YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Talented product developers. SAS Canada “customer champions” helped the firm restore declining customer retention rates—which had fallen as low as the mid-80s percent — back to the firm’s traditional high retention rates of 97-98 percent. If so, the business world is full of specialists who are all too eager to help.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 6, 2024

Similarly, new product development with advanced features and specs is based largely on new research, making the old surveys redundant and useless. That is why consumer surveys, interviews, discussions, and opinions matter the most, and so R&D costs are sky-high when talking about this industry.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

As a startup, you probably don’t have much money to spend on marketing or product development. For example, you might use guerilla marketing techniques to promote your product without spending much money on traditional advertising channels. Here are some of the most important benefits.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

It outlines four major growth strategies: market penetration , market development , product development , and diversification. Product development. Product development allows you to expand your existing market share by developing a new product for that audience. New channels.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

The promo code system, in addition to a technological platform for customer loyalty can also be smoothly integrated into an app of this sort, making it more viable for the competitive market where customer retention is an issue. Click Labs excels in product development outsourcing in general and building On Demand platforms in particular.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

Waterfall Development. While it sounds simple , the Build Measure Learn approach to product development is a radical improvement over the traditional Waterfall model used throughout the 20 th century to build and ship products. It’s a really big idea because what you build needs to match the hypothesis you want to test.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 4, 2024

Investment in Growth: Allocate funds strategically to areas that promote growth, such as marketing, product development, and talent acquisition. Cash Flow Management: Monitor your cash flow to ensure you have enough liquidity to meet operational needs. Positive cash flow is essential for business expansion.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2012

For this reason you should find out as quickly as possible if the product is indeed offering real value to your customers by looking at real data. The metrics that matter the most are returning customers (user retention), turnover per customer and viral growth (k-factor). Again, make sure you can decide whom to ‘marry’.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 30, 2018

It slows product development. The key is to connect user research to an improved user experience and, in turn, an increase in customer retention, leads, or any other metric for which C-suite members are accountable. Include notes from your internal team that explain how insights are influencing product development.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

This term refers to an initial venture-capital investment, often wrongly sought to seed early product development. In fact, most often, it is limited to seeding a startup business rollout or scale-up after development is completed from friends and family. These deals usually come with retention packages -- so be careful.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

It drives media attention and fosters customer retention rate, which is why most companies strive to have it in their mission statement. Tesla has always put a huge emphasis on product development and technological advancement. Innovative is a word often used to describe successful companies.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

When you’re starting up, worrying about customer retention seems a million miles away. But eventually, when you’ve won your 500th customer and you still have yet to fully focus on retention, you’ll be missing a big trick. What’s more, you can achieve high retention, very sustainably, through the right approach.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Besides the general focus on customer and product development, an entrepreneur should foresee the next moves that will serve to guide him on the right path. During Covid, I have seen good performance of employees during WFH and the retention rate also increased. Thanks to Derek Gallimore, Outsource Accelerator ! #27-

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ConversionXL

APRIL 13, 2017

Jonathan Price wrote on the same Quora thread that he believes growth marketing to differ from regular marketing because it “is technology-centric and it blurs the boundary between marketing and product development.” The use of qualitative research and quantitative data analysis to gain deep insights into user behavior.

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David Teten

MAY 1, 2013

When deciding on the purchase of an expensive domain, startup teams should first consider whether the money might be better spent on other areas such as product development, customer acquisition, or hiring new talent. . Gaming sites with such sounds rank 44.18% lower, while adult sites with the same sounds rank 7.24% higher. .

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

What these products all have in common is the question their minimum viable product is attempting to answer: does this product have high natural retention built-in? Take the minimum viable product , for starters. Take the minimum viable product , for starters.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

They need products that are really working in the market. This means users love it, that there’s lots of retention and engagement, even at small numbers. And it’s a combined product management and technical function, to boost an already positive growth curve into something even bigger.” They can be applied at every stage.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

But rather than spending marketing dollars on expensive, bottom-of-funnel ad buys—or on content that attempts to explain the value of a product—a product-led strategy lets consumers create their own “Aha!” Consumer psychology also suggests why product-led strategies may enjoy more success : Endowment effect.

