Tim Keane

MARCH 9, 2011

  If plenty of cash flow regardless of plan for sale/retention of business: Senior bank debt based on cash flow coverage and new assets.  Example two:  Explosive market share growth and revenue in an expanding market with acquisitive players available. Possibilities: 1.    Appropriate covenants.

Finance 83

Finance Bootstrapping Startup Equity 83

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Questions I ask Mike Evans: [1:46] Could you give us a high-level overview of the startup of Grubhub to IPO to what you’re doing now? 7:52] Was there competition that you had to buy up, and/or what type of acquisitions did you feel like you had to make? [9:19] What type of acquisitions did you feel like you had to make.

Founder 82

Founder Chicago Kansas Startup 82

Up and Running

DECEMBER 1, 2015

More often than not, equity compensation is an attraction and retention tool, rather than a replacement to salary. If you don’t have big dreams for your company and are happy running it day to day (you’re not thinking about your IPO or acquisition in five years), then offering equity in the business is not fair to employees.

Equity 60

Equity Employee Stock Options Vesting 60

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

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. And what of the product development team? Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. Go on an agile diet quickly.

Customer 167

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

ConversionXL

AUGUST 13, 2019

Chances are you’ve been told to focus on metrics like: Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR); Lifetime Value (LTV); Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). While email acquisition generally measures the strength of your top-of-funnel content, this conversion metric is heavily influenced by your mid-funnel content (e.g. Retention rate.

Metrics 117

Metrics SQL Retention Churn Rate 117

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

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. So what can you do?

San Francisco 68

San Francisco Lean Retention SEM 68

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

And if you’re not spending money persuading those users with ads or whitepapers, you can pour those resources back into product development. Those near-term sales, while enticing, may erode a brand and hurt retention. Nonetheless, sharpening targeting for user acquisition or offering a trial only to some users (e.g.

Customer 119

Customer Conversion Acquisition B2B 119

VC Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2023

Meta of course has an interest in championing B2C startups – most of them use Meta for user acquisition (it’s easier to acquire consumers on consumer platforms like Meta and Instagram, which drives a big proportion of Meta’s revenue. Much has changed since then.

B2C 148

B2C Generative AI Artificial Inteligence 148

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, March 24, 2009 The metrics and levers of engagement, presentation on Engagement Loops for Facebook Developer Garage SF Ill be presenting a talk at the Facebook Developer Garage SF Wednesday evening. Why, we just unified acquisition and engagement! You can learn more about the event here.

Metrics 88

Metrics San Francisco Lean Viral 88

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

A great product enables customers, developers, partners, and even competitors to exchange their unique currencies in combinations that lead to financial success for the company that organizes them. We cultivated a passionate community that nurtured a skilled set of developers. They get focused solely on growth.

Customer 156

Customer San Francisco Viral Lean 156

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

We were trying to broaden the conversation beyond just viral customer acquisition. 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. Have you struggled with engagement and retention? very cool post Eric!

Viral 140

Viral San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 140

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

She hosts technical and networking events for developers and designers in Austin and also facilitate partnerships with local tech companies. He spent several years advising CEOs on raising capital, strategy, and how to create maximum value out of M&A and IPO transactions.

Technical Cofounder 48

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Fractional CTO CTO 48

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Would that help retention and NPS (Net Promote Score)? If somehow Sofi could obtain allocation to these so called “hot IPOs” clearly it would be a powerful marketing tool. If somehow Sofi could obtain allocation to these so called “hot IPOs” clearly it would be a powerful marketing tool. Would they be loyal?

IPO 82

IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. s helpful to find an developer tool that allows you to write html/css and renders the view in real time, so you donâ??t Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? s easier to use/develop with. Mobile Tools: If you are a web developer, you donâ??t Codeacademy.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53