Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

If you haven’t figured out the ecosystem, growth is useless – whether it is a acquisition-only viral loop, like Tagged, or an advertising blitz like countless dot-bombs. This isn’t helpful either, as countless companies have shown. Let’s consider one last example, a sticky-growth company like eBay or World of Warcraft.

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usersknow.blogspot.com

APRIL 30, 2010

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. Tags: startupcto. It’s not enough to just launch a feature and see if your revenue increases.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Social Middleware creates an on-demand, flexible, secure layer between enterprise users and public social networks that allows social data to be filtered, tagged, integrated, archived and aggregated in a way that makes sense for the enterprise. Tags: Enterprise Launch socialware. CrunchBase Information. Socialware. G-51 Capital.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

But its exponentially more engaging to have each person tag their friends in each picture, because the notification is so much more interesting: "youve been tagged in a photo, click to find out which one!" Those customers get prompted to tag their friends in their photos. Positioning ( the battle for your mind ).

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

At IMVU , we would routinely find retention effects that would stem from registration changes and have impact days or weeks later. Most people are going to hear about the site for the very first time via an organic notification, when a friend signs up for the site (or tags them in a photo, etc).

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

I think its helpful to think about two kinds of competition for distribution: acquisition competition and retention competition. Retention competition is how you get people to come back to your app. If your app has incredibly strong retention, you will probably do very well with the current PR/new app system of acquisition.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 22, 2010

We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature. It is also a common block of functionality in every application and unfortunately many developers underuse them (or don’t use them at all) or misuse them (emails go to the Spam folder) or abuse them. Flickr Search Copyright © 2011.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 22, 2010

We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature. It is also a common block of functionality in every application and unfortunately many developers underuse them (or don’t use them at all) or misuse them (emails go to the Spam folder) or abuse them. Flickr Search Copyright © 2011.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

AUGUST 3, 2010

This kind of motivation results in very short term gains, if any, because there is no long term planning, no asset-creation, or customer retention strategies. They want to do something and then see the money come back, rather than understand the system and psychology that attracts a customer and converts a sale. Yaro Starak.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

AUGUST 3, 2010

This kind of motivation results in very short term gains, if any, because there is no long term planning, no asset-creation, or customer retention strategies. They want to do something and then see the money come back, rather than understand the system and psychology that attracts a customer and converts a sale. Yaro Starak.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 20, 2010

As Facebook matures as a platform, it is changing its focus from growth to retention. We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature. It means that what was considered standard practices a year ago is now considered spammy. Wondering about those Flickr photos on the right?

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www.rocketwatcher.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Tags advertising. customer retention. Archives Select Month October 2011. Tags: naming Category : Messaging , Startups. Good luck (you’ll need it). Hey, you made it all the way to the end! You should subscribe! You can sign up for email updates, subscribe via RSS or follow me on Twitter. Powered by Postrank.

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www.rocketwatcher.com

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Subscribe in a reader Popular Latest Comments Tags 7 Rules for Perfect Press Releases Influencers Suck Selling vs. Buying: A Marketing Wake-up Call Twitter: Is Marketing Doing it Wrong? Tags: b2bmarketing startupcto. Oct, 2010 at 1:16 pm now that we have the metrics, have to get the actual numbers! All Rights Reserved. Designed by.

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