And even if Benchmark's relationship with Uber frayed at the end, their collaboration still produced billions of dollars for both parties — a success by
the standard metrics of Silicon Valley that shouldn't go unnoticed by the current crop of rising star founders.
Not exact matches
We used to consider total number
of deals in the pipeline as a
standard measure for evaluating sales progress — it turns out, a different
metric, pipeline velocity, was actually a much better predictor
of monthly and quarterly numbers.
By the time she delivered a commencement speech at Smith College in 2013, she was preaching the gospel
of a good night's sleep and asking graduates to measure their lives by a «third
metric» — changing the world for the better — in addition to those timeless
standards, money and power.
Although ACT's credit protection
metrics will fluctuate because
of acquisitions and variations in gasoline prices,
Standard & Poor's believes that the risk
of a sharp increase in debt for a major acquisition is reduced somewhat because
of the dearth
of large targets.
LearnStorm came from the idea
of we can create these great experiences online that are aligned with
standards that are really good for students and they correlate with success
metrics, but you need the the students to engage with them.
Everything today is out there — to be tracked, measured, reported and shared — and every business, source, publisher, supplier and vendor will be held to new
standards of measurement and accountability as users and customers increasingly demand concrete results and performance
metrics to justify their outlays.
IRR, or internal rate
of return, is a
standard metric used to determine the profitability
of an investment.
We measure the economic, social and environmental impact
of our investments using industry -
standard metrics, including the Impact Reporting and Investment Standards.
Trucking Efficiency informed the government's new, more - stringent fuel economy and emissions
standards for heavy - duty trucks — estimated to save 1 billion
metric tons
of greenhouse gas emissions and $ 170 billion in fuel costs.
Key performance
metrics are annualized average gross return, annualized
standard deviation
of returns, annualized gross Sharpe ratio (assuming risk - free rate 0 %) and maximum drawdown.
This is a
standard metric and is probably something you look at on a regular basis regardless
of link building campaigns — if you don't — I worry for your clients.
The February 2018 decrease in applications for both conventional and government purchase mortgages as well as any changes in credit
standards, a
metric of mortgage supply, will be closely tracked for evidence
of a longer declining trend.
Whiteheadian cosmology embraces the notion
of a uniform
metric structure for the space - time continuum that is independent
of the material objects commonly said to be «in» space - time and also that is independent
of the material objects appropriated as
standards of spatio - temporal measurement.
For Whitehead, a uniform and independent
metric structure is presupposed by measurement in the space - time continuum and in particular is necessitated by any attempt, so it seems to Whitehead, to establish
standard conditions or to introduce correction factors ensuring the self - congruence
of measuring devices under transport.
As
of 2012, approximately 40 %
of world coffee production (3.3 million
metric tons) was compliant with some sort
of standard — including Fairtrade and others not listed here.
Walmart recently announced that as part
of moves to cut 20 million
metric tons
of greenhouse gas from its supply chain by the end
of 2015, it is demanding stricter quality and environmental
standards from its Chinese suppliers, and is looking at factories» air emissions and management disposal
of hazardous waste.
Calidad de la Cerveza de Barril para Comerciantes Minoristas contains
standard units
of measurement (rather than
metric units) to reflect the common equipment and technology in use in North America.
None
of these
metrics came even close to a significant correlation to the final caucus results, with one exception: Globalpoint, with a suspiciously strong correlation
of 0.99 — almost perfect, and well ahead
of the traditional gold
standard, the Des Moines Register's poll, which came in at a 0.86 correlation with the final results.
Adding the cosmological constant to cosmology's
standard FLRW
metric leads to the Lambda - CDM model, which has been referred to as the «
standard model»
of cosmology because
of its precise agreement with observations.
BMI is a
standard health
metric that's equal to a person's weight (in kilograms) divided by the square
of their height (in metres).
Not long ago, Science Careers posted a widget — you can find it at http://scim.ag/1pwIaAF—that lets early - career scientists calculate the probability that they'll someday become principal investigators, on the basis
of a few
standard publication
metrics.
At the University
of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy (IfA), home
of David Sanders, another citation - index buff, a set
of metrics is incorporated in the
standard review process.
Analyzing the performance
of the first 16 countries that comply with the EITI
standard over the period 1996 - 2014, the study finds that in most
metrics EITI countries do not perform better during EITI compliance than before it, and that they do not outperform other countries.
A rainbow
of federal and state rules,
standards, and programs could deliver up to 2.5 billion
metric tons
of cuts in greenhouse gas pollution per year, the report said.