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ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2014

Fueled by data driven research that map out the who behind the buying decisions of your products or services, customer personas can help inform everything from more effective copy to product development. If you answered “it’s been awhile” or “never,” you need to keep reading.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2022

22:24] Retention and recruitment have become really hot right now for a lot of organizations – what role can community play? [24:13] But I think that they just got a jolt , you know, from what we've done in the last few years, what role would a tool like, um, like your community groups play in retention of employees?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. And anytime you strike a deal for digital distribution of any content, insist that your creators be given real-time access to the big-picture metrics: not just downloads, but engagement, retention and replay. Is that a lot?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

The power of A/B testing is so under-exploited in product development, that Im trying new ways to explain its benefits. Split-testing is great for linear optimization; making our landing pages, conversion rates, and retention metrics incrementally better day-in day-out.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 15, 2014

In doing so, a few core metrics inevitably emerge depending on the product and the model. For ExampleCo, our fictional mobile startup, these core metrics might include app engagement, user growth, user retention, active users, and so forth. You should also include a 1-2 sentence description of what’s happening.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Measuring the efficacy of their divine wisdom at 100 different places in your customer flow funnel can often prove to be controversial, and it can produce friction between the marketing department, who often owns customer optimization, and product development, which owns design.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2009

Retention cohort analysis. My son is planning a software product that will take the mystery out of wikis and make the technology easier for consumers to use. The core of the article is my first attempt to articulate the key metrics (in graph form) that I believe demonstrate customer value. Funnel averages over time.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 23, 2015

By adding UserTesting.com to the product development lifecycle, Evernote was able to increase user retention by 15% while also dramatically increasing user engagement numbers. For customers, ask about retention. Optimizing for retention is a high impact, on-going task. Is the site or app easier to use now?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Either way, you would have been better off focusing your split-test on high level metrics that measure how much customers like your product as a whole. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 31, 2022

Virtual reality marketing, also known as immersive media and augmented reality, provides a significant opportunity for businesses to advertise their brands, generate sales, and improve consumer loyalty and retention. This allows customers to virtually try out a product or service in the comfort of their own homes.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

At IMVU , we would routinely find retention effects that would stem from registration changes and have impact days or weeks later. But that is not the only source of positioning: brand advertisers have been using packaging and TV ads to do this for years. This is why the registration is so important.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Easy does it: The right CRM can work magic, serving as a single platform that can span across the entire breadth of an organization — sharing information and providing value for customer service, sales, product development, management, operations and more. Time to Act With Analytics.

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

By viewing product development and marketing as integrated functions, not silos, leading tech companies like Facebook and Pinterest are rethinking their approach to driving growth and achieving breakthrough results.

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

By viewing product development and marketing as integrated functions, not silos, leading tech companies like Facebook and Pinterest are rethinking their approach to driving growth and achieving breakthrough results.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 5, 2018

Ahead of CES, product development teams scrambled to make sure their shiny new product was ready for prime time. The Aberdeen Group surveyed more than 200 companies, and those with a comprehensive onboarding program scored significantly higher profits and employee retention, productivity, and satisfaction.

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Venture Chronicles

JUNE 29, 2010

Accept has built a set of products for “innovation management&# and while I reflexively gag at the word “innovation&# when applied to large companies, I actually think Accept has the right approach for delivering a solution to the problem of connecting customers with product development.

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VC Cafe

JULY 15, 2021

Build a community – often overlooked, but building a community around your app can help you build better products and dramatically increase retention. As Peter Yang puts it in “Why Community-Led Product Development Wins’: Announce your product early and invite interested customers to join an online community (e.g.,

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Compensation decisions obviously affect hiring and retention. Your Product Plan must fit into context of your overall business mission. I’m never surprised when I see product development driven by engineers proceeding at top speed developing the next cool thing.

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