ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

If you trigger an NPS survey pre- and post-delivery, you’ll detect where your customers are satisfied (or not) with your product or service. A high product return rate might mean an issue with your products or that you’ve done a poor job explaining your product or service. Note good and bad feedback you receive from product reviews.

Customer 132

Customer SMS Retention Acquisition 132

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 11, 2016

We followed every test and experimental process from the get-go but we didn’t tell our investors we were doing that. The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs and lows that pushed them forward.

Columbus 120

Columbus Entrepreneur Ohio Cofounder 120

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

We’ve posted the full program for The Lean Startup Conference , and it includes more than three days of events for Gold pass holders and six days of events for VIP pass holders. In operations, we need to think about stability in terms of time to restore service rather than time between failures.

Continuous Deployment 162

Continuous Deployment Norway Lean Analytics 162

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Not only that—they took things a step further and launched their Run Squad membership program. Soon after launching their local delivery program, they were averaging over 500 orders per week. We’re even seeing cities build out programs designed to drive local support for retailers. said Jeff Bull, Brand Manager TC Running.

eCommerce 155

eCommerce Cofounder Community Channel 155

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

If so, the business world is full of specialists who are all too eager to help. And while these professionals certainly have valuable services to offer, they all fall short in a critical way: None of them come from the buyer’s world. They have a good story to tell about how your product or service helped them succeed.

Customer 154

Customer Fractional CTO Canada Technical Review 154

Steve Blank

JUNE 5, 2018

Is your organization full of Hackathons, Shark Tanks, Incubators and other innovation programs, but none have changed the trajectory of your company/agency? Over the last few years Pete Newell and I have helped build innovation programs inside large companies, across the U.S. Innovators vs. Entrepreneurs.

Programming 320

Programming Incubator Leadership Silicon Valley 320

David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

O perations – We work closely with a pool of preferred service providers who address the operational challenges of early-stage companies: accounting, financial modeling, sales acceleration, legal and regulatory needs, insurance, real estate, engineering, and community building. This is roughly comparable to PRNewswire’s distribution service.

Portfolio 60

Portfolio Technical Review Private Equity Database 60

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 14, 2015

And that means nothing less than full support from leadership. As leaders, we’re responsible for creating and supporting the platforms that will allow for experimentation. For example, pick a few customers to experiment with and promise to pay them penalties for any kind of fault during the experimentation period.

Stealth 60

Stealth Engineer Leadership Design 60

Austin Startup

JUNE 30, 2017

But as with education, that bundle of resources can be unbundled, and that’s what’s happening among entrepreneurs who don’t need or want the “full package.” When they shop for a law firm, they’re now much more interested in the actual service quality of the firm, rather than some lawyer’s half-baked ability to make investor intros.

Curation 48

Curation Startup Cofounder Equity 48

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explore the habits that make them successful, and the highs, lows and pivots that pushed them forward. The goal is that they’re experimental. But experimentation is a big part of sort of what we’re going after.

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Cofounder Channel 120

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

The term smoke test was most recently borrowed from the computer programming world. Work with them to develop the full product. It’s certainly the way that Dan positions it above, but it can easily be applied to bigger companies looking to test new product ideas, feature ideas, service ideas, etc. Does the UI open?

Product 48

Product Audience Stock Conversion 48

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Tina is Professor of the Practice at Stanford University School of Engineering, and Executive Director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. whether a product, service, or work of art?—?results Creativity requires motivation and experimentation to address challenges. This stage required motivation and experimentation.

Entrepreneur 335

Entrepreneur Framework Lean Customer Development 335

Hearpreneur

JULY 8, 2017

After college I worked for a couple of management consulting firms, working on business process reengineering and e-commerce systems for companies in the health care, financial services and manufacturing industries. We offer our program to employers and health plans that are interested in improving the health of their populations.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire 48

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

You’ll also learn how to apply growth marketing to five key channels and how to plan and execute experimentation. It uses rapid experimentation and learning to identify and capitalize on growth opportunities without blowing a ton of budget. Growth marketing is a practice that is applied to the full marketing funnel.

Framework 102

Framework Marketing Acquisition Retention 102

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

By contrast, Staples closed down some underperforming facilities but increased its workforce by 10% during the recession, mainly to support the high-end product categories and services it introduced. Repair services can market to the pained-but-patient group, who will try to prolong the life of a refrigerator rather than buy a new one.”

Marketing 121

Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

As for responsibilities, the Growth Manager’s job has three core components: first, to define the company’s growth plan, second, to coordinate and execute growth programs, and third, to optimize the revenue funnel. Growth Managers also need to be fluent in the full spectrum of acquisition channels at their disposal.

Management 20

Management Analytics Technical Review Framework 20

Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

As for responsibilities, the Growth Manager’s job has three core components: first, to define the company’s growth plan, second, to coordinate and execute growth programs, and third, to optimize the revenue funnel. Growth Managers also need to be fluent in the full spectrum of acquisition channels at their disposal.

Management 20

Management Analytics Technical Review Framework 20

ConversionXL

AUGUST 4, 2020

Access to a team with skills that include scientific experimentation, UX, copywriting , consumer psychology , statistics , data analysis, coding, research methodologies, change management, and design. Operationalized research, experimentation, and learning cycles that generate commercial results. Begin experimentation.

SQL 117

SQL Software Review Agile Metrics 117

Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

For big success you'll need to have a Multiplicity strategy: So when you step back and realize at the minimum you'll also have to use one Voice of Customer tool (for qualitative analysis), one Experimentation tool and (if you want to be great) one Competitive Intelligence tool… do you still want to have two clickstream tools?

