Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Finding the right engineer, UX designer or marketer can make all the difference for your start-up. Today’s trend of acqui-hires can result in some dissatisfied technical teams post acquisition. Engineers who were attracted to the pace and dynamics of a start-up can get bored and frustrated with life in a big, public company.

Canada 153

Canada Vertical Acquisition Hiring 153

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit.

Acquisition 103

Acquisition Cost Customer Entrepreneur 103

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

How long does it take me to pay back my original customer acquisition costs? Many companies don’t reach the next phase either because their leadership doesn’t adapt as an organization or because they don’t design processes that lead to scaled outcomes. How profitable is my product or service?

Operations 286

Operations New York City Technical Review Startup 286

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2014

He was a very early employee of Facebook , and engineering director there through the moment it blew up. Now he’s VP of engineering at Dropbox , where he’s seeing similar growth. Dan McKinley will show the math he used to test new ideas as an engineer during the early days at Etsy. He’ll bring us real-world advice.

Lean 165

Lean Fractional CTO Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE 165

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Rather than focus the university inward on research, Terman took the radical step of encouraging Stanford professors and graduate students to start companies applying engineering to pressing military problems. In some agencies, large contractors seem to “own” sections, offices, organizations, or programs.

Government 308

Government Artificial Inteligence Silicon Valley North Korea 308

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

While our teams have mentors, socialize a lot and give great demos, the goal of our class final presentations is “ Lessons Learned ” – about product/market fit, pricing, acquisition/activation costs, pricing, partners, etc. We had a killer team and all the right skillsets.

Lean 315

Lean Customer Development Sales Cycle Business Model 315

Steve Blank

JANUARY 5, 2023

” Team 3: Acquisition. Our students came from a diverse set of background and interests – from undergraduate sophomores to 5th year PhD’s – in a mix including international policy, economics, computer science, business, law and engineering. Jason Kim : “ This course doesn’t just discuss U.S.

Technical Review 353

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Technology China 353

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2019

For example, we worked with a company and observed that each release required eleven engineers. When startups make new hires, it’s not uncommon to then promote the longest-tenured engineer, tasking them with onboarding staff. The newly-promoted engineer often has no managerial experience. Seed to Series D: Collaboration.

Technical Cofounder 104

Technical Cofounder Burn Rate Seed Stage Cofounder 104

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Given the tech-centricity of Stanford and Silicon Valley, Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I thought it was natural to design a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. wouldn’t interfere.

Technology 436

Technology China Russia Silicon Valley 436

Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

GrabCAD today announced their acquisition by Stratasys (NASDAQ: SSYS). He had a clear vision of what he hoped to achieve with GrabCAD… to make collaborative CAD design easier in our connected world, where CAD engineers and product designers are more distributed. million CAD engineers and product designers using GrabCAD.

Boston 154

Boston Acquisition Estonia Viral 154

Up and Running

MAY 10, 2021

First, there are global (long-term) trends that concern IT giants and are designed for a mass audience. Suppose you want to design a room. The engineers can produce various models in a matter of seconds. The jacket has a small “smart” sensor unit on the sleeve, designed to control your Smartphone. 1-2 months?

Artificial Inteligence 150

Artificial Inteligence Developer Development Team Review Mobile 150

Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

But in 1904, after his first time seeing a car in Flint, Michigan, he was one of the first to see that the future was going to be in a radically new form of transportation powered by internal combustion engines. Unlike Durant, Musk has engineered his extended tenure and this year got his shareholders to give him a new $2.6

Michigan 268

Michigan Cofounder Stock Forecast 268

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 9, 2013

I used to be in startups where I was dealing with engineers designing our microprocessors or selling supercomputers to research scientists solving really interesting technical problems. Or is it something that can grow to a size that will result in an acquisition or some liquidity event?

Cofounder 325

Cofounder Technical Cofounder Liquidity Event Lean 325

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

I didn’t have the best of website themes and my design skills were terrible—I thought these issues would repel clients. I simply needed to ignore the perfection impulse and focus on the business engines that were really important. When I say business engines, I mean components that keep a machine working. I was wrong.

Acquisition 93

Acquisition Startup Engineer Metrics 93

ConversionXL

APRIL 18, 2019

A page that’s well-matched for user intent can outperform those that optimize primarily for search engines—in search and after the click. IP address) can provide clues to search engines, as can search history, time of year, or time of day. Look at the search engine results page (SERP). Geography (i.e. A manual process works.

Search 126

Search Aggregator SEO New York 126

ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

Search engines are vital for discoverability. Google’s Public Search Liaison Danny Sullivan has openly pushed back against those who want subscription-only content flagged in search results: Our automated systems try to present the best information in relation to a search topic, as people expect us to do as a search engine. Metering.

SEO 122

SEO HTML Technical Review Caching 122

Steve Blank

JANUARY 18, 2022

As the chief engineer of the Navy, he was the master of engineering the large and the complex. “Data is the new oil and software is the new steel” The systems engineering process we have built over the last 150 years is not optimal for software-based systems.

Agile 369

Agile China Artificial Inteligence Taiwan 369

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Finding the right engineer, UX designer or marketer can make all the difference for your start-up. Today’s trend of acqui-hires can result in some dissatisfied technical teams post acquisition. Engineers who were attracted to the pace and dynamics of a start-up can get bored and frustrated with life in a big, public company.

