Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

kaChing launched a virtual portfolio management game on Facebook in January 2008 and a similar version shortly thereafter on kaChing.com. To acquire new money managers, the company makes traditional sales calls, which means they’ve interviewed many, many professionals and gotten a strong sense of their needs. says Rachleff.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, November 17, 2008 The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part one Ive written before about some of the advantages startups have when they are very small, like the benefits of having a pathetically small number of customers. We try to take advantage of that phenomenon twice if possible.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 25, 2012

If you haven’t followed this blog in the past, I’m a guy who launched several web startup/product ideas, acquired several more, had many failures and enough successes that I was able to shut down my consulting firm back in 2008. There are literally over a billion rows in the database and no one had touched it since 2008.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JULY 24, 2012

Press play to begin streaming the audio or right click the text link and choose save as or save link. He … Read the rest of this entry » Press play to begin streaming the audio or right click the text link and choose save as or save link. He made over a million dollars in sales in his first year of full time business.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

For a startup, having great sales DNA is a wonderful asset. This is the magic of sales: by learning about each customer in-depth, they can convince each of them that this product would solve serious problems. But here’s where a truly great sales artist comes in. They are closing orders.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2013

2008 may not even seem that long ago to some of you. According to Pew Internet & American Life Project back around 2008, only about ½ the North American population even used online devices and a mere 8% were deep users of the web. Do you have multiple forms of media (video, photos, audio)?

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 10, 2010

I will release the book for sale later in the year, however I have some good news for you if you want a copy now. Where you can go to find websites for sale and how to get the most money for your website when you are ready to sell. Here’s what you will learn in this audio download -. So do you want a copy?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

For example, I quickly learned that when I twittered about the event, more often than not I would make a sale. I’ve often wanted to wire up a bell to sales data, so that when we make a sale, we literally hear the cash register ring. When the incidence rate is small, emails or text messages are a great mechanism.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Remove the image and Google will remove it from the search results causing you to miss the 100 uniques (and probably decent sales because the visitor is searching for the product). I like to keep most test assets (videos, images, and audio) alive for these reasons.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Durant lost control of GM to a bankers' trust just two years later, in 1910, due to enormous debt and a crumble in automobile sales. Treasury invested $50 billion in General Motors a month later and made $39 billion from the sale of its shares later that. Thanks to Michael Hamelburger, Sales Therapy ! #16- Durant in 1908.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Although customers didnt flock to this offering at first, we had enough of a developer program active to start recruiting early adopters to start creating 3D objects for sale in our catalog. The net result was powerful: within six months of starting the company, we were able to get a basic version of our product into open beta.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, October 30, 2008 John Doerrs 10 lean startup tips I just saw video of John Doerrs talk yesterday at VentureBeat’s “How to manage your start-up in the downturn&# roundtable event. This can take the form of a traditional sales pipeline or a registration-activation-revenue chart.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 27, 2020

So if Tesla didn’t come onto the scene in 2008 with a real, compelling reason to exist (create the world’s best electric vehicle and make it fun to drive and stunning to look at) it would never have a chance to compete with established incumbents. For example, Tesla makes cars.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

His popular blog and audio podcast, “ Jaffe Juice ”, provides daily and weekly commentary respectively on all things new marketing. But what would happen if, instead of ending with the sales conversation; the new customer, you began with the customer purchase? Joseph Jaffe Joseph Jaffe is President of jaffe, LLC.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

You can make money with your blog by placing advertisements on it, by selling products as an affiliate where you earn a commission for each sale you refer, or by selling products and services of your own. Create an ebook, set of audio or video CDs or DVDs, or home study course you sell them from your blog. Affiliate marketing.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2022

Look, if you work in sales, wanna learn how to sell, and frankly who doesn't check out the salesman podcast, where host will Barron helps sales professionals learn how to find buyers and win big business ineffective and ethical ways. I mean, you think back in 2008, you think about early advertising and banner ads. So let's go.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

Because this language may lead you to believe this concept is for enterprise sales only, I thought Id walk you through an example from the world of consumer electronics. But if that piece-parts solution is great, then its unlikely they are going to need to buy any additional products. Don't launch Lo, my 2295 subscribers, who are you?

