YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2017

They follow the way of websites: a couple of decades ago having a page in the internet was considered to be luxury, though now you cannot surprise customers with online presence. If we look through the statistics, it’ll show us that mobile phones are gradually becoming more and more popular.

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Developer Small Business Estonia Ukraine 178

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

A sales funnel focuses on the marketing campaign and purchasing process that leads to the acquisition of new and repeat clients. You can also do the following: Increase the level of client happiness and retention. Personalize your products and services to meet your clients’ demands and needs.

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Sales Audience Social Media Email 152

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

I have seen many teams pour tons of money, time and effort into PR strategies without thinking about how product tweaks could drive more consumption, more retention and more referrals. It’s why some companies are testing whether building applications on KIK might lead to better customers acquisition. Doesn’t.

Technical Review 384

Technical Review Hockey Stick SEM Channel 384

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2023

Startup productivity is embodied in key ratios, including low cost of customer acquisition, high retention, and high revenue per employee. Unfortunately, the Internet and heavily funded startups have nurtured a customer expectation of free web services and free smartphone apps. High customer loyalty and high team passion.

Valuation 235

Valuation Revenue Viral Retention 235

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2020

Startup productivity is embodied in key ratios, including low cost of customer acquisition, high retention, and high revenue per employee. Unfortunately, the Internet and heavily funded startups have nurtured a customer expectation of free web services and free smartphone apps. High customer loyalty and high team passion.

Revenue 434

Revenue Valuation Viral Retention 434

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Many people don’t realize that the majority of the monetization of the Internet originated in Los Angeles but was perfected in Silicon Valley. 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.

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Los Angeles Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Seattle 376

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

When they look at buying your company they often think in terms of “how long will it take until I earn back the profits to pay for my acquisition price?” Internet scale. The first company represents a normal software company that sells its products directly (either via sales staff or directly off of the internet).

Startup 418

Startup Revenue Technical Review Flash 418

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2017

A VDR is an internet database in which companies’ share and store private information used during financial transactions. During business mergers or acquisitions there’s plenty of research and document reviews. Also, these services can be focused on the cloud or virtual security data rooms. Virtual Data Rooms (VDR).

Software Review 60

Software Review Technical Review Intellectual Property Due Diligence 60

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

It’s the most profound book I’ve read on thinking about how the Internet is changing business. Incumbents can’t react. If you haven’t read his book please do yourself a favor and buy it. But for now feel free to read my short summary of the key principles.

Los Angeles 329

Los Angeles Revenue Retention Acquisition 329

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

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?)

San Francisco 167

San Francisco CPA SEM CTO Hire 167

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2013

Drive Discovery : To channel serendipitous sales, drive product discovery through a fusion of the social graph (personal relations of Internet users) with the interest graph of consumers. Flip the Funnel : Harness your happy customers to be a volunteer sales force, deploying them as your customer acquisition team.

Technical Review 145

Technical Review Social Media Curation Mobile 145

NZ Entrepreneur

APRIL 29, 2019

IoT (The ‘Internet of Things’) has the potential to do some amazing things for New Zealand businesses, but at the very heart of it, people will want to know how it will help their organisation grow – or more to the point, bring in greater financial gains. So how can IoT be monetised?

New Zealand 40

New Zealand Technical Review Retention Acquisition 40

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2017

NB: Notice this “tripwire marketing” is different from the “tripwire offer” popular in internet marketing circles. Say you have 1000 customers and $1000 to spend on customer retention and loyalty. And once I took customer acquisition costs into account, this segment was unprofitable and negative-LTV. Simple, right?

Bankruptcy 106

Bankruptcy Marketing Campaign Intellectual Property 106

Up and Running

APRIL 17, 2018

Retention: the customer is satisfied with your product and or your brand and continues to patronize your business. On the other hand, if the customer has already gone through the first part of the funnel and purchased a product from you, how can you maintain your relationship to increase retention and even turn your customers into advocates?

SEO 80

SEO eCommerce Analytics Software Review 80

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2014

Startup productivity is embodied in key ratios, including low cost of customer acquisition, high retention and high revenue per employee. Unfortunately, the Internet and heavily-funded startups have nurtured a customer expectation of free web services and smartphone apps. High customer loyalty and high team passion.

Revenue 246

Revenue Entrepreneur Valuation Viral 246

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Epic content is a must to improve user retention rate. In future, you can notify subscribers about your new blog and improve retention rate. Change the rules of the game to get noticed on an overcrowded internet ecosystem. Rarely a user will visit your site for the first time and become your customer. Push Notifications.

Retention 124

Retention PPC Conversion Social Media 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2016

Startup productivity is embodied in key ratios, including low cost of customer acquisition, high retention, and high revenue per employee. Unfortunately, the Internet and heavily funded startups have nurtured a customer expectation of free web services and free smartphone apps. High customer loyalty and high team passion.

Revenue 145

Revenue Valuation Startup Viral 145

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

He focuses on investments in fintech, the internet, and software. The vast majority of their customer acquisition is word of mouth. When you put those two things together, you get high-quality customers, high LTV, and acquisition at super low costs. But stuff like retention is super important. Jonathan Siddharth .

Partner 132

Partner Cofounder Retention Acquisition 132

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

Lloyed explores the intricate art of harnessing the community’s strength as your ultimate acquisition channe l, brand differentiator, feedback source, retention lever, and catalyst for transformative change. His book titled From Grassroots To Greatness: 13 Rules to Build Iconic Brands with Community Led Growth.

