Occam's Razor

JULY 18, 2011

You must use metrics that are unique to the medium. Ready for the best email marketing campaign metrics? So for our email campaign analysis let’s look at metrics using that framework. Optimal Acquisition Email Metrics. Allow me to rush and point out that this metric is usually just directionally accurate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

It seems to me that there is abundant proof in the marketplace of the financial returns to both large and small businesses, the low cost of entry, and the ubiquity of social networks. They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2022

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or angel investors in Arizona, where I live. But it is an important metric for firms in pursuit of explosive growth. get the attention of the market they choose.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Thankfully, there are a number of great tools for tracking your web metrics (both free and paid) that can help you get a better understanding of what your users are doing on your site and even how your competitors are faring in their own online efforts. Ahrefs’ Site Explorer reveals insightful SEO metrics and data about any website or URL.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Understand the basic tools – the social media trinity. Blogging (Wordpress), micro-blogging (Twitter), and social networks are the trinity. Key social networks are Facebook (500 million consumers) and LinkedIn (60 million professionals). Put your social network links on your stationery, business cards, and email.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Ego Metrics: What Measurements Matter? The problem is that some of these metrics aren’t meaningful. In fact, some of the most visible metrics are the most misleading. This is possibly the most visible metric in social media, but many of those followers are inactive or even inhuman robots. photo credit: samuiblue.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

However, Elgg could power 100,000 networks and it would make no difference - there is no revenue stream as we give everything away under a GPL license. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

While Google fights on the edges, Amazon is attacking their core - Chris Dixon , May 22, 2010 Google is fighting battles on almost every front: social networking, mobile operating systems, web browsers, office apps, and so on. it’s about measuring online influence and I’m big on metrics as a key element of business planning; 2.)

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Phoenix, Arizona, where I live. But it is an important metric for firms in pursuit of explosive growth. get the attention of the market they choose.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Arizona, where I live. But it is an important metric for firms in pursuit of explosive growth. get the attention of the market they choose.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Its also been interesting to see the interaction of tools involved - Social Networking, Blogging and a Discussion Group. The level of resumes we get through our LinkedIn networks is top notch. Weve also found that other social networks such as FaceBook and MySpace to have almost no results when it comes to recruitment.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 4, 2010

He posted on several social networking sites the following message: If you know of a startup company that could benefit from the knowledge, experience, professional network and reputation of a globally recognized technology and innovation leader.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 30, 2017

Integrate Your Content with Social Media. Using the most-trafficked social networks, you can place snippets of your content on Facebook, tags on Instagram or even turn an article into a video for YouTube. Similarly, you can update the old post for even longer on-page time metrics, as well as more recognition from Google Search.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Take a look at your social networks. If you want to launch an influencer campaign, you need to have social media accounts. And before launching any campaigns, you should make sure your social networks are up-to-date and appropriately branded. First of all, which social network are you launching on?

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

When I recently was looking to find people who had experience with using social networks to reach people for what might be considered guerilla marketing efforts, again LinkedIn worked great. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. Los Angeles Social Media Starters What is Visible Networking?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. But in 2012 a visit to any major college in America will show you the massive increase in aspirations of our young talent to become the next Mark Zuckerberg and build a future Facebook.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Strategy Adopted: Leveraging Social Media Analytics. On social media, you can pinpoint an audience in real-time. Metrics on keywords, follower profiles and competitors all help define your target listener. Starting out, you can’t hit every network and outlet full-force. Prioritize social networks.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round). First and foremost, we believed there would be a “professional” social network.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

This year’s workshops cover Lean Startup 101; Introducing Lean Startup in Your Corporation; Lean Impact; Innovation Accounting; and Metrics: The Data That Will Make or Break Your Business. He’s going to take all kinds of startup questions--on designing experiments, understanding metrics, deciding when to pivot--whatever comes.

