The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The region’s other strong VC presence resides in Japan, which has the typical Japanese model of a few large firms dominating the market. Investments in Japan also tend to be much smaller in scale and much more conservative than the type of VC bets you would see being placed in China, India, or the U.S.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2022

Japan alone tripled its investments in Israeli startups in 2021, reaching $2.9 R&D expenditure as a percentage of GDP – Israel ranks 2nd globally in this metric, following closely after South Korea. Out of Israel’s $26 billion raised (approx), 73%, or $18.64 billion, was by foreign investors in 2021. billion (15.8%

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 15, 2013

If your business has no trade with Japan that could be affected by arbitrage, early shipments or other tactics that take advantage of the moving value of these currencies, that statistic is irrelevant to the dashboard – even if interesting to you. Find metrics that will be “leading indicators” of trouble to come.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

John moved to Japan in the 1980s to work at Toyota, which at that point had the most advanced manufacturing practices in the world. As a counterpart to the question of how to create and test an MVP, Steven and Diane discussed how to use metrics to measure progress.

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Berkonomics

JULY 9, 2020

If your business has no trade with Japan that could be affected by arbitrage, early shipments or other tactics that take advantage of the moving value of these currencies, that statistic is irrelevant to the dashboard – even if interesting to you. Find metrics that will be “leading indicators” of trouble to come.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 13, 2013

Excellent Analytics Tip #25: Decrapify Search, Social Compound Metrics | by Avinash Kaushik – [link]. New 311mph maglev train in Japan passes initial tests – [link]. Great products sell. “Tesla Motors has no advertising, no ad agency, no CMO, no dealer network.” ” – [link]. Projects – [link].

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Amazing chefs and experts who want to share their cultural and culinary traditions with curious people – even if they can’t hop on a flight and visit Japan this year or Italy next year. 10- Address financial and operating metrics. My service aims to transport kitchens and introduce you to people everywhere.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2013

“The range of business ideas and the level of expertise we see on our doorstep here in Asia is truly impressive and our metrics show that the startups we accelerate do as well as any of their peers in Europe or the US outside Silicon Valley.” Other nations made up less than 1% of applications each.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

Exports are becoming another component, he observes, with international markets such as Japan becoming thirstier and thirstier for American craft beer. Metrics: Know your numbers. “Managing your own distribution is ideal. There are overhead tradeoffs, but I’m seeing it more and more.” Merely making good beer isn’t enough anymore. “It

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

And many of them asked – does it portend a “Japan” situation for the U.S. Certainly not the financial media, which has figured out that it is just a lot more fun to focus on the daily ups and downs of the market and personalities, than the more stuffy and far more ratings-unfriendly focus on return metrics. of these investors (i.e.

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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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www.lanceglasser.com

MAY 13, 2012

Metrics for cyclical businesses. Thank you Japan. Business Essays, Blogs, and Musings. Finance and budgeting. A Model for Return on Engineering Expenses. Growth, Profitability, and the Stock Price. Let the Games Begin! Stock buybacks. The Year of the Black Swan. Definitions of common financial terms. Product development. Bah, humbug.

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

Common reason for failure: no metric or feedback mechanism to measure the percentage of applications that were routed to the wrong job. Common reason for failure: the absence of a metric or feedback mechanism to measure the percentage of applications that were misclassified or that advanced without meeting minimum standards.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2013

Over the next few decades, this young cohort would comprise a rising proportion of citizens in Asia (31%-40% in Singapore, Korea, Hong Kong and Japan, and more than 51% in Malaysia, Philippines, India and Indonesia). To gain resonance, IT plans need to consider the goals and metrics of the business and not just technology KPIs alone.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Exports are becoming another component, he observes, with international markets such as Japan becoming thirstier and thirstier for American craft beer. Metrics: Know your numbers. “Managing your own distribution is ideal. There are overhead tradeoffs, but I’m seeing it more and more.” Merely making good beer isn’t enough anymore. “It

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 18, 2015

The company plans to expand into Japan, China, Portugal, and Spain by the end of the year – marking only the beginning of their international expansion strategy. The success of Netflix can be attributed to business intelligence principles and metrics. Netflix focuses on customer experience metrics.

