VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

On top of this, they layer the discipline of direct marketing, with its emphasis on quantitative measurement, scenario modeling via spreadsheets, and a lot of database queries. 1) It all starts from the Growth Hacking Funnel - in the early stages, startups should not just focus on top/bottom line metric like unique users and revenue.

Viral 167

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 13, 2011

Not only were the pages just ugly, they were peppered with database errors and CSS blowups: Just look at us now , sporting a grayscale 1950′s automotive motif playing off the “engine&# concept using the latest in CSS3/HTML5 trickery: It was such a contrast, customers emailed us saying “Thank God you fixed that horrible website.

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www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Doubling SaaS Revenue By Changing The Pricing Model. Unless you own a hosting company, “number of servers owned” is not a metric your CEO cares about. It only tends to weakly proxy revenue. Results From Testing: 100% Increase In Revenue. Greatest Hits. Standing Invitation. Start Here If You’re New.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2021

The entrepreneur can earn plenty of revenue – from subscription plans and publishing targeted advertisements, commission from courier delivery personnel, booking cancellation charges, and transaction processing fees from an Uber for courier app solution. Robust database management through tools like Apache, MongoDB, and MySQL. .

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

To find out whether or not today’s public technology companies have hit bubble valuations, let’s compare some companies that survived the great bubble with their bubble era valuations: The Enterprise Value-to-Revenue multiple (EV/Rev) and Price-to-Earnings multiple (PE) are commonly used metrics to tell the valuation:value story.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2020

Hidalgo recommends a focus on engagement stage indicators including customers by channel, conversion ratio, and cost per revenue. You need to track what content is resonating with your prospective customers, through metrics including submit rate by content offer, elasticity, velocity, cost, and ultimately revenue by content program.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 7, 2019

Regardless of the intent of your membership website, these tips can save time and bring in more dues revenue. Your membership database likely has a number of ways to group your members. According to one study, segmented and targeted emails generate 58% of all revenue. Shopping cart revenue. Upgrades/downgrades.

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Up and Running

JUNE 21, 2017

You can further “educate” your Google Analytics metrics by using UTM parameters on your links. Any data points associated with that identifier are stored on the Kissmetrics database and linked to an email address as soon as that user provides that information. Read more about tracking metrics for a SaaS business here.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

The most important metric should be the number of targeted website clicks an ad is sending to your website. But, by offering content material such as online newsletter subscriptions and ebook downloads, you can collect their email addresses into your database and slowly warm up these prospects through automated drip email campaigns.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

we had no revenue. As a result, we knew that our pitch would need to steer into investors’ biggest concern: the lack of revenue. Instead, our strategy was to steer immediately into the revenue question because that was the top concern of investors in 2004. We made the mistake of listing three different revenue streams.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Our revenues have increased every quarter for the past two years. On top of that throw in a bunch of web servers and SQL databases, cross-platform 3D graphics code and a highly scalable physics engine and you get the idea. We are one of the fastest growing game and kid sites in 2009, according to comScore.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

In a bit, I will explain what a vision document is, how to get value from it, and all the things it can do to ensure that you start with a proper hypothesis, success metrics that can actually be measured, and a solid plan for getting something valuable from each test. A good hypothesis informs good success metrics.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 12, 2013

In the early days of e-commerce, sales were typically the most important metric for success. Currier notes that even Craigslist , eBay and Monster.com - companies that do not necessarily have the best products – still manage nearly $1B in revenue. HealthTap has built up a network of over 50,000 U.S.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 4, 2018

Couple that with Mulesoft being bought for 21x TTM revenue ( see Tomasz Tunguz analysis ) at $6.5 There will also still be some amazing companies that raise their Series C, D and beyond funding rounds with scaling metrics. Their growth to over $509mm of revenue from $281mm 2 years ago is a case in point.

Cloud 78

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

When your revenue stream depends on your website, you need to be able to answer two questions: Is your UX putting you behind your competition? We later modified the methods to include conversion-focused metrics to benchmark 5 nutrition websites , plus many many more as the basis for our ecommerce best practice guidelines. If so, where?

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Organizations must define success metrics for customer experience initiatives. You could choose our system to move from vendor to trusted advisor, attract only ideal clients, and confidently present your strategies to build monthly recurring revenue. Speed is a critical expectation in today’s customer experience landscape.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 5, 2019

An easy method is to use a company database like Crunchbase. Ultimately, the only metric that matters is the positive reply rate. That figure lets you if your cold email campaign is leading to revenue-generating success (not just improvements in vanity metrics). Those metrics include: Delivery rate.

