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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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

When buying, evaluate the development languages your acquisition is built on to understand how complex the integration process will be. Product development and maintenance are important, but you’ll also need customer support when you launch your new product, featureset, or conduct a handover.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 12, 2023

Companies can improve their efficiency, productivity, and responsiveness with the aid of these solutions. Companies can reallocate resources back into core business activities and new product development by streamlining IT operations. This calls for cutting-edge creations, first-rate support, and savvy advertising.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Easy does it: The right CRM can work magic, serving as a single platform that can span across the entire breadth of an organization — sharing information and providing value for customer service, sales, product development, management, operations and more. Time to Act With Analytics.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 24, 2017

As Ronny Kohavi , Distinguished Engineer, General Manager, Analysis and Experimentation at Microsoft, put it: Ronny Kohavi: “Experimentation is getting more recognized as essential to guide product development, when it is applicable (not always, as you can see in Section 6 in this paper ). ” Deeper Data Skills.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 17, 2019

The push-pull of entertainment and engagement is a subtle balance, but one which works wonders for audience retention when done right. Quiz content is perfect for cash-strapped startups who demand results for their marketing investment. Brands today are advertising less but producing content more. Why it works. corporations.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

A business model guides an organization to create and deliver products/service and make money from it. It describes the product/service, who is it for, what channel sells/deliver it, how demand is created, how does the company make money, etc. StageGate Process. Corporate KPI’s, Policy and Procedures: Innovation Killers.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

"OMG we spend mmm millions on TV, Radio and Magazines trying to create demand by interrupting people. For the most part we don't even know if they care about us, our products or our ecosystem. First, the company deemphasizes short term win — installs — and emphasizes the long term win — retention.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

You will use your fridge for a decade or more so the retention here is high. I use “sales cycle” loosely – by this I mean the time it takes to get a product paid for, and so this involves both product development and time to get a check from a customer). But, the retention is terrible / non-existent.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

You will use your fridge for a decade or more so the retention here is high. I use “sales cycle” loosely – by this I mean the time it takes to get a product paid for, and so this involves both product development and time to get a check from a customer). But, the retention is terrible / non-existent.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Compensation decisions obviously affect hiring and retention. Is there a development step that you must take to fulfill demand for a particular use case, and, if so, how does that cost get absorbed? Your Product Plan must fit into context of your overall business mission. Are the logistics manageable?

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Imagine having one team optimizing for sign up, another for sign in, another for upselling/cross-merchandising, another for retention, another for engagement. This not only cements the role of optimization within the company, but increases demand for your services across teams as well.”. How is a center of excellence model structured?

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Venture Chronicles

JUNE 29, 2010

Accept has built a set of products for “innovation management&# and while I reflexively gag at the word “innovation&# when applied to large companies, I actually think Accept has the right approach for delivering a solution to the problem of connecting customers with product development.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In other words, the minimum viable product is designed to answer the question: does the product generate enough demand and margin to support a growing ecosystem? What these products all have in common is the question their minimum viable product is attempting to answer: does this product have high natural retention built-in?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

The other revels in the world as we all know it will be someday: limitless distribution enabled by new technologies, the importance of collaborative filters, and on-demand availability of all content for end-users. When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. Is that a lot?

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 3, 2018

So the way I defined sales enablement for my book is to deliver a positive customer experience by equipping sales with knowledge, skills, processes, and tools, through cross functional collaborations, obviously that’s between sales and marketing, in order to increase sales velocity, sales retention, and also productivity.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Product/Metrics (70%/30% time) * Get your product activation (sign-up + meaningful action) to 60% * then, Get your product retention to 20% weekly. Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing. It all depends on where you’re at. 5% I believe.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 7, 2020

Instead, what you read is how to communicate product-market fit. What is product-market fit? Product-market fit describes how well your business’s product and your target market’s demand for your solution are aligned. It’s when you have paying customers and can show both customer growth and customer retention. .

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

customer retention, churn reduction, lifetime value. on demand billing and fraud management. Great for visualizing work of product development. SEO Keyword Analysis Tool. Online Marketing Suites. HubSpot -Â online marketing and web analytics system. Performable â?? personable web analytics/lifecycle marketing. Custora â??

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