Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Compensation decisions obviously affect hiring and retention. Kalanick, former investor BFF turned highly disappointed by founder behavior. Usually the founders duke it out among themselves as to titles and responsibilities and relative shareholdings. They also observe who is pulling his or her weight and who is not.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

At Hustle Fund, we back both first time founders as well as repeat founders. One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. You will use your fridge for a decade or more so the retention here is high.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

At Hustle Fund, we back both first time founders as well as repeat founders. One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. You will use your fridge for a decade or more so the retention here is high.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Richard Ma , CEO and Co-Founder at Quantstamp , says, “We focus on helping our customers stay safe and succeed because our philosophy is that technology is only a tool to solve people’s problems.” The Forrest Four-Cast: February 20, 2020 Quantstamp is a Y Combinator-backed company building the standard in blockchain cybersecurity.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 17, 2011

I put in these particular elements because I did a study of the reasons people cancel at WP Engine , and these are the main reasons for cancellation. For a quality-service company like WP Engine a high cancellation rate is a sign of terminal cancer even if acquisition rates are also increasing, so this metric isn’t useful to us.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

What makes this tricky is that markets evolve, and an innovative technology or business model can transform a normal market into a Glengarry Glen Ross market. Google realized that being the way to find the world’s information was a blitzscalable market, thanks to the network effects in its AdWords revenue engine.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

What matters is proving the viability of the company’s business model, what investors call “traction.&# It should be even more important to the founders themselves, because it demonstrates that their business hypothesis is grounded in reality. This is an incredible skill, one that most engineers overlook.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 18, 2019

Innovation drives media attention and fosters customer retention rate, which is why most companies strive to have it in their mission statement. One of the companies that I admire is United Wholesale Mortgage(UWM) for their innovative business model. But the human engine- the customer service, is what thrills me.

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Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

Are there types of companies, market segments, industries, or business models where PLG does not make sense? It's very hard for PLG to be the only or main motion with infrastructure products because it's not something one engineer will just test and buy. What should the founder avoid if they want to implement PLG?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2021

Note that if you’re familiar with the business model canvas, Steps 1-4 below are equivalent to a visual map of the choices a founder makes as they develop a business model canvas. In other words, you prove retention. With both growth and retention, you earn the right to build more.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. I began my business in 2014 because, well, it was just time. 20 – To Blend A Beautiful Business Model. I started my business with my fiancé because of our combined skills and experiences. 12 – It was Just Time.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

What most founders don’t realize is: Every stage of a startup requires a different set of metrics and milestones and founder skills. Knowing these will help a founder position her pitch to get investors’ attention. Founders need to keep their eye on the prize — not just the next funding round. Business Model.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2013

She’s the founder and Creative Director at Xanadu, a mobile strategy and design consultancy helping to guide app developers to success in a rapidly-changing, often chaotic mobile ecosystem. For less technical developers, I''ll be covering some methods and tools to get functional prototypes built with less dependency on engineering know-how.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

What Are The Mechanics Of A Business Growth Engine? KISSmetrics also segments their data to find their customer’s company size, industry, business model. According to Harvard Business School , increasing customer retention rates by 5% increases profits anywhere from 25-95%. Are you SaaS?

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

He is, like all of us, an online speaker, coach, consultant, podcaster; but he’s also the founder of WP Elevation , which is the world’s largest business community for WordPress consultants. I started out as a consultant, where I would literally be under the hood tuning the engine and fixing the things for the clients.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 14, 2009 Business ecology and the four customer currencies Lately, I’ve been rethinking the concept of “business model&# for startups, in favor of something I call “business ecology.&# Constructing a working business model is a form of ecosystem design.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Many founders have to turn to brute force to figure it out, even when they themselves don’t have practitioner product management experience. When you have extremely limited engineering resources, it’s even more critical to stay focused and clearly set your priorities. Post-PMF: Key milestones the business needs to hit (e.g.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Product/Metrics (70%/30% time) * Get your product activation (sign-up + meaningful action) to 60% * then, Get your product retention to 20% weekly. Whats is the best way to find a co-founder for your startup? If you’re looking for a designer, engineer, or biz marketing guy – go to meetups / conferences that those people would go to.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 10, 2015

However, the next evolution of the subscription commerce will become the curated subscription business model. The concept is, rather than simply sending a random assortment of products in a box, the customer tells you what their preference is and you as the business tailor each box specifically towards them. 2) Facebook Ads.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 28, 2018

Moran’s entrepreneurial spirit was evident as he built the original business around automotive resale & wholesale and eventually saw the need for automotive and transmission parts and repair services. How did you come up with your business name? Moran is the family name of our co-founders Dennis Moran and Barbara Moran Goodrich.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

” Our featured speaker was Caroline Cummings, the VP of Business Development at Palo Alto Software. As the former co-founder and CEO of two technology companies, Caroline has experienced both start-up failures and successes, and has raised close to $1 million in investment capital. Where do you look? This is what we track.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 13, 2017

He is the CEO and co-founder of growthhackers.com and he’s also the co-author of “Hacking Growth” – how today’s fastest growing companies drive break out success. That’s another really important part of actually building that engine is one, how do you quantify that value? So Sean, thanks for joining me.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

For the first-time entrepreneur or founder looking for seed stage funding, this circle can be especially difficult to penetrate. Brad Feld: Feld is co-founder and managing director of Foundry Group, a Boulder, Colorado venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments ranging from $250,000 to $500,000.

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ithacaVC

DECEMBER 1, 2012

The investing community believes that the Internet is hitting education, that education is having its Internet moment,” says Jose Ferreira , founder of interactive-learning company Knewton. In 2011 alone, venture capitalists invested $429.1 million in 82 education technology deals, an increase from $334.3 million and 58 deals the year before.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

SEL and Gamification ( link ) Using Authentic Student Stories to Reach Students ( link ) Personal sensors: seeing through engineered eyes (link) Developing US EdTech in International Markets ( link ) Opportunity vs. Achievement: Framing the Gap ( link ) How Do We Get (and Keep) More Girls in STEM? link ) Got feedback?

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2019

Go beyond standard sources of voice of customer data ; better options are: Interview founders (the original “customers”); Thank-you page surveys; Usertesting.com; Mine sales calls; Mine support tickets; Mine Facebook comments ; Mine online reviews. Founder interviews can find the story, the value proposition , and the big idea.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Home Books for Startups Guide Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Tools Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Email Subscription Get Steve Blank via your RSS Feed RSS - Posts RSS - Comments Categories Air Force (12) Ardent (10) Audubon (1) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (39) Business Model versus Business Plan (..)

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

.” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Google Custom Search Engine. Google App Engine. Search Engine Optimization Tools.

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