Give me granularity. If you’re a Web-based startup, for example, show me how many unique visitors you think you can get in the beginning, and what you’re using for an estimated conversion rate (buyers to browsers). Part of those questions are around Startup Metrics . This aligns with understanding the the core business model: Get Users (= Acquisition, Referral) Drive Usage (= Activation, Retention) Make Money (= Monetize) (and Lifetime Value is a good one) Of course, that’s a big part of what the investor wants as well. And you definitely should have

Please be able to provide me with a few specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, what the system will do for them. Tell me about the business. SEO for Startups )? What are your key Startup Metrics ? What are some good examples of similar sites? What special data, content, APIs, etc. I just had an all-too common conversation with the founder of a startup who had spent more than a year working with a software development company who had produced a mess. The mess really comes from a developer who was willing to get started on a product

In this post, I want to look at just the question of when it makes sense to use Facebook Connect, Twitter Oauth, OpenID, Yahoo Browser-Based Authentication, Google Friend Connect or basically any of the other authentication mechanisms. Example What do I mean? Take a look at Startup Metrics . One of the topics that came up in my post Mobile Internet Apple Facebook was around open vs. closed platforms.

Last Friday, the LA CTO Forum hosted a discussion on the various metrics used to measure ourselves and our companies. found a bunch of old examples, sanitized them, and was struck by how much metrics evolve over the lifecycle of a company. was inspired enough to put together a diagram that describes how the metrics for a product or startup company evolve over time. I was asked to participate, and eagerly dug into my archives.

First, let me recommend reading a previous blog, called omg I’m just a startup, I can’t do those fancy metrics . You might, for example, hold events in the rough key/value form: For example, there might be a series of flows in how users come into the site, starting with ads, SEO, or otherwise. Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen Analysis on viral marketing, user experience, game design, and online ads As

The post was inspired by a New York Times article, Using ‘Free’ to Turn a Profit , which used the example of a freemium company–currently losing money–to show how you can turn a profit on the Internet. and by now you’d think that most of the observers of the technology world would know that Internet metrics, like all statistics, can be manipulated to suit any viewpoint and company, as needed.  There was an interesting post from 37Signals yesterday, complaining how the business press perpetuates the idea of “success” in terms of things like impressions, users, followers, etc.

For example, if you click on Startup , you find: => The most recent posts, announcements and web pages on the top of the page that relate to Startups. => The best (according to social signals across the network) content below that such as: Acting CTO Role in a Start-up The DNA of an A++ Team Startup Delta Force… => The keywords on the left are ordered according to their relationship to the current term. So you can see that Entrepreneur (60) LinkedIn (15) Metrics (16) SEO (15) Company (141) are all considered highly relevant to the term "startup."

For example, I think that looking at Startup Metrics and the implications around that would be a really interesting conversation. Great by Cliff Allen Business Networking Online who I had blogged about previously in Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles . In this post, Cliff provides some feedback on what works when you move towards doing business networking online.

Any thoughts on my recent post Startup Metrics ? And how it relates to what you are talking about in [link] ? The Startup Metrics post is a good example of what I call “holocognics.” In my case, I am breaking down “business” to its fundamentals, which begins with a definition of what, exactly, is a “business.” Startup Metrics discusses what a Startup needs to consider before “going live.” I recently got together with Aaron Shechet and an early stage startup to discuss the direction the company might want to take. It was a great conversation

But you need to reduce it to two or three different things that are the key metrics." "When Okay, can you give me an example of a company that uses you and how they use you guys for payments? And frank-, it’s like, I want to track, you know, their age, I want to know when they had sex, I want to know their birthdays and all these different things when really you need to compound it to two or three different things that are the key metrics so, so one of the interesting things we If you like this interview, vote for it on my favorite news site . --Andrew Andrew