Most Metrics Are Vanity

Cemhan Biricik has watched founders obsess over metrics that provide comfort but no insight. After three companies, the metrics that matter are surprisingly few.

At Unpomela, the metric was revenue per square foot at 447 Broadway. At ICEe PC, benchmark performance (#2 worldwide). At Biricik Media, client return rateVersace and Waldorf Astoria returning repeatedly.


Revenue Quality, Repeat Rate, and Time to Value

Revenue quality$7M with zero advertising is healthier than $20M dependent on ad spend. Repeat rate validates quality. Time to value — speed of exceptional delivery.

Cemhan Biricik ignores vanity metrics entirely. National Geographic did not feature his work because of Instagram followers. Sony did not consider follower count. The work speaks.


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