YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

The fact that we can get stuck at this level of soul searching is something that is rarely seen in other industries. Search for “social CRM” and “social loyalty” and you’ll find lots of examples of companies linking Facebook and Twitter to their loyalty programs. “If you want loyalty, get a dog.” Early results are exciting.

Programming 150

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 19, 2022

Especially during challenging times, retention is significantly more crucial than acquisition. To prepare for this we invested in Virtual Tour cameras and software and packaged it with our other services. Due to that, we decided to widen our client base to increase our revenue. Thanks to Adam Garcia, The Stock Dork ! #10-

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round). And obviously all the liq prefs went away in the IPO when pref stock converted to common.

Term Sheet 178

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 2, 2008

But the investor is already being compensated for that risk in the low price of the stock, so it is unfair to delay. Its the same with acquisitions. Your natural tendency when an investor says yes will be to relax and go back to writing code. When a company is only two months old, every day you wait gives you 1.7%

San Francisco 125

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies. Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies. As a product manager at HomeAway (part of the Expedia, Inc.

Management 85

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Up and Running

AUGUST 29, 2014

A study co-sponsored by Crawford International and HR.com in Palo Alto, California in 2006 found that “companies that create adaptive corporate cultures outperform companies with non-adaptive cultures by a factor of 900 to 1 as measured by long term net income and stock price growth.” How can a business owner assess their company culture?

Small Business 87

Small Business CPA Government North America 87

ConversionXL

JUNE 27, 2016

When they’re browsing, are they using search? For example, an old blog post that gets a lot of organic search engine traffic because it ranks well for a popular keyword. You can find these in your “Behavior” reports (search for page titles that contain “Page Not Found”). Are error messages being recorded?

Analytics 72

Analytics Web Technical Review Conversion 72

prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

As a result, local universities here churn out thousands of new graduates each year who can spell Microsoft but understand nothing about proper software engineering. Silicon Valley is a great place for technology startups in no small part due to its culture of entrepreneurship and innovation. Culture creation is not easy.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. They read reviews of the products of target investments.

Technical Review 78

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Software By Rob

MAY 3, 2010

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Catch Me at the 2010 Business of Software Conference in Boston Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Out → I’m Writing a Book: “Start Small. Stay Small.

Developer 40

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ConversionXL

JULY 10, 2014

For example, I once had a client that sold law office practice management software. When surveying the competition, their customers, and the market at large, I learned that most law offices wouldn’t even consider purchasing a practice management software unless they knew: That it was being used by real lawyers.

Software Review 72

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 27, 2023

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Look, AI is literally eating the web ChatGPT is more search than I don't know, Taylor Swift. You just wake up one morning, you get an email and say, yeah, yeah, we're excited that later today there'll be a press release announcing our acquisition through this company.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

And to top it all off, Snap isn’t offering voting rights to public market investors, which should discount the stock price further. How should Google search results appear, how should you navigate them, or how should you read a CNN article versus a Kindle book? How can one justify a $20B valuation for Snap? I don’t know.

Valuation 48

Valuation Technical Review Forecast Social Network 48

Software By Rob

MAY 4, 2009

A recent discussion in the Micropreneur Academy surrounded the topic of starting an online business selling physical products as opposed to software. But there are two downfalls of selling physical products compared to software: 1. Since I’ve worked on both sides of the fence I have a lot to say on the subject.

Product 35

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

But stock indexes continue to slide and the unemployment numbers are getting worse. No manager in their right mind would fire the technical lead of a big software project. Show Up Early, Leave Late I’ve talked about how crunch time should be the exception in software projects. has been in recession since December of 2007.

Programming 30

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! What makes it scalable and more of a marketing channel is that it's managed using software. If I can build a partner program using software with a thousand different partners, with a thousand different tactics, I, I have inherently a, a diversified portfolio. Like this show?

Marketing 90

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2020

Did you know that Amazon has surpassed Google as the go-to search platform for shoppers looking for products? When customers have a specific product in mind, more turn to Amazon search than Google. The fundamental difference between Amazon and Google search. You run a search. This may come as a surprise to many readers.

SEO 113

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 29, 2014

of businesses are actively seeking & collecting customer reviews on an ongoing basis. According to an article in Econsultancy , when a site has customer reviews, 63% of visitors are more likely to make a purchase & reviews produce an average of 18% uplift in sales. when influencing purchasing decisions. image source.

Software Review 126

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Austin Startup

MARCH 26, 2019

25 questions that DTC entrepreneurs should ask themselves before scaling customer acquisition So you run a direct-to-consumer (DTC) brand. You just spent a few thousand dollars on advertising and your paid customer acquisition cost (CAC) numbers tested well relative to your best guess for customer lifetime value (LTV).

