YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

by Marc Pitart, founder and CEO of onlineresume.us. If this happens, the risk of having an unpleasant experience is much higher, as an early stage startup cannot afford 7 months off the correct path. Acceleration and incubation programs are on the rise and have helped start and scale many successful businesses over the past 10 years.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 16, 2015

I review a lot of board decks with a beautifully hand-crafted page with metrics for the company. Good metrics are comparable across industries; comparative ; readily understandable; and help drive decisions. Comparative means that you can compare a metric across time periods, groups of users, or competitors. So how do you do it?

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

GrowthHackers founder and former Head of Growth at Dropbox, Sean Ellis , coined the term: “A growth hacker is a person whose true north is growth. Startups need to survive and thrive on a shoestring budget, which is why it’s based on rapid experimentation. How to create a growth hacking strategy using the pirate metrics model.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

This post was co-written by Eric Ries and Sarah Milstein, co-hosts of The Lean Startup Conference. This year, for the first time, we've added a day of workshops and site visits to The Lean Startup Conference. Lean startup principles work differently in different environments.

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View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

Ellie Mirman was the first marketer hired by the CMO of HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing software startup that IPOed in 2014. Below, she shares lessons learned from the earliest days of marketing the company and how this has translated to her second startup role as VP of Marketing at Toast.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Once a startup has raised seed capital, plenty of theories and advice exist on how to successfully raise a Series A. Recently, we looked at our own portfolio at NextView Ventures to dig a little deeper on how startups actually raise that next round of financing. More on these below.). There was no meaningful difference.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Pre-launch customer development data is another way, sometimes in the form of user surveys for consumer companies or interviews with potential beta customers for B2B businesses. One of our portfolio investments, a B2B SaaS company, was a pre-product startup at the time of the seed round. B) Post-Product Companies.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

As we established in my post ‘ In Q4 2022 founders face tough choices ‘, we are currently going through a rough patch for many startup founders. As I covered in my post ‘ Advice for startups in a downturn ‘, the common practice advice for this time is pretty straightforward: do what you need to survive.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. It was also beneficial because I got some good experience with both B2B and B2C business models. It sounds interesting.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

I have personally sold many copies of his book, and continue to recommend it as one of the most important books a startup founder can read. While the customer development framework of Four Steps is universally relevant, The Entrepreneur’s Guide updates its practices for modern startups.

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View from Seed

JUNE 10, 2020

of teams’ online pitch decks and recorded videos, as well as loved the dozens of second-round video conversations which we had with Founders working on quite compelling startups. Many of these Founders we wouldn’t have had an opportunity to connect with if we hadn’t launched this program.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 17, 2017

by Shivankit Arora, founder of MarketingMasala.com. Similarly, there are bases that you need to cover before you actually launch your startup in the market amidst steady competition. Similarly, there are bases that you need to cover before you actually launch your startup in the market amidst steady competition. Web traffic.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 13, 2023

I have been a mentor and coach of tens of start-up founders in the past few years through my membership in the BetaBlox-panel. Another marketing-related error that starting entrepreneurs will often commit is failing to measure the right metrics. Not making use of them is a missed opportunity.

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For Entrepreneurs

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The videos are provided courtesy of WebSummit: 9 Secrets for Startup Success, A roadmap for B2B Founders Lean Startup taught the world how to find product/market fit, but in the. I presented on two topics at WebSummit 2018 in Lisbon on November 6th. The slides and videos of those two presentations can be found below.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 24, 2014

A couple years ago, my partner Lee penned a blog post about the milestone benchmarks for startups raising a Series A round of financing. There really isn’t a hard and fast prescription for start-ups to follow after they’ve raised their Seed round, so what’s a startup to do? Just plow ahead blindly and hope for the best?

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

An investor had few hard metrics other than the actual financials, and little technology to make the process scaleable. Over the past few decades, better metrics became available, and investors could take a more analytical, data-driven approach. Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

In the fallout from the pandemic, most founders and CEOs are in the process of completely revamping their growth models from the bottom up amid new and unpredictable consumer behavior. What are those metrics? Andrew : If you are a travel company right now, I think you’re seeing very specific metrics dropping.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Most startup-lore is focused on lightning fast growth or striking out, but what about slow-growth businesses? along with the contributions of dozens if not hundreds of founders, entrepreneurs and investors, to build out the canon for the startup. The proverbial tortoise to the blitzscaling hares? Stanford’s CS183c?—?Blitzscaling

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Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

Hila Qu joined Mucker’s Tony Yang for an Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) conversation about Product-Led Growth (PLG) for Startups to kickoff the 2023 Mucker Growth Series. Hila Qu has been the Head of Growth or VP of Growth at a number of different companies and startups, most notably Acorns and GitLab. That’s never happened.

