ConversionXL

APRIL 28, 2020

We had built the world’s largest open-data community but—like so many startups—didn’t have a clear product-market fit. . To have the future we wanted, we needed to shift away from monetizing our open-data community and toward enterprise sales. But since we were still a young startup, we deferred customer expansion tracking. .

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

I put together a one-page website, a list of 100 people to reach out to, and a cold email script that would make seasoned sales professionals cringe. My service startup quickly grew and became a platform to identify new problems we could solve for clients. These days, many agencies start as a lean operation. Image source ).

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 7, 2019

However, as a founder of a small business or startup, you’re juggling many things. While the right metrics will depend on your business objectives and specific circumstances, there are some basic KPIs you should keep an eye on: Startup KPIs. This metric helps determine how much cash you need for operation and expansion.

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Founder Retention Metrics Technical Review 71

Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. But, if they are not, it’s very hard to use paid acquisition to generate that type of traffic for under $5. 2) B2B startups have high margins.

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Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48

Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. But, if they are not, it’s very hard to use paid acquisition to generate that type of traffic for under $5. 2) B2B startups have high margins.

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Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48

Austin Startup

APRIL 17, 2017

Check out which Capital Factory startups are looking for you to join their team! To Apply: Email your resume or detailed LinkedIn profile & short description of why you’re interested in startups, particularly JustLegal, to rc@justlegal.com. To Apply: Please send your resume to admin@visualsemantics.io

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Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

I’ll give you an example with my own startup LaunchBit and how our understanding of the problem and the customer became more refined over time: V1: Helping online marketers get customers profitably. Long sales cycles or signed contracts that won’t pay you for months is tough as a small investor (ala elephant hunting).

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Seed Stage Business Model B2B Email 48

Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

I’ll give you an example with my own startup LaunchBit and how our understanding of the problem and the customer became more refined over time: V1: Helping online marketers get customers profitably. Long sales cycles or signed contracts that won’t pay you for months is tough as a small investor (ala elephant hunting).

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Seed Stage Business Model B2B Email 48

ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Facts don’t change minds – true for both sales and customers. Ed Fry – Customer Data Operations: Unleashing your hidden growth engine. Optimize for retention, not just acquisition. To understand acquisition you must understand lifetime value. Offline sale – typically.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 24, 2011

Actually, startups tend to drop the ball on recruiting the same way they mess up in PR. Startups need to aim for a constant buzz in the media in the same way that they should be bringing in a consistent flow of high quality talent--there's rarely a time when a growing company is out of the market for either. Talent Acquisitions.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 5, 2014

Getting the first 1,000 users is a hurdle most startup companies and small businesses know well. According to Avidar, finding the first user is the most important step in the user acquisition process. Sometimes you need to do unscalable stuff to get the first customers to use your product,” said Daniel Zhao, Operations Lead at Lob.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior Great companies are almost always run by great management teams. Sales and marketing funnel – summary metrics We will also want to look at some metrics that cover the entire sales and marketing funnel from top to bottom.

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Metrics Design Entrepreneur Startup 55

Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

We recently announced at Hustle Fund that we will start investing in Southeast Asian software startups, and my new business partner Shiyan Koh, who just moved back home to Singapore, will be leading the charge on that. This makes it easier to do customer acquisition for a consumer-based company. And that sales cycle can be long.

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Asia Indonesia B2B Singapore 48

Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

We recently announced at Hustle Fund that we will start investing in Southeast Asian software startups, and my new business partner Shiyan Koh, who just moved back home to Singapore, will be leading the charge on that. This makes it easier to do customer acquisition for a consumer-based company. And that sales cycle can be long.

Asia 48

Asia Indonesia B2B Singapore 48

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue?

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Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Guest author Bernard Lunn is a serial entrepreneur and business adviser to start-ups and is ReadWriteWeb's former Chief Operating Officer. In simple terms the customer's risk of doing nothing has to be higher than the risk of buying software from an unknown startup. The sailboat startups don't invent a product out of pure imagination.

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Software Startup Architecture Bootstrapping 127

Software By Rob

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Photo by DeclanTM This article is #7 in a series about startup marketing. So the intention of this post is to lay out the key details of why you should start marketing your startup (or product, or book, or anything else you will launch) months before launch day.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Be The Beatles Not The Flock Of Seagulls John Greathouse’s Bio ConTraps Part 2 ConTrap Part 3 ConTrap part 4 Startup Children Pt 2 Startup Children Pt 5 Startup Children Pt 3 Startup Children Pt 4 Decision Making 101 Talks: Jason Nazar on how to Persuade. Hands-on startup advice for emerging entrepreneurs.

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Equity Silicon Valley Cofounder PR 40

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

In my case (LucidEra -- a SaaS analytics provider focusing on sales, marketing, and financial analytics), weve found that success requires not only building some best practices for analytics into our solution, but also coming up with a repeatable and scalable way to show the customer how to use the analytics and how to interpret the results.

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Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

2,320 sign-ups; 39% of attendees were net new accounts; 34 sales-qualified opportunities; 5 new customers immediately converted with LTV of over $100k each (normally a 9 to 12 month sales cycle). This approach works for both new account acquisition and account expansion. Results of iRidium’s ABM efforts. The result?

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Marketing Campaign Artificial Inteligence Sales Cycle 105