Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones.

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Austin Startup

JULY 2, 2021

Chargify’s new BI tool has taken our speed-to-calculate and accuracy of MRR and financial metrics and reduced it down to a mere dashboard refresh with 100% accuracy,” said Jenny Leman, President of CareerPlug. Chargify Business Intelligence took this four to six hour weekly project and turned it into a 10-second refresh.

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Up and Running

MAY 30, 2022

An often overlooked purpose of a business plan is as a tool to define success metrics. By housing these financial metrics within your business plan, you suddenly have an easy way to relate your strategy to actual performance. In short, having a business plan gives you a framework for measuring your success.

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Up and Running

JUNE 23, 2015

The business model is innovative and unique, and the business itself serves as a fantastic “how to” example for entrepreneurs looking to start a social, mission-driven business. See Also What Is a Social Enterprise? See Also Jed Darland Cultivates Depth of Scope: A Secret to Success Story. Always be learning.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2010

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Platform selection and technical design - if your business strategy is to create a low-burn, highly iterative lean startup, youd better be using foundational tools that make that easy rather than hard. Massive proprietary databases? However, they insisted on using a platform that totally contradicted their business model.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 6, 2013

They didn’t validate their business model before investing so much in it and under-estimated the “last mile” problem. Zappos could have gone off and built distribution centers, a large database of footwear, and inventory systems for shipping shoes. Contrast this to Zappos. Lean startup engineering.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. For more rigorous, bottoms-up sizing exercises I suggest tools such as Statista and the United States Census Bureau (also their North American Industry Classification System database) to help identify more specific data.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

I could not be happier that O’Connor and her team are engaging the broader community and building the logic model that will become the basis for Austin’s Smart City transformation with transparency and with an authentic and holistic approach that includes a comprehensive examination of these (6) topic areas.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 22, 2012

In relation to your business, these features include the Financial Metrics you've achieved and Business Assets you've built. How has your business performed financially? Systems - Who does what in your business? Otherwise, how are they going to get a return on their investment?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

How you approach it will depend on your business model and ideal accounts and how (or if) you plan to expand campaigns. Does your company clearly understand current CAC , LTV, CAC payback period, and other core growth metrics? Trigger: Use a contact database to find out where organizations are at in their development (e.g.,

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

But with so many investors still licking their wounds from the dot-com bust, many focused on proven business models, such as advertising or e-commerce. The general rule is one business model drives the business. As it happened, we did end up pursuing all three lines of business.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2021

Sorry, but ABM is not B2B, nor is it right for all markets, business models, or companies (just like every company should not be running freemium aka PLG for acquisition.) Is ABM right for your business? They then use the IP address coming to your website and try to match to a database of known ‘companies & people’.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

TripAdvisor may be one of the most fascinating companies I know and so I was excited to dig into their business model as part of my series on scaling. TripAdvisor is more of a classic consumer Internet success story, but with even more powerful network effects and an amazing business model. Henry Harteveldt, Forrester.

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conversionxl.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Startups rarely survive by guessing, and can only create products and business models based on facts about their target market. Existing companies can segment their email database to reveal their most loyal customers. That was the metric that really told us we needed to start over.” Pivot the product entirely.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

So that means stuff like thinking about what a business model might be, it does mean customer development. Bob: I’ve come around to the opinion that the metric of how many people join X service is pretty worthless when it comes to monetization. They have 27 business units. You may not have that data in the database.

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andrewchenblog.com

JANUARY 28, 2010

Check out my list of featured essays How to create a profitable Freemium startup (spreadsheet model included!) Comments Click to download Freemium spreadsheet Background on this discussion Last year, the stupendous Daniel James co-hosted a talk with me on Lifetime Value metrics for subscription and virtual goods-based items.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 22, 2011

You'll use Excel or a simple database (or possibly the data warehouse versions of Omniture, CoreMetrics, WebTrends). <sidebar> This idea comes via Kaiser Fung, from this post: Further thoughts on the Facebook business model. Resist the urge to turn everything into an average, percentage, ratio or a compound metric.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 19, 2017

The metrics aren’t the same and neither are the strategies…they all need to be aligned to create a consistent user experience.”. Even if it’s just one metric, the veracity of everything else is immediately thrown into question. Finding the balance between employee needs and business requirements is key to developing a working system.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

. + Traffic Trends Key Metrics Analysis. Onsite Behavior Key Metrics Analysis. I tend to use Hitwise a lot less, or not at all, because it is a very hard to use, it is slow, the UX/UI, metrics and reports have not really evolved over the years. Traffic Trends Key Metrics Analysis. Visitor/Audience Type Profile Analysis.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

– Mike [link] Reply Jeff Skinner , on May 24, 2010 at 9:28 am said: Steve, you don’t know me though I use your ‘Customer Development process’ video in my classes (Entrepreneurship at London Business School). Jeff skinner Faculty, London Business School. Simple editing. Can we touch base on this.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 17, 2017

Since LawnStarter involves more than the traditional add-to-cart and then complete purchase conversion metrics, they utilize their customer and web data in various channels. They’re a subscription business, so ongoing communications are important. ” A/B Testing Beyond the Landing Page. ” Conclusion.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

The solution provides a live, accurate status of customers’ level of satisfaction, according to metrics that are pre-defined and measured at the time of the customer experience. This unique branded nickname serves for voice access, fax access, SMS, website and email as well as a physical address for Post Office service.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

An additional list of business resources for startups is available here. From premium paid subscription databases to free tools showcasing new startups and startup maps, The Ultimate Startup Intelligence Tools List is guaranteed to help you get your research done. Need a database/back end solution? Small Business tools list.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

“As big businesses begin to measure their impact, they begin to show it is fundamental to their future business models.” A large database that will offer a data-driven understanding of what needs to be done, 2. Sir Ronald Cohen. Cecile Blilious and Leehe Skuler. GITA identifies four points of activities: 1.

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