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The Next Web

MAY 4, 2013

This is similar to the critical mass of users that is needed on a social network for users to find value in the network. The first and most important metric to watch out for is the percentage of listings that lead to transactions within a certain time period. This serves as a proxy for the efficiency of the marketplace.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

” To make the concept a little less abstract, Sean Ellis , founder of Qualaroo, has created a metric for knowing when you’ve achieve Product/Market fit. Fabulis.com was initially intended to to be a social network for gay men. That was the metric that really told us we needed to start over.” Conclusion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2017

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Arizona, where I live. But it is an important metric for firms in pursuit of explosive growth. get the attention of the market they choose.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 22, 2024

When it comes to startups, the focus often gravitates toward acquiring new customers, expanding market reach, and chasing growth metrics. In the interconnected digital landscape, a single recommendation from a loyal client can ripple across social networks, reaching a vast audience.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

As a VC, the biggest challenge in evaluating LTV models is that metrics can dramatically change at scale. Even more interesting are businesses that create network effects like marketplaces or social networks.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 30, 2013

According to a report by Nielsen on social media Americans spend three times more time on social media than reading their e-mail. of online time is spent reading e-mail and 23% on social. The juicy bit of the study is that more than 70% of social networks users shop online. Wrong metric. Black Friday data.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

For example, one angel investor reportedly invested in several hundred social networking ventures employing this philosophy. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

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. KISS Metrics – How to Run A/B Tests that Get REAL Results. Dave McClure’s presentation on startup metrics start here: A framework for thinking about stats.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2013

The 6 Marketing Metrics Your CEO Actually Cares About [Cheat Sheet] | Hubspot Blog - [link]. The 6 Marketing Metrics Your CEO Actually Cares About [Cheat Sheet] | Hubspot Blog - [link]. The Dunbar Number, From the Guru of Social Networks | Businessweek - [link]. Humans need to know why – [link].

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View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2016

This is a guest post by Alignable CMO Dan Slagen about the missed opportunity the company has identified in social networking, and why they’ve chosen to build the business on the East Coast. But how are networks truly measured? What’s the ARPU of a business on a social network? Next-Gen Networking.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Business model viability, in the majority of startups, will come down to balancing two variables: Cost to Acquire Customers (CAC) The ability to monetize those customers, or LTV (which stands for Lifetime Value of a Customer) Successful web businesses have long understood these metrics as they have such an easy way to measure them.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

It is a social network (like Facebook). For display ads, standard web analytics metrics apply: Click-through rate, % Assists (this is glorious!), and of course our absolute favorite metric, Economic Value (macro plus micro outcomes delivered on your digital presence – mobile, desktop). Resist that temptation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2013

That said, there will always be categories of apps — such as social networks or messaging apps — that require a user''s identity in order to deliver value. Then you should decide effective ways to test your assumptions and pre-determine what your metrics of success should be in order for you to make a go or no-go decision to build.

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Mobile Developer Technical Review Lean 167

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Merchant tools such as reports and analytics help you keep an eye on profits and other metrics and make decisions accordingly. Social network integration, Facebook selling, Facebook ads, Google ads, discount codes, and coupons, and other enticing options are interesting ways to retain customers.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review Analytics 182

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Phoenix, Arizona, where I live. But it is an important metric for firms in pursuit of explosive growth. get the attention of the market they choose.

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Genuine VC

JULY 19, 2010

But leveraged distribution via platforms (organic/paid search, social networks, mobile devices) and self-service monetization (ad networks, app stores, payments) is what has truly empowered startups to become real scalable businesses on very small amounts of initial capital.

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mashable.com

JULY 10, 2012

The metrics from SumAll show online retailers the real-time metrics that are having the biggest impact on their bottom line. Social Media Lists. Social Network Lists. Social Media. Social Networking. Social Good. Social Media. social networking. Remarketing.

eCommerce 101

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

Ive spoken in some detail about a specific pivot that we went through at IMVU , when we decided to abandon the instant messaging add-on concept, and switch to a standalone instant messaging network. We went through another pivot when we switched again from instant messaging to social networking. It was painful.

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