Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2013

The emergence of social networking and the Internet has caused a new focus and value on “openness,” which leads to a new element of leadership, called “Open Leadership.” The mantra of open leadership is “Be Open, Be Transparent, and Be Authentic.” Conversing: engaging in a dialogue with others. Distributed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2012

The emergence of social networking and the Internet has caused a new focus and value on “openness,” which leads to a new element of leadership, called “Open Leadership.” The mantra of open leadership is “Be Open, Be Transparent, and Be Authentic.” Conversing: engaging in a dialogue with others. Distributed.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 25, 2022

How to they use the new distribution channels competitors have adopted? How do they make these transitions without alienating and losing their existing customers, distribution channels and partners? After the end of the day people gathered around the firepit for informal conversations. Give the Topic Areas a Common Framework.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Content marketing is a strategic marketing approach focused on creating and distributing valuable, relevant, and consistent content to attract and retain a clearly-defined audience — and, ultimately, to drive profitable customer action.” [via Explore buyer motivations with the Jobs-To-Be-Done framework. With content marketing.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Marketers can use this framework to evaluate the risks associated with different growth strategies. Strategic alliances with other brands to develop offerings or leverage each others’ distribution channels. In most cases, an organization’s leadership sets the company’s revenue, market share, and goals. Market penetration.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Priorities and strategies change as a company grows – starting with finding product-market fit after a seed round to figuring out distribution between Series A and Series B. They have been the leaders for the company since the start and now need to build a leadership team around them. And that brings us to the B Round.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

The same goes for your sales conversations; why did new leads seek you out, and what objections do you hear during the sales process? Uncovering popular articles and conversations will show you what people are most interested in, which is useful for “seeding” your content research. Collect data sources for quantitative insights.

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Board Effect

JUNE 25, 2023

A growing number of people are deciding where to put their time, money and energy based not only on the goals of a nonprofit, but also its commitment to environmental sustainability, leadership, employee diversity and other social responsibility issues. An organization with a social justice mission only has white men in leadership positions.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Ryan has made it his mission to lead businesses towards unprecedented growth through this unique approach, and during our conversation, he generously shared the secrets behind his successful strategies. Like, no, you still need to walk in with a framework. Most people, they don't have a framework. I service guy.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Here’s a rundown of the frameworks, their functions, and the benefits and challenges of each. In decentralized (or “embedded”) teams, optimization responsibilities are distributed amongst employees under many different umbrellas within the organization, rather than one department. Should optimization folks be in a separate team?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 8, 2023

10:28] Is there a framework for effective internal communication that really benefits from working remotely? [12:54] 22:46] Talking about unmanagement as a new leadership style. Is this something that will need to be taught and built into leadership training? 08:34] Are there cons to working remotely? Like this show?

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 12, 2018

To assess the State of the Conversion Optimization Industry in 2018, we gave a 26 question survey to 701 people who work in the optimization space. Female CROs seem to be younger; they’re equally distributed in the age groups 20–30 and 30–40. Does your team have a conversion optimization process that you follow?

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

Frameworks for businesses during a crisis. Each study, however, offers a framework to help with decision making. Our CRO team uses ResearchXL , which is a comprehensive framework for identifying test ideas, though its methods apply broadly. Flexibility is essential for decision making and leadership, too. Survey design.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 19, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The management framework that propelled LinkedIn to a $20 billion company – [link]. Find More Customers for Your B2B SaaS Product with These 5 Distribution Hacks – [link].

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 10, 2017

In this 2017 State of the Conversion Optimization Report, we gave a 26 question survey to 333 people who work in the optimization space. Here’s the distribution of ages: Most of our survey responses came from the United States, but there was a long tail of countries that actually made up a large portion of our responses. Statistics.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 3, 2012

I wanted to come up with a simple framework that companies could use to self-diagnose the sophistication of their digital marketing strategy. I met with the senior leadership of a multi-billion dollar company (think alcoholic beverages). " framework with you. But nothing magical had come to me. That changed recently.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Lowering/increasing the cost of engineering personnel doesn’t affect this model (although the trend over the last two decades has been to dramatically lower the cost of developing a software product: open source libraries, Moore’s Law, Internet distribution/SaaS are three big drivers).