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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. Is that a lot? I have given more than two-dozen paid speeches this year – is that a lot? Is that good? These are pretty interesting anecdotes, but they are hardly the kind of serious approach that these questions deserve.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

This makes lean supply chains more robust in the face of the unexpected: if sales suddenly dry up, they are stuck with less unsold inventory and simultaneously have less debt to service. Lean vs. debt In the world of physical goods, the leaner a supply chain is, the less debt is required to operate it.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 21, 2015

My friend Michael Port shot his recording the audio book for his upcoming book. I can’t imagine it will be long before flash sale promotions come to Periscope. 2008 will be the year of the personalized social business network Look, I don’t really think that the mySpaces and Facebooks. Some other considerations.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Then, the company spends no more than a few hundred dollars marketing the product through search engines and to the contacts in its sales database and LinkedIn. Then, the company spends no more than a few hundred dollars marketing the product through search engines and to the contacts in its sales database and LinkedIn.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I’ll also include the MP3 download if you just want the audio without the video. Download the MP3 Audio only file [ 81 minutes | 56MB ]. Most of the time, whatever’s going on in my life, I’ll write about it or record a blogcast audio and publish it on my blog. Download the PDF Text Transcript [ 41 Pages | PDF ].

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

Meanwhile, individuals and smaller companies emailed by the hundreds to say that they wanted the features of custom channels, but the sales model—arranged like a media buy—didn’t make sense to them. -Eric] Big companies said they liked the idea, but SlideShare found it hard to close deals.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2013

Jeffrey Zeldman (@zeldman) May 5, 2008. On-page FAQs do have a place though – when they’re used to answer actual questions, and not as a sales tool (“Should I buy it?” audio-video equipment or apparel). Before you even start thinking about actual design, you need to have the content in place.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 26, 2022

3:27] What was startup life like in 2008? [5:16] Discover the secrets and strategies of how your business can achieve the frictionless sale. 02:55): And this was 2009, 2008 and not a, a lot had changed in the last 10 years. And so in 2008, I mean, it's funny right, because that was another kind of recession year, right?

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, December 7, 2008 The hackers lament One of the thrilling parts of working and writing in Silicon Valley is the incredible variety of people Ive had the chance to meet. December 8, 2008 7:40 PM Allen Rohner said. Ill be mindful of your advice. :-) Allen December 8, 2008 9:30 PM Amy said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 9, 2009

Best of all, Nivi from Venture Hacks was recording, so these slides have synchronized audio, too. So instead of having sales, marketing, and business development, we have a problem team implementing customer development. So without further ado, let me share the slides with audio. Here are some of my top takeaways.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 28, 2009

We set sales targets from day one, $300 the first month. As the experiments progressed, day-in-day-out we werent making sales. The bare fact of our failing to make sales forced us to peel back the onion, step by step, until we realized just how big a problem we had. (a that justify decisions already made.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 12, 2015

Subsequent to its sale to Native Instruments GmbH, I further developed and optimized the product into “Traktor” – the leading DJ software that has revolutionized the industry. Babbel customers stay with us much longer than 12 months on average which is a big step ahead, compared to CD-ROMs or audio cds. 17) Improved the Wheel.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 10, 2007

You can listen to compressed audio without noticing it a lot, but video is a different game, especially with surging sales of high def. 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 sales and marketing. (10). Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Building Your SaaS Sales Compensation Plan.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

No Audio Ads.) "Let's just get people on the phone and our sales reps will convert!" " I realize that ADT has always done phone sales and is comfortable with that. If all of the above did not already make the sale, there is additional information. Their wonderful slogan: Playlists by Music Experts.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Audio transcript: Peter : Jonathan, we’ve talked a little bit about people talking about their businesses. It’s true, again at the business level, with sales, flash sales, selling one product versus another, pricing points, and that kind of thing. It rained yesterday, and sales were down yesterday.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

In particular, a marketing launch can help you do three things (courtesy, as is most of my marketing advice, of The Four Steps to the Epiphany ): Drive customers into your sales pipeline. I wont recount what happened next (although your can hear us recount it in audio ). In the right situation, its a very useful tactic, too.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Mo was graduated from Wharton, worked in investment banking, spent 6 years at IAC (including in an operational role for Connected Ventures which includes College Humor, Busted T’s and Vimeo) before joining Spark Capital in 2008. Founded in 2008 by Mehdi Maghsoodnia. Metrics: 2.5mm members, 1,000 brands, 2,500 sale events to-date.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Bootstrap – Online bookkeeping software that lets you track sales and expenses, organize your records for tax time, and more. NetBooks – Marketing, sales, inventory and financial control in one place. ReadyTalk – Online Web meeting and audio conferencing solutions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, October 11, 2008 Three decisions to make on virtual goods I was invited to the Virtual Goods Summit yesterday, and got to see quite a few interesting speakers and panels. Sales depend on being right (whereas in UGC we can pretty much try anything, and promote the winners). Hi, great post!

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