Analytics 118

Analytics Web Metrics Channel 118

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 27, 2009

The full formula works like this: runway = cash on hand / burn rate # iterations = runway / speed of each iteration Very few successful companies ended up in the same exact business that the founders thought theyd be in (see Founders at Work for dozens of examples). 9comments: Back office services said. What counts as an iteration?

San Francisco 117

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 117

mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

And when — if ever — do you need to hire your own full- or part-time, in-house dev to work on your website and applications? Of course, prices will vary according to the quality of work and range of services offered. But do you use one of the many do-it-yourself tools online, or do you call in a professional?

Small Business 104

Small Business Technical Review Social Media Software Review 104

ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2018

With all of this they can do a great job in helping you create beautiful new products, run experimentation and apply massive data sets on helping to grow the business. An SEO team is basically as much as possible going after users that haven’t explored the product/service that you’re building. How can you apply experimentation?

SEO 134

SEO Metrics Analytics Search 134

ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2017

Though, increasingly, you can target with great granularity (especially on social) and set up custom audiences to create a holistic full-funnel paid strategy. It’s your job to find these channels and exploit them and optimize them to tap their full potential. In addition, display allows you to target niche audiences based on interests.

Channel 118

Channel Marketing Viral SEO 118

ConversionXL

MAY 16, 2018

You want experimentation. Relatively recently, conversion optimization specialists have discovered the immense power of experimentation when applied to an online environment in the form of A/B Testing, Usability Testing, and more. Experimentation is essentially risk management. Lagging vs. Leading Indicators. The data point.

Marketing 133

Marketing Metrics Programming Design 133

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Many legacy projects become completely swamped servicing the debt caused by past mistakes. In a startup, we should take full advantage of our options, even if they feel dirty or riddled with technical debt. However, we’ve often had to put up with unreliable service, caused by their inflexible internal architecture.

Technical Review 168

Technical Review Software Review San Francisco Lean 168

mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

For the majority of the naming process, you’ll be iterating on two steps: creating a list of words that are related to your product or service, as well as creating permutations of these words to determine the final name. Be as experimental and obscure as possible: focus on one detail, then write down everything that comes to mind.

Naming 104

Naming Startup Social Media RSS 104

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

As more companies think about starting or expanding CRO programs, the “agency or in-house?” Even then, some limitations apply to any CRO program. Finding seasoned CRO experts can take many months, and launching a CRO program can take even longer. An in-house team often can’t launch multiple tests because their plates are full.

Hiring 94

Hiring Analytics Framework Non-disclosure Agreement 94

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 7, 2015

The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs, lows and pivots that pushed them forward. When Jane purchased Challah Connection, it was a local challah delivery service for the Jewish Sabbath. He was very cool.

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur New York Cofounder New York City 120

K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

In fact, at the time (1996-1997) we offered both a downloadable product, that our customers could install on their own servers, and a “hosted-offering”, which came to be known as “On-Demand”, then the “ASP” (Application Service Provider) model, and today we call it “SaaS” (Software as a Service). How much would they be willing to pay?

Revenue 72

Revenue Developer Java Customer Development 72

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

We didn't prioritize the experimentation, the groundwork, the foundation building that progress and resilience require. There's all these conflicting data, because the experimental design and methods are complicated. Now they have a $500 million program to try to make an antigen diagnostic, which is exactly what I'm working on.

Technical Review 68

Technical Review Software Review Finance Technology 68

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Plus, I have very cool conference updates (our full conference program + more than 300 simulcast locations!) So every day I found myself listening to NPR, and that's when I discovered a local program on our public radio station KQED called Forum. and a chance to win free tickets, if you keep reading.

Lean 159

Lean San Francisco Houston Engineer 159

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 12, 2009 Why PHP won When I first learned to program on the web, Perl + CGI was the dominant platform. For example, I have repeatedly taught PHP to complete novices in several companies, including people who had never before programmed at all. Thats simply impossible on most platforms.

PHP 166

PHP Software Review Ruby San Francisco 166

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

When the shelter in place orders began, Alpha found himself living in a tiny Airbnb with his other co-founders, Having just arrived from the UK to do the start up program, YCombinator. PostEra works on medicinal chemistry as a service, powered by machine learning. PostEra as a company offers medicinal chemistry as a service.

Artificial Inteligence 60

Artificial Inteligence Open Source Cofounder Design 60

Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

You can listen to the podcast here, and read the full transcript of the conversation below. And part of the question is, when you think about it, is not just think about it in terms of product, which is, of course, relevant, deeply, or service. So you could deliver services even faster. TRANSCRIPT. RH: Yeah, absolutely.

Cofounder 69

Cofounder Differentiation Search Advertising 69

Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

You can listen to the podcast here, and read the full transcript of the conversation below. And part of the question is, when you think about it, is not just think about it in terms of product, which is, of course, relevant, deeply, or service. So you could deliver services even faster. TRANSCRIPT. RH: Yeah, absolutely.

Cofounder 69

Cofounder Differentiation Search Advertising 69

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

It is such a cool service. They check if the service is available (they are not in all countries). They are full of nonsenseware – cross-sells and up-sells, all kinds of seals and logos, irrelevant other products, promotions, mobile app pimping and so much more. It is more complex than the International Space Program.

Web 164

Web Design Marketing Security 164

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

Work on as few products as possible, keep resources in reserve for experimentation. But they have no clue about how to design, make, distribute and service products that enable them to have experience, that's the company's competence. Be disciplined about which vision to pursue; choose products that have large markets.

San Francisco 166

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 166