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ConversionXL

JULY 28, 2021

It also gives you access to predictive metrics to help identify users and actions that may lead to a purchase. Revenue prediction: The predicted revenue from purchases in the next 28 days from users active in the previous 28 days. . Link to BigQuery: Connect GA4 to BigQuery database to export and query analytics data.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Despite sometimes small sample sizes , you can calculate confidence intervals, and with some of them, compare your metrics to a database of other companies and competitors. You might improve user satisfaction metrics with a set of changes, but revenue per visitor goes down. Net Promoter Score (NPS). Conclusion.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

136 CMOs were recently asked “What do you see as your biggest opportunity for revenue generation in early 2013?” Moneyball uses rigorous statistical data analysis in player selection and attempts to predict the value of the players by using metrics more granular then batting averages and RBIs. It’s not just baseball.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Here are the highlights: Only 2% of companies are tracking lead generation to sales metrics. If every business were as “data-driven” as they claimed & held actually held accountable to increasing quantifiable metrics – a lot of people would be out of a job. 15% of companies don’t track ROI (Return on Investment). Conclusion.

Analytics 113

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 24, 2011

Surely not using horrible metrics like Page Views, right? Now do this: Total revenue divided by number of web_quotes. Make sure they are identified uniquely in your company database, and then use their purchase behavior (as recorded in the database) to go back and enter a goal value into your web analytics tool.

Analytics 123

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Financial Summary: Explain your business model, startup costs, revenues, and liabilities to the company. Milestones and metrics that you’ll need to hit to be viable. Milestones and metrics. For metrics , decide which numbers to check regularly to track your company’s health. Target market: Who is your ideal buyer?

Business Plan 154

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

But, as he contended, if you can show someone that for every $5 spent you generate $25 in revenue, you have their attention. For marketers, SLAs typically redefine “leads” from simple metrics like form fills to marketing-qualified leads (MQLs) —those that are a “good fit” and “sales ready.” How broad is the demand generation strategy?

Demand 132

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. For more rigorous, bottoms-up sizing exercises I suggest tools such as Statista and the United States Census Bureau (also their North American Industry Classification System database) to help identify more specific data.

Technical Review 78

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Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

conversion rate (average as reported by shop.org) and you are dutifully reporting our revenue of $1 million as a result. While you might be doing great in terms of direct revenue impact of your website, pause and consider what in God's name is happening to that other 98.3% "unconverted" traffic on your site?

Analytics 116

Analytics Conversion Campaign Redemption 116

BeyondVC

APRIL 4, 2018

Couple that with Mulesoft being bought for 21x TTM revenue ( see Tomasz Tunguz analysis ) at $6.5 There will also still be some amazing companies that raise their Series C, D and beyond funding rounds with scaling metrics. Their growth to over $509mm of revenue from $281mm 2 years ago is a case in point.

Cloud 60

Cloud Agile Architecture Azure 60

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2018

Hidalgo recommends a focus on engagement stage indicators including customers by channel, conversion ratio, and cost per revenue. You need to track what content is resonating with your prospective customers, through metrics including submit rate by content offer, elasticity, velocity, cost, and ultimately revenue by content program.

Demand 144

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn how to define your ABM strategy so you can target the right accounts and increase your revenue. Think of it as a filter that helps you find the highest chance of return on investment, revenue potential, and profitability. Cloud-based data warehouse Snowflake had an ambitious goal to triple its revenue.

Customer 98

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 11, 2014

Each shows a unique facet of digital performance, and I've attempted to choose the best dimensions and, for those dimensions, the best possible metrics. Before we go on, what do I mean by database module? The problem is they over-indexed in acquisition (the first five metrics), only had one outcome metric, and no behavior metric.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 8, 2015

You’re learning more and more about your customer base, and each test is bringing you more insight, which will lead to more revenue. At Porch, she says, every week they have weekly test roundups, and each report is led by insights (which is above even revenue). Align the hypothesis to the metrics. Image Source. Image Source.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Last week, I wrote about Akamai , a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet’s fabric. Expedia grew to account for roughly one third of the company’s revenues. Think about that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. How do you access the Internet, what servers do you need, applications required, databases designed, and backups scheduled? Billing and revenue collection. Product development process.

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OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 21, 2021

For example, we do Mental Math together where we look at key metrics and test them, improve them, or decide to scrap them. We are always attuned to key metrics and from time to time, we project them forward in our minds. What will happen to a key metric if our business scales 10-fold or if it declines 10-fold, for example.

Metrics 62

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ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2021

It is the unsexy work—slicing & dicing your customers (not literally) to find common patterns such as industry revenue, location, and finding more companies that fall into a similar bucket. They then use the IP address coming to your website and try to match to a database of known ‘companies & people’.

IP 98

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Hidalgo recommends a focus on engagement stage indicators including customers by channel, conversion ratio, and cost per revenue. You need to track what content is resonating with your prospective customers, through metrics including submit rate by content offer, elasticity, velocity, cost, and ultimately revenue by content program.

Metrics 120

Metrics NPV Net Present Value Conversion Ratio 120

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Totally automate all that so it doesn’t bring me down all the time and instead I can sign all the revenue, because that’s fun. Like the ability to spend X dollars on advertising and gain Y dollars in revenue or something like that. You may not have that data in the database. Patrick: How close did he get?

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