Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 2, 2018

Marketing is the bridge between your business and your customers. Almost any form of communication with your customers falls under its umbrella. Without marketing, your business may as well exist in an unlit locked vault – no customers are coming in and no sales are going out. Customers will beg to differ.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2021

As per the Huffingtonpost.ca , several businesses are constantly employing digital marketing stratagems for attracting new online leads, visitors, and customers. You can promote your site effectively by investing in SEM, SEO, generating top-quality content, and even on paid advertising on search engines.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 26, 2013

In conversations about freelancing and online marketplaces for remote contract workers of the tech industry, the name of oDesk floats up pretty often. In our customer service team we have a hundred freelancers, in our trust and safety team we have another hundred, in our engineering team we have close to 150. million jobs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Thats the conclusion Ive come to after watching tons of online products fail for a complete lack of customers. Our goal is to find out whether customers are interested in your product by offering to give (or even sell) it to them, and then failing to deliver on that promise. We finally settled on a $1.99 Setup a simple website.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Customers went into the store either looking for the SuperMac product by name (if our demand creation activities had been effective) or went in unsure of which brand of board to buy. The design was actually a negative drag on selling anything off a retail shelf. And for sure they were never going to win any design awards.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 4, 2014

But without a digital home, you’re scattering your efforts and missing an incredible opportunity to engage and connect with your customers and potential customers through a dedicated website. Today, we’ll cover small business web design best practices and tips. Keep the design simple, fresh, and unique.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2011

A while back I emphasized how important is to have a company website these days ( Publish Your Website Or Customers Won’t Find You ). Unless someone searches for your company by name, it won’t show up in the first few pages of any search results. Image attributes and sub-folder names. Web page title tags. Reduce page load time.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

In my experience, the majority of changes we made to products have no effect at all on customer behavior. The report is set up to show you what happened to customers who registered in that period (a so-called cohort analysis ). This report is set up to tell you about new customers specifically. First of all, why split-test?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2016

But without a central digital home, you’re scattering your efforts and missing an incredible opportunity to engage and connect with your customers and potential customers through a dedicated site. Today, we’ll cover web design best practices and tips. Keep the design simple, fresh, and unique.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 31, 2011

I was totally product focused for the last year and now it’s live, so I need to start thinking about finding some customers. ” So instead finding out who and where those potential customers are , which is hard, he just made a product, which is easy (for him). So I think the ideal customer is: SaaS, ISV, Web Products.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? How to listen to customers, and not just the loud. Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 29, 2017

Some secret growth hack or silver bullet that skyrocketed them to household names. Rob Sobers of Varonis confirms… Rob Sobers , Varonis : “While traditional marketing teams might appear to operate like growth teams in terms of the channels they use (SEM, content marketing, email, etc.), Yet, it still feels very elusive.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

WordStream confirmed that seven days was plenty of trial time, and they didn’t need to waste resources chasing customers down a longer funnel. No changes were made to the customer journey, and it had nothing to do with revenue lift. Growth marketers focus on the entire customer journey.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

It’s easy to overestimate the impact of this kind of traffic because it just feels good to have your name and company featured. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? How to listen to customers, and not just the loud. It strokes your ego.

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A Crowded Space

APRIL 20, 2011

Name the business - [link]. Design a logo - [link] , [link]. Design a site - same as above or [link]. Run your SEM campaigns: [link]. Optimize your SEM ad copy: [link]. Do some market research: [link] , [link]. Get some legal advice: [link]. Develop the technology - [link]. Test it: [link]. Launch the site: [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 17, 2011

If you have a website, your potential customers can find you. If you don’t have a website, your potential customers will find your competitors. A website is the hub of a small business’s marketing efforts through other channels (print, SEO, SEM, email, direct, mobile, etc.). You’ll also need to find a host.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 13, 2008 SEM on five dollars a day How do you build a new product with constant customer feedback while simultaneously staying under the radar? SEM is a simple idea. Slowly, over time, we optimized (or eliminated) each step in the process of becoming a customer by giving us money.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

has helped thousands of entrepreneurs, small businesses, startups, agencies, and Brands (from over 70 countries), with graphic, website, and industrial design projects. We’ve paid millions of dollars to designers and want to provide similar opportunities – and a level playing field – for writers. Company names.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 17, 2011

If you have a website, your potential customers can find you. If you don’t have a website, your potential customers will find your competitors. A website is the hub of a small business’s marketing efforts through other channels (print, SEO, SEM, email, direct, mobile, etc.). You’ll also need to find a host.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 6, 2010

To share with you three custom reports that I find to be super valuable when I am doing web data analysis. I love custom reports. With that motivational speech, :), below are three custom reports that are of incredible value. and instead advanced the creation of focused custom "micro-ecosystems" that 1.

