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so which metrics are the right ones to look at?
by AznHisoka 9y ago
so which metrics are the right ones to look at?
- thrill 9y agoWell, that's the billion dollar secret.
- bactrian 9y agoSocial metrics. Would make the Social Capital name genuinely meaningful :-) The “social response” (HN, GitHub, reddit, ...) to a new project, product, or service is all you should need to predict success at a high enough rate to do extremely well. It’s not a matter of difficulty so much as conviction and intelligence.
- AznHisoka 9y agoThere are many products that have never launched at hacker news or reddit.
- mikikian 9y agoThey elude to it in these blog posts: https://medium.com/swlh/diligence-at-social-capital-part-1-accounting-for-user-growth-4a8a449fddfc https://medium.com/swlh/diligence-at-social-capital-part-1-a... https://medium.com/swlh/diligence-at-social-capital-part-2-accounting-for-revenue-growth-551fa07dd972 https://medium.com/swlh/diligence-at-social-capital-part-2-a... https://medium.com/@jonathanhsu/diligence-at-social-capital-part-3-cohorts-and-revenue-ltv-ab65a07464e1 https://medium.com/@jonathanhsu/diligence-at-social-capital-... https://medium.com/@jonathanhsu/diligence-at-social-capital-part-4-cohorts-and-engagement-ltv-80b4fa7f8e41 https://medium.com/@jonathanhsu/diligence-at-social-capital-... https://medium.com/@jonathanhsu/diligence-at-social-capital-part-5-depth-of-usage-and-quality-of-revenue-b4dd96b47ca6 https://medium.com/@jonathanhsu/diligence-at-social-capital-... https://medium.com/swlh/diligence-at-social-capital-epilogue-introducing-the-8-ball-and-gaap-for-startups-7ab215c378bc#.wxc2lc8dp https://medium.com/swlh/diligence-at-social-capital-epilogue...
- chrisweekly 9y agoallude. totally different word.
- dangerlibrary 9y agoMany people on HN do not speak English natively. Consider being a bit gentler when you correct someone :)