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Tuesday, January 13, 2009
One of the things I am passionate about is analytics and metrics. While at IBM I worked closely with a group of exceptionally talented researchers (marketing and technology) to develop a host of models used to drive broad reaching strategy decisions. 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. 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
Technical Strategy I support the technical team to: review short and long-term technology strategies to help direct strategic technical decisions and help to ensure appropriate technology usage, help define needed technical research activities, assess new and emerging technologies to determine application to business needs, help determine resource needs within business constraints, review and influence business and technical processes to help balance competing needs and priorities. Then, I Review existing materials Business Plan Marketing Plan Marketing Materials Product
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
How can we address this risk? What technology research is required? What technologies will we use? Who’s responsible for what portions? How will we find and interview developers? How do we motivate and manage developers? What do we need to do to make sure we can survive technical due diligence by investors and partners? What specific technical innovations might make sense? What can we build that might be protectable? What metrics are going to be the key startup metrics and how do we get those metrics without too much cost? Where
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
One of the things I am passionate about is analytics and metrics. While at IBM I worked closely with a group of exceptionally talented researchers (marketing and technology) to develop a host of models used to drive broad reaching strategy decisions. 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. I’m most interested in gathering a breadth and leveraging them to drive solid decision making. One of those models was a cool Structural Equation Model used
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Monday, January 5, 2009
Los Angeles-based Image Metrics (www.image-metrics.com) recently landed a $6.5M, Series B funding round for the firm's facial animation products. All of our sales are out here, engineering, and production staff--with researchers and the big brains, along with our financial people in Manchester--where we're still a corporate UK company.
How'd was introduced to Image Metrics a year before I joined, and was helping them along. We spoke with CEO Mike Starkenburg -- a former venture capitalist at the Sprout Group and longtime reader of our newsletter -- about the firm and its technology and how it's revolutionizing facial animation in both computer games and the movies.
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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 . Again, at this stage you are still primarily driven by qualitative research and ideas, and it’s hard for analytics to drive much of your thinking.
Once you create a small list of these queries, then you can start to formalize the ideas into specific metrics that you track daily.
Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen
Analysis on viral marketing, user experience, game design, and online ads
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
His research confirmed this. (Other Other researchers found significant networks up to 230 or 290 members , but Malcolm Gladwell didn’t write about them so who cares.)
Now Dunbar says his Facebook research indicates a similar phenomenon online. Isn’t this a completely different metric than what the new research studies? The London Times says that only 150 of your Facebook friendships matter . Might as well delete everyone else!
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Thursday, March 4, 2010
So, you can easily get sold that there’s little to no Gap. Some of the activities that are likely part of the mix where there might be need: Review and provide input on business plans Costs and time estimation Product prioritization Options analysis Systems analysis and design Technical risk analysis Technical research and evaluation Systems for accounting and reporting Metrics (see startup metrics ) Security Integration Scalability Social media integration plans (ex. I’ve worked with 30+ early-stage companies in all sorts of capacities (and spoken to many, many more), so I thought it might be worthwhile trying to classify the various ways that I’ve engaged in different technology roles in startups. Background This post partly really came about as a result of a great conversation yesterday with David Croslin a former CTO at HP who recently conducted an interesting experiment.
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Monday, June 29, 2009
1) Conversion rate is the single most important metric. 7) The biggest impediment to increasing conversion rates is often a site that’s built so rigidly that it can’t adjust based on research. (Listen What’s the biggest metric for affiliate programs and how understanding it can get you more customers without spending more money.
Have you noticed that affiliate programs don’t make it to the cover magazines like BusinessWeek or Wired? Maybe it’s because affiliate programs aren’t as cool as social networks or aren’t as fun to talk as iPhone
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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 Like research them, and try and figure out where they need help.
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 If you like this interview, vote for it on my favorite news site . --Andrew Andrew
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