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Tuesday, January 13, 2009
One of the things I am passionate about is analytics and metrics. It was this experience that gave me the appreciation for the importance of metrics and the greater importance of making meaning of the data for decision making. While at one of my recent startups I developed a framework for startup growth metrics (focused primarily on user metrics). UPDATE: I’m setting up a new project on analytics. If you are interested in collaborating ping me on twitter @gammill.
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Saturday, December 1, 2007
Then, I Review existing materials Business Plan Marketing Plan Marketing Materials Product Plan / Roadmap Current and Projected Financials Business Pipeline Team Member Bios / Resumes Current Metrics Roadmap Normally there are crude documents for each of these areas that can be quickly read / scanned. If there aren't existing documents, then it means more time to extract the information. I generally am working as an acting CTO for about 3-4 start-ups or other companies at any one time. I was just talking with someone who asked me to define how that could work and
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
From there, you will generally see a pop-up dialog similar to the following (this one is from CitySearch): Once you click Connect, the original site now knows that I’m Tony Karrer from Facebook and the various demographic and friend information from Facebook. 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.
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
One of the things I am passionate about is analytics and metrics. It was this experience that gave me the appreciation for the importance of metrics and the greater importance of making meaning of the data for decision making. While at one of my recent startups I developed a framework for startup growth metrics (focused primarily on user metrics). I’m most interested in gathering a breadth and leveraging them to drive solid decision making. While at IBM I worked closely with a group of exceptionally talented researchers (marketing and technology) to develop
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Only then, after when the information might have been useful, could I see how well I did.
That’s how you would feel if you ran your company without a dashboard containing relevant metrics that drive your company. If you cannot relate to this, then you probably have been driving without a speedometer from the start and need to pay particular attention.
[Email readers continue here...] Metrics should be created by you and your managers to measure near real time progress for your enterprise. Have you ever driven a car that had no speedometer?
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Monday, September 22, 2008
First, let me recommend reading a previous blog, called omg I’m just a startup, I can’t do those fancy metrics . Initally, the product development process should likely be focused on big-picture qualitative information, like whether or not your business is addressing the right audience as well as the preferences for that audience. This ensures that you are getting a good amount of information from the logs but it’s not so overwhelming Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen
Analysis on viral marketing, user experience, game design, and online ads
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Monday, June 8, 2009
We have more information and metrics – and more confusion from all the clutter.
* Goal setting and tracking metrics take up 80% of the attention; prioritization of projects and goals is 20%.
* The company trusts employees to pull what they need from management (advice, information, help) as necessary.
* Are we working harder, under more pressure, but running in place?
The internet has changed business – in helpful and challenging ways:
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Thursday, November 5, 2009
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 and I thought
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Friday, October 30, 2009
But you need to reduce it to two or three different things that are the key metrics."
"When 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 did is when we were, so, I’d say the biggest failure is just getting too much. And by the way, before If you like this interview, vote for it on my favorite news site . --Andrew Andrew
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Saturday, May 30, 2009
For a VC though, it is just not enough time to cover the information to get me interested. and key metrics such as customer acquisition and average revenue per user. In meeting with entrepreneurs, especially those that I haven’t met or heard about before, I often ask them to give me the 5 min overview of the business before we dive into any details or the formal presentation deck. I
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