Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

I’m sure you can find some gaps, niches, or extensions for each of these technologies: Internet of Things. The physical world is quickly becoming Internet enabled, allowing it to be fused with the digital world. Everyday devices, like Internet soda vending , have an embedded computer allowing full remote reporting and control.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

It’s the most profound book I’ve read on thinking about how the Internet is changing business. In Netflix’s case this is their DVD distribution business. Incumbents can’t react. If you haven’t read his book please do yourself a favor and buy it.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Knowledge retention is a process for identifying. Knowledge retention isn’t a corporate nicety. Successful knowledge retention programs answer three key questions: What knowledge may be lost? Why knowledge retention matters. Knowledge retention makes information transferrable. This post helps you answer each.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 21, 2015

Of course, the best information retention strategy is also an employee retention strategy: Hold on to your key people whenever possible. The most important thing is retrieving the property and preventing it from further distribution. Proactively re-recruit your best knowledge workers. Never skip the exit interview.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

What Hasn’t Changed: The Internet Keeps Getting Bigger. The Biggest Problem in Mobile: Retention – [link]. The Biggest Problem in Mobile: Retention – [link]. How PRWeb Helps Distribute Crap Into Google & News Sites – [link]. How To Choose A Market For Your Startup Or Small Business – [link].

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Up and Running

JANUARY 22, 2020

In fact, by 2021, internet traffic will be comprised of 82% video content. Beyond getting backlinks to your site, other off-page strategies include guest posting and increasing your business listings across the internet in relevant places. Distribute live videos and copy that build cannabis education and the lifestyle.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

JBara.com complements and extends traditional CRM software such as Salesforce to improve customer retention and satisfaction. Norse-Corp.com developed a fraud-detection system using distributed Internet-monitoring tools, and now is looking to sell this to credit card payment networks for their antifraud programs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Cyber-Physical Systems Working with government and industry to create standards for a new generation of interoperable, dynamic, and efficient “smart systems” – an “industrial Internet” – that combines distributed sensing, control, and data analytics to help grow new high-value American jobs and the economy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2017

I’m sure you can find some gaps, niches, or extensions for each of these technologies: Internet of Things. The physical world is quickly becoming Internet enabled, allowing it to be fused with the digital world. Everyday devices, like Internet soda vending , have an embedded computer allowing full remote reporting and control.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

See if you understand each of these technologies: Internet of Things. The physical world is quickly becoming Internet enabled, allowing it to be fused with the digital world. Everyday devices, like Internet soda vending , have an embedded computer allowing full remote reporting and control. Platform as a Service (PaaS).

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

If you took a random sample of 100 entrepreneurs here in LA, over 50% might not be able to tell you how to technically calculate 90-day cohort retention or how to build a cash flow statement. Los Angeles is also a city of media and brands – industries with which scale and reach are even more critical than even on the Internet.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

Lloyed explores the intricate art of harnessing the community’s strength as your ultimate acquisition channe l, brand differentiator, feedback source, retention lever, and catalyst for transformative change. Meaning events, magazines, blogs, they read, so you could distribute your content there. So why do people buy HubSpot?

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JULY 7, 2011

My first goal was to establish a strong distribution channel here in the US. One of my personal goals has always been retention. I tried very hard to make the right decisions about distribution agreements, partners and employees, so we would not have a lot of backward movement.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2017

NB: Notice this “tripwire marketing” is different from the “tripwire offer” popular in internet marketing circles. Say you have 1000 customers and $1000 to spend on customer retention and loyalty. The result of this query was this histogram: This chart displays the distribution of whale second-purchase latencies. Simple, right?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2015

See if you understand each of these technologies: Internet of Things. The physical world is quickly becoming Internet enabled, allowing it to be fused with the digital world. Everyday devices, like Internet soda vending , have an embedded computer allowing full remote reporting and control. Platform as a Service (PaaS).

