TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The leaked information in question appears to be some internal metrics on “The Closer” that appeared in a story by Bloomberg , which reported that Netflix spent $24.1 categorically denies leaking sensitive information to the press.” TechCrunch was able to reach B. Pagels-Minor, but they did not offer a comment.

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2012

On average, not including our internal friends, every user who joins the site is inviting four new friends, and we haven't done any marketing except a press release. As we've built this relationship with them, we let them see the mobile and social metrics, and make it so that they're able to create a campaign.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

Ask for help reviewing your press release. Ask them to mention you to the press, speak about you on stage when they do public events, whatever. By being so metrics driven we can have a lot more quantifiable and objective discussions at board meetings and at mid-point reviews. . Assigns tasks. Already covered. But seriously.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2010

I’ve observed the following scenario in both of my companies and in countless others I’ve advised or invested in: - your company becomes moderately high profile in a few press articles. Subjective warrants – I also see warrants given out without hard metrics. I believe that PBW’s should have hard metrics.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Photo by Hope House Press - Leather Diary Studio on Unsplash It’s also true that there will be tough moments in your company’s journey where you will want to be able to carry people behind the tough decisions you want. Often board members themselves don’t do the work to say “what metrics would we like to see.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

This happens because many CEOs are passionate, market-driven people who are constantly trying to launch new products, win contracts, get press, hire staff and woo VCs. The full financial details and metrics were in the deck. Establishing Metrics & Monitoring Success (or Failures). It literally can put you out of business.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This isn’t just our opinion - our startup metrics prove it! Everyone struggles with empty text boxes. Populating them can be hard work, especially when the content needs to be just right. Even with the pop-up suggestions, we saw significant drop-off during user onboarding. Drop-off on the first page of an application is bad news.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2021

Explosive growth to an enterprise normally requires a scalable sales model, a well-documented process with incentives, training, and metrics for tracking and management. Working with the media is required, both social as well as the press, through public relations and internal channels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

This is the confluence of your willful decision to do more, and the pressing need to take action. Proactively sets metrics and track goals. The launching point establishes the platform on which every potential entrepreneur becomes an actualized entrepreneur. The turning point decision. Always an evangelist and a good communicator.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2019

This is the confluence of your willful decision to do more, and the pressing need to take action. Proactively sets metrics and track goals. The launching point establishes the platform on which every potential entrepreneur becomes an actualized entrepreneur. The turning point decision. Always an evangelist and a good communicator.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Contrary to some press reporting, the boom in startups, the creation of accelerators and seed funds as well as the deserved popularity of AngelList do not signal doom for our industry. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

I was on an airplane 2-3 times / week meeting potential customers, investors, employees, business partners and the press. We built 4 products simultaneously to compete with the perceived need to offer end-to-end solutions like our US counterparts. Dinners were consumed with customers or in hotels and often past 10pm.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 7, 2010

These spurious partnerships had no substance and were initiated for the sole purpose of sending out a press release. Establishing mutually agreed upon and readily measurable metrics up-front are essential to creating viable sharing relationships. During the height of the dotbomb bubble, numerous companies struck Barney deals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 1, 2014

This is the confluence of your willful decision to do more, and the pressing need to take action. Proactively sets metrics and track goals. The launching point establishes the platform on which every potential entrepreneur becomes an actualized entrepreneur. The turning point decision. Always an evangelist and a good communicator.

Entrepreneur 111

Entrepreneur Ideas Framework Press 111

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 11, 2015

As much of the coverage in the press this morning acknowledges it’s rare for a partner to leave from one firm to another. He had always read all of the materials, gone through the metrics, done pre-calls with the CEO and was always respectful in how he walked through the challenges of the company and our remedies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

Your plan should include a well-designed web site, events, press releases, and search engine marketing (SEM). Don’t forget the metrics and analytics. Create an integrated conventional marketing and social media strategy. Social media does not stand alone; it must be integrated into a balanced marketing strategy.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As a startup in this phase you often raise capital, get press, hire staff and everything feels possible. Raise too soon and likely take on more dilution, wait and get valuation up (as our metrics continue to rise) but then run to a point where you have a lower cash balance and place more risks on the business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2015

This is the confluence of your willful decision to do more, and the pressing need to take action. Proactively sets metrics and track goals. The launching point establishes the platform on which every potential entrepreneur becomes an actualized entrepreneur. The turning point decision. Always an evangelist and a good communicator.

