Best of Breed: The DNA of Unicorns By Isaac Wyatt

Best of Breed:The DNA of Unicorns

Isaac WyattDirector, Marketing Strategy & OpsNew Relic

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MarketingAnalytics

MarketingTechnology

Marketing Alignment

MarketingStrategy

MarketingEnablement

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MarketingAnalytics

MarketingTechnology

Marketing Alignment

MarketingStrategy

MarketingEnablement

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Tools Procedures People

MarketingAnalytics

MarketingTechnology

Marketing Alignment

MarketingStrategy

MarketingEnablement

Tools Procedures People

Marketing Capabilities Platform

MarketingChannels

MarketingTactics

Marketing Messaging

MarketingEffectiveness

Marketing Activities

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Most Frequent TechnologiesGoogle Analytics

Google Universal AnalyticsGoogle Apps

GmailDoubleClick Conversion

Facebook WidgetGoogle AdWords Conversion

NginxYouTube

Facebook Web Custom AudiencesAppNexusGmail SPF

Google Tag ManagerGoogle Font API

WordPress.orgAmazon AWS

New RelicTwitter Advertising

LiveRamp

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# of Technologies by Stage

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Seed/Angel

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Funding Stage

# of Marketing Techs by Stage

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Angel/Seed

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Most Frequent Marketing Techs amongst “Unicorns”

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google

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faceb

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youtub

e.com

appnex

us.com

newrel

ic.com

liveram

p.com

optim

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apple.c

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racksp

ace.co

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twitter.co

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marketo

.com

akamai.c

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rubico

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sendg

rid.co

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adroll

.com

vimeo

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php.ne

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crazye

gg.com

quantc

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cloudfl

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# C

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Technographics

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Comparing how similar or different the tech

stacks of each company are.

Companies with similar tech stacks appear

closer to each other.

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Technographics

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Example:Media companies

Buzzfeed and Vice have similar technology

stacks, so appear close to each other.

Co-occurring Techs

Vendor Tech Correlation %

Brightcove Compete 70.5%

IBM Websphere Endeca 70.5%

Extole Gauges 70.5%

RackSpace CDN DocuSign 57.4%

Localytics SteelHouse 57.4%

DemandBase Linkedin Display Ads ( Formerly Bizo) 47.7%

New Relic Optimizely 46.8%

Segment.io HeapAnalytics 46.5%

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Other Patterns?

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Other Patterns?

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Build Virtuous Cycles

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OBSERVE

ORIENT

ACT

DECIDE

OODALOOPS

Develop Anti-Fragile Systems

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Design with Crash-only recovery in mind

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Proactive

Hacky

AnalyticalConnected

Empathetic

Hire those who score highly in all categories in PHACE framework....

they may tend to be introverted, thoughtful, and quirky.@IsaacWyatt

Embrace the Hedgehog and the Fox

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Employee Interest

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CompanyInterest

Shared Value

Pulling it all together

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Right Tech Smart Process Enabled People

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