Mixpanel (YC S09) Raises $1.25 Million From Sequoia, Rabois, Levchin, And Birch • Hacker News Board

Re: Mixpanel (YC S09) Raises $1.25 Million From Sequoia, Rabois, Levchin, And Birch

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Post by jmtame » Fri, May 27, 2011, 8:13 PM UTC

bentlegen wrote: post #9

jmtame wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google Analytics has a delay. Mixpanel is real-time and specifically aimed at certain events that you specify. So when someone clicks your sign up button, it fires an AJAX call and you see them do it in real-time, instantly.

I like what MixPanel is doing, but I don't think it's fair to say that GA has a 24 hour delay. It's nothing close to real-time, but you can get results from the past few hours.

I'm looking at Google Analytics right now for my web site, but all I can see is yesterday's data. Is there somewhere to see the data collected today?

Edit: I use both Analytics and Mixpanel, they're both great services. Google has its strengths, but I don't think event tracking and immediate feedback is one of them, which is where Mixpanel comes in.

Re: Mixpanel (YC S09) Raises $1.25 Million From Sequoia, Rabois, Levchin, And Birch

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Post by benologist » Fri, May 27, 2011, 8:16 PM UTC

jmtame wrote: post #11

bentlegen wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like what MixPanel is doing, but I don't think it's fair to say that GA has a 24 hour delay. It's nothing close to real-time, but you can get results from the past few hours.

I'm looking at Google Analytics right now for my web site, but all I can see is yesterday's data. Is there somewhere to see the data collected today? Edit: I use both Analytics and Mixpanel, they're both great services. Google has its strengths, but I don't think event tracking and immediate feedback is one of them, which is where Mixpanel comes in.

Click the date select stuff, you can choose today and it'll give you whatever data it's processed for today, but by default it only shows up to yesterday.

Re: Mixpanel (YC S09) Raises $1.25 Million From Sequoia, Rabois, Levchin, And Birch

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Post by old-gregg » Fri, May 27, 2011, 9:38 PM UTC

sapper2 wrote: post #6

I wish they had a page titled "why we are better Google Analytics"

Hm... we're happy users of both and they have almost nothing in common. Mixpanel is more like a flexible general purpose database which gives you real time "views" of your data. You can chart it yourself or Mixpanel will do it for you.

We (http://mailgun.net) built our email analytics on top if it in a very short period of time and it's much nicer that anything we could have made in-house (and keeps getting nicer).

Re: Mixpanel (YC S09) Raises $1.25 Million From Sequoia, Rabois, Levchin, And Birch

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Post by rokhayakebe » Fri, May 27, 2011, 10:25 PM UTC

bentlegen wrote: post #9

jmtame wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google Analytics has a delay. Mixpanel is real-time and specifically aimed at certain events that you specify. So when someone clicks your sign up button, it fires an AJAX call and you see them do it in real-time, instantly.

I like what MixPanel is doing, but I don't think it's fair to say that GA has a 24 hour delay. It's nothing close to real-time, but you can get results from the past few hours.

I am not a user of MP, but I can tell you once you go Real Time with your Analytics there just isn't a way for you to go back to even 5-minute-delay.

Re: Mixpanel (YC S09) Raises $1.25 Million From Sequoia, Rabois, Levchin, And Birch

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Post by rdin » Sat, May 28, 2011, 1:59 AM UTC

benologist wrote: post #10

Congrats guys. Raising money and scaling, especially at the same time, is a lot like I imagine prison would feel like. Glad you guys made it through.

Well said- congrats!

Re: Mixpanel (YC S09) Raises $1.25 Million From Sequoia, Rabois, Levchin, And Birch

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Post by rdl » Sat, May 28, 2011, 2:26 AM UTC

jmtame wrote: post #3

The announcement they make in a few weeks is going to be huge and disruptive. Some interesting bits from the interview in Startups Open Sourced : Q: Tell me what your experience was like raising money. Was that positive or negative? That experience sucked, and I'm still in that process. It's a lot better now but it still sucks. It's still very taxing. When we went to raise before, we were six months after the recessi…

I wish Startups Open Sourced had some way to do interactive content; I'd love to be able to reformat it and see just one section (e.g. "how hard is raising money") for EVERY company which answered that.

I've read about half of the dead-tree version at Sunfire while waiting for VM stuff; it's a great book, but this is exactly the kind of data where being able to treat it as structured data, instead of a static book, would be awesome.

Re: Mixpanel (YC S09) Raises $1.25 Million From Sequoia, Rabois, Levchin, And Birch

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Post by ra » Sat, May 28, 2011, 3:34 AM UTC

I've only recently discovered mixpanel, it is awesome.

I wish you guys every success.

Re: Mixpanel (YC S09) Raises $1.25 Million From Sequoia, Rabois, Levchin, And Birch

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Post by avichal » Sat, May 28, 2011, 3:54 AM UTC

suking wrote: post #4

I don't know much about mixpanel, how is it better and/or different than Google Analytics? Congrats on the funding.

I'm a big MixPanel fan. We use it at my company.

The big differences: a) More real-time. Nothing is 100% realtime quite yet but MixPanel is by far the best. b) Event driven - GA is pageviews driven, KissMetrics (also a fantastic product) is funnel driven. If you care about tracking key events and tagging those events with metadata that you can slice-and-dice later, MixPanel is the best solution. c) API - really great and simple API to get data in and get data out. This makes it easy to integrate MixPanel across multiple touchpoints (mobile app + web) for example, and have control over how you make those big piles of data interact/merge/display.

Congrats on the funding guys!

Re: Mixpanel (YC S09) Raises $1.25 Million From Sequoia, Rabois, Levchin, And Birch

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Post by iamelgringo » Sat, May 28, 2011, 4:30 AM UTC

Tim, Suhail. Congrats!

Re: Mixpanel (YC S09) Raises $1.25 Million From Sequoia, Rabois, Levchin, And Birch

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Post by jmtame » Sat, May 28, 2011, 7:41 AM UTC

rdl wrote: post #16

jmtame wrote: post #3

The announcement they make in a few weeks is going to be huge and disruptive. Some interesting bits from the interview in Startups Open Sourced : Q: Tell me what your experience was like raising money. Was that positive or negative? That experience sucked, and I'm still in that process. It's a lot better now but it still sucks. It's still very taxing. When we went to raise before, we were six months after the recessi…

I wish Startups Open Sourced had some way to do interactive content; I'd love to be able to reformat it and see just one section (e.g. "how hard is raising money") for EVERY company which answered that. I've read about half of the dead-tree version at Sunfire while waiting for VM stuff; it's a great book, but this is exactly the kind of data where being able to treat it as structured data, instead of a static book, w…

You're not the first person to recommend this, I'm actually interested in doing it that way too. I'll get this done at some point when I move it into an HTML format that can be re-arranged and compiled on the fly.