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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

The metrics were good but we wondered how much better they would be when we expanded our product. They might struggle to hire a-players because, well, would you go work at Public Storage to build their software capabilities? They literally can’t respond to our core differentiator. Or would you go to a disruptor in stead?

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

That requires deep value creation that is difficult to do when everyone is using the same tools, even in different ways -- value requires differentiality which requires protection as soon as someone spots the value creation, for it will be copied soon thereafter. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23.

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The 90-Day CMO and Cross-Channel Acquisition Strategies That Scale

Duct Tape Marketing

17:30] How deep into financials and metrics do you get before taking a client on? [19:01] I don't think enough people say that, unfortunately when you one of the things I think particularly marketers are bad at is when they get hired by agencies, particularly when they get hired by a company it's like, what do you need us to do?

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The Direct-to-Consumer Checklist

Austin Startup

How will you take advantage of SEO and SEM? Even pre-launch, there’s work you can do here to differentiate yourself. Important metrics to track include customer count, average order value (AOV), retention or repeat purchase rate, ad spend, paid CAC, weighted average CAC, rolling LTV estimates, and more.