Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

LinkedIn’s product had only been live for a couple months, we only had tens of thousands of registered users, and wouldn’t start generating revenue for more than a year after this point. We’ve had a supportive board and encouraging metrics and a helpful climate for our community news notion (now 51 sites in 3 states).

Term Sheet 178

Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

There has never been a viral outbreak of such magnitude before. It means relying on your own savings and revenue to operate and expand.”. It is an agile principle, with an iterative method that gets a product or service to market without spending months or years in product development without consumer approval or disapproval.

Bootstrapping 85

Bootstrapping Global Startup Hungary 85

ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Corporate Agility. Transparency correlates to agility (Does your CEO know how many tests you ran last month?). mobile is ~50% of revenue, shorter form works better. Flip your funnel – only 5% of revenue comes from optimisation but 92% of revenue from retention. Culture of Innovation. Continuous Optimization.

Retention 106

Retention Artificial Inteligence Channel Email 106

Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

What are those metrics? Andrew : If you are a travel company right now, I think you’re seeing very specific metrics dropping. As a result of that, all of those metrics go up. ” At least at Reforge, a lot of our revenue comes from company education budgets. Andrew : I think those are maybe two distinct things.

Founder 36

Founder Conversion Technical Review Cash Position 36

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 8, 2015

What is the ideal size and make-up of a team for a pre-revenue SaaS startup? The Angel VC: Key Revenue Metrics for SaaS companies – buff.ly/1INSu29. Using PPC Marketing to Make Content Go Viral: Here’s How It Works crowdspring.co/1InOIwn. 6 Thoughts on Creating and Leading Engineering Teams – buff.ly/1zNp7eB.

Small Business 48

Small Business Design Social Media Startup 48

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

In fact, SaaS industry revenue is projected to grow from $49 billion in 2015 to $67 billion in 2018, a compound annual growth rate of approximately eight percent. At this stage, simply list your primary revenue streams and your key expenses. At this stage, simply list your primary revenue streams and your key expenses.

Software Review 74

Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 27, 2009

These are companies that generate revenue by offering a free product with an upsell or premium version. At a high level, anything that drives virality should be free. To take your specific example about virality - why do we want to have more users sign up? January 28, 2009 1:54 AM startupcfo said. Expo SF (May.

San Francisco 148

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 148

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In a previous post , I covered the three main drivers of growth: Paid, Sticky, and Viral. A business that strives for something like this should absolutely be charging money from day one, in order to establish baselines for their two key metrics: CPA (the cost to acquire a new customer) and LTV (the lifetime value of each acquired customer).

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Customer San Francisco Viral Lean 156

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 7, 2010

At least, not in the traditional sense of trying to squeeze every tenth of a point out of a conversion metric or landing page. Even if it shows improvement in some micro metric, does that invalidate the overall design? That was evident in the metrics and in the in-person usability tests. No one feature is to blame.

San Francisco 154

San Francisco Lean Metrics Design 154

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Luckily, the metrics helped us figure out the difference. Question 2: If your product has areas where people read and then different areas where people interact, are there ways to do metrics to determine where people spend their time? Were looking to metrics to determine how users interact with our product. Expo SF (May.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 68

mashable.com

MAY 24, 2011

Mobile commerce revenues may still pale in comparison to their ecommerce brothers, but we’re already seeing signs of mobile commerce’s potential. Discovery by social and webapp html5 is more agile and less icon-find-item-search. ); // Welcome to Mashable! Sign in with Facebook or Twitter to get started! My 2 cents.

Mobile 90

Mobile Web Social Media Software Review 90