ConversionXL

JUNE 19, 2019

Set targets: metrics to tackle the overarching goal for your product lifecycle. We need a metric or KPI that shows how good we are at increasing the likelihood that someone will convert in the future. André Morys: Why “Agile Teams” Fail (And You Might Be the Only Savior). Spots early signs of a pending transition.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Focusing on the metrics that ultimately drive the business, often the bottom line, has provided a reality check, a counter-weight to the desire to consume all new technologies. Besides, more development time means the client can be more agile with functionality and has a greater potential for success.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 4, 2020

You do CX a disservice if you focus only on metrics like NPS. To succeed, you need to tie your improvements directly to revenue, reduced churn , lower operational costs, etc. waterfall, agile , etc.)? waterfall, agile, etc.)? Align team goals and metrics with CX behaviors and outcomes. Customer-facing teams.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 30, 2019

How you can put this lean marketing framework to work in your business? Here are just a few options to get you started… Test low-cost ads in local publications. The right metrics will let you know what’s working and what isn’t. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. Launch targeted online ads.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

To move innovation faster, we now have 21 st century tools — Business Model Canvas , Customer Development , Agile Engineering – all adding up to a Lean Startup. Innovation and improvement occurs in Horizon 1 on process, procedures, costs, etc. Fast forward to today. In Horizon 2 a company extends its core business.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2016

Here’s a look at pirate metrics (AARRR) as designed by Dave McClure of 500 Startups … Image Source. To better understand the process, it’s best to examine how other companies are prioritizing and the frameworks they’ve developed. Note: This framework is inspired by Wayne Chaneski’s ICE framework.).

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 9, 2018

The ideal end point for most tech-related business decisions is that technology is seamless and able to be integrated without too much investment and ongoing cost. Decentralised working environments provide the opportunity for businesses to reduce overhead costs on facilities by decreasing daily headcounts. Keeping It Clean.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Or, if it really was prevented, what was the opportunity cost of choosing to prevent it ahead of time? And in most situations, there is significant cost involved in negotiating over the right estimates to plug in. In other words, a principled way to combine agility with stability. How much will it cost to solve this problem now?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. And we can offer investors metrics to play Moneyball – with the Investment Readiness Level. We think we can do better. Here’s how.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 26, 2017

Know your North Star Metric. Hint: it’s not usually a company-valued metric like revenue. Implement Agile ! Find a framework that works: Define business goals. Models – WiderFunnel Infinity framework , ResearchXL. #3 Don’t be blind with one metric. Test with low cost? Optimize for that.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The site visits include stops at Square (the payments startup founded by Twitter co-creator Jack Dorsey), WeWork Soma (an amazing co-working space) and Pivotal Labs (leaders in Lean and Agile consulting), along with one more super-interesting location we’ll announce shortly. Which are the most important pieces, and which can you delay?

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. They know how much it costs to bring in a customer and they know how much money they can expect to make on each one. Our cost to acquire a customer on AdWords was only a few cents. Go on an agile diet quickly. And yet, their investors are frustrated. Great post!

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

At the cost of a little extra indirection, you can organize your code around a series of long-lived objects, each of whom communicates with the other objects in simple, easy-to-understand ways. PHP can do what no other language or framework can (albeit django). Yes, Python developers DO tend to cost more.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

Tactics were discussed out of context, and there wasnt an overarching framework for figuring out what works for what kinds of companies, industries, and stages of growth. And do I still need to get out of the building if Ive got great metrics and surveys?" You had a lot of conflicting advice and success theater.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development. But you still need a framework to be able to observe and process what you are seeing and hearing. December 11, 2009 6:54 PM James Abley said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 6, 2008 When NOT to listen to your users; when NOT to rely on split-tests There are three legs to the lean startup concept: agile product development , low-cost (fast to market) platforms , and rapid-iteration customer development. What can you do about it? Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I know plenty of people who prefer more advanced source control system, but my belief is that many agile practices diminish the importance of advanced features like branching. Its not that the idea behind them is wrong, but I think agile team-building practices make scheduling per se much less important. Youd better. Expo SF (May.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 9, 2009

In this post let me share with you a common sense framework I use in my consulting engagements to figure out a home for web analysts. The four pronged real world tested probing and loaded with politics framework to find a home for Web Analytics: 1. Unlike say Sales that is there to make a quota at any cost each quarter.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Express : Express is built on NodeJS framework. Web frameworks. Zend Framework (PHP). Startup Metrics for Pirates â?? SaaS Metrics Tutorial â?? tells you how much adwords cost. open source framework for Ruby. a PHP open source framework. high-level Python framework. Did I mention itâ??s

