Austin Startup
OCTOBER 24, 2017
The report offers engagement, retention, and monetization insights from 572 Financial Services, SaaS, eCommerce, and Media/Entertainment apps, with 1.3b With over 20k customers running 250k apps, they’ve got a brought data set to pull from, so I was very excited to hear the results of their benchmarking. On the other side, though, ugh.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 11, 2014
“Growth hacking perpetuates this myth that you can magically achieve hockey-stick growth by using short-term “hacks.” “ I have always encouraged teams to think about growth as daily blocking-and-tackling rather than a dark art. I laughed as I did at much of his rant. He even used some terminology near and dear to my heart.
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Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 14, 2009
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? This may sound crazy, coming as it does from an advocate of c harging customers for your product from day one. They are gaining valuable customer data.
Ben's Blog
JULY 20, 2011
When I ran Opsware, we had the non-linear quarter problem also known affectionately as the hockey stick. The hockey stick refers to the shape of the revenue graph over the course of a quarter. Our hockey stick was so bad that one quarter, we booked 90% of our new bookings on the last day of the quarter.
Software By Rob
SEPTEMBER 17, 2013
VC companies need hockey stick growth. Let’s say you have a bootstrapped SaaS product and you get 20 new customers in January, 10 in February, and 15 in March. You now have 45 customers paying you every month. Retention can be relational. Well, not when you’re a bootstrapper.
Hippoland
AUGUST 8, 2018
One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. Forget about traction and hockey stick growth. Very simply, your cost to acquire a customer needs to be lower than the value of that customer (lifetime value).
Hippoland
AUGUST 8, 2018
One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. Forget about traction and hockey stick growth. Very simply, your cost to acquire a customer needs to be lower than the value of that customer (lifetime value).
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