YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

You take that money and invest a good portion of it in traditional sales and marketing efforts — including product developers, creative people, and salespeople, all of whom are paid to figure out what buyers want and to say good things about your company — in a quest to get even more customers. In return, the customers pay you money.

Customer 168

Customer Social Media Retention Canada 168

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. 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.

Customer 167

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. And anytime you strike a deal for digital distribution of any content, insist that your creators be given real-time access to the big-picture metrics: not just downloads, but engagement, retention and replay. Is that a lot?

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

No other metric so holistically captures as many critical aspects of a web site – user design, usability, performance, convenience, ad effectiveness, net promoter score, customer satisfaction – all in a single measurement. Unfortunately, conversion improvements typically are the aggregate gain of 100 tiny improvements, not one silver bullet.

Metrics 93

Metrics Conversion Internet Acquisition 93

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In an ecosystem, each participant acts according to its own imperatives, but these selfish actions have an aggregate effect. What these products all have in common is the question their minimum viable product is attempting to answer: does this product have high natural retention built-in? Expo SF (May.

Customer 156

Customer San Francisco Viral Lean 156

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Amazon Web Services. Web Tools: Hereâ??s We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers?

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

ConversionXL

JUNE 19, 2018

Aggregate data is crap as it hides the gold inside the segments. Engagement & Retention. Fitness – The fittest web page, the fittest radio antenna, training system. Evidence-based customer-centric product development. Data-driven is a tricky concept. Information does not tell you what to do. Acquisition.

Technical Review 103

Technical Review Agile Analytics Conversion 103