Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2014

On teams I have a framework for tech teams “ CTO vs. VP Eng ” or on sales I have “ Journeymen, Mavericks & Superstars ” 5. Retention “ Don’t Roll out the Red Carpet on the Way out the Door ” 8. On investment strategies I have “ Deflationary Economics ” 6.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2010

This aligns with understanding the the core business model: Get Users (= Acquisition, Referral) Drive Usage (= Activation, Retention) Make Money (= Monetize) (and Lifetime Value is a good one) Of course, that’s a big part of what the investor wants as well. Part of those questions are around Startup Metrics.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

SAS Canada “customer champions” helped the firm restore declining customer retention rates—which had fallen as low as the mid-80s percent — back to the firm’s traditional high retention rates of 97-98 percent. That alone gives you far more valuable knowledge than the usual outside ‘influencer.’.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 8, 2017

Todd McGuire is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of startup incentaHEALTH and we had to the opportunity to hear from him about starting business, the future of the company and what entrepreneurship means to him. I am the co-founder and CTO of the digital health care company incentaHEALTH. Tell us your story: .

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

competitiveness, catalyze the creation and retention of U.S. Working closely with the US Chief Technology Officer, the US Chief Information Officer, and an array of agencies, the Open Data Initiatives team has launched and is continuing to scale open data efforts in Health, Energy, Education, Finance, Public Safety, and Global Development.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Anthony Favazza, CEO of DiningCircle has hired a CTO that will be overseeing a rebuild of our product in early 2012. "We Since joining the program, he has seen an increase in ad sales and also received new investment capital.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 31, 2011

If you know your team is doing 3-5 phone interviews a day, have a half hour or an hour blocked out each afternoon or right after work as the CTO that can be booked by others for interviews. Keep in mind, though, that retention is just as important. Be quick to hire, and quick to fire. Hires - Touchdown!

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

SXSW Panel: Elevating Blacks in Tech Rodney Sampson (@rodneysampson) | Twitter Mark Mathewson Managing VP & CTO Small Business & Canada Technology Capital One Mark is immensely passionate about diversity, especially in the technology industry. As the third U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. When you account for competition for talent, the difficulty of retention, the cost of living and the difficulty of rising above the noise – there are many advantages of staying put. But who else is going to get out there and close your big biz dev deals with you?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?)

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2018

If you presented on your own but have a very talented CTO perhaps your follow up is to bring by your CTO to show why the tech you’ve built is truly unique. If it was a first meeting and you felt you got engagement you might ask for a second meeting which could be just with that person or perhaps to meet one of his or her colleagues.

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www.avc.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

The first bracket is the senior management team; the CFO, Chief Revenue Officer/VP Sales, Chief Marketing Officer/VP Marketing, Chief Product Officer/VP Product, CTO, VP Eng, Chief People Officer/VP HR, General Counsel, and anyone else on the senior team.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Judah Phillips, the co-founder and CTO of Vizadata and founder of SmartCurrent , explained: We already live in a world of “real-time” predictive analytics. The resulting visualization shows the tool’s prediction performance and correlations between datasets and retention. A world of real-time predictions.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 16, 2018

For decades, people were hired based on a recruiter’s six-second impression of a resume, leading to a dismal ~50% retention rate after the first year and documented bias against women, minorities and people with a lower SES. The Future of AI and Hiring. AI is revolutionizing the way we manage talent. People spend 2.5

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 26, 2004

On the panel you had representatives of RedHat, MySQl, and JBoss combined with the perspective of a large IT buyer, the CTO of Goldman Sachs. The interesting point was served up by Michael Dubno, CTO of Goldman Sachs. While I will not fill you in on all of the gory details, one thread did stand out in my mind.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

So if you called for a phone upgrade but didn’t close we help the phone company retarget you on Facebook or if you called with a product complaint we can feed you into the customer’s retention marketing program. And my friend and Invoca co-founder Colin Kelley has done both. Some start, some scale, some can do both.

