Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2019

How does any entrepreneur define the right balance, and then measure their performance against real metrics? Most customers today won’t pay you five times the cost of alternatives, just because yours is “green.” That’s a win-win business for the customer and the entrepreneur. The whole can be greater than the sum of the parts.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Applied to APIs, if there is an API strategy then it means that API is the product in-and-of-itself. In other words, the API is the target of a distinct business and opportunity (with its own metrics), which will then have a range of tactics to support it. In this sense, the API was transitioning from a product to a tactic.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2019

Just because you dream it and build it, doesn’t mean they will come – that encompasses not only customers, but also investors, partners, team members, and even your own family. A debt repaid before it is asked for reaps a huge dividend in trust. They won’t come if they don’t trust you. Never make people ask.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

In my experience, the majority of changes we made to products have no effect at all on customer behavior. Thats when this approach can pay huge dividends. The report is set up to show you what happened to customers who registered in that period (a so-called cohort analysis ). First of all, why split-test?

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 7, 2023

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

How does any entrepreneur define the right balance, and then measure their performance against real metrics? Most customers today won’t pay you five times the cost of alternatives, just because yours is “green.” That’s a win-win business for the customer and the entrepreneur. The whole can be greater than the sum of the parts.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 7, 2017

Does this expense drive customer satisfaction? For example, it’s not surprising that when store shelves are flooded with new products launched in pursuit of incremental market share and sales, supply chain suffers. Does this expense build relationships (instead of transactions) with customers? As Hershey’s CEO J.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2017

How does any entrepreneur define the right balance, and then measure their performance against real metrics? Most customers today won’t pay you five times the cost of alternatives, just because yours is “green.” That’s a win-win business for the customer and the entrepreneur. The whole can be greater than the sum of the parts.

Green 137

Green Dividend Angel Investor Global 137

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

Just because you dream it and build it, doesn’t mean they will come – that encompasses not only customers, but also investors, partners, team members, and even your own family. A debt repaid before it is asked for reaps a huge dividend in trust. They won’t come if they don’t trust you. Never make people ask.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2013

How does any entrepreneur define the right balance, and then measure their performance against real metrics? Most customers today won’t pay you five times the cost of alternatives, just because yours is “green.” That’s a win-win business for the customer and the entrepreneur. The whole can be greater than the sum of the parts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2017

Just because you dream it and build it, doesn’t mean they will come – that encompasses not only customers, but also investors, partners, team members, and even your own family. A debt repaid before it is asked for reaps a huge dividend in trust. They won’t come if they don’t trust you. Never make people ask.

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Dividend Metrics Entrepreneur Partner 145

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2013

Just because you dream it and build it, doesn’t mean they will come – that encompasses not only customers, but also investors, partners, team members, and even your own family. A debt repaid before it is asked for reaps a huge dividend in trust. They won’t come if they don’t trust you. Never make people ask.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Five major elements of every business include your people, product, opportunity, money and marketing. Innovative products and services always take longer to develop than anticipated, and quality problems pop up where least expected. Written product specifications and business plans pay big dividends.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

I owe it originally to lean manufacturing books like Lean Thinking and Toyota Production System. The batch size is the unit at which work-products move between stages in a development process. Similar results apply in product management, design, testing, and even operations. For software, the easiest batch to see is code.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

This value-based model bringing all the right customers to their yard is called demand generation. Stage 1: Target the right metrics for an effective long game. But when executed right, it pays dividends. Metrics for your demand generation funnel. Your number one metric for any marketing initiative should be revenue.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 19, 2009 Inc Magazine on Minimum Viable Product (and a response) Inc Magazine has a great new piece up about the increasing use of the Minimum Viable Product by businesses (and not just startups). Like many companies, TPGTEX rolls out new products several times a year.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2013

The first month of customer discovery for most of their initiatives relied too much on conversations within the Princeton University community itself (fellow students, faculty and admin). Align and train mentors to embrace customer development. If you do, my bet is on these talented, motivated and well-prepared undergraduates.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 6, 2010

In a world where we are overwhelmed with data and metrics and key performance indicators and reports and dashboards and. To share with you three custom reports that I find to be super valuable when I am doing web data analysis. I love custom reports. That's my plan for this blog post. Consider yourself fully forewarned!

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

They buy your product. Then they receive your product. With crowdfunding, the end product doesn’t even exist. In this article on stock photos , I described a study illustrating that power: “ Bateson, Nettle, & Roberts (2006) provided customers with an unsupervised ‘honesty box’ to pay for their lunch. Done and done.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

While one may see profits as a success, others may view it as customer satisfaction, employee retention, or innovation. A slower growth company can easily return higher dividends to its shareholders compared with a higher growth one, where profits are constantly reinvested. Photo Credit: Liz Grossman Kitoyi.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 1, 2022

95% of B2B buyers are not ready to buy your product right now. They’re having conversations with colleagues, researching on social media, and listening to podcasts about the product or industry and learning where your brand fits in. It’s an acknowledgment of the changing customer experience. Social media platforms (e.g.,

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Giff is a repeat entrepreneur whose companies include Neo, a product innovation consulting firm where he worked with organizations like the Mayo Clinic and Time, Inc. We recently spoke about customer discovery, experiments, and his writing habits and process. This small investment pays dividends with speed and better decisions.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 2, 2017

In this light, high quality business training becomes as critical as product training. Customer success guru Lincoln Murphy talks about the ideal customer profile. Chris Samila from Optimizely shares his experience: “As the product matures, ideal partner profile may change. Who are your best customers?

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 2, 2017

In this light, high quality business training becomes as critical as product training. Customer success guru Lincoln Murphy talks about the ideal customer profile. Chris Samila from Optimizely shares his experience: “As the product matures, ideal partner profile may change. Who are your best customers?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

Five Why’s rarely works for general abstract problems like “our product is buggy&# or “our team moves too slow.&# When customers are affected, try to have someone who experienced the customer problem first-hand, like the customer service rep who took the calls from angry customers.

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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?

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ConversionXL

MARCH 22, 2013

The company is implementing both a responsive design and a tablet-optimized catalog to boost their mobile and tablet conversions, and clearly its paying dividends. Then, after deploying the responsive conditions to the already live site, they monitored the same metrics for another three weeks. Transactions increased by 112.50%.

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ConversionXL

JULY 6, 2021

In this guide, you’ll learn how to make your ads budget go further, whether your products are right for LinkedIn, and how to measure your success. A LinkedIn Ads strategy for better ROI: Advertise high-value products and services. The products or services that do (and don’t) work for LinkedIn Ads. Do work: High-ticket items.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 28, 2009

They have a product that has a moderate number of customers. Its well done, looks professional, and the customers that use it like it a lot. Still, theyre not really hitting it out of the park, because their product isnt growing new users as fast as theyd like, and they arent making any money from the current users.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 79

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Let's reopen without protection for workers and customers. The political opposition at that time had a conscious strategy that if they opposed something, then it couldn't be bipartisan by definition, and therefore he couldn't be a success by that metric that he, himself, had laid out as a marker. I'm Eric Ries. I'm saying we need jobs.

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