ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

As a startup, you probably don’t have much money to spend on marketing or product development. For example, you might use guerilla marketing techniques to promote your product without spending much money on traditional advertising channels. Here are some of the most important benefits.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

You take that money and invest a good portion of it in traditional sales and marketing efforts — including product developers, creative people, and salespeople, all of whom are paid to figure out what buyers want and to say good things about your company — in a quest to get even more customers. In return, the customers pay you money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Product development. For a great idea person, the product details keep changing for the better, but nothing ever gets finished. Customer retention. Serious investors expect founders to have their homework done before the first interaction – documented executive summary, business plan, and financial model.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

When you’re starting up, worrying about customer retention seems a million miles away. But eventually, when you’ve won your 500th customer and you still have yet to fully focus on retention, you’ll be missing a big trick. What’s more, you can achieve high retention, very sustainably, through the right approach.

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View from Seed

JUNE 13, 2016

One of David’s biggest gripes with waterfall and agile is that the development sprints inherent in these models become a point-driven “game.” In the process of creating the product, developers often get caught up in a competition around these points and use them to discuss productivity and success.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 26, 2022

8- Growth factor- labor retention rates. With the current labor market , 2022 is the year in which businesses are going to sink or swim based on their labor retention rates. Companies will also be able to simplify product. development and educate customers about their services in the best way possible.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

This term refers to an initial venture-capital investment, often wrongly sought to seed early product development. In fact, most often, it is limited to seeding a startup business rollout or scale-up after development is completed from friends and family. These deals usually come with retention packages -- so be careful.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Talented product developers. SAS Canada “customer champions” helped the firm restore declining customer retention rates—which had fallen as low as the mid-80s percent — back to the firm’s traditional high retention rates of 97-98 percent. If so, the business world is full of specialists who are all too eager to help.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

Waterfall Development. While it sounds simple , the Build Measure Learn approach to product development is a radical improvement over the traditional Waterfall model used throughout the 20 th century to build and ship products. It’s a really big idea because what you build needs to match the hypothesis you want to test.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

The promo code system, in addition to a technological platform for customer loyalty can also be smoothly integrated into an app of this sort, making it more viable for the competitive market where customer retention is an issue. Click Labs excels in product development outsourcing in general and building On Demand platforms in particular.

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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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The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2012

For this reason you should find out as quickly as possible if the product is indeed offering real value to your customers by looking at real data. The metrics that matter the most are returning customers (user retention), turnover per customer and viral growth (k-factor). Again, make sure you can decide whom to ‘marry’.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 31, 2022

Virtual reality marketing, also known as immersive media and augmented reality, provides a significant opportunity for businesses to advertise their brands, generate sales, and improve consumer loyalty and retention. This allows customers to virtually try out a product or service in the comfort of their own homes.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

It drives media attention and fosters customer retention rate, which is why most companies strive to have it in their mission statement. Tesla has always put a huge emphasis on product development and technological advancement. Innovative is a word often used to describe successful companies.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Besides the general focus on customer and product development, an entrepreneur should foresee the next moves that will serve to guide him on the right path. During Covid, I have seen good performance of employees during WFH and the retention rate also increased. Thanks to Derek Gallimore, Outsource Accelerator ! #27-

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2022

22:24] Retention and recruitment have become really hot right now for a lot of organizations – what role can community play? [24:13] But I think that they just got a jolt , you know, from what we've done in the last few years, what role would a tool like, um, like your community groups play in retention of employees?

