I didn’t expect to engage in much business as I was spending most of my time in Boston, NY, and San Francisco. What I didn’t realize at the time were two important metrics that underscore both the technology and the entrepreneurial energy in Boulder. Boulder is a perfect city for this. s in the US.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 1, 2023

It'll be in Boston from September 5th through the eighth. Really tracking and seeing if you're hitting those metrics and if you're not, what is going wrong? So, you know, you kind of alluded to that, but it's not just metrics of like, is this selling or not? Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! That's right.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

It'll be in Boston from September 5th through the 8th. But there isn't actually a top down roadmap of how to do it with real milestones and metrics and uh, around it. (07:01): Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! That's right. 07:01): And a real fundamental change in the operating model.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 2, 2013

shoppers named free delivery as the top motivator for making an online purchase, according to the Boston Consulting Group. Alessandra is a frequent speaker at conferences on topics such as branding, building online communities and improving metrics by utilizing data. In a survey, 74 percent of U.S.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 8, 2023

It'll be in Boston from September 5th through the eighth. So we have all of our metrics, we have our rocks that we need to achieve for that particular quarter. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! That's right. So as every week I have something, which is our top executive meeting. We call it a SI silent meeting.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

So I have personal scars from what it means to over-index success using fundraising as the key metric. These startups include Boston-based InsightSquared (raised $27M to date), San Francisco-based ThredUp ($50M to date), and RentJuice (acquired by Zillow). Success and fundraising are not one and the same.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, December 23, 2009 Why vanity metrics are dangerous In a previous post, I defined two kinds of metrics: vanity metrics and actionable metrics. In this post, Id like to talk about the perils of vanity metrics. My personal favorite vanity metrics is "hits."

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View from Seed

JUNE 10, 2020

This initial wave of applicants resulted in the selection of six initial Accelerator participants – female & male founders at startups hailing from the Bay Area to Miami to Alabama to Boston, ranging from b2b SaaS offerings to consumer services… all transforming people’s everyday lives.

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Agile VC

AUGUST 12, 2011

” The challenge is that while there’s a simple answer, it’s not one that can be easily distilled into a set of metrics that can be followed as a cookie cutter plan. 4) Metric momentum – Everybody likes those up and to the right graphs. Author howerl. Filed under Uncategorized. Read More ».

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 12, 2011

They reached out to their friend John, a CFO at a late-stage VC-backed company in Boston that was about to file an S-1 to go public. QuickBooks and other accounting software programs will do this for your finances, but you should also implement tools for tracking other key metrics (e.g.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2010

I had the opportunity to again think about this issue last week when I was on a panel at a Startup Bootcamp event in Boston. Startups and small businesses that become obsessed with metrics often lose their way. Startups and small businesses that become obsessed with metrics often lose their way. Not all metrics are important.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 30, 2014

I’ve known Joe for a while – we met through Techstars Boston, where he’s been a great mentor and very active angel investor. And, is multiple of revenue really the correct long term metric? Yesterday, at The Calloway Way event at MIT , I ran into Joe Caruso. Or what happens when they go down to a 3x valuation?

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