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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

What matters is proving the viability of the company’s business model, what investors call “traction.&# Of course this is not at all true of many profitable small businesses, but they are not what I mean by startups.) Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. And yet, their investors are frustrated.

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Webinar Recap: 14 Tips on How to Pitch and Get Funded

Up and Running

Every model, it doesn’t matter what you are. Food, technology, bioscience, services, you need to know the metrics for your model. These are the metrics for the SaaS model that we have. If you’re sure … Peter I think you need to mute yourself again. You want to explain those inflection points.

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CXL Live 2019 Recap: Takeaways from Every Speaker

ConversionXL

There are tons of metrics you can monitor: Conversion rate; Bounce rate ; Click-through rate ; Pageviews; Lead captures; Purchase conversion rate. Setting up your experiments for success: Define success metrics. When I started out, I felt uncomfortable basing large business decisions on data from a tool. Do your research!