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Evolving Customer Needs – Not Technology – Drives Disruption And Innovation

YoungUpstarts

This often means mergers and acquisitions, incremental innovation, marketing, and global expansion – which, over the long-term, only widen the gulf between the company and its customers. Indeed I advised against loyalty and customer retention programs, but encourage existing customers to buy more. Customers Won’t Wait.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?)

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

This method was perfected by Gil Elbaz and his team at Applied Semantics in LA and in what some have called “ the most important acquisition ever made by Google ” they acquired the company for $102 million before Google had even IPO’d. Many of the early winners sold for north of a half a billion dollars. It is different.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule. Since were offering a complete solution, which involves the development of a new product, there is design, prototyping, etc., Bring your questions.

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So you say you want to be a Product Manager …?

Austin Startup

In an interview with First Round Capital, Dropbox’s Vice President of Product and Design, Todd Jackson, observed : “The PM role needs to be purposely flexible, almost by design. A PM basically sits at the center of UX, technology and business. You may have heard the quote: ‘The PM is the CEO of their product.’

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Lessons Learned: The App Store after the gold rush

Startup Lessons Learned

The App Store is a channel for customer acquisition. 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. Then, if your retention is good enough, you can stay there.

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The Steps of the Recruiting Process … and How to Identify Failure Points

www.ere.net

If you’re targeting top performers or poaching from competitors, the remaining steps of the recruiting process must be designed to “fit” the needs in the job search process of your targeted candidate if you expect to even gain their attention. Browse Articles by Tag. advertising. assessments. coldcalling. economicdata.

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