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. It’s just taking some longer than others.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

Is the revenue dependent on a concentrated set of distribution partners or platforms that put future revenue at risk? The first company represents a normal software company that sells its products directly (either via sales staff or directly off of the internet). The example chart is not actually atypical. What did they actually do?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2011

Do you need this for recruitment and retention? You need to work through a team of underwriters, who administer the public issuance and distribution of securities from a corporation. Sometimes the best way to grow is to acquire other companies or other products, and sometimes you need a public stock in order to go that route.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. Amazon saw that the internet would change retail. Nowhere in our book do we recommend that all entrepreneurs blitzscale.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

He focuses on investments in fintech, the internet, and software. But stuff like retention is super important. So how sticky are your customers, and can you break that down to customer retention? We believed this thing would be able to unlock a multi-product distribution and really strengthen the business mode.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2018

They point out : A consistent brand helps increase the overall value of your company by reinforcing your position in the marketplace, attracting better quality customers with higher retention rates and raising the perceived value of your products or services….In Your site isn’t responsive or mobile-friendly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2022

Too many choices confuse all customers, and make your job in marketing, distribution, and support much more difficult. Today’s world is full of metrics leading to business growth, including customer logins, revenue per customer, retention, and average solution price. Less is more. Pick a single metric that is the focus for all growth.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, October 7, 2008 The App Store after the gold rush I wrote earlier about the issue of distribution advantage on the iPhone. This is completely analogous to the situation elsewhere on the internet, where launching a new website, product, or service with PR is getting harder and harder.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers. Products can find sources of validation with impressive stats along a number of dimensions, such as high engagement, viral coefficient, or long-term retention. First of all, they are not selling their product by hand.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2019

Too many choices confuse all customers, and make your job in marketing, distribution, and support much more difficult. Today’s world is full of metrics leading to business growth, including customer logins, revenue per customer, retention, and average solution price. Less is more. Pick a single metric that is the focus for all growth.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Kik Chat had been a bit of a complicated service, offering both free SMS when a user’s phone was offline, and free Internet-based messages when they were online. So, for the last two years, Kik has set about turning Kik into a mobile browser with a messenger at the center for distribution. It was a hit. Over the 4.5

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2022

Each one leads with a benefit that starts with an action word: Generate leads with a free podcast; Monetize your podcast; Distribute your podcasts; Import your existing podcasts into Kajabi. By following people around their internet journeys, you can tempt them back to your website. Kajabi isn’t talking at them—it involves them.

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Creativity is happening within communities and platforms which bring together distribution and collaboration. My earliest encounters with a personal computer, initial uses for the Internet, and 12+ years of product work [Second Life, AdSense, YouTube], were all driven by the conviction that everyone deserves the chance to be creative.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2017

Too many choices confuse all customers, and make your job in marketing, distribution, and support much more difficult. Today’s world is full of metrics leading to business growth, including customer logins, revenue per customer, retention, and average solution price. Less is more. Pick a single metric that is the focus for all growth.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Game mechanics have become a popular way of increasing user engagement and pushing user adoption, referral and retention, and many startups have sought ways to incorporate game mechanics into their sites. Why You Should Write. Status / reputation.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Establishing a presence on the Internet even if you have a physical store, is critical. Surprises always work to instill loyalty and retention. You can also print off coupons for their Human Resource department to distribute, or send them a digital coupon they can email to employees to print off. Social media isn’t new.

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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. Instead of spending 4 years at university, I spend 4 years starting 2 internet companies that failed. What is the first step in creating an internet-based business (After planning) ?

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Too much emphasis was on Averages (remember averages suck, distributions are better ). It also has massively delicious implications in your data, acquisition and retention strategies (ignoring the sweet, heavenly, implications on your customers). When you choose unwisely, the long-term consequences can be dramatic.

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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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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Having founded and published the internationally distributed indie magazine INTERLUDE, and toured extensively as a live music production professional, she enters the venture investing world from an unconventional path. The fund has invested in 27 companies, and select investments include: ELOQUII, Tala, Zola, WayUp, and Thrive Global.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

But the main reason this happened in my mind was that the access to internet really made a big change in my life, because even when you're in the place of lowest access to education having access to other people online, mathematic problems, it allowed me to self-study. ER : Really smart. And they were really struggling. million vaccines.

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