Metrics Portfolio Viral 
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 4, 2011
One of the things I discuss the most with the portfolio companies I’m involved with is that “you manage what you measure.”. Having a set of metrics that you watch & that you feel are the key drivers of your success helps keep clarity. And the more public you can make your goals for these key metrics the better. per customer!
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 16, 2009
What metrics do we use to see if we learned enough in Customer Discovery ? I gave my boilerplate answer, “I’m a product guy and I tend to invest and look at deals that have measurable revenue metrics. Dave McClure has some great metrics…” It was an honest but vaguely unsatisfying answer. It’s an impressive portfolio.
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Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine. They compete on features, price and execution.
Cracking the Code
MARCH 23, 2007
Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Popular Media is a hosted, web-based technology platform that enables customers to quickly create, optimize, and scale viral marketing programs - and it seems to work pretty well. Portfolio. (3). SaaS business metrics: why are they different? anecdotes. (13). Cloud Computing. (1).
www.forentrepreneurs.com
FEBRUARY 2, 2010
Blog About Log in Register Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior Great companies are almost always run by great management teams. Good metrics should also be actionable, and drive successful behavior. In a follow up post, I will use this technique to walk through the design of a set of metrics for a SaaS company.
reidhoffman.org
NOVEMBER 12, 2013
It doesn’t matter whether an entrepreneur is in our portfolio, whether we’re considering an investment, or whether we’re casually meeting for the first time. We are the leader in the professional domain with viral growth. Here, we argue that we have a viral product that creates a network that possesses network effects.
Cracking the Code
FEBRUARY 23, 2011
Portfolio. (3). SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. anecdotes. (13). Cloud Computing. (1). Europe Consumer. (1). Favorite Podcasts. (1). internet. (6). McKinsey highlights. (1). Online Gaming. (1). sales and marketing. (10). Small and medium businesses. (2). software. (10).
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