Hearpreneur

JULY 8, 2017

Todd McGuire is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of startup incentaHEALTH and we had to the opportunity to hear from him about starting business, the future of the company and what entrepreneurship means to him. I am the co-founder and CTO of the digital health care company incentaHEALTH.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

But the CEO was able to talk not only about his co-founders and vision in his pitch, but also presented detailed pre-launch interviews with a handful of prospective customers who indicated they’d participate in a paid beta once the product was ready. Once you cross the chasm of launching v1.0,

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Richard Ma , CEO and Co-Founder at Quantstamp , says, “We focus on helping our customers stay safe and succeed because our philosophy is that technology is only a tool to solve people’s problems.” The Forrest Four-Cast: February 20, 2020 Quantstamp is a Y Combinator-backed company building the standard in blockchain cybersecurity.

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San Francisco Cofounder Colorado Security 97

Steve Blank

MAY 1, 2015

A month ago, Jason, one of my founder friends, shut down his startup. 1 rule every founder hears over and over: Nobody wants your product until you prove it. How come so many founders still wake up to this horrible truth, after months or years of hard work? Here’s his story. ——-. Lean LaunchPad: A Year After.

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Cofounder Lean Customer Development Startup 120

View from Seed

MAY 16, 2019

Practically speaking this doesn’t mean that all of the shares owned by founders, investors, employees (RSUs), or others will be available to trade immediately as they will need to be converted and registered for public trading. You can see this both by looking at a cohort “layer cake” graph or by examining the net dollar retention.

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Lock-up Period Retention Azure .Net 168

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

What makes this tricky is that markets evolve, and an innovative technology or business model can transform a normal market into a Glengarry Glen Ross market. In it we explicitly state: “The real value creation comes when innovative technology enables innovative products and services with innovative business models….What

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Agile VC

MAY 16, 2019

Practically speaking this doesn’t mean that all of the shares owned by founders, investors, employees (RSUs), or others will be available to trade immediately as they will need to be converted and registered for public trading. You can see this both by looking at a cohort “layer cake” graph or by examining the net dollar retention.

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Lock-up Period Retention Azure .Net 100

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

What matters is proving the viability of the company’s business model, what investors call “traction.&# It should be even more important to the founders themselves, because it demonstrates that their business hypothesis is grounded in reality. They are busy too, but they are not creating value for the company.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 21, 2013

At last year’s conference, Red Room CEO and co-founder Ivory Madison pointed out that vanity metrics are among those numbers most commonly cited in investor decks: page views, new members, unique visitors, conversions and, vainest of them all, Twitter followers. Retention (do they return?), Revenue (how do you make money?),

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Lean Louisville Startup Metrics 167

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. I began my business in 2014 because, well, it was just time. So I cut the corporate cord and co-founded Finespun Clothing. Thanks to Dean Cycon, Dean’s Beans Organic Coffee Co. ! #19 20 – To Blend A Beautiful Business Model.

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Entrepreneur LLC Cofounder Green 91

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 13, 2020

by Manni Sidhu, Co-founder and CEO of Coleegs , and William Gilchrist , Founder and CEO of Konsyg. A new challenge has bloomed for founders and managers in the Covid-19 era –how do they set key performance indicators (KPIs) for the years ahead? Retention of Staff. Retention of Clients.

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 17, 2016

Leading the way, we have a discussion with one of the first founders Mucker invested in, Jerry Jao, the CEO and founder of Retention Science. William Hsu, Mucker Co-founder and Managing Partner, introduced Jerry with the following: “Jerry is a shining example of the type of entrepreneurs we like to invest in.

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Cofounder San Francisco Retention Founder 60

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

What most founders don’t realize is: Every stage of a startup requires a different set of metrics and milestones and founder skills. Knowing these will help a founder position her pitch to get investors’ attention. Founders need to keep their eye on the prize — not just the next funding round. Business Model.

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Cofounder Seed Stage Valuation Metrics 433

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 7, 2022

Marcel is the CEO & Co-Founder of Parakeeto, a company dedicated to helping agencies measure and improve their profitability by streamlining their operations and reporting systems. So there is, is a way to adapt your business model and do this without time sheets. Marketing Podcast with Marcel Petitpas.

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Cofounder Hosting Networking Software Review 76

Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2021

And Jennifer is now my co-instructor in the Stanford Lean LaunchPad class.). Note that if you’re familiar with the business model canvas, Steps 1-4 below are equivalent to a visual map of the choices a founder makes as they develop a business model canvas. In other words, you prove retention.

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Product Viral Channel San Francisco 436

The Next Web

AUGUST 10, 2013

Nadav Poraz, Founder, WhoSampled. You can also generate funnels to see customer retention and discover where they exit the website. Naturally, there are different kinds of product goals, e.g.: fulfilling a certain business model, forming a habit, creating a behavioral change or owning an experience.

