Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

It is becoming easier and cheaper for companies to bring products to market, leveraging free and open source software , cloud computing, open social data (Facebook, OpenSocial ), and open distribution (AdWords, SEO). Is there anywhere I can download the presentation? Try this download link February 16, 2009 9:21 PM Anonymoussaid.

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MAY 27, 2022

Demand generation marketers create and distribute strategic content (mostly for free) to build awareness and demand for their brand or product. what kind of content they’re creating, where and how they’re distributing it, what pain points they’re speaking to, etc.). Take Ross Simmonds , Founder and CEO of Foundation Marketing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

You can also download our presentation, " Just-In-Time Scalability: Agile Methods to Support Massive Growth." ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2010

It’s human nature to prioritize the metrics that get measured, so the simple act of keeping track is often enough to have a significant positive impact. I suggest you try to figure out the 3-5 key metrics that are used to judge the health of companies in your industry, and keep track of these somewhere in your scorecard.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

I usually use a "funnel report" that looks like this: Control Hypothesis A Hypothesis B Registered 1000 (100%) 1000 (100%) 500 (100%) Downloaded 650 (65%) 750 (75%) 200 (40%) Chatted 350 (35%) 350 (35%) 100 (20%) Purchased 100 (10%) 100 (10%) 25 (5%) In this case, you could run the report for any time period. Thanks for writing this article.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2022

They work to improve top-of-funnel metrics like brand awareness and identify opportunities to improve customer activation, retention, and referral efforts. If your campaign works and your brand awareness metrics improve, you win. Then, compare any change in the awareness metrics you’re measuring in that region with other markets.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Successful founders believe anything is possible but they build strong founding teams to achieve their startup dreams. Joining me at the Lean Startup Conference in San Francisco were: Liz Powers , co-founder of ArtLifting , a for-profit online art gallery that features the work of homeless and disabled artists. The metrics that matter.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

For example, we used to be baffled at IMVU by the significant minority of people who would download the software but never chat with anyone. As a shoestring entrepreneur with a SaaS (well, not really, but sort of) offering that we present to very large companies (think 10K+), I love your common sense suggestions about metrics and testing.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 27, 2015

While some of the specific details may vary based on market, any founder can use this as a primer for building out their own metrics. of users who download app, browse your app, purchase based on overall signups or relative to previous activity)? spend, price, buyers, suppliers, time) and absolute numbers and distributions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 6, 2008

Ive been even more impressed by the various Greasemonkey compilers out there, that let you turn a Greasemonkey script into a full-blown Firefox extension, for easy distribution. How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim. BTW, its FF 3.07

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, September 18, 2008 How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone I have had the opportunity to meet a lot of iPhone-related companies lately. There are other models, in other distribution channels. On Facebook, viral distribution has proved decisive. I havent found any yet.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

But DailyMotion’s geographic distribution of users doesn’t mirror YouTube, especially within the United States. In comparison, Facebook Live shows overview metrics like minutes viewed, average percentage completion, and unique viewers.). The platform also hosts video using HTML5, which promises superfast download speed.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

We recently had Tim Berry, Palo Alto Software founder and business planning expert, present our Bplans audience with his latest advice on lean business planning. Start your lean business plan today: Download our Free Lean Plan Template one-page-pitch-download.pdf. What distribution, are we using gems or are we a web?

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

“If you can fix a problem for someone and do it better, quicker, and/or cheaper than your competitor, you’re off to a good start.” – Gabriel Kuperman, founder and CEO of CuePin. We created UpKeep to fill this void—a cloud-based solution that was affordable for any size business.” – Ryan Chan, founder of UpKeep.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, October 7, 2008 The App Store after the gold rush I wrote earlier about the issue of distribution advantage on the iPhone. I think its helpful to think about two kinds of competition for distribution: acquisition competition and retention competition. Any idea how Apple tracks download statistic?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

I believe this is one reason why the myth of the dictatorial startup founder has such enduring appeal. But notice how many hypotheses are baked into this supposedly simple scenario: we believe we have already solved the distribution problem for our product (or else how could customers try it?). No vanity metrics should be looked at.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Last week, we introduced our social platform KPI dashboard to help provide a framework for founders to think about their businesses and preempt the inevitable questions that arise during the fundraising process. In the first post, we talked about the high-level metrics to track – such as DAU, MAU, and your stickiness ratio.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

You can download them for free to help you get started. These products will be distributed to remote yet extremely viable areas, where the market is appreciative of readily-available, good-quality brew. With this money, they plan to expand its distribution to selected metro areas within the state of Oregon.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Building a cache of user data in a CRM that’s strong enough to inform demand gen campaigns—what content to produce, where to distribute it—can take years, according to Brandt Bogdanovich of MST Solutions. Create and distribute content to those segments. Melinda Byerley, the founder of Timeshare CMO , affirmed Rextin’s perspective.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 12, 2023