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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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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 15, 2017

As the second largest metro area in the world, with only Tokyo/Yokohama, Japan topping it, NYC metro now boasts a population totaling over 8.5 A large market gives a startup a better base for metrics and viewers get their favorite shows, movies and entertainment to take along with them. The Sheer Size of the Market.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 28, 2016

As a sales leader, my professional life is filled with quotas, metrics and dashboards. Early in my career, I was always optimizing for percentage of quota attained, which is a typical sales metric and usually tied to your compensation. But if I had to pick just one thing I’m optimizing for, it would be engagement.

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Up and Running

JULY 31, 2015

An American with a lot of academic credentials who was in Japan at the time. You really want to have metrics or measurement, which I think is one of the real areas for good creativity and management. Let’s start with lean. Lean started in the ’30s and ’40s. Edwards Deming was the main advocate.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

The number of Likes can be a vanity metric, but assessing the engagement rate of consumers on social media may suggest the attractiveness of a marketing message or product. A photo from the designer collection launch in Japan yielded 148,612 likes, but it also broached the idea of a collaboration with Net-a-Porter : ( Image Source ).

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Thanks to Stanley John Kebite, Japan-101 ! #17- 17- By establishing metrics and KPIs Photo Credit: Chris Hoffman To ensure the long-term success of our DEIB initiatives, we have established clear metrics and KPIs to track our progress.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, March 24, 2009 The metrics and levers of engagement, presentation on Engagement Loops for Facebook Developer Garage SF Ill be presenting a talk at the Facebook Developer Garage SF Wednesday evening. Unfortunately, its easy to lose track of positioning effects when optimizing for a single metric.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 22, 2020

Syte has partners such as Microsoft, SAP, and resellers in Japan who function as outsourced BDRs. A sales playbook provides a structure for closing deals, describes the roles and responsibilities of every member of the sales team, and identifies metrics for success and improvement. You should too! Partnerships. It is just a gold mine.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Focus on the output metrics of that part of the product, and you make the problem a lot more clear. To promote this metrics discipline, we would present the full funnel to our board (and advisers) at the end of every development cycle. Max Levchin of Slide and Paypal has noted that 10% of Slides headcount is devoted to metrics only.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 7, 2010

At least, not in the traditional sense of trying to squeeze every tenth of a point out of a conversion metric or landing page. Even if it shows improvement in some micro metric, does that invalidate the overall design? That was evident in the metrics and in the in-person usability tests. No one feature is to blame.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Because five whys kept turning up a few key metrics that were hard to set static thresholds for, we even had a dynamic prediction algorithm that would make forecasts based on past data, and fire alerts if the metric ever went out of its normal bounds. You can even read a cool paper one of our engineers wrote on this approach).

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

No vanity metrics should be looked at. No vanity metrics should be looked at. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. No press should be allowed. No press should be allowed.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

In a lot of cases, this requires a lot of energy invested in talking to customers or metrics and analytics. 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.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 3, 2009

In order to give people the data they need to apply the strategy, we were very open with our company metrics, making all reports generally available and easy to run. When you think a certain feature will give a 50% boost to a given metric, and it only eeks out a 5% boost, you cant spin that as failure. March 9, 2009 8:35 AM Eric said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

Leading up to a pivot, each cycle, despite our best efforts, the metrics werent good enough. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. I was stuck between a rock and a hard place. It was painful.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. Time-to-complete-a-sale is not a bad metric for validated learning at this stage. The key to making progress as a startup is validated learning about customers; defining the customer both in terms of interests and also metrics. And yet, their investors are frustrated.

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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

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

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. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

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. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

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. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Take a look and let me know what you think.

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