Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Unfortunately, after months or even years of development, many companies discover that customers arent willing to buy their new wares. It isnt until a customer actually clicks or calls to place an order that TPGTEXs developers will build the software. "We The biggest is the confusion over why this tactic is useful.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. And we can offer investors metrics to play Moneyball – with the Investment Readiness Level. We think we can do better. Here’s how.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 4, 2014

User experience guru Jared Spool was talking about the dangers of radical redesigns already back in 2003, Louis Rosenfeld was ranting against it in 2002, and so on. In 2008 Wal-Mart asked customers if they would like less cluttered stores, and the answer was “Yes, please.” Customers said they loved the change.

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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. This post contains video, click to play]. A research-based archetypal representative of your customer based on various attributes, attitudes, and characteristics. can all benefit from a better idea of the customer.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Since using this process, the quality of leads and customers increase, conversions improve, and every single time, I feel like I become a better writer, without being put through the ringer. This test can be conducted by emailing 5 or so avid customers, and asking them for a few minutes of their time to review. In Copy Logic!

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

You can, for example, isolate the conversion rate for all visitors who played the video you’re testing. You can add a custom goal right in the code, and it automatically shows up on the report – you don’t need to create the goal first. Account managers can tier customers. Very useful for recruiting testers.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

We spend money on things that help in improving the experience of our customers, our readers. In the early days, my belief was that blogs (or as I called them micro-pubs back in 2002) would grow really fast and it would allow me to aggregate large subsets of audiences around specific niches. but it was a miserable experience.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

So originally the customer was the Department of Defense. It was the first customer for the computer. The advantage of the consumer businesses is they tend to be much broader-based, much larger number of customers, that tend to over time be a lot more predictable. Alexia Tsotsis: Yes, and we are watching that now.

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ConversionXL

JULY 11, 2016

The quote first surfaced in 2002. Either way, user feedback is not about asking your customers how to solve problems. Three techniques to write better copy: Surveys – learn customers’ challenges and questions via surveys. Spying – spy on customers by putting yourself in their shoes. performance.

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