Tag Archives: Metrics
Salesforce buys Model Metrics in mobile and social push
Salesforce.com on Monday announced its acquisition of Model Metrics, a company that provides mobile and social cloud consulting services. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed. The Model Metrics is meant to “add mobile and social expertise” to … Continue reading
Angel Investing: No Revenue, No Metrics, No Magic Formula
As First Round Capital managing partner Rob Hayes met with the founders of another potentially promising startup earlier this week, he couldn’t help but fixate on the team’s crowded roster. The fledgling company had barely been in existence long enough … Continue reading
Can Big Data in Finance Lead to New Metrics?
This week at South by Southwest I met with a cool startup called DueDil, which is trying to provide a Lexis-Nexis-meets-Google-meets-LinkedIn style of service that aggregates public data on companies from a variety of databases and then uses that to … Continue reading
Faulty Metrics Make for a Media Guessing Game
The irony is keenly felt by virtually every media entity, whether it is a tiny web-native outlet or a giant traditional publisher: The Internet, the most easily — and frequently — measured medium in the history of humanity, is also … Continue reading
A Startup Finds That Metrics Don’t Create Good Apps
There’s a lot of talk these days about data-driven product development — the idea that if you’re making something for the web, you can test it and then tweak it based on the way that users behave. If you figure … Continue reading