Canada 67

Canada Vertical Acquisition Hiring 67

ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2020

Rising customer acquisition costs—especially on ad platforms—have also put weaker brands with lower conversion rates out of business. LimeSpot is an AI personalization recommendation engine. These tools solve an old problem in a novel way, and, in this case, are designed specifically for the ecommerce consumer. Image source ).

eCommerce 110

eCommerce Sales Software Review Development Team Review 110

Mucker Lab

MAY 28, 2020

These lost startups land higher valuations, have larger teams, outsource more product development and spend more money on customer acquisition than their peers. Until you have product-market fit, hire builders: engineers, designers, and growth and product people. How do you know you have it? Honestly, we don’t know.”?

Startup 78

Startup Cofounder Burn Rate Technical Review 78

ConversionXL

APRIL 13, 2017

A growth team, however, is largely overlapped with product, engineering, and design as well. same thing as growth hacker or growth marketer): “The Growth Manager function typically lives at the intersection of marketing and product development, and is focused on customer and user acquisition, activation, retention, and upsell.

Analytics 99

Analytics Engineer SEO Channel 99

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Artificial intelligence is helping level the playing field for companies seeking to compete for search engine results. AI machine learning allows search engines to determine users’ intent when submitting queries, even when queries involve different keywords, using the context of prior searches to deliver more relevant results.

Artificial Inteligence 76

Artificial Inteligence Startup Database Engineer 76

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. So, it’s incumbent on us to think about the ramifications of these acquisition decisions.

Technology 397

Technology Afghanistan Iraq Vietnam 397

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

At times I wanted the engineering team to produce features to support our sales efforts to I occasionally leaned on them a bit. Beyond that he (and thus engineering) could simply tell me, “No.” Here is where I see this really play out: Product Management. I did this. ” Those were the rules.

Startup 150

Startup CTO Hire Sales PR 150

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

The monetization engine of the Internet that powers the most profitable business perhaps in history was invented and perfected in Los Angeles and is what you now know as Google Ad Words. It may surprise you to learn that LA graduates more engineers than anywhere else in the country. Where do all of these engineers end up?

Los Angeles 376

Los Angeles Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Seattle 376

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Just ask Blue Apron, which has found itself in the news recently for its poor stock market performance and its widely criticized acquisition-focused growth strategy — not to mention CEO Brad Dickerson’s unwillingness to release its retention numbers. Blue Apron is hardly alone with its churn problem.

Customer 154

Customer Technical Review Retention Acquisition 154

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Except it does it without relying on organic search engine optimization to make an impact. Here’s Proquo’s lead generation landing page: By doing this, they’re able to progress prospects through the funnel more quickly, reducing cost per acquisition. They just want to consume it. Images grab attention. Todd Brown Marketing.

Advertising 131

Advertising Cost Customer PR 131

SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

Cases Where a Mockup is Not Enough There are a few cases where mockups or clickable prototypes may not be enough: Usability, interaction design, etc. Often you can't tell if something like a search engine or matching algorithm is really going to have better results until you use it. It won because of interface, ease of use.

Algorithm 264

Algorithm Metrics Viral Venture Capital 264

Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

Founders assumed they understood customer problems/needs, wrote engineering requirements documents, designed the product, implemented /built the hardware/software, verified that it worked by testing it, and then introduced the product to customers in a formal coming out called first customer ship. Testing Hypotheses.

Lean 120

Lean Agile Business Model Customer Development 120

Steve Blank

JANUARY 30, 2013

Doing so meant they would have to take risks for IP acquisition and customer/market risks outside their experience or comfort zone. 2) We should have had buy-in about the value of disruptive new business models, design and open innovation thinking. Venture Fest was not integral to their success. Lessons Learned.

Programming 265

Programming Technical Review Incubator Intellectual Property 265

Up and Running

JUNE 12, 2019

A website isn’t much of anything until it’s designed and customized to your business. If you get to know the basics of user experience (also called customer journey ), website design, calls to action, and target audiences , you’ll improve your conversion rates and lower your cost per acquisition.

Marketing 109

Marketing Social Media SEO Entrepreneur 109

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Given the tech-centricity of Stanford and Silicon Valley, Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I thought it was natural to design a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. Read about all the class sessions here.

Technology 228

Technology China Russia Silicon Valley 228

Board Effect

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Using cost-per-acquisition bidding on Google ads, they’ve had a significant increase in new donors. Google’s AI for Social Good – Partnerships with researchers, engineers and volunteers who share a focus on social impact. BoardEffect was designed explicitly for boards of mission-driven organizations.

Artificial Inteligence 52

Artificial Inteligence Generative AI Government ChatGPT 52

Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

A buyer persona is a fictional or imaginary character that represents a business’s potential customers, based on what you know about customer’s behaviors, and customer acquisition. Web developers have extra knowledge and experience in dealing with SEO(Search Engine Optimization) and converting landing pages.

Social Media 97

Social Media Marketing Analytics Web Development 97

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

View this post on Instagram Watch our detachable soles being made near Milan #mahabis #soles #shoes #factory #milan #italy #videooftheday #instadaily #ig #sneakers #kicks #design #fashion #yellow A post shared by mahabis (@mahabis) on Apr 10, 2014 at 5:53am PDT. While those acquisition efforts worked well, not all do.

Product 110

Product Campaign Acquisition Social Media 110

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Trello – Planning for business development, design, some strategy work. Pivotal Tracker – Engineering planning, tracking, task assignments (+mobile). Paper Trail – Log acquisition, merging from multiple servers, and analysis. Recurly – Recurring billing from within our application.

Technology 233

Technology EC2 Mobile Startup 233

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

It’s like they thought about the attendees and what they need and then designed a format focused on them. Product should be your main channel for customer acquisition, retention and expansion. Thanks @peeplaja @CXLdotcom for putting on a flawless event pic.twitter.com/WtO0aO28xu — Emma Stratton (@EmmaStratton_1) October 27, 2022.

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B2B Marketing Curation PPC 94