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 12, 2023

Companies can improve their efficiency, productivity, and responsiveness with the aid of these solutions. Companies can reallocate resources back into core business activities and new product development by streamlining IT operations. This calls for cutting-edge creations, first-rate support, and savvy advertising.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 24, 2017

As Ronny Kohavi , Distinguished Engineer, General Manager, Analysis and Experimentation at Microsoft, put it: Ronny Kohavi: “Experimentation is getting more recognized as essential to guide product development, when it is applicable (not always, as you can see in Section 6 in this paper ). AI and automatic optimization.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Easy does it: The right CRM can work magic, serving as a single platform that can span across the entire breadth of an organization — sharing information and providing value for customer service, sales, product development, management, operations and more. Time to Act With Analytics.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 5, 2018

Ahead of CES, product development teams scrambled to make sure their shiny new product was ready for prime time. The Aberdeen Group surveyed more than 200 companies, and those with a comprehensive onboarding program scored significantly higher profits and employee retention, productivity, and satisfaction.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 13, 2017

Jonathan Price wrote on the same Quora thread that he believes growth marketing to differ from regular marketing because it “is technology-centric and it blurs the boundary between marketing and product development.” The use of qualitative research and quantitative data analysis to gain deep insights into user behavior.

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

By viewing product development and marketing as integrated functions, not silos, leading tech companies like Facebook and Pinterest are rethinking their approach to driving growth and achieving breakthrough results.

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

By viewing product development and marketing as integrated functions, not silos, leading tech companies like Facebook and Pinterest are rethinking their approach to driving growth and achieving breakthrough results.

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Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Second, that community is the most powerful retention mechanism available to game developers, because you see, these “soldiers” were players in an online WWII multiplayer simulation. For example, Lenny Rachitsky writes a newsletter devoted to technology and product development. each month).

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 17, 2019

The push-pull of entertainment and engagement is a subtle balance, but one which works wonders for audience retention when done right. Today Boris has over 17 years of highly successful international leadership experience in sales, professional services, operations, product development and marketing in the Internet and software industry.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 23, 2015

By adding UserTesting.com to the product development lifecycle, Evernote was able to increase user retention by 15% while also dramatically increasing user engagement numbers. For customers, ask about retention. Optimizing for retention is a high impact, on-going task. Is the site or app easier to use now?

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VC Cafe

JULY 15, 2021

Build a community – often overlooked, but building a community around your app can help you build better products and dramatically increase retention. As Peter Yang puts it in “Why Community-Led Product Development Wins’: Announce your product early and invite interested customers to join an online community (e.g.,

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 15, 2014

In doing so, a few core metrics inevitably emerge depending on the product and the model. For ExampleCo, our fictional mobile startup, these core metrics might include app engagement, user growth, user retention, active users, and so forth. You should also include a 1-2 sentence description of what’s happening.

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David Teten

MAY 1, 2013

When deciding on the purchase of an expensive domain, startup teams should first consider whether the money might be better spent on other areas such as product development, customer acquisition, or hiring new talent. . Gaming sites with such sounds rank 44.18% lower, while adult sites with the same sounds rank 7.24% higher. .

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Many founders have to turn to brute force to figure it out, even when they themselves don’t have practitioner product management experience. However, managing product development correctly is incredibly important in the earliest days and can make or break your company. product engagement, retention metrics).

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 5, 2018

While convenience and ease are primary benefits for customers, subscription lifecycles are a constant process requiring dedication and action from retailers on a number of fronts: customer acquisition, retention, billing, expansion and success.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

Product management tools like Stage-Gate ® emerged to systematically manage Waterfall product development. The product management process assumes that product/market fit is known, and the products can get spec’d and then implemented in a linear fashion. StageGate Process.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

Our challenge is in the customer retention, and we're in the process of doing segment pivot to validate our hypothesis that the other market segment has longer retention. June 23, 2009 9:55 AM LKsaid. Eric this is a great validation post for us! My question to you: 1. What exactly does the problem team do?

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

You will use your fridge for a decade or more so the retention here is high. I use “sales cycle” loosely – by this I mean the time it takes to get a product paid for, and so this involves both product development and time to get a check from a customer). But, the retention is terrible / non-existent.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

You will use your fridge for a decade or more so the retention here is high. I use “sales cycle” loosely – by this I mean the time it takes to get a product paid for, and so this involves both product development and time to get a check from a customer). But, the retention is terrible / non-existent.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

There is nothing in # of Installs that drives an obsessive understanding of the customer, the app experience/value, product development and all those other more valuable strategic parameters. First, the company deemphasizes short term win — installs — and emphasizes the long term win — retention.

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