Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

And if you’re lucky and hit product/market fit straight out of the gate – awesome. But if you don’t – now you have many cynical VCs lining up critiquing your CAC/LTV ratios, your churn rates, your poor performing cohorts. Money when you find product / market fit is an extreme differentiator.

Churn Rate 150

Churn Rate Silicon Valley Brazil Valuation 150

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2016

Or you can be working to improve your product or service. If you focus on the things that work, you’ll be more efficient and productive, and you’ll see meaningful impact to your bottom line. And although it might seem smart to have a huge site selling as many products as possible, the opposite is often true.

Small Business 48

Small Business Churn Rate Advertising Social Media 48

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2017

One characteristic remains: the products subscription businesses can provide, ranging from magazine subscriptions to literally anything, can appear on a customer’s doorstep every day, week, month or year. Simply, pick amazing products, package and advertise them nicely, send them out and you’re done for a month. Eco products.

Churn Rate 134

Churn Rate eCommerce Business Model Bootstrapping 134

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Knapp talks about focusing on only the essential activities for shipping new products and testing new ideas. Using my existing skills and resources (including an old domain name), I tested a productized digital PR offer. These days, many agencies start as a lean operation. And so, the concept for a digital PR service was born.

PR 120

PR B2B Lean Audience 120

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 21, 2013

Lean Analytics is the latest addition to the Lean Series. Similarly, a two-sided marketplace cares about different things from a traditional e-commerce product. Here's what they have to say about churn rates in SaaS businesses: The best SaaS sites or applications usually have churn ranging from 1.5%

Analytics 167

Analytics Lean Metrics Churn Rate 167

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

But if you’re writing a plan as an internal guide for strategic growth, you should consider a lighter version— a Lean Plan. A Lean Plan can also serve as an initial plan that helps you think through all the aspects of starting your business. Solution : How does your box and the products it contains solve that problem?

Business Plan 63

Business Plan Curation Balance Sheet Intellectual Property 63

Up and Running

APRIL 27, 2012

These same entrepreneurs read blog posts by Mark Suster, Nic Brisbourne, Eric Ries, and perhaps even Steve Blank, while wholeheartedly embracing the Lean Start-up methodology. Finally, you’ll want to ensure that the percentage of visitors that get to your product pages in the first place is high.

Metrics 68

Metrics Nigeria Ratchet Churn Rate 68

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Automation allows you to spend less time on tedious tasks and will help boost productivity, especially within a small marketing team. Russell Rothstein, Founder and CEO, IT Central Station , a product review site, said, “We see VCs on our site very often. They read reviews of the products of target investments.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

But notice what’s not listed: messages sent per person, churn rates of active users, or activation rate of new user. Most of the article is about the features – new and old – of the product. For understanding what’s really going on with a product, this alternate form is far superior.

San Francisco 154

San Francisco Metrics Lean PR 154

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? Building Product 2. Or should I launch products and a startup for each of them, focusing on only 1 product at a time?

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

Not only because it’s a product that Bplans and Palo Alto software makes, but because before I joined the company, I used LivePlan to pitch and raise my investment capital. When they fund you, they know that they have to believe that you can also go out and sell the product. Are you saving them time? Are you saving lives?

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Software Review Due Diligence Exit Strategy 60