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Fueling Your Growth With Facebook Groups And Communities

Duct Tape Marketing

Prior to joining Facebook, he was the president of Digital, News, Business, and Sports Properties at Time Inc. John also spent several years at The New York Times Company at NYTimes.com running strategy, marketing, and operations. So about, this was like around 2000 ish, I think, or something like that. Very early on.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

O’Reilly unwittingly illustrates this point by telling the story of Sunil Paul, a friend and a successful serial entrepreneur who filed a patent on the core elements of GPS-enabled ride-hailing in 2000. Yet despite literally patenting ride-hailing in 2000, his own venture, Sidecar, lost out to the more aggressive scaling of Uber and Lyft.

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The Very Best Digital Metrics For 15 Different Companies!

Occam's Razor

There are multiple points of value from the Trailheads program (lower support costs, higher retention, faster time to value for clients etc.) I pay monthly subscriptions for the Guardian, New York Times, Washington Post, The New Yorker and National Geographic. Let your competition be lame and play by 2000 worldviews.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

Product/Metrics (70%/30% time) * Get your product activation (sign-up + meaningful action) to 60% * then, Get your product retention to 20% weekly. However, one of my co-founders doesn’t seem to be as motivated as the rest of us. Press is something you should do once you know your activation / retention metrics are good.

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29 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

#7- To prioritizes employee and client retention. I have been working with my Partners since November 2000. The company that employed us began putting profits above people and new sales above client retention. It was in year 2000 and my friend and I were young and ambitious. Photo Credit: Steven Randall.