April 2nd, 2013

Mixpanel Offers Free Device And OS Data With Mixpanel Trends

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Andreessen Horowitz-backed analytics startup Mixpanel is aiming to become one of the go-to data sources when you need to learn about the digital landscape, particularly consumer activity on mobile.

The company is launching a new feature called Mixpanel Trends, which pulls together the data that it has been collecting for customers (Mixpanel says it tracks 6.2 billion actions every month) in an… → Read More

January 29th, 2013

Mixpanel Launches Revenue Analytics To Track The Lifetime Value Of Your Customers

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Back in December, analytics startup Mixpanel made a splash when its co-founder Suhail Doshi and its investor Marc Andreessen called for an end to “bullshit metrics”. What is and isn’t a vanity metric (to put it more politely) can be debatable, but today it’s launching analytics for something that’s squarely in the “not B.S.” bucket — a company’s revenue.

Doshi said that for many companies… → Read More

December 13th, 2012

Mixpanel Launches A Site For Analytics Education, With Video Lectures From YouTube, BranchOut, And Others

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Analytics statup Mixpanel has launched a new page on its website that co-founder Suhail Doshi described as “TED for analytics.”

The goal, he said, is to help companies get a better understanding of what kind of data to collect and how to use it. To that end, Mixpanel invites experts to its office for six weeks or so for an “office hours” event where they deliver lectures to customers and other… → Read More

November 20th, 2012

Mixpanel Debuts Activity Feeds To Help Zoom In On Individual User Activity, Improve Customer Support

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Mixpanel, the analytics company that has made a name for itself changing the way analytics are handled in a world where models designed for web-based products don’t necessarily transition to mobile models, today introduced a new feature called Activity Stream. Basically, it’s like having a Path-like timeline of your visitor’s actions on your site, but with more detail and with an eye to helping… → Read More

October 22nd, 2012

Mixpanel Launches Engage, Allowing Businesses To Send Analytics-Driven Messages To Their Customers

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Mixpanel, an analytics startup that was incubated by Y Combinator and backed by Andreessen Horowitz (among others), is announcing a new product called Engage, which co-founder Suhail Doshi described as a way for businesses to actually do something with the data that they’re collecting.

Taking action on data, specifically by using it to deliver personalized messages to customers, is something… → Read More

June 14th, 2011

Mixpanel Streams: Watch What Your Users Are Doing On Your Site, In Real Time

If you’re running a website, you’ve probably tried a lot of things to optimize the experience for users: tools like A/B tests, analytics trackers, and feedback forms. But even with these tools, it can still be tricky to figure exactly how people are using a site. And most companies can’t afford an eye-tracking lab.

Now Mixpanel, the real-time analytics startup that just raised $1.25 million from… → Read More

May 27th, 2011

Data Tracking Startup Mixpanel Raises $1.25 Million From Sequoia, Rabois, Levchin, And Birch

When it comes to building a web startup, the devil’s often in the details. And keeping track of those details — be it how far users get in your signup process, or how often they’re clicking a certain button — can be a real pain.

Mixpanel is a startup that’s looking to solve that problem by giving sites an easy-to-integrate analytics solution. And today it’s announcing that it’s raised… → Read More

January 12th, 2011

Mixpanel Gets A UI Makeover; Monthly Data Volume Growing By 40 Percent

We’ve written about Mixpanel, an analytics-focused startup whose backers include Y Combinator, Michael Birch, and Max Levchin. The startup, which currently tracks over 1 billion actions per month, allows developers to track a variety of user actions, including the number of pages a user has viewed, iPhone app analytics, interactions on Facebook apps and email analytics. Today, the company is… → Read More

December 27th, 2010

Many iPhone App Downloads Jumped 2-3X On Christmas

It’s beginning to look like Apple may have had a very, very merry Christmas. Not that it should surprise anyone given how many of their products were on year-end “best-of” lists. But some data that has started to come in over the past few days points to Apple’s Christmas surge once again being led by the mainstays: the iPhone and iPod touch (and probably the iPad as well).

Since yesterday… → Read More

November 5th, 2010

MixPanel Now Allows Developers To Offer Realtime Analytics To Users

We’re big fans of Mixpanel, an analytics-focused startup whose backers include Y Combinator, Michael Birch, and Max Levchin. The startup, which tracks over 1 billion actions per month, allows developers to track a variety of user actions, including the number of pages a user has viewed, iPhone app analytics, interactions on Facebook apps and email analytics. Today, the startup is allowing… → Read More

October 4th, 2010

Mixpanel Launches Tool To Analyze Email Analytics

Mixpanel, an analytics-focused startup whose backers include Y Combinator, Michael Birch, and Max Levchin, is getting into email analytics today with the launch of a new feature that allow publishers to track a variety of metrics for email correspondence.

The startup, which now tracks over 1 billion actions per month, allow developers to track a variety of user actions, including the number of… → Read More

July 22nd, 2010

MixPanel Offers Realtime iPhone Analytics That Probably Won't Piss Off Apple

Perhaps you recall back in June when Apple CEO Steve Jobs laid the smack down on mobile analytics firm Flurry. He noted they were “pissing us off” because they were collecting device data about Apple’s products. Specifically, Jobs obviously cared because it uncovered some as-yet-unannounced Apple products. A change Apple made to their developer agreements then made this illegal. And that’s where → Read More

July 1st, 2010

Mixpanel's Analytics Now Tracking 1 Billion Actions A Month

Mixpanel, an analytics-focused startup whose backers include Y Combinator, Michael Birch, and Max Levchin, has hit a big milestone: it’s now processing over 1 billion actions per month. To put that in perspective, a year ago the company had recorded 80 million actions cumulatively.

Mixpanel was built by former Slide employees, who took their experience with that company’s extensive analytics… → Read More

April 7th, 2010

Mixpanel Lands Chinese Social Game Developer Five Minutes, Continues Strong Growth

When it comes to social games, one of the most important keys to success is analytics. Fun gameplay is, of course, a big factor, but tweaking viral loops to boost your userbase can make the difference between a fun game no one plays and a hit. Mixpanel is a startup that’s playing an increasingly bigger role in this space, by offering developers tools to track analytics that go deeper than most… → Read More

February 11th, 2010

Mixpanel Raises Seed Funding From Metrics Gurus Max Levchin And Michael Birch

Mixpanel, the Y Combinator-funded startup that looks to give web services more powerful analytics tools than other popular solutions, has gotten the endorsement of two of the biggest names in the space: Slide and PayPal founder Max Levchin, and Bebo and BirthdayDay alarm founder Michael Birch. The two of them have invested a total of around half a million dollars into Mixpanel.

Levchin and… → Read More

August 19th, 2009

Silicon Valley Elite Flock To Y Combinator Demo Day

I’m here at Y Combinator’s Demo Day, where the latest batch of the incubator program’s startups are showing off the fruits of their labor to a room of press and VCs from around Silicon Valley. The turnout today is huge — VCs representing billions of dollars in managed funds are here, with investors from US Venture Partners, XG Ventures, Founder’s Fund, Greylock Ventures, First Round Capital… → Read More

July 23rd, 2009

Y Combinator's Mixpanel Takes Stat Tracking Beyond Google Analytics

One of the most key steps to building a succesful startup is figuring out what works — and what doesn’t. To do this, many companies rely on things like A/B testing to figure out which workflows and designs work best. But there are some things that are a bit trickier to measure, like exactly which features your users are taking advantage of, and how they’re using them. Mixpanel, a Y Combinator→ Read More