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www.chancebarnett.com

MAY 10, 2011

Before I show you where to start, you should remember what I said in the interview- Creating a great landing page (given time) is not all about being a great copywriter or designer. Get specific ones of your customers talking about actual steps or tips or action taken from your product or material and the end result (finished story).

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

What you really want to know is which campaigns drove “bottom of funnel activities” such as: Purchases, newsletter signups, subscribers, comments and so forth in the same way you’d be tracking this on Google Analytics for your SEO / SEM campaigns, direct referrals, etc. The other major pilot customer was.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Or more accurately, startups are a temporary organization designed to search for a scalable and repeatable business model.) There are few courses which teach aspiring entrepreneurs the skills (business models, customer and agile development, design thinking, etc.) Their objective is to get users, orders, customers, etc.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

They are already thinking about how they transition from their initial customers to growing the business. At the core we were always focused on building great product, but along the way we didn’t shift our priorities from the best products to reaching more customers. 37 Signal s). Every Company is Building a Brand.

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Transformify

AUGUST 18, 2021

If you’re wondering whether you have what it takes to take on freelancing, here are some of the popular types of freelance work you can start with: Web Development and Designing. Creative Design. Graphic Designing. Search Engine Optimization or SEO, SEM. Customer Service. Logo Design and Illustration.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Customer personas are often talked about in marketing and product design, but they’re almost never done well. A research-based archetypal representative of your customer based on various attributes, attitudes, and characteristics. They can be utilized across teams— UX , CRO, social media, SEM, SEO , etc.,

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In other words, multivariate tests are like A/B/n tests in that they test an original against variations, but each variation contains different design elements. For qualitative research , use things like: On-site surveys ; Customer surveys; Customer interviews and focus groups. Finally there’s user testing.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 14, 2022

Many of the webinar platforms aren’t created with the customer in mind first. So you can imagine sales, demos, pitches, onboarding, training, product updates, customer interviews, you know, things like that. But what I care about and what gives my business longevity is if your customer likes you, not, if you like me.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

They are already thinking about how they transition from their initial customers to growing the business. At the core we were always focused on building great product, but along the way we didn’t shift our priorities from the best products to reaching more customers. 37 Signal s). Every Company is Building a Brand.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 7, 2017

User personas are often talked about in marketing and product design, but they’re almost never done well. A research-based archetypal representative of your customer based on various attributes, attitudes, and characteristics. They can be utilized across teams – UX, CRO, Social Media, SEM, SEO, etc.,

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

Not because they didn’t want to do Pay-per-click (they are huge buyers of SEM) but because they didn’t want other people to know what they paid for clicks! He wanted to build direct customer relationships to get product feedback but only 2% of customers would ever return their registration cards. Shopping.com.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

Ahrefs is one of the best Search Engine Optimization ( SEO ) and Search Engine Marketing ( SEM ) tools available for anyone who prefers to make data-based decisions in their marketing strategies. Want to use a real powerhouse tool to reach new customers and monumentally grow your business? Search marketing. Google Adwords. SendWithUs.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

Ahrefs is one of the best Search Engine Optimization ( SEO ) and Search Engine Marketing ( SEM ) tools available for anyone who prefers to make data-based decisions in their marketing strategies. Want to use a real powerhouse tool to reach new customers and monumentally grow your business? Search marketing. Google Adwords. SendWithUs.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Advertising with AdWords allows you to reach new customers at the precise moment when they are searching for your type of products and services. This often happens because many small business owners don’t fully understand the many ways they can customize and leverage their AdWords marketing programs. Google Analytics.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

The App Store is a channel for customer acquisition. Customers and prospects are overwhelmed by the number of media and companies clamoring for their attention. Acqusition competition is how new apps get new customers. On the web, we have many of these channels: SEM, SEO, world of mouth, PR and viral.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Connect with John Jantsch on LinkedIn This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by the DeskTeam360 Desk team 360 is the #1, flat-rate, digital marketing integration team, that helps small businesses and marketing agencies with graphic, web design, and on-page marketing services. This is John Jantsch. Ryan: Sure.

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