Additionally, the device has an unlimited free - spectral range, meaning it can operate over any range
of frequencies, and shows excellent performance
metrics in other
standard measures
of filter quality, including very low insertion loss and in - band ripples, low crosstalk and small delay variation.
For their next step, Lyons and his colleagues on the ASTM sustainability committee plan to define key performance indicators (KPIs)--
metrics of success — for manufacturing sustainability that can be fed back into the E3012 - 16
standard to make it even more effective.
In a flurry
of cooperation we can only marvel at today, the world's nations came together in the late 19th century to adopt international
standards of time, longitude and
metric measurement.
As noted above, the first three
metrics are associated with regulatory
standards in different world regions for the protection
of human health to acute or short - term exposure to ozone.
The lack
of any
standard metrics in the dating industry is a decade - old problem with no solution in sight.
Height Converter calculator that converts
standard imperial units to
metric and vice-versa - Weight - Loss - A pole is generally used to measure the remaining height
of the tree.
Height Converter calculator that converts
standard imperial units to
metric and vice-versa - Weight - Loss - East European dating site - catalogue
of brides: meeting with east European girls and alone women from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Bulgaria, Moldova
It could be «seat time,» Carnegie - style, but that's not a very good
metric in a time
of standards - based results - fixated education, and isn't very practical outside the traditional brick - and - mortar school - year system.
The blended environment calls for teachers to proactively develop and deliver
standard - aligned content while tracking students» learning paths and monitoring content engagement
metrics as well as leveraging this actionable data and proven teaching practices to fulfill goals
of personalized learning for every individual learner.
Now that we are raising the
standards, this will drive changes in the test that measures to the
standards, which will impact the grading
metric for meeting the
standards, and ultimately will impact the types and scope
of rewards and assistance.
The district's opinion stems from a Federal waiver granted LA Unified and seven other California school districts, allowing them to to create their own
metrics for academic performance in the temporary absence
of statewide
standards — measures used to determine whether a school is failing.
National accreditation requires educator preparation providers to address profession - wide
standards of excellence and supplies
metrics that support high quality by promoting programmatic reflection and continuous improvement.
Identify concrete models that approximate
standard units
of weight / mass and use them to measure weight / mass in the customary system and SI (
metric) system.
Execute contracts that include clear, measurable performance
standards to judge the effectiveness
of alternative schools, if applicable - requiring and appropriately weighting rigorous mission - specific performance measures and
metrics that credibly demonstrate each school's success in fulfilling its mission and serving its special population.
Problems involve the addition / subtraction / multiplication or division
of lengths measured in
standard (inches, feet) and
metric (centimeters, meters) units.
NWEA MAP produces a
metric called the «
standard error
of measurement» (SEM) for every student test event based on many factors.
In his report, Yeado writes that teachers are encountering a number
of structural changes to their job, including the adoption
of new academic
standards, new state assessment exams, accountability
metrics, and performance - based compensation in some districts.
This proposal reinforces the recurring view in recent American school «reform» that schools can be improved by competition and
metrics tied to sanctions or incentives, without investments in the capacity
of educators to learn how to meet the demands
of new
standards and the needs
of an increasingly diverse student body.
To facilitate this, the governor should appoint a committee to establish
metrics which would be used to evaluate the effectiveness
of PARCC as an assessment tool in meeting the academic goals established by the common core state
standards.
NoDropouts.org published an article that highlights some
of the challenges when using
standard traditional school
metrics to measure student outcomes.
The academic prestige score takes into account
metrics such as average amount
of financial need received, average class sizes, admissions
standards, and the percentage
of faculty holding terminal degrees in their field.
There are also whole libraries
of research on what kind
of «
standards» to develop and maintain, against which scores (and other
metrics) might be graded.
After 15 years
of work by states and school districts to raise
standards, disaggregate data, and close gaps, the federal government is taking the foot off the gas and leaving even more decisions to the states and to local school officials, including those about measures,
metrics, incentives, and interventions.
Tin Can (aka Experience API) provides a menu
of custom options to collect and analyze
metrics and gauge effectiveness
of eLearning programs — likely to become a
standard tool in the future
of eLearning.
This locally determined practice has produced a wide variety
of teacher performance evaluations, which represent various reference
standards, recording
metrics, and narrative formats.
The following year former Superintendent John Deasy argued that the district was exempt, for one year, from the parent trigger by a federal waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind law that allowed LA Unified and seven other California school districts to create their own
metrics for academic performance in the temporary absence
of statewide
standards.