08:28] Do founders grasp your concepts both logically and emotionally? [11:10] Connect with John Jantsch on LinkedIn Duct Tape Transcript Email Download New Tab John Jantsch (00:08): Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast. The third is really driven on metrics. This is John Chance.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 8, 2023

He is the co-founder of Time Doctor and has been working remotely for over 20 years; working with thousands of companies looking to adopt a remote working model. Duct Tape Transcript Email Download New Tab John Jantsch (00:00): Hey, did you know that HubSpot's annual inbound conference is coming up? Like this show? That's right.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Our tests suite takes nine minutes to run (distributed across 30-40 machines). The first version of the 3D IMVU client took about six months to build, and as the founders iterated towards a compelling user experience, the user base grew monthly thereafter. On commit automatically run all tests. If the tests pass deploy to the cluster.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 30, 2023

Duct Tape Transcript Email Download New Tab John Jantsch (00:00): This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by Creative Elements hosted by Jay Klaus. She's the founder and CEO of JAM, a multi-million dollar global business that has connected millions of people through play. Like this show?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Luckily, the metrics helped us figure out the difference. Question 2: If your product has areas where people read and then different areas where people interact, are there ways to do metrics to determine where people spend their time? Could this be done on mouse focus, commenting amounts, answer percentages, download percentages, etc?

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Ofir Beigel and Karin Levi, the co-founders of Capple Factory are both graduates of Israel’s Zell Entrepreneurship program , which is quickly gaining the reputation of Israel’s Y Combinator. VC Cafe: What goals/metrics are you tracking and what would you consider ‘success’ at the end of year one?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

You can listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts , Google podcasts , or wherever else you like to download podcasts. But I do think there will be at least a short term moment where after a period of a lot of despair, and economic, and health disaster, a huge number of people die in tragedy, by mega tragedy, by any metric.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

It just answered this question: for any given time range, for the 100% of people who registered in that period, what percentage of them downloaded? Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2022

There is a founder called Priscilla side. John Cantarella (20:24): We're already seeing a bunch of third party companies start to build metrics and tools so they can start to measure the value of community overall. More About John Cantarella: Community Playbook. More About Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Network: Learn more here.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 4, 2020

You can listen to my conversation with Max Henderson on Apple , Google, or wherever you like to download podcasts. They had an incredibly effective pressure campaign that helped ordinary citizens write their Mayor, write their governor with simple metrics like, "If we don't shut down, this many people will die." Eric Ries : Max.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2023

Duct Tape Transcript Email Download New Tab John Jantsch (00:00): This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by Nudge, hosted by Phil Agnew, and it's brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals. Like this show? Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please!

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

To be fair, “familiarity” and “Ever listened to” aren’t really great metrics that translate to consumption. Take for instance this joint study by the Association for Downloadable Media and Edison that found 72% of listeners reporting finding mentions of products or services in a podcast “ interesting ” and “ useful ”. image source.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

The founders of Frontline Foods are three of these people. You can listen to our conversation on Apple , Google , or wherever you like to download podcasts. Eric Ries : Give us some more vanity metrics, if you would. In every case, they've simply been asked to take on work and said yes. Ryan Sarver : Awesome. That's amazing.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2019

Go beyond standard sources of voice of customer data ; better options are: Interview founders (the original “customers”); Thank-you page surveys; Usertesting.com; Mine sales calls; Mine support tickets; Mine Facebook comments ; Mine online reviews. Founder interviews can find the story, the value proposition , and the big idea.

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ConversionXL

MAY 25, 2017

As Peep Laja, founder of CXL, put it in a previous blog post : Peep Laja: “So you ran a test where B beat A, and it was an impressive lift – perhaps +30%, +50% or even +100%. Say you find that people who download a certain PDF are worth much more money to you over the long term. That’s usually the case in experimentation. Image Source.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Judah Phillips, the co-founder and CTO of Vizadata and founder of SmartCurrent , explained: We already live in a world of “real-time” predictive analytics. Teams know how many tickets were distributed; however, they do not know in “real time” how many people are in the venue or stadium during the event. customer churn.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

. - Spacecom is offering a wide range of Pan African satellite services, including: Cellular backhaul, Rural telephony, Broadband VSAT networks, e-government, e-learning, e- health, Direct To Home (DTH) Multi-channel platforms, DSNG, Video Distribution & Contribution. It has more than 2 million users, and supports more than 30 languages.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

For most of its existence, PHP didnt have a standard package-distribution system or very good module support. The IMVU downloadable client, just to name one example, is written primarily in python. And this all came bundled up in another bad practice: a big monolithic interpreter. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23.

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