Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

I think its helpful to think about two kinds of competition for distribution: acquisition competition and retention competition. Retention competition is how you get people to come back to your app. If your app has incredibly strong retention, you will probably do very well with the current PR/new app system of acquisition.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

2) Facebook’s Growth is Robust But Lumpy – Facebook’s top-line growth is slowing, but it’s still incredibly high (88% from 2010 to 2011) especially when you consider it’s growing a multi-billion dollar revenue base. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2012

In November 2010 we launched Whatser : an application that made it easy to get personal suggestions on where to go such as bars, restaurants, galleries, shops and other spots based on your location, interest and social graph. Keep the team small, agile and up-to-date. KPI’s are different for each start-up. Raising money takes time.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

At IMVU , we would routinely find retention effects that would stem from registration changes and have impact days or weeks later. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Combining agile development with customer developm. This is why the registration is so important. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

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? 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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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Revenue is always my preferred measure, but you can use anything that is important to your business: retention, activation, viral invites, or even customer satisfaction in the form of something like net promoter score. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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usersknow.blogspot.com

APRIL 30, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar Users Know Pages Home About Users Know Speaking Engagements Monday, April 19, 2010 6 Questions To Ask Before Launching a New Feature There are a lot of things to pay attention to when you’re launching a new feature. It’s not enough to just launch a feature and see if your revenue increases.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2016

While Twitter’s growth is currently disappointing investors , it grew rapidly from 2010 to 2012. Retention: Optimizing for the second, third, fourth conversion. This is more like an agile sprint planning or retrospective meeting from agile software development mashed together, but it drives the process and accountability.”.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

I wrote about this challenge for iPhone developers, in an essay on retention competition : the battle over what icon the user will click when they go to the home screen. Our theory is that the key to long-term retention is creating an engagement loop where the reactivation rate exceeds the rate of fatigue. What do they get out of it?

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

You can measure this yourself: go to any list of startups, maybe look at YCombinator’s recent graduate class , or Scoble’s list of picks for 2010 , or Sequoia’s list of seed companies — or go find a list you like better. This is about the mental agility, inquisitiveness and determination of a coder.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams. Bontq – hosted bug tracking and project management needs. Thanks a million.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

This has held true for every quarterly cohort since 2010. Bottom line is that Square appears to have profitable customer acquisition and excellent retention, especially considering the inherent churn typically associated with serving SMBs.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

customer retention, churn reduction, lifetime value. Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Agile project management. agile product management. agile product management and Scrum tool. Agile project management tool collaborative product life-cycle. Agile eLearning.

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