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View from Seed

JUNE 5, 2018

We launched the Hiring Bootcamp to equip portfolio founders and hiring managers with the best practices around building a hiring machine , so they can maximize their chances of getting the best talent into the door efficiently. Intense discussion on what are the right metrics to track around recruiting. Metrics, metrics, and metrics!

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ConversionXL

MARCH 28, 2014

If you’re a B2B software company you’ll be happy to know a Forbes study titled “Video in the C-Suite” revealed that 59% of C-Suite executives would prefer to watch video over reading text if both are presented on a page. ” The visitor/view metric is one you should only be competing against yourself on.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, May 14, 2009 The Lean Startup Workshop - now an OReilly Master Class My rate of posting has been much lower lately, and this is mostly due to preparations for the upcoming Lean Startup Workshop on May 29. I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999. You can click here to learn more.

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For Entrepreneurs

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Lean Startup taught the world how to find product/market fit, but in the B2B world that isn’t enough. B2B founders must then find a way to build repeatable, scalable and profitable growth before they are ready to step on … The post Matrix Growth Academy – Zero to 100 Videos appeared first on For Entrepreneurs.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 1, 2023

She is an accomplished product marketing leader who has held marketing leadership roles at Adobe, Google, and many startups. Her new book The Pocket Guide to Product Launches: Get Confident, Go to Market, and Win, is a quick-start guide to nailing your first product launch, whether you are a product marketer, product manager, or founder.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 24, 2016

Equally valuable is finding activities that correlate with higher customer success – whether that be RPV, LTV, or whatever metric you’re optimizing for. But how do you find these correlative metrics? What’s a Correlative Metric? But it does act as a predictive metric that you can explore with testing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 28, 2009

Or, phrased more hopefully, "I see how you can use continuous deployment to run an online consumer service, but how can it be used for B2B software?" In a successful startup, the development team is also growing. Very few startups can afford this overhead, and so they simply accept a reduction in coverage instead.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 30, 2015

5 Content Metrics Every Marketer Needs to Analyze written by Alex Boyer read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Still, many B2B marketers rely on assumptions to inform their content decisions. To put these metrics into perspective, look at Bizible and how it assesses its blog’s impact on the business.

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Rob Go

OCTOBER 14, 2012

I’m thrilled by the companies we are investors in, as well as the founders that lead them. NextView is our startup, and I often reflect on how things are going and what we could do better. This is of particular risk if the founders of the firm never really worked together before, as was the case for us at NextView.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 23, 2022

The discussion that ensued was insightful and I thought it would be worth sharing it here for founders who are dealing with a similar issue. ” No one questions the importance of revenue, but asking the question enabled us to start thinking on what would be the right metric.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

This post is written with B2B startups in mind, but should be generally applicable. For startup founders, it’s never too early to start thinking about putting together a target market advisory board. As founders, your job includes selling product to customers, stock to investors, and opportunity to employees.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

The metrics. B2B demand generation focuses on ROI. Vanity metrics are less important. Elevate your founder and employee personal brand. Take SparkToro founder Rand Fishkin. Rand regularly shares his knowledge and thoughts on digital marketing, tech, and startups. Which channels have the best engagement?

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ConversionXL

APRIL 28, 2020

We had built the world’s largest open-data community but—like so many startups—didn’t have a clear product-market fit. . In that unannounced meeting, Brett Hurt, our CEO and co-founder, laid it out for us. It wasn’t quite a flip from B2C to B2B, but it was close. Honorable mention: SiriusDecisions Demand Unit Waterfall (2017).

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. 2) Market . 3) Raise capital.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

With the right framework, any startup can achieve this in their industry. Since its launch in 2006, Shopify has positioned itself as the best solution for small-end and startup entrepreneurs. Studies show that only 5% of B2B customers are ready to buy. You’ll probably choose Coke because it’s more familiar. It’s the safer bet.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

Many people have reached out sharing knowing and kind words about our journey and choice to wind down our venture, as well as their appreciation for my choice to pull back the curtain on what is statistically a common road for many founders. New business are hard: 50% succeed in the first 5 years Startups are hard: 10% succeed?—?only

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Leveraging our financial skill sets, my partner and I started Harper Partners, a tech-enabled factoring company that helps innovative B2B businesses and startups fund their working capital. As a founder, you will touch sales, marketing, product development, customer service, accounting, fundraising, and more.

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Up and Running

MARCH 14, 2017

In the Lean Startup methodology, one of the most important elements is getting out of the building. Idea validation is a practice which has been gaining more and more popularity as Lean Startup and Lean Planning methodologies have changed the way new business concepts are conceived. Startup validation tactic 2: Social media surveys.

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