ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Gavin Braman, Co-Founder @ Drifting Creatives. Just like Peep, other marketers from hypergrown products, such as David Cancel (founder at Drift) argue that product-based differentiation is vanishing. Product should be your main channel for customer acquisition, retention and expansion. Gaetano DiNardi.

B2B 94

B2B Marketing Curation PPC 94

Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

At Hustle Fund, we back both first time founders as well as repeat founders. One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. You will use your fridge for a decade or more so the retention here is high.

Founder 48

Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48

Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

At Hustle Fund, we back both first time founders as well as repeat founders. One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. You will use your fridge for a decade or more so the retention here is high.

Founder 48

Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

It should be even more important to the founders themselves, because it demonstrates that their business hypothesis is grounded in reality. This is an incredible skill, one that most engineers overlook. These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process.

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Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

VC Cafe

MARCH 15, 2016

Building on my experience of being part of a team that did exactly that for Dropbox in Europe, I will attempt to demystify the process and hopefully give a starting point, from which any founder can start building a distribution engine that creates happy customers. I’ve looked at lifetime value of self-serve versus sales-assist (i.e.

Sales 60

Sales Marketing Sales Cycle B2C 60

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Professional networks are the starting point (and growth engine). Client retention hinges on relationships—and the people who maintain them. I’m your stereotypical great independent contributor who was fantastic at the work and then ended up running a business,” recounts Michael King, founder of iPullRank.

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SEO Hiring PPC Leadership 110

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Professional networks are the starting point (and growth engine). Client retention hinges on relationships—and the people who maintain them. I’m your stereotypical great independent contributor who was fantastic at the work and then ended up running a business,” recounts Michael King, founder of iPullRank.

SEO 49

SEO Hiring PPC Leadership 49