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Community Kuwait Cofounder Bootstrapping 54

ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2016

Marketers should also be looking at acquisition (visits, unique visitors, pageviews), behavior (pages per visit, time on site, bounce rate), and revenue (if you’re eCommerce). These behaviors can be useful in investigating how different behaviors impact retention and churn, funnel conversion rates, and revenue. Image Source.

Mobile 48

Mobile Technical Review Software Review Metrics 48

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

The first company represents a normal software company that sells its products directly (either via sales staff or directly off of the internet). On quick glance a person might lament the fact that Company A is “not profitable” or is being a typical Internet startup. The example chart is not actually atypical.

Stock Options 227

Stock Options Startup Dilution Venture Capital 227

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2011

Do you need the IPO for your acquisitions strategy? Of course, you’re going to have to perform well to make that stock useful in the acquisitions process. Do you need this for recruitment and retention? Liquidity can help attract new employees and keep current ones happy. False starts in this direction can be disastrous.

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IPO Social Media Media Exit Strategy 223

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

The huge importance of this is that when you have a high-level of loyal customers you get repeat purchases that are significantly more profitable because you’re not spending new acquisition dollars acquiring them. companies that have to spend too heavily on customer acquisition). Get Physical!

Curation 296

Curation Los Angeles Differentiation Channel 296

Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 31, 2013

It is an incredibly sticky service for most users, and engagement is an excellent predictor of retention. Other “home pages” on the internet have fallen from favor before, ranging from AOL to Yahoo to MySpace. The aging of Yahoo’s user base is what drove it’s acquisition of Tumblr.

Retention 110

Retention Mobile Social Network Acquisition 110

David Teten

MAY 1, 2013

Domain names are less important than they were in the first Internet wave, because so many people will access your service on mobile and/or via apps, and because type-in traffic is declining. A startup called Corpora made headlines for all the wrong reasons after tech bloggers ran an image search to find the company logo.

Naming 114

Naming Semantic Venture Capital Startup 114

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 14, 2020

Companies that actively focus on CX can significantly reduce churn rates, increase retention rates, and earn higher revenues. According to HubSpot , prior to the internet “service didn’t matter too much because contracts, for software companies as well as professional services, acted as ‘lock-ins’ on customer loyalty”.

Customer 162

Customer Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Retention 162

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

The SEC’s proposed rules (mandated by the JOBS Act of 2012) amend the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to allow the offer and sale of securities through an internet crowdfunding campaign, similar in some respects to donation crowdfunding campaigns conducted on Kickstarter and Indiegogo. Perform Background Checks.

Equity 125

Equity SEC Technical Review Security 125

YoungUpstarts

JULY 5, 2018

Yet discounts, loyalty program perks and in-store promotions can only go so far in driving business and sustained success in the internet age. The reduced foot traffic and general shift toward Amazon as a one-stop-shop has forced retailers to adapt.

Programming 113

Programming Bankruptcy Curation Retention 113

Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

Facing continuous disruption from globalization, China, the Internet, the diminished power of brands, changing workforce, etc., This first post will describe some of the structural problems companies have; follow-on posts will offer some solutions. existing enterprises are establishing corporate innovation groups.

IRR 335

IRR Startup Business Model Agile 335

ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2018

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is one of the biggest levers that a business can use within their acquisition strategy as part of their Growth goals. You’re likely familiar with the different Growth frameworks like AARRR (Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, Revenue). It all start with Acquisition.

SEO 134

SEO Metrics Analytics Search 134

abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Over 13 years ago, in March of 2000, I wrote a blog post titled “ The Most Powerful Internet Metric of All. ” The key thesis was this: if an Internet company could obsess about only one metric, it should be conversion. As such, it is time to pound the table again – conversion is by far the most powerful Internet metric of all.

Metrics 93

Metrics Conversion Internet Acquisition 93

Ben's Blog

JULY 20, 2011

Interestingly, I see this same problem play out in many consumer Internet startups. I often see teams who maniacally focus on their metrics around customer acquisition and retention. This usually works well for customer acquisition, but not so well for retention.

Hockey Stick 78

Hockey Stick Management Employee Retention 78

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 30, 2015

Most internet opportunities were of modest scale – often worth pursuing – but not usually worth taking public. Because most internet business concepts were not capable of productively employing tens of millions of dollars of venture capital does not mean they were bad ideas." In other words, good ideas were oversold as big ideas.

Hockey Stick 60

Hockey Stick Valuation Startup Maryland 60

Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Never missing an opportunity for a good war story, I’d like to revisit one high-profile transaction, the $650 million acquisition of MySpace by Fox Interactive Media in 2005, on which I spent many sleepless nights along with the rest of the deal team. Read on for a fuller explanation. Intermix and its advisors weren’t fools.

Valuation 98

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Merger Vesting 98

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

The App Store is a channel for customer acquisition. This is completely analogous to the situation elsewhere on the internet, where launching a new website, product, or service with PR is getting harder and harder. 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

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2022

Today’s world is full of metrics leading to business growth, including customer logins, revenue per customer, retention, and average solution price. For many companies, the long game is choosing the right strategic partners and acquisitions. A focus on looking good as an acquisition or IPO candidate has undermined many startups.

Startup 361

Startup Social Media India Acquisition 361

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2021

It’s a proverb as old as the internet, probably older. Over a third of email marketers struggle with acquisition and close to a half say increasing engagement is their number one challenge. Building loyalty starts with what you do post-purchase and continues with retention emails. It’s also true. And more relevant than ever.

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Email Customer Marketing Software Review 136