Board Effect

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Improve Retention . A workforce planning model gives you the benefit of increasing retention by giving you a snapshot of your employee’s skills. Moreover, a flexible workforce will enable your staff to be more agile and responsive when change needs to occur quickly. Employee development. Knowledge transfer. Make Future Plans.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 30, 2022

Companies offer incentives such as signing and retention bonuses as well as unique job perks and flexible scheduling. Thanks to Adam Wood, Revenue Geeks ! #7- 15- Study supply chains and hiring trends. 16- Become more agile and flexible. 7- Start outsourcing. Photo Credit: Jim Pendergast. Photo Credit: Cody Candee.

Entrepreneur 124

Entrepreneur Green Technical Review Social Media 124

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 26, 2016

The environment you work in has a big effect on your staff and is one of the major factors contributing to employee retention or turnover , according to Abasyn Journal of Social Sciences. Despite being a bootstrapped company with little revenue, we over-invested in a central New York City office at a rate of 15% rent to revenue.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 26, 2022

You're likely going to be experiencing revenues in waves, owing to the pandemic booms and dips, and the varying regulations. Prezi hired the former director of product from Pixar to build a more cinematic video meeting experience. 8- Growth factor- labor retention rates. Think of the agility that comes with CAI, etc.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?)

San Francisco 167

San Francisco CPA SEM CTO Hire 167

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2019

You may start with prototype products, but you need rock-solid processes for successful growth and agility. Hire the best people and continually upgrade your team. A big mistake often made in the rush to scale is to shortcut the hiring and training processes, to get out there fast, assuming that the team can learn on the job.

Angel Investor 220

Angel Investor Equity Leadership Demand 220

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? All things being equal, of course, you’d rather have more revenue rather than less. And yet revenue alone is not a sufficient goal. More on that in a moment.

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Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

Hearpreneur

JUNE 21, 2021

Afterall, I hired them for their expertise and not simply to follow a set of instructions every day. When I hired my first employee I made it a priority to be available, open, and transparent with company decisions, in order to give that employee the clearest guidance on their duties and responsibilities. 3- Accessible. Everyone wins.

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Leadership Entrepreneur Jordan Employee 62

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Plenty of research shows that hiring and promoting with equality in mind, especially at the top, is critical for company success for a number of reasons. This aids tremendously with our employee recruiting and retention strategy. But, we must also recognize WHY gender equality is so important.

Retention 113

Retention Employee Agile Differentiation 113

Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

Revenue vs. Economic Value. That is a reflection of a deep obsession on Revenue. When your KPI is revenue, you are focused on trying to get as many single-session conversions as possible. Economic Value is the sum of Revenue plus the Business Value created by the macro- plus micro-conversions on your website.

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Metrics Analytics Search Channel 152

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2009

We were even more embarrassed by the pathetically small number of customers we had, and the pathetically low amount of revenue we had earned so far. We’d always cringe as we admitted that, no, we really only had a few thousand customers and a few thousand dollars in monthly revenue. Retention cohort analysis. Expo SF (May.

San Francisco 60

San Francisco Tampa Continuous Deployment Lean 60

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

The challenge I want to take on is to be specific in the recommendations make, and to share how we can be very nimble and agile. Outcomes: Revenue | Ideas Funded Behavior: Path Length | Cart Abandonment Rate Acquisition: Assisted Conversions | Share of Search. Every ecommerce site has to obsess about Revenue.

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Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 141

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

And so this very agile, iterative process of bringing new technologies and prototyping systems. But we haven’t necessarily trained our acquisition people, incented them to have a greater risk tolerance that’s required for this agile development of emerging technologies. It’s this terrible situation.

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Technology China United States Government 313

ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2017

There are many who aren’t doing it well , but to me it seems this is a natural extension of any other acquisition channel, and a super important lever for retention and relationship building. Predictable Revenue. I’m not aware of any companies who aren’t doing email marketing, at least in some way or another.

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Channel Marketing Viral SEO 118

usersknow.blogspot.com

APRIL 30, 2010

It’s not enough to just launch a feature and see if your revenue increases. You need to have some sort of plan for testing to see how it’s affecting key metrics , whether those are revenue, retention, registration, user happiness, or some other number you care about. How Am I Going to Get Feedback on this Feature?

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Software Review Agile San Francisco Advisory Board 40

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Now, Andrew’s excellent piece that I quoted from above correctly diagnoses two situations where consumer internet companies often get in trouble: They focus too much on short-term revenue, getting caught in a local maximum via constant optimization. Take the minimum viable product , for starters.

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Customer San Francisco Viral Lean 156

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

What is the right revenue model? 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. And, most importantly, what could we do right now to answer the riskiest of these questions.

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San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Amazon has hired more people for their Alexa division than Google has for the entire company – it’s not hunch, this is going to be the focus. Corporate Agility. Transparency correlates to agility (Does your CEO know how many tests you ran last month?). Hire & fire – tools to do a job. Use data enrichment.

Retention 106

Retention Artificial Inteligence Channel Email 106

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Revenue is always my preferred measure, but you can use anything that is important to your business: retention, activation, viral invites, or even customer satisfaction in the form of something like net promoter score. If an optimization has an effect at the micro level that doesnt translate into the macro level - who cares? .

San Francisco 68

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 68

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Jennifer Brown: Because the question of retention is more about the workplace culture and it’s very expensive to bring people in only to lose them two years later because they don’t see anyone that looks like them or shares their identity. Make room for a new revenue channel. I hire based on resume or experience.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In thinking about the bigger goal of digital transformation, 46% say they have been able to identify and create new product and revenue streams, and 45% of organizations are now using data and analytics to develop new business models. The more you know about your customers and market, the more effectively you can run your business.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 23, 2019

Jenny Blake: I was there for five and a half years, and halfway into my time there … During that five years, the company grew from 6,000 to 36,000 employees, and one major issue became retention. You’ve hired all these smart recent grads from Ivy League schools, how do you then keep them once you get them there?

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