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 10, 2017

In this 2017 State of the Conversion Optimization Report, we gave a 26 question survey to 333 people who work in the optimization space. Here’s the distribution of ages: Most of our survey responses came from the United States, but there was a long tail of countries that actually made up a large portion of our responses. Statistics.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Step 3: Assisted Conversions. To illustrate this, in the space I had available on the slide I was projecting, I shared some sense of effort/skills/time that might be required to take one step up… You can see that the initial elements are pretty small, then things get complicated, but it is not an even distribution.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Business Model Affects Metrics and Exit Criteria Web-based Business Model Exit Criteria In a web-business model you’re looking for traffic, users, conversion, virality, etc – not revenue. Even startups that are dominated by technical risk have the customer validation risk of finding positive ROI distribution in a large market.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 29, 2017

In our 2016 State of Conversion Optimization Report , which many people in growth roles completed as well, we found that… Only 32% of small companies (less than 500 employees) say they have a documented, structured optimization process. To do that, we use prioritization frameworks. Archive and distribute the learnings.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 24, 2020

They also wrote and published a proposal for a Vaccine Manhattan Project that calls on leaders to do more than just the status quo, reminding us all that "History teaches us that combining money with determined leadership can have an extraordinary effect on scientific and human progress. Here is my conversation with Hannu Rajaniemi.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

Finally there were questions we can always count on: setting goals and tracking conversions, justifying analytics and wanting to track the absolutely impossible ( why can't I track people across all devices and all websites? ). What report would you want to see on conversion attribution that would help you decide where to spend??

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

You can listen to our conversation on Apple , Google, or wherever you like to download podcasts. In this conversation, you're going to get to hear from someone who's really doing it. I hope this conversation shows everyone out there what is possible when we act boldly in a crisis. Here's my conversation with Curative.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2016

At the end of this post, I'll share the two that I recommended to the team in our conversation above. If you don't have this, ideally signed in blood by your leadership team and you, then you are just messing around with data. No organization will be born into this 10 | 25 | 65 distribution on day one. Ask for I-A-BI.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

In 2007, he was named the Anne Armstrong Leadership Fellow, a position given annually to the most promising young foreign policy professional. Eric Friedman: This is a great segue to something I was thinking about in preparation for this conversation. That’s why I love conversing with you. Dan has a B.A. On Dan’s Favorite Books.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 2, 2012

I'm convinced that the resulting problems (confusion, FUD, angst, daily prayers, and wasted budget) are due to the lack of a clear framework that can help clearly define the problem. In this post my hope is share a framework that will help define the problem clearly. " Clarity will help foster a valuable conversation.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers. startupcto

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

My two cents is that a business plan is the single place to collect your thinking about about your: business model, distribution channel, demand creation plan, financial assumptions, and customer and product development plan. If you are outside of Silicon Valley, you ought to jump into them with both feet. You’ll learn a lot.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2014

Site Conversion Rate. Here is what the allocation looks like for organizations that are empowering Analysis Ninjas… What does your effort distribution look like? Now that you understand the overall distribution of effort, I want to place a fine point on one facet of work that is truly Analysis Ninja work: Data Visualization.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Both at improving your digital engagement and acquisition effectiveness, and at weaning your leadership away from the shiny hollow demo/psycho obsession. In this case, a simple distribution of overall search traffic and the amount that is coming via paid search. It shows Traffic Share and distribution of the share.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

What’s the best way to increase conversions? Their distribution and relationship are based on empirical data.”. Adventurers – love nonconformity, spontaneity and leadership. But what happens, is we look at the distribution of those who associate the brand/product with “power,” and then try to demonstrate those traits.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 31, 2017

The stakes for this output are higher when we are in front of the Senior Leadership of any company, we have but a few minutes to communicate what we have to. And, the conversation shifts from discussing the twelve month trends and the green/gray bars and excuses about advantages of the Market Leader. Hence my two obsessions above.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

Well of course we’re focusing on this and that, and you can take a lot of times with frameworks or whatever, I say that doesn’t matter. I’m not going to read this to you, but swat, core competence and et cetera, these are ideas and the goal is focus and I really don’t care what framework. How important is that?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

You can listen to our conversation on Apple , Google , or wherever you like to download podcasts. In addition, the transcript of my conversation with Sydney, Ryan and Frank is below. We could do a whole conversation just about the spiritual implications of it. And so I think that we're doing the work right now. Eric Ries : Okay.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 12, 2012

We have even more types of data, becoming ever more complex, distributed across multiple existences, and we are left with the task of parsing out terabytes of noise to get to a megabyte of signal. Did you find the framework to be of value? Here's the "bigger web analytics data" picture from 2007… Multiplicity!

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Sooner or later, using PHP or RoR or.Net or some Java framework, that 0.5x Catalin Braescu • Nov 15, 2010 this rockstar conversation is nonsense - the more experienced the more hurdles will be created imbo. Leadership and management ability. The leadership teams at my companies had a broad set of capabilities.

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