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Designing Products from Scratch: An Interview with UX Leader Josh Porter

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In terms of channels, word-of-mouth has always been the most powerful channel for What to Wear. But Twitter was another channel I used during that time. For example, if you’re monthly growth goal is 5%, and last month was only 3.5%, then that’s what you should focus on (and improve features/campaigns related to growth).

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Accelerator Spotlight: nudgem

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Stelios Kapandais (SK): eCommerce retailers have historically leaned on paid digital marketing channels to acquire new customers. Rachel Hodes (RH): What problem exists in the market that your business is trying to solve? . RH: Who are your customers?

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Back to The Future: Power of SMS-Native

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Instead they limit what channels they actually pay attention to. On the commercial side, increasingly ecommerce retailers have started to use SMS as a two-way communications channel with their customers. A SMS interaction which is deeply emotional, and feels personal, because of the intimacy of the channel. They don’t.

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Marketing Your Startup: A Billion-Dollar Company’s First Marketer Reflects Back

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Then there were also certain social channels that worked for awhile but didn’t stick. For awhile, that channel was a share option on all our blog posts, and we tried paying for stumbles for some campaigns. I don’t want to put all my trust just into one channel because that’s too risky.

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Advice On How To Make Your First Analytics Hire

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In general, when a startup is young with relatively simple operations, Finance is an easier function to outsource as the work requires less company-specific knowledge, agility, and database access (you’re closing the books monthly, not monitoring marketing campaigns or product experiments weekly). When to make your first analytics hire.

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Value Inflection Points for Seed-Stage Startups

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Launch a successful Kickstarter campaign. The fact that at least a few customers (and one channel partner) would sign on with such a rudimentary product was an interesting indication that the question above would be solvable for this business. These might include: Bring on a technical co-founder. Get a working version of the product.

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Building for Massive Mobile Success: An Ex-Bleacher Report PM on Creating Their Hit App

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Whereas ESPN only promotes ESPN content in their app and other channels, we could include the big, national outlets plus local coverage, social media discussion, and more. Bleacher Report and Team Stream were always built on the idea of curating information and the best sports stories from across the web.

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