Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2013

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. Maximize customer retention. Almost 40% of small businesses that sell on Facebook say it is their sole sales channel. You need to be there.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2012

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. Maximize customer retention. Last year, Emarketer estimated that Facebook’s revenue from advertising was $3.8 You need to be there. billion in 2012.

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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? All things being equal, of course, you’d rather have more revenue rather than less. And yet revenue alone is not a sufficient goal. More on that in a moment.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 3, 2010

The online video networks are doing terrific business, and even Yahoo is benefiting from increased brand spend, seeing revenue growth for the first time in a while. While the revenue numbers may not be huge in 2010, there is certainly promise to the business models that are developing on these platforms. How can you improve LTV ?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Mass blasts of information are ineffective, because the broadcast channels are suffering from information overload (even in social media). Test-marketing is now easier than ever before, thanks to leveraged distribution channels like AdWords and Facebook. What is the right revenue model? If not, there are plenty of alternatives.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

A minimum viable product in this category must answer the question: does my media content or channel command the attention of a valuable audience? 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?

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

Finally, we’ll zoom out and assess the big picture: how various categories of company may be impacted long-term, how this crisis compares to 2008 (and what that means for early-stage founders), and the industries and business models that are now prime for growth. We’re not going to book any revenue for the next 12 months.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Because, we’re finding that the most successful companies are digging deep into the data driven research available to them… giving them a leg up on customer retention and bolstering the bottom line. Mapping out their paths from first interaction to the last will show if they are achieving their goals. The Devil Is In The Data.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Ted Serbinski: Angel investor Ted Serbinski sold his startup MothersClick to Lifetime in 2008 and joined the cable network as CTO of the ParentsClick Network. He goes on to add, “Having revenue is even better, though not applicable to every startup … Passion, skill, vision and maturity really matter.&#

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I started a career in real estate in 2008 (when the market was crashing). I seized this opportunity to try an experiment in both client service and employee retention, by focusing on senior level staff first, and combining that with a flexible and healthy working environment that is not a mainstay in the public relations world.

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www.rocketwatcher.com

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

A good set of metrics will allow me to predict that if I spend $1 on a certain marketing tactic, I’m likely to get $X of revenue in Y days. Closed revenue – the actual value of the deal after it has closed. Opportunity Pipeline – the dollar value of the opportunity. Good post, -Hakan [link] aprildunford Reply 13.

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