Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

There’s an article making the rounds in tech circles titled “ Growth Hacking is Bull ” written by Muhammad Saleem. We spend a lot of time trying to get people focused on building products that have viral components and why that has to be measured and constantly tested. I’d strongly encourage you to read it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

Viral marketing. Viral marketing costs real money, but is often worth it. Wikipedia started this, but it is also used for technical support, software, and product reviews. No SEM plan means you are missing a huge marketing opportunity. Streaming video. You can use it for your business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Most technical entrepreneurs focus hard on building an innovative product, but forget that an elegant solution doesn’t automatically translate into a successful business. Defining the right business model requires the same diligence as designing the right product, but the approach and skills required are different.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. While many tech startups do this intuitively (say, SnapChat thinking it would be much better if our photos out partying disappeared) it still happens. It’s worth a quick read. My argument is pretty simple. Look at Viddy & SocialCast.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2010

Viral marketing. Viral marketing costs real money, but is often worth it. Wikipedia started this, but it is also used for technical support, software, and product reviews. Rates per click are very low, so don’t try to live on ad revenues until visit rates are very high. Crowdsourcing.

Internet 224

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2013

Pivots can take the form of changes to singular product features, customer segments, platforms, business architecture, growth engines, technology and more. Changes are more easily made to any step of the process and the costs of rework are far lower. Small batches inherently work better than large ones.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

According to a recent Harvard Business Review article , only 60% of companies today use social media for marketing, and only 12% of those feel that they are using it effectively. Read everything you can about viral marketing. Then continue to measure and learn what works, at what cost. What’s the problem? Or are you too busy?

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Social Media Small Business Media Technical Review 289

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

As a long-time mentor to entrepreneurs, here is my collection of smart risks that investors and I look for in new startups: Focus on a tough customer problem rather than a fun technology. Investors hate technology solutions looking for a problem, due to the high risk of no customers.

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TechEmpower

JULY 31, 2023

One way to approach that last question is to use this simple model: Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) How will your business reach prospects? And how much will it cost to win them? Proving your Business Model Works - Build, Define, and Review But how do you prove your numbers? Apply costs to each channel.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

As a long-time mentor to entrepreneurs, here is my collection of smart risks that investors and I look for in new startups: Focus on a tough customer problem rather than a fun technology. Investors hate technology solutions looking for a problem, due to the high risk of no customers.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 10, 2011

Pet owners who like the cards will look on the back to see how to order some of their own, and suddenly you have a viral marketing campaign that cost you lots of initial legwork calling vets but not a lot of money. Let’s do another example, this time in technical business software sales instead of fuzzy consumer sales.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

Only one guy in the room knew – their tech lead. Once you churn a user due to stability or performance problems it can be hard to get them back. Measuring viral adoption is obviously important. The next step after measuring the customers you’re adding is to add the “cost to acquire” by channel. How many through SEM?

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Metrics Startup Acquisition SEM 346

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Widespread global availability of free or low-cost web access, easy-to-use social tools, and algorithms by companies like Klout and PeerIndex have also resulted in an “influence revolution” According to Schaefer, the rules of online influence are affected by several factors: 1. Having a strategy. Reaching relevant influencers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2014

As a long-time mentor to entrepreneurs, here is my collection of smart risks that investors and I look for in new startups: Focus on a tough customer problem rather than a fun technology. Investors hate technology solutions looking for a problem, due to the high risk of no customers.

Startup 283

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

” How many times have you heard someone agree that “it would be great if someone did X,” but when show them someone did do X, but it costs $39.99, they don’t buy? Or seen a review of an iPhone app hung up on pricing trivialities: “It would be pretty good at $0.99, but it’s not worth $1.99.”

Bootstrapping 294

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit.

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Acquisition Cost Customer Entrepreneur 103

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2016

As an angel investor, I’ve learned to believe in this approach, since I have seen great ideas go astray, due to poor execution and I have seen apparently marginal ideas make millions, managed by a savvy entrepreneur. Similarly, mentioning viral marketing without specifics won’t assure fundability.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

But more spend = more viral opps = more revenue down the road. >50% of our revenue in now viral. The very modest salary that I drew didn’t come anywhere near meeting my monthly costs so I had to eat into savings. year old boy and another one due in 1 months. I raised $500k in seed money to start the company.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 15, 2019

Usually, small business owners don’t think beyond their quarterly or annual plans and they forget their long-term goals due to everyday hurdles. Kodak is a classic example of a huge brand that collapsed when it failed to keep up with the evolving technology of the photography world. Embrace Technology.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I’d argue that the same type of technologies that have revolutionized dating can revolutionize our industry. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 28, 2012

One explanation is that “growth hacking” is just a catchy way to rebrand marketers, but this begs the question as to why “growth hacking” went viral in the first place. With the cost of starting and running a startup at all time lows, it is now easier than ever to attempt to take market share. Channel instability. Channel saturation.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 12, 2010

I threw out the world class tool, purchased ClickTracks for a fraction of the cost and put money into Analysts and boom! Let's go look at some tools… Measuring "Invisible Virality": Tynt. Goes viral. Invisible Virality. Well not crap… lots of data that no one cared about or actioned. You matter.