Entrepreneur 103

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

EcoMom’s metrics improved throughout this process and that’s when I decided to invest. Jody soon met with Dave McClure who ended up immediately writing a check as a placeholder investment and offering help to get EcoMom press coverage. EcoMom Makes a Breakthrough in its Search for Funding.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Our metrics show that when people watch chips, they increase their tendency to want to watch that feature length film. We had gotten some good press from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Mashable, and NewTeeVee, and then when we went to TechCrunch Disrupt we placed in the top 5.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Verve we coinvested with the Associated Press, and they're up and running and aggressively growing the de-facto, standard mobile CMS for the newspaper industry. They've got some nice metrics behind them. The next two deals were companies in a company in San Diego, Verve Wireless, and a local company here called GumGum.

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socalTECH

JUNE 11, 2018

I think one metric I've heard, that the Writer's Guild of America's script registry sees around 50,000 screenplay registrations a year. We've really just been focused on growing organically, and have done very little press, with virtually no marketing to date. How big of a market is this, size wise? How is Coverfly backed, financially?

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 2, 2010

During the early 1980’s, the popular press discovered baseball card collecting and began to publish articles touting sports memorabilia as a great “investment”. as well as old-world pricing, such as cost-per-thousand views, which was based upon print advertising metrics. But Our Hobby Is Different….

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2019

In the popular press, it’s easy to find articles that will convince you that companies with a good culture, such as Google, do it by lavishing perks and benefits , including some combination of free meals, trips and parties, financial bonuses, gyms, and a dog-friendly environment.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

This was a chance to blow open the story on their companies, to address a room full of potential investors, mentors, partners, customers, and press. In seed stage funding, we’re often told that the investments are ultimately about the people/teams, and not necessarily the metrics. Honestly though, it was anything but.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2018

This is the confluence of your willful decision to do more, and the pressing need to take action. Proactively sets metrics and track goals. The launching point establishes the platform on which every potential entrepreneur becomes an actualized entrepreneur. The turning point decision. Always an evangelist and a good communicator.

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Ideas Entrepreneur Framework Press 66

socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2016

For cohorts who are actively engaged in healthcare, and who were healthy, how many of this group could we identify transitions, where they might not understand their healthcare trajectory; second, what was our ability to change that path; and third, how could we start to get insights into scientifically validated metrics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2017

Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Some things need to be done whether we like them or not; for example, daily cash-flow analysis and business metrics. Start looking for what is right in a person or business situation, instead of looking for what is wrong.

Software Review 57

Software Review Technical Review Startup Press 57

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Don’t assume a simple press release will be enough. Pick metrics to measure change implementation and results. It’s twice as hard to change an image in someone’s mind than it was to get the image there is the first place. That means all realignments require over-communication, in multiple medias – video, voice, documents, and actions.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

That portion we call data aggregation where you are looking at one metric across a lot of different data sources. We need an IPO and we some real international/national press pointed on the technology scene in Southern California. The second problem is an attribution problem. But I think a lot of it is going to grow organically too.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

It’s when the noise stops and you can actually get customer attention, press articles and VC meetings. Create company measures for success that go beyond financial metrics. You manage what you measure so be careful about having too narrowly defined of performance metrics. It’s when the game slows.

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Marketing Case Study Metrics Sales 354

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 10, 2011

But creating better visibility for investors of the profitability of each unit and accountability for bosses of each to perform well according to differnet metrics is a good & important idea. You need to invite the press, talk to them, let them ask questions. Of course the press is going to roast you. No, probably not.

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Netflix Customer Custom Pricing 287

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2015

I’ve tried over the years to write many times about the realism of the downsides of being an entrepreneur because there is a complete cognitive dissidence between what you read about yourself in the press and what you feel internally about where you’re at in the journey. Every founder knows this. The Perils of Founder Fighting.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 22, 2012

If you are deploying a freemium business model, test your upsell strategy on a portion of your users to establish concrete free-to-paid conversion metrics. If your venture is not mature enough to generate customer revenue, achieve precursors to revenue, such as partnerships, distribution agreements and OEM relationships.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 8, 2010

Granularity and Consistency of Startup Metrics - SoCal CTO , March 11, 2010 Tim Berry has a great post on Why I Hate Those Huge Market Numbers tells us that he doesn’t like to see business plans with multi-billion market numbers used as the basis for projections. How do you get press and the blogosphere talking about your product?

Startup 150

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2019

In their recruiting process, they actually have a key insider designated as a “bar raiser” involved in ever interview, to make sure that the bar is never lowered due to any bias or pressing business urgency. Incorporate AI-powered data and metrics systems. They help hiring managers raise the bar for every interview.

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Marketing Technical Review Customer Custom 123

Berkonomics

APRIL 8, 2021

That compares with a reported 330 million for Twitter which had a nine-year head start and so much more free press from famous users over the years. Well-tuned metrics are an absolute must. From its start in 2015, the number of registered users has “suddenly” climbed from 45 million in 2017 to a reported 300 million by the end of 2020.

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