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Cofounder Guerilla Startup Analytics 157

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Product/Metrics (70%/30% time) * Get your product activation (sign-up + meaningful action) to 60% * then, Get your product retention to 20% weekly. My goal is to some day get an honorary degree for kicking ass in business. Whats is the best way to find a co-founder for your startup? It all depends on where you’re at.

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Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

He is, like all of us, an online speaker, coach, consultant, podcaster; but he’s also the founder of WP Elevation , which is the world’s largest business community for WordPress consultants. You take that business plan to a bank, you’ll never get a loan. This is John Jantsch and my guest today is Troy Dean.

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Community Framework Ruby Architecture 42

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Recent developments in web business models have made this hurdle much lower. For example Googles AdSense, Facebooks virtual economy, micro-payments and wide use of the Freemium web model. In the beginning the rainmaker is usually the founder/de-facto CEO, but not always.

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Revenue Cofounder Retention Valuation 20

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 14, 2009 Business ecology and the four customer currencies Lately, I’ve been rethinking the concept of “business model&# for startups, in favor of something I call “business ecology.&# Constructing a working business model is a form of ecosystem design.

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Customer San Francisco Viral Lean 156

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Many founders have to turn to brute force to figure it out, even when they themselves don’t have practitioner product management experience. So, what are the things founders can learn to do well BEFORE they can hire a great first product hire to make sure the company stays focused and iterates fast?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2014

More detailed and reliable data allows you to tailor your business model, monitor trends and measure how they might impact future demand. Dr Eric Siegel, author of Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie or Die. Knowing who your users are means knowing what they do and don’t want.

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Social Network Viral Social Media B2C 130

Hearpreneur

MARCH 28, 2018

Moran’s entrepreneurial spirit was evident as he built the original business around automotive resale & wholesale and eventually saw the need for automotive and transmission parts and repair services. How did you come up with your business name? Moran is the family name of our co-founders Dennis Moran and Barbara Moran Goodrich.

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Cofounder Illinois United States Retention 54

Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

” Our featured speaker was Caroline Cummings, the VP of Business Development at Palo Alto Software. As the former co-founder and CEO of two technology companies, Caroline has experienced both start-up failures and successes, and has raised close to $1 million in investment capital. Where do you look? This is what we track.

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Technical Review Software Review Due Diligence Exit Strategy 60

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2023

Bill was relentless in his focus on getting the software PC DOS project delivered, while continually challenging us with new business models. If you or your team sees you as an idea person, your first task as an entrepreneur should be to find a co-founder who can deliver. Customer acquisition, retention, and support.

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Cofounder Startup Term Sheet Acquisition 389

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

For the first-time entrepreneur or founder looking for seed stage funding, this circle can be especially difficult to penetrate. Brad Feld: Feld is co-founder and managing director of Foundry Group, a Boulder, Colorado venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments ranging from $250,000 to $500,000.

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Angel Investor Startup San Francisco Social Media 80

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2020

Bill was relentless in his focus on getting the software PC DOS project delivered, while continually challenging us with new business models. If you or your team sees you as an idea person, your first task as an entrepreneur should be to find a co-founder who can deliver. Customer acquisition, retention, and support.

Entrepreneur 307

Entrepreneur Cofounder Term Sheet Acquisition 307

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 13, 2017

He is the CEO and co-founder of growthhackers.com and he’s also the co-author of “Hacking Growth” – how today’s fastest growing companies drive break out success. Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcasts. This is John Jantsch and my guest today is Sean Ellis.

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Channel Metrics Acquisition Non-Compete 56

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2016

Bill was relentless in his focus on getting the software PC DOS project delivered, while continually challenging us with new business models. If you or your team sees you as an idea person, your first task as an entrepreneur should be to find a co-founder who can deliver. Customer acquisition, retention, and support.

Cofounder 120

Cofounder Term Sheet Acquisition Metrics 120

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2015

Bill was relentless in his focus on getting the software PC DOS project delivered, while continually challenging us with new business models. If you or your team sees you as an idea person, your first task as an entrepreneur should be to find a co-founder who can deliver. Customer acquisition, retention, and support.

Cofounder 120

Cofounder Startup Term Sheet Acquisition 120

Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

Aaron Benz is the Co-Founder and CEO of Degree Analytics , a Capital Factory Accelerator Company Best SXSW EDU Proposals for 2018 was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. link ) Got feedback? Comment below to let me know.

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Analytics Retention Africa Artificial Inteligence 59

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

.” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. customer retention, churn reduction, lifetime value. small business CRM. TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents â?? Founders Workbench.

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