Technical Review 49

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paulgraham.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Whereas a search engine, for example, is. Writing software is a great way to solve (b), but you can still end up constrained in (a). If you write software to teach Tibetan to Hungarian speakers, youll be able to reach most of the people who want it, but there wont be many of them. A barbershop isnt designed to grow fast.

Startup 111

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Their code base had diverged and it was extremely slow and costly for Microsoft to be implementing Word separately for each platform: Windows, DOS and Mac. It also meant that there was great pressure to get the release out so they could start to gain the efficiencies of a single code base. In 1993, Word 6.0

Product 60

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

I wassurprised recently when I realized that all the worst problems wefaced in our startup were due not to competitors, but investors.Dealing with competitors was easy by comparison. If I had a startupand Steve Jobs wanted to invest in it, Id give him the stock for$10, just to be able to brag that he was an investor.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76

ConversionXL

JULY 20, 2019

A few years ago, Custora declared that email accounts for more than 7% of all ecommerce user acquisitions, making it the second-most effective acquisition channel (behind search). If someone hasn’t redeemed a Halloween coupon code in two years, stop sending them Halloween coupon codes. Review request emails.

eCommerce 90

eCommerce Email Conversion Marketing 90

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? It was mostly timing.

Social Network 318

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 12, 2020

For example, rather than just giving the ecommerce team data on searches that return no results on the site, Hayes presented his findings in this context: If a customer searches for a product that they don’t stock, they’ll likely reach a “no results found” page. acquisition, conversion, onboarding, activation, etc.).

Customer 74

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Virtual Stock Exchange. View All Search Results » Subscribe. Computer Software. Financial News. Professor Journal. SmartMoney. Student Journal. WSJ Classifieds. WSJ Classroom. Ran gold Resources Ltd. América Latina. 中文-简体 (China). Media & Marketing. Small Business. More Industries.

Venture Capital 107

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 24, 2016

They use their phones to compare prices, read reviews, engage with companies on social media, text friends for recommendations, etc. 55% of shoppers say that online reviews influence their buying decisions. Comparison shopping engines curate product information and display that information to consumers searching for relevant queries.

Retention 48

Retention eCommerce Software Review Engineer 48

ConversionXL

AUGUST 12, 2016

There are a ton KPIs you can track, but below are the most important for reviewing the health of your SaaS. Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). Customer Acquisition Cost refers to the resources that a business uses in order to acquire an additional customer. Identifying and optimizing the biggest acquisition expenses.

Software Review 48

Software Review Metrics Revenue Acquisition 48

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Those customers are fairly easy to sign up, but if I look at where most of the money comes from, and those are the larger licenses of five or ten users, that is according to your definition then the small businesses and small businesses include actually the Mexican Stock Exchange, Chamber of Commerce. In Spain I have large companies.

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ConversionXL

MAY 30, 2017

Offer discount codes or some other benefits in exchange for a visitor’s email address. So if a cart abandoner leaves your site to watch a product video on YouTube, or searches a product review on a different blog, you’d be right there clearly demonstrating why your site is the best choice.”. Do you have it in stock?

Analytics 126

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Search for: Videos. Don’t wait to fill the void before letting him go (but obviously get all the code / usernames / password). Sometimes I use Balsamiq, sometimes I code a prototype, doesn’t matter – just create something, then tell the world. I think quick, do something, then review what I’ve learned. Maple Butter.

Technical Review 44

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 30, 2015

In 2013, Custora declared that email accounts for more than 7% of all eCommerce user acquisitions , making it the 2nd most effective acquisition channel (behind search). If someone hasn’t redeemed a Halloween coupon code in two years, stop sending them Halloween coupon codes. Review request emails.

eCommerce 48

eCommerce Email Conversion Marketing 48

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

or just present your crappy, first-run code to investors then pay someone to re-write the entire thing. The contract work burn out is totally where I’m coming from… chip WAAIIITTT… wasn’t the coding of the first version of Digg outsourced to some guy on Elance? The New MacBook Air Is That Good.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Why on earth would you pay for flight search? This email is relatively simple to setup: if you sell online software, determine which customers naturally upgrade to a higher tier plan or annual billing then setup an automated email that targets future users that meet these criteria. Know all the tricks of the flight industry.

Campaign 104

Campaign Email Conversion Cofounder 104

Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Prior to joining Andreessen Horowitz, I held several executive positions in a publicly-traded software company and was previous to that an investment banker. Before offering some suggestions about how we might improve capital formation, I’d like to review the current state of the IPO market.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.

Software Review 110

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