Charlie Wood tweeted yesterday about ARPU. And I asked him why he was using a telecom industry term and he responded it also applies to his subscription service. Byron Deeter who has several SaaS investments in his VC firm, Bessemer uses metrics like CMMR to monitor his portfolio. When it comes to social CRM, Paul Greenberg likes to talk about CRV
From the sustainability world, we now have new LEED ratings. Walmart has started scoring its vast network of suppliers on a new set of sustainability factors. Data Centers are measured on PUE. Professors at the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont have been touting new country level measures like GPI – arguing that traditional metrics like GDP are not measuring natural and social capital (and their depreciation). The refocus on rare earths needed for cleantech is introducing us to sections of the periodic table our forefathers only crammed for obscure class quizzes.
In medicine, genomes are creating a new language like “marker, rs6983267 on chromosome 8q24, has been linked to both colon and prostate cancer”.
Yup, it’s a new world. A world which needs translators like Sameer Patel and Oliver Marks …
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