K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

As the check size increases, investors tend to look for more traction, established revenue models, proven unit-economics, and other metrics that were previously associated with later stage companies. So if the Micro-VCs are looking for Series A-like metrics, what does a company do when it’s just getting started?

Seed Stage 48

Seed Stage Venture Capital Early Stage Valuation 48

Occam's Razor

MAY 14, 2012

Bonus One: Read: Brand Measurement: Analytics & Metrics for Branding Campaigns ]. There are many different tools, both online and offline, that measure the elusive metric called brand strength. If I were doing this analysis in Russia I'd be using Yandex, in China I'd use Baidu, etc.

Analytics 129

Analytics Search Metrics Advertising 129

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Or perhaps while you have 100% copy pasted GroupOn's business and are executing it in Russia. We read books / blogs on Metrics & KPIs and we think we know what to do for an ecommerce site or a blog or support site etc and we start reporting what the blog / book recommended. You need business questions because.

Analytics 119

Analytics Web Metrics eCommerce 119

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

New York is now the second-most-active tech ecosystem in the US on all key metrics, after the Bay Area. In addition, HOF has backed 6 companies with roots in Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, India, and Russia. (In In addition, two of our companies (12%) have female CEOs/cofounders.)

New York City 60

New York City Cofounder New York Startup 60

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In the 21st century you need a scorecard to keep track of the threats: Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, ISIS in Yemen/Libya/Philippines, Taliban, Al-Qaeda, hackers for hire, etc. The solution is to understand that an innovation pipeline requires different people, processes, procedures, and metrics, then execution.

Community 244

Community Silicon Valley Technical Review Incubator 244

Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

We had a good product that worked well in France, so we expanded it across Europe between 2011 and 2014, before moving to a more global scale, launching in Russia, Mexico, and India. We’ve been tracking employee morale, before and during the crisis, using NPS as a key company metric. We were very proactive though.

Global 62

Global Europe France Cofounder 62

Steve Blank

MARCH 3, 2015

(The irony is that once you’ve gone through the lean cycle, you have all the information that goes in a business plan: customers, sales strategy, product features, and financial metrics. It’s just that they are validated instead of made up.). The Business Plan is Dead. Berkeley peers got in Steve’s class. Clearly, lean works globally.

Business Plan 120

Business Plan Silicon Valley Saudi Arabia Lean 120

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

You start to see weird things like Russia and India are the same. You can hover over each box to get a sense of the key metrics. They also have an app for Treemaps, and it includes using color, as in the Compete case, to represent a metric (say Conversion Rate)! Yes, it was in the table.

Analytics 145

Analytics Sierra Leone Channel Non-Compete 145

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

So that’s the big one, obviously, with the geopolitical tensions, not just Russia and Ukraine. Do you have other efficiency metrics that you look at when you evaluate businesses to check the quality of growth and the quality of the revenues? . So inflation is always one where it’s not fun. I’m trying to be optimistic.

Partner 132

Partner Cofounder Retention Acquisition 132

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2015

He went on to fund Service Metrics with Raj Bhargava and Tom Higley, which returned two-thirds of our entire first Mobius fund ( I think the technorati are now calling those “Dragons” – this one was a baby Dragon.). I can only tell you the title: Once Upon a Time in Russia. It’s a bit of a secret right now.

Russia 70

Russia United States Canada Incubator 70

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 3, 2012

Not a good metric for small business – [link]. At least one large group of Native Americans came from Russia (interesting new evidence) – [link]. Ad Retargeter Criteo: People Who Click On Ads Totally Aren’t Losers – [link]. 25 Brilliant Examples of Olympics Print Advertisements – [link].

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

My group of friends from Russia sent this to me. One of my old Lean Startup sayings is that metrics are people too, and it came up in my conversation with Brian Chesky, too. I've received this from three different sources." That really creates this image of, wow, this is really going widespread.

South Korea 114

South Korea Silicon Valley Sweden Italy 114