Up and Running
APRIL 12, 2021
OKRs and KPIs are common frameworks to set goals. Remember that company values shape the workplace culture, make sure to establish them early on and clearly communicate them. Career development and career progression are big drivers of employee retention. Create employee performance management processes early on.
ConversionXL
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Marketers can use this framework to evaluate the risks associated with different growth strategies. A common framework for defining your growth model is Dave McClure’s Pirate Metrics for startups : the AARRR framework. The framework helps you evaluate how you can affect growth at each stage of the customer journey.
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VC Cafe
SEPTEMBER 5, 2012
1) It all starts from the Growth Hacking Funnel - in the early stages, startups should not just focus on top/bottom line metric like unique users and revenue. They should understand the different states of the user (Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Revenue) and focus on moving users from one state to the next. like/+1/follow?
Steve Blank
APRIL 20, 2021
In other words, you prove retention. It’s really all that matters at the earliest stage. It bears repeating: an early-stage startup must focus on making one customer group excited by a mission-aligned product. With both growth and retention, you earn the right to build more. We call it an MVP tree. Be patient.
David Teten
JANUARY 14, 2019
Many early-stage companies do not have these issues top of mind, because so many founders are pre-children. Most people focus on doing a good job in their existing role ( Quadrant 1 activity, to use Steven Covey’s framework ). However, even people without children often end up having them somehow. .
View from Seed
FEBRUARY 27, 2019
This is a common challenge for companies of all sizes/stages, but the tradeoff could be especially tricky for early-stage startups given the extremely limited engineering resources. I’ve previously written about a general framework for product prioritization, so I won’t take up too much space here rehashing.
Hunter Walker
NOVEMBER 25, 2022
My framework was a sort of triangle, and here are the three sides: a female computer scientist looking into a crystal ball, digital art [DALL-E]. Basically, do they think there’s room for promotion and ongoing recognition/retention compensation? And don’t go to the startup if they can’t get above it in some easy or creative way.
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