Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

While there is a great deal of appreciation for the power of metrics/data, I've come to realize that Sr. Leaders don't quite appreciate the deep, and often corrosive, consequences of choosing metric x over metric y as a key performance indicator (KPI). It is a standard metric. Don't believe me?

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Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

Then there is Agile for engineering. My solution to these problems was to create a simple framework we can use to put our customers first, evaluate our marketing programs, and right-align our view of success (metrics). If I'm doing SEO for keyword cluster xyz, what am I really solving for? And really the list is too long.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Boyd emphasized the importance of agility in combat: "the key to victory is to be able to create situations wherein one can make appropriate decisions more quickly than ones opponent." Agile software development. Agile allows companies to build higher quality software faster. This speeds up the Ideas-Code-Data feedback loop.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 14, 2020

In-house SEOs and consultants alike are routinely challenged to find new opportunities to expand organic traffic. In fact, new product features are the most underrated driver of SEO growth for large sites. SEO growth works differently for sites that scale with content (e.g., No conversation in SEO can exclude user intent.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

They can be utilized across teams— UX , CRO, social media, SEM, SEO , etc., The first, according to Dr. David Travis at UserFocus , was agile development : Dr. Teams were savvy enough to know that fully formed, completed descriptions of users are an impossibility at the early stages of design.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

This is one of the blog we posted about how some company is doing SEO to promote the website. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Expo SF (May.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams. Bontq – hosted bug tracking and project management needs.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Five Areas to Focus On for Effective SEO Copywriting – [link]. Entrepreneurs: Beware of Vanity Metrics - [link]. Excellent post about agile software development & some pitfalls of agility - [link]. Legal Contracts for Graphic Designers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

vs. sustainable: Compare this to the renewable strategies, like viral marketing, SEO, widgets, and ads, which can scale into 10s of millions of users but are primarily centered around tough, non-user centric work. Problem is, you inevitably become yesterday’s old news. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 26, 2017

Know your North Star Metric. Hint: it’s not usually a company-valued metric like revenue. Guest Post + SEO: Make a list of the top sites in the industry. Implement Agile ! Don’t be blind with one metric. Shared cross-team KPIs – North Star Metric. What’s your core value? Optimize for that.

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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. Many optimizers are in favor of split-testing, too: direct marketers, landing page and SEO experts -- heck even the Google Website Optimizer team. For example, I’m a big believer in split-testing.

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San Francisco Lean Metrics Design 154

ConversionXL

MARCH 7, 2017

They can be utilized across teams – UX, CRO, Social Media, SEM, SEO, etc., The first, according to Dr. David Travis at UserFocus , was agile development : Dr. Teams were savvy enough to know that fully formed, completed descriptions of users are an impossibility at the early stages of design.

Software Review 102

Software Review Design Agile Analytics 102

Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

And the final lesson was that we were keeping score on our packaging with the wrong metrics – it wasn’t about awards, it was about sales in the retail channel. Hopefully you and your co-founders are experts in one or two parts (agile development, SEO/SEM, etc.) After that you’ve become a battle-hardened realist.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Know what the success metrics are for the launch. March 13, 2009 11:09 PM Steen Seo Öhman said. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Expo SF (May.

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Brandanew

JULY 9, 2015

We have all met those that call themselves “storytellers” and “content experts” and do not understand a thing about Content Marketing / SEO or social media. For a small firm, while there are advantages that come with being more agile, it is also harder to compete on uneven ground as they may not have large budgets.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

If you sell an online service that solves a defined problem, you can compete in SEO or SEM. Im on the team that released one of the Taxi apps, and we agree that the "SEO" and placement on the App Store can sometimes leave users with insufficient or inaccurate information to make decisions. Hey Eric, very interesting post. Expo SF (May.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

SEO and Analytics Tutorials. Startup Metrics for Pirates â?? SaaS Metrics Tutorial â?? SEO for Startups â?? SEO Digger â?? SEO and campaign management tool. SEO Keyword Analysis Tool. Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Agile project management.

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Up and Running

JUNE 23, 2015

Absolutely invest even a minimal amount in SEO and Google AdWords. Also a favorite around Palo Alto Software, this is a book that highlights a path for startup success, focusing on agility, tracking the right metrics and KPIs, and adapting to a changing business environment before problems become overwhelming. Social media.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 27, 2011

Flip startups are agile startups that aim to exit quickly. The development part is similar to a lean startup: you want to be agile. The development part is similar to a lean startup: you want to be agile. A good way to get attention is to get catchy metrics. Consider it a type of SEO investment!

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Don’t test for a vanity metric. When I first started A/B testing at a former employer, we did many things above, and the team did an impressive job improving the Primary Success Metric and at times the Secondary Success Metric. But, you can plan smart: Test significant differences. Don’t test on 5% of the site traffic.

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Cracking the Code

APRIL 13, 2007

and on the organic side (SEO optimization, buzz among influential bloggers and journalists.). Successful companies have developed specific teams focused on developing and monitoring key usage metrics. What metrics drive the value of this new generation of software service providers? SaaS business metrics: why are they different?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 21, 2015

The more agile you are, the bigger effect your optimization will have. Agile means you need to move and respond fast, continuously incorporate customer inputs. Aleyda Solis ( Orainti ): The Ingredients for SEO success in 2015. Stay away from aggregate metrics – combine, segment, visualize, predict.

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Up and Running

MARCH 14, 2017

Social channels are as agile as they are flaky—one wrong word can make all the difference between massive participation rates (which can also lead to comments and shares), and being ignored. so you can later easily redirect all the links you built to your future homepage for SEO) up and down in financial forums and social groups.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

On the web, we have many of these channels: SEM, SEO, world of mouth, PR and viral. On the iPhone, it seems that two are driving most of the installs: the "newest apps" RSS feed (which may be combined with PR) and a primitive form of SEO, when people search the App Store for a specific kind of app. I am a little curious here.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

ALT.NET is a large sector of the.NET community that isn’t satisfied with the status quo and wants to find the best, most agile way to do things. I run / wrote a site that serves approx 500,000 page requests a day, 5-10 complex SQL queries a page, god knows how much SEO related intelligence, 100,000s of users, external network comms.

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