Ghost of Midnight

… about neighbors, community and Front Porch Forum

Where to focus limited resources?

Posted on Monday, April 12, 2010 by No comments yet

Fred Wilson on Meetup

Our portfolio company Meetup has learned to focus on successful Meetup groups. Those are Meetup groups that are active, meeting regularly, have growing memberships, and are paying fees to Meetup. Meetup could focus on other data sets like monthly unique visitors, new Meetup groups, total registered users, revenues, profits, cash. They collect that data and share it with the team. But the number one thing they look at it successful Meetup groups and that has worked well for them. It is their key business metric.

In Front Porch Forum’s pilot network, we host 140 online neighborhood forums.  As with Meetup, the groups’ levels of activity and success vary tremendously.  Good food for thought.

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