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adamac.blogspot.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Ever met a CTO/VP Engineering or CEO/CTO? If youre highly technical and drive the technology vision of the company, people will get it without you tacking on the CTO title. Maybe there were layoffs, which isnt a great sign, but it probably indicates a serious retention (i.e. Yeah me neither. leadership) problem.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2011

Yair Goldfinger, co-founder and CTO of Dotomi and a prominent Israeli angel investor, founded Dotomi back in 2000, following the acquisition of ICQ by AOL. If you’ve ever felt like an ad is ‘following’ you around sites, you probably got exposed to Dotomi’s technology or that of his Israeli competitor, Mythings.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

As the CTO/VP Engineering, I was the worst offender. Our challenge is in the customer retention, and we're in the process of doing segment pivot to validate our hypothesis that the other market segment has longer retention. Thats why its so essential to have a co-equal problem team. June 23, 2009 9:55 AM LKsaid.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

After putting in $45,000 of his own money — a large chunk of which was an inheritance — Livingston rounded up an initial team, that included co-founder Chris Best, who is now Kik CTO, and got to work on the service. Not only is the company small, but the startup’s retention rate is near zero. Over the 4.5

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 8, 2009

R : Retention - do they come back & re-visit over time? These are captured fairly well by his slide: The beauty of what he's defined is the relationship between retention and referral efforts and lifetime value. A : Activation - what % have a "happy" initial experience? R : Referral - do they like it enough to tell their friends?

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OnlyOnce

DECEMBER 18, 2013

It’s always great to hear people say that they’d do their jobs even if they weren’t paid to, but the reality of post-lottery-jackpot job retention rates suggests otherwise. When every member of your executive team – including your CTO – is rewarded for the latter, it’s much easier to set goals as a company.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

For GA360 users, CXL Agency CTO, Silver Ringvee, had this to say: If you are an enterprise marketer, working with Google Analytics 360, then you should keep in mind that there is still very little information on the 360 version of GA4. Here are a few examples of the visual differences: Overview. Image source ). Image source ). All Events.

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Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

You're really getting enough early users to help you validate to achieve a certain level of retention rate. You do a little bit of acquisition and then you have users to work with on retention, activation, monetization, etc. They’re the CEO, they’re the CTO, they never are interested in testing out the product as well.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Revenue is always my preferred measure, but you can use anything that is important to your business: retention, activation, viral invites, or even customer satisfaction in the form of something like net promoter score. If an optimization has an effect at the micro level that doesnt translate into the macro level - who cares?

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Ted Serbinski: Angel investor Ted Serbinski sold his startup MothersClick to Lifetime in 2008 and joined the cable network as CTO of the ParentsClick Network. View More » Jobs Director of Marketing and Retention a. Craig is currently the CEO and founder of stealth-ish startup BetterWorks. MTV Launches Interactive Visualizatio.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Why You Should Write. Your service: the game. Status / reputation. People want status. It's human nature," he writes.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 7, 2009

How will the other user interface possibly help us with acquisition, retention and referral? What other user interface opportunities do we have? What sites, devices, applications are our users going to be already using? By asking these questions, almost invariably we begin to see the product design in a bit different way….

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

So, and then the second thing is like, occasionally, a lot of people would assume I'm a technical, like CTO of a company. So we had managed to provide a really modern healthcare experience with very high NPS score, very high retention, while still having a very strong provider experience. I've heard that story from a lot of folks.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

That’s going to help you put your financials together, and it’s also going to help because everybody loses customers, so in your model you have to be able to say what the retention rate is of that customer as well, and the churn rate. How many people are going to leave? Then referral rates and opt-out rates. This is what we track.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

I think the real moral of this story is, (1) if you want to work at a startup, make sure the CTO cares about problem solving and not technology religion, (2) if you’re cooking steaks on a gas grill and you see your CTO warming up a dead squirrel over a book of matches, starting looking for a new job. My response: [link].

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