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

Startup Lessons Learned

I break the answer to that question down into three engines: Viral - this is the business model identified in the presentation as "Get Users." Here, the key metrics are Acquisition and Referral, combined into the now-famous viral coefficient. If the coefficient is > 1.0 , you generally have a viral hit on your hands.

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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

But in my experience this is not useful most of the time. That green button was part of a customer flow, a series of actions you want customers to complete for some business reason. If its part of a viral loop, its probably trying to get them to invite more friends (on average). April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Why Reporters Ignore Your Seed-Stage Startup Pitches, And How to Fix That

View from Seed

And don’t pitch a Boston newspaper on your San Francisco startup. Reporters aren’t here to advertise for you. Offer reporters an exclusive on the successful, viral campaign that got you there, or a behind-the-scenes look at what your product does and how you’ll deliver on this huge campaign’s promises. Pitch late.

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Transcript of How to Prepare to Sell Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

He started Stackify to solve the biggest challenge he had as the CTO of VinSolutions, so Matt, thanks for joining me. I was that hired gun in some senses. That part of it was great. He’s been a developer/hacker for over 15 years, and he sold his first startup, VinSolutions for $150 million. Matt Watson: Yeah. Absolutely.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. If you are a startup looking to hire really excellent people, take notice of.NET on a resume, and ask why it’s there. Expensify Blog. Expense Reports That Don't Suck. Sjoerd Franken.

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