Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2013

An all-too-common question I get from startups and small businesses is “Which is the right social media platform for my business?” It highlights the story of how United Airlines in 2008 paid no attention to social media as Dave’s story of his crushed guitar and poor customer service went viral around the world. You need to be there.

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Social Media Media Startup Reputation 271

David Teten

MAY 1, 2013

This is part 1 of a 2-part series on domain names and startups; part 2 will be “ Build Your Startup on a Vacant Domain Name ”. A startup called Corpora made headlines for all the wrong reasons after tech bloggers ran an image search to find the company logo. credit: Wikipedia)). Facebook paid $8.5

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Naming Semantic Venture Capital Startup 114

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2019

An all-too-common question I get from startups and small businesses is “Which is the right social media platform for my business?” It highlights the story of how United Airlines paid no attention to social media while Dave’s story of his crushed guitar and poor customer service went viral around the world. Maximize customer retention.

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Social Media Media Reputation Viral 246

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 23, 2013

of revenue, force-feeding sales pipelines with an unprofitable product. I know the argument: The pay-back period on sales, marketing, and up-start costs is long, but there’s a profitable result at the end of the tunnel. Marketing, sales, legal, account management, on-boarding, technical guidance, training.

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Business Model .Net Revenue IPO 335

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Top-line metrics are indicators of success, not the one bar to clear to raise funding for your startup. In SaaS the main benchmarks being measured are revenue growth, sales efficiency (unit economics), churn and burn rate. 500 Startups created a helpful primer on key B2C metrics. Benchmarks for deep tech startups.

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B2C Technical Review Startup Retention 141

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2013

As I visit the websites of many startups, as well as more mature businesses, I still too often see a “contact” page offering nothing but a sterile form for customers to submit, never to be heard from again. Every startup these days must adopt this focus to survive and prosper. Respond online and let the positive vibes go viral instead.

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Social Media Media Customer Viral 249

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2012

As I visit the websites of many startups, as well as more mature businesses, I still too often see a “contact” page offering nothing but a sterile form for customers to submit, never to be heard from again. Every startup these days must adopt this focus to survive and prosper. Respond online and let the positive vibes go viral instead.

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Social Media Media Customer Viral 228

Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. For example, if you are running affiliate ads for hotels, you might get 3-5% on a sale. You will use your fridge for a decade or more so the retention here is high.

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Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48

Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. For example, if you are running affiliate ads for hotels, you might get 3-5% on a sale. You will use your fridge for a decade or more so the retention here is high.

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Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

An all-too-common question I get from startups and small businesses is “Which is the right social media platform for my business?” It highlights the story of how United Airlines paid no attention to social media while Dave’s story of his crushed guitar and poor customer service went viral around the world. Maximize customer retention.

Social Media 120

Social Media Media Entrepreneur Reputation 120

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue?

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Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2012

An all-too-common question I get from startups and small businesses is “Which is the right social media platform for my business?” It highlights the story of how United Airlines in 2008 paid no attention to social media as Dave’s story of his crushed guitar and poor customer service went viral around the world. You need to be there.

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Social Media Media Marketing Reputation 198

View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2016

For those of us that have been working in the startup and technology space for at least the past 10 years, these addresses mean two things. Despite that data, we don’t compete in one of the largest opportunities (in terms of sheer number of people using the product) that the startup and technology world has to offer. 1 Hacker Way.

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Social Media B2B North America Media 185

Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2021

Having just retired from a career as an entrepreneur I had started thinking about why startups were different from large companies. Over the last two decades Shawn has seen hundreds of startups use the Lean Methodology. Many startups fall into the trap of building toward a “mission” rather than a minimum viable product (MVP).

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Product Viral Channel San Francisco 436

klinger.io

JANUARY 17, 2014

Andreas Klinger #product #metrics #marketing Startup Lessons Learned. A Primer on Startup Metrics – Which Analytics Tool to pick. A Primer on Startup Metrics – Which Analytics Tool to pick. eg switch sales focus). Follow @andreasklinger. On this website I share notes & thoughts. ?. ⇓ Work. ?.

