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Are there standards/numbers available somewhere that I can compare my metrics/conversion rates to?
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I’d recommend getting your own baseline first for your conversion rate / funnels instead of focusing on trying to find benchmarks or “standards”. Find out your baseline and try things to improve from there. Stay focused on your own business.
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What are your must-read entrepreneurship blogs?
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hi ..... how does a startup CEO who has to wear various hats such cfo, hr, sales etc manage all Vs actually building the company such as putting SOP's in place , getting in key members etc ... managing short term ( day to day fire fighting ) Vs long term big picture view
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Find people you trust who can do the tasks that you aren’t that good at. This might help: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/08/what-a-ceo-does.html
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If you are a new startup and looking to get the prototype/alpha version build quickly and cheaply, how do you find the developers who would help you with it?
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Any way you can. It’s hard to find developers but at the same time there are so many options to get a early version of a product out. Lots of companies are out there that you can outsource to. I would also consider trolling the colleges near you and trying to find some engineers who want to help you build something.
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Thanks for your answer. I have to say this site while helpful. Has a long way to go, a few issues I find (replying to answer are hard, no link to ur profile, not being able to follow you.) while these sound simple and as a php developer they are, I find it hard to see a site like this missing these simple functions.
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You should send them that feedback.
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How'd you come up with the name Kiss Metrics?
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KISS stands for “keep it simple, stupid”. One of our investors, Dave McClure and I were sitting at breakfast and trying to come up with a good name. We kept thinking about how most product are so difficult, and eventually we landed on the KISS concept and it stuck! More info about KISS here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle
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Are you still working on Crazy Egg? What's so great about it, and what's not great about it? If your visitors know you're using it, then can't they make you believe you're hot somewhere on the site, when you're really not?
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I don’t work on Crazy Egg from day-to-day. We still own the company and it runs without the involvement of my cofounder or I. We think it’s great because it is straight forward, simple and focuses on one problem. It would take quite a few visitors to skew the results, since Crazy Egg is designed to show results for many visitors all at once.
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Hiten - you have roughly over 23,000 twitter followers and you are certainly a tech star! How often do you get contacted from someone asking to, "meet up and pick your brain?" How do you vet these people? How do you balance giving back to a community of rising stars (similar to where you once were when you started) vs. spending too much of your time doing things of this nature? Any good tips/tools you use or can suggest?
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I get contacted on a daily basis. A lot of the time I’ll setup a 10 – 15 minute call with someone instead of meeting up with them in person. I don’t typically try to vet people, though it happens a bit automatically depending on how they reached out. I get a lot of introductions from people I trust / respect. I try to make helping others and talking to them as part of my daily routine. The balance comes as a result of wanting to do it more than forcing myself to do it. I am on a “managers” schedule most of the time versus a “makers” schedule. See more about that here: http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html
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