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Analytics Viral Web Mobile 97

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 10, 2020

One key to expanding a business is by reducing costs. Expensive traditional campaigns could be greatly reduced and converted into a simple low-cost video production. In this day and age of social media sharing, it’s possible to reach millions of viewers if your video goes viral. Offers Impressive Return On Investment.

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Video Marketing Social Media Mobile 246

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

Most technical entrepreneurs focus hard on building an innovative product, but forget that an elegant solution doesn’t automatically translate into a successful business. Defining the right business model requires the same diligence as designing the right product, but the approach and skills required are different.

Business Model 120

Business Model Technical Review Advisory Board Software Review 120

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Hundreds of user reviews of both platforms on G2 Crowd reveal the key benefits—and shortcomings—of each. G2 Crowd, a business technology review site, has almost 3,000 reviews of Google Analytics. The business problems that Google Analytics and Mixpanel solve. Image source ). Acquisition.

Analytics 119

Analytics Technical Review Acquisition Retention 119

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

Consumer value Once Jamie realized that he could not only sell tens of millions of dollars of home security cameras he also realized that he could get customers to sign up for a monthly subscription to keep the videos in storage in the cloud and review them after the fact. link] What does this all mean for the future?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2020

Due to the highly infectious nature of COVID -19, with an R3 to R5 value at several places (the number of infections caused by one person. The bigger the team, the greater the cost. Thanks to tremendous advancements in technology, it is now possible to render animated scenes that are indistinguishable from the real thing.

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Video Advertising Technical Review Viral 229

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 18, 2012

“Traction is the new IP ” sums up perfectly how the technology space has evolved over the past decade due to the nature of the web. Barriers to entry are no longer created by patents or by tech differentiation alone, but by superior traction in the marketplace.

IP 163

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2023

We've also seen extensive use of technology and increased remote working. As a result, businesses in this field should leverage technology to provide interactive, easy-to-understand educational content that can help customers make health-related decisions and maintain healthy habits. Thanks to Erik Pham, Health Canal ! #2-

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

With the advancement of technology and the allure of digital marketing, every business owner is aiming at having an online presence. Some sites such as Craigslist may look simple due to the minimalist design but their creation involved hard work and thorough process. Misconception #4: Your Site Shouldn’t Cost Much to Build.

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Web Design Developer Software Review 98

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

There was a backlash against the Plaxo spamming yet it paved the way for everybody who came after them to get users to drive viral adoption and we’d throw up our arms and say, “oh boy, here goes another social network that my friends are going to spam me about&# mentality that made it acceptable for everybody who came afterward.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

The evening is sponsored by a Fortune 500 medical technology company. Lakewood-Amedex ( www.lakewoodamedex.com ) is a development stage biopharmaceutical company that is developing a diverse portfolio of broad-spectrum anti-bacterials, anti-virals, and targeted therapeutics. This is the first industry-specific HBS Angels pitch night.

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Technical Review New York Accredited Investor IP 128

ConversionXL

MARCH 6, 2019

They also come with higher costs and LinkedIn-specific platform limitations. But there are technical and strategic keys to smart deployment. That means that there’s plenty of business to be won—even if LinkedIn views come at a higher cost (more later). LinkedIn video ads: tech specs, targeting, metrics, and cost.

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Video B2B Technical Review Campaign 129

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

I want to know how many people, their level of tech sophistication, their age and their interests. And if we’re reflective, it’s also one of the most important success criteria for investors, senior executives, tech writers and virtually anybody involved in business leadership. So I thought I would. That’s a shame.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

Hiring the wrong person for key company positions can cost a business thousands — or tens of thousands — of dollars and man hours. This is especially true when it comes to tech companies hiring the wrong chief technology officer. ); // Welcome to Mashable! Sign in with Facebook or Twitter to get started!

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

As a long-time mentor to entrepreneurs, here is my collection of smart risks that investors and I look for in new startups: Focus on a tough customer problem rather than a fun technology. Investors hate technology solutions looking for a problem, due to the high risk of no customers.

Forecast 161

Forecast Stock Options Technical Review Metrics 161

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Determining which of these methods of staffing software development projects is right for your company can be a challenging endeavor, and three opposing characteristics of business need to be considered: cost, risk and convenience. Below is an overview of what you need to consider and the pros and cons of each option for IT staffing.

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