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Meet the startup helping sites like Fab and Etsy court their customers(gigaom.com)
7 points by pospischil 14y ago|0 comments
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Learning to Chase Online Word of Mouth(nytimes.com)
7 points by pospischil 14y ago|0 comments
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A Bayesian Approach to A/B Testing(blog.custora.com)
99 points by pospischil 14y ago|20 comments
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Use Probability Models to Predict Pebble Sales (and win a Pebble)(blog.custora.com)
34 points by pospischil 14y ago|10 comments
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Infographic: How different are mobile customers?(blog.custora.com)
17 points by pospischil 14y ago|0 comments
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Pebble becomes most funded kickstarter project ever(kickstarter.com)
2 points by pospischil 14y ago|1 comments
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Objective C-like Null Object Pattern in Ruby(blog.custora.com)
5 points by pospischil 15y ago|0 comments
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by pospischil 15y ago
Why? I've read that they offer few benefits, but I've never heard this explanation. I also don't see how it makes sense for a company in their position?
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Fab: In 2 Years, iPad Users Will Account For A Quarter Of Our Revenue(techcrunch.com)
8 points by pospischil 15y ago|0 comments
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Fab.com’s iPad app users account for 25 percent of revenue(gigaom.com)
6 points by pospischil 15y ago|0 comments
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Predicting Customer Pregnancy At Target (How We Would Do It)(blog.custora.com)
20 points by pospischil 15y ago|5 comments
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Customer Lifetime Value techniques: be careful with cohort analysis(blog.custora.com)
37 points by pospischil 15y ago|3 comments
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How ARPU can lead to a 120% error in Customer Lifetime Value(blog.custora.com)
38 points by pospischil 15y ago|6 comments
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by pospischil 15y ago
For those who prefer electronic versions, My Life in Advertising is available on Google Books for free: http://books.google.com/books/about/My_life_in_advertising.h... Scientific Advertising is also available for free (as a pdf): http://
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Dispelling the myths of customer retention in retail(blog.custora.com)
18 points by pospischil 15y ago|2 comments
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by pospischil 15y ago
The results are in, and there isn't a very dramatic difference. Looks like 8 companies have switched away from GoDaddy since the data was collected. I've issued a pull request to jf for the updated stats.
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by pospischil 15y ago
OK -- the data is definitely out of date for at least one company (ours, custora). I wonder how common this is? Perhaps the cache was not cleared before generating the output? I forked the repo, ran it on custora.com, and eNom was (correc
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by pospischil 15y ago
Is the data collection methodology described somewhere? I'm questioning the accuracy given an error on our data (GoDaddy is not our registrar, namecheap is). It's also a bit suspect that namecheap is not listed as anyone's registrar after
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by pospischil 15y ago
For those wondering, auto-complete is quite fast. I've always avoided IDEs that offered this because they seemed to be terribly slow -- pleasantly surprised so far.
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by pospischil 15y ago
Sorry about that -- things seem to be working over here, maybe a browser issue? Can you contact me directly at jon at custora? I'll make sure we received your request, and figure out what's causing the issue.
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SV Angel, Founder Collective put $850K In Customer Retention SaaS Custora(techcrunch.com)
52 points by pospischil 15y ago|7 comments
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by pospischil 15y ago
Whoops! Thanks for the feedback! That's an old page that was supposed to be replaced on our latest redesign. The simplest explanation is pattern matching: we analyze customer and transactional data to understand how different customers beh
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by pospischil 15y ago
We (Custora, YC W11) are hard at work on exactly what you're asking for: https://www.custora.com/home/tour_lifecycle
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How Dropbox Became The Startup Steve Jobs Wished To Own – with Drew Houston(mixergy.com)
116 points by pospischil 15y ago|32 comments
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by pospischil 15y ago
Seems to introduce some signaling issues... The stronger the company, the less likely they are to accept the note at a 3mm cap.
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by pospischil 15y ago
Having quite a bit of trouble down here in south jersey.
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by pospischil 15y ago
Felt it in south jersey. Shook my house quite a bit, even knocked some things off the kitchen counter. Lasted quite a while (felt like close to a minute).
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by pospischil 15y ago
As mentioned below, it is possible to determine the customer distribution. We employ a few methods to accomplish this. Stay tuned for more content soon.
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by pospischil 15y ago
Sounds like you have some fantastic customers/a great product! It's possible (and likely) that your CLV is changing over time as the mix of customers you are getting is changing - the key is to be able to calculate CLV as early as possible
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by pospischil 15y ago
Absolutely - the next step is to calculate the CLV of different acquisition channels. Maybe Organic search results in a favorable mix of good vs mediocre vs bad customers, whereas affiliate marketing results in a poor mix. You can use this

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