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

Which comes to the second major principle: halt work that leads to more waste, even if it means abandoning sunk costs. Just because something looks pretty, or feels like a good idea, or has a lot of sunk cost in it, does not mean it should be pursued. In the meantime, I hope some of you will find the lean startup a helpful framework.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Know what the success metrics are for the launch. Slow progress, but has cost less than 150k aud so far. You create an entire framework of understanding and action based on your product/idea that sets it in motion in a self-sustaining way. When you have a strategy for the launch, which means knowing why youre doing it.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 26, 2014

Controlling costs. It’s their comfort zone: numbers, metrics, analytics, logistics, strategies, and a well-defined and easy-to-see ROI. Or why, in an entirely different industry, did German software giant SAP blow up the management framework for its 20,000-person development department and replace it with small teams?

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Plus, we saw some of the intrinsic limitations of supporting such a large staff: slower cycle times, higher cost basis, and - most importantly - the ability to serve only a limited number of customer segments. Personally, the framework Ive found most helpful is MTVs "create, share, validate" feedback loop. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

In school I was being pounded day and night with anything that has to do with agile software development. When I entered the company, I realized that there were no process and I quickly applied what I know about agile software development. And taking on too many projects at once is a classic sub-optimization. Sure, it seems efficient.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

net is the only framework in which you can build an app for all the major mobile operating systems (iphone, android, wp7). First of all,NET is a “framework”, not a “language” as you have said in your post. They use the MVC framework, which gets almost entirely out of your way. net implementation.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

In normal times, every company operates against some hypothetical growth model—a data-driven framework that describes how your product grows and how you acquire new users. In normal times, every company operates against some hypothetical growth model—a data-driven framework that describes how your product grows and how you acquire new users.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2014

They are generic mash-ups that tailor to almost no one's needs, and more often than not contain awful things like nine not-really-thought out metrics for one dimension in a report. the instinctive response of the Squirrels is to go grab the most obvious metrics and start partying. " Kisses. Angels singing! Time on Site!

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

JANUARY 30, 2019

It also provides a complete framework for innovation project management, as well as a compare and contrast of the most commonly used frameworks (useful for those in framework selection mode.) Gregg instructs ways to blend frameworks and use the best tools within frameworks such as Lean, Agile, CPS, or Design Thinking.

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ConversionXL

JULY 17, 2015

” and my CEO is saying, “Yeah, we’re agile. So you can test for a proxy metric rather than the end goal and you can test faster, but ideally you want to test for a metric that’s really indicative of your bottom line. We need to test faster.” ” So can I spot a trend? You can just say no.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

A few days ago I open-sourced a framework for split-testing, A/B testing or continous optimization. Does having an expensive Verisign branded SSL and site logo gain higher conversion than the low-cost GoDaddy equivalent? Once you get the hang of it, I promise youll learn a great deal. Labels: split-test 2comments: Greg Dingle said.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2015

I’m going to change for this,” because they’re not invested in there, there is very low opportunity cost. Or should it be a part of the development organization or in the Agile development environment? Does that sit into the Agile scrum team? Can they be independent organizations just by itself? All of these.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 21, 2015

Use ResearchXL framework. The more agile you are, the bigger effect your optimization will have. Use minimal viable (low-cost) campaigns to test assumptions. Cost of customer acquisition = cost of visitor acquisition * conversion rate, if it is profitable: Increase the volume for the same traffic. Data is not easy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

a guide for hackers) (This post was inspired by a conversation with Nivi from Venture Hacks , but is otherwise not his fault) There has been a proliferation of frameworks and metaphors lately that are designed to help startups avoid the all-too-common fatal mistake of failing to find a market. Resegmented market (low cost variety).

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Our goal is to understand the metrics, mechanics, and levers of engagement. Lets look at a specific example, and start to think through what the metrics might look like if we attempted to measure it: Customer gets a synthetic message saying: "upload some photos!" Levers of engagement Lets start with the levers of engagement.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Having had a number of years to try and answer this question at cocktail parties and social gatherings of all kinds, I thought Id try and expand on his framework a little, and then try and use these answers to help make suggestions for those who are trying to get people to buy virtual goods. Expo SF (May. Expo (and a call for he.

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