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Analytics Metrics Startup Database 67

ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Facts don’t change minds – true for both sales and customers. Tara Robertson – How to 10x Growth by Optimizing Customer Marketing & Retention. Retention is the most important thing – if that’s poor, nothing else matters. Start with retention. Optimize for retention, not just acquisition.

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Retention Artificial Inteligence Channel Email 106

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

2010 – Sean Ellis, who currently runs Qualaroo , coins the term “growth hacking” in his article, Find a Growth Hacker for Your Startup. ” April, 2012 – Andrew Chen writes Growth Hacker is the new VP Marketing , which goes viral (2.4K Andrew Chen , Uber : “Startups don’t need growth hackers – at first.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2014

Whether you make money through sales or ads, you ALWAYS need more user engagement on your website. If login data is gold, social login data is platinum ,” he says.Source: Big Data Startups. “In However, be aware that any slips in customer service or problems with products can also go viral.

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Social Network Viral Social Media B2C 130

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

The founder of early internet startup Freeloader (acquired for $38 million in 1996) and anti-spam company Brightmail (acquired for $370 million in 2004), Paul went on to pioneer the ride-hailing space. In other words, what percentage of sales are available to pay for growth, and to reward investors for financing that growth.

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Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, December 16, 2008 Engagement loops: beyond viral Theres a great and growing corpus of writing about viral loops, the step-by-step optimizations you can use to encourage maximum growth of online products by having customers invite each other to join. This is essentially a version of the viral loop.

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Viral San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 140

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Not all startups need outside investment to grow. What most founders don’t realize is: Every stage of a startup requires a different set of metrics and milestones and founder skills. Here’s the first 2½ years of a startup journey. The Startup Investment Landscape. Still, there are some benchmarks to keep in mind.

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Cofounder Seed Stage Valuation Metrics 433

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

This applies equally to VCs, startups & big company executives. The key is channeling what you learn when you drive onto paper for retention purposes so you have to write it down soon afterward. It’s ironic because I believe creativity is the most important success criterion for a startup. So I thought I would.

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Technical Review Framework Audience Media 356

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 28, 2021

Percentage of purchases: To succeed, online businesses that sell goods through their websites depend on sales. Sharability adds to the potential of your content going viral. The post The Thirteen Fastest Ways To Boost Traffic To Your Website appeared first on The Startup Magazine.

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SEO Social Media Search Campaign 174

ConversionXL

MARCH 15, 2016

Yet 51% of SaaS startups surveyed were not profitable and only 33% of them expected profitability within the next 6 months. It means that user retention becomes even more important. If users are not onboarded properly, the chances of retention are minimal. So, what does that mean? via Inbound.org).

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Mobile Retention Email Software Review 48

Brandanew

MAY 11, 2016

Remember, the power of one distraught customer is not a loss in sales, but a loss of trust in an entire network or community. Customer Retention. It’s important to stay close to this thought rather than go haywire and spread messages of negativity to go viral (unless that’s what your brand is about). Social Sharing.

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Social Media Community Viral Retention 100

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Here’s an overview: Mitch Kapor: Kapor is founding partner of Kapor Capital , a firm that invests in seed and early stage startups. This is the man you’ll need to impress should you wish to slice off a piece of the sFund pie for your startup. Craig is currently the CEO and founder of stealth-ish startup BetterWorks.

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Angel Investor Startup San Francisco Social Media 80

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

You become so steeped in tools and techniques that have absolutely no relevance outside of.NET that you are actually less valuable to a startup than had you just taken a long nap. Two things: If you ever want to work in a startup, avoid.NET. But what they do is very, very rarely startups. It does you no favors.

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Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

ConversionXL

APRIL 6, 2016

Establish a unique sales position (the specific benefit to the customer that leads to the desired outcome). Strategy & Testing: The a-ha moment is the tipping point for retention. The a-ha moment is the tipping point for retention. This entire model is very close to the Lean Startup model. Why retention matters?

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Retention Algorithm Software Review Conversion 48