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What Did I Learn From the First VC Check I Ever Wrote?

Both Sides of the Table

I became a VC 12 years ago in 2007 when the pace of deals was much slower. So if you called for a phone upgrade but didn’t close we help the phone company retarget you on Facebook or if you called with a product complaint we can feed you into the customer’s retention marketing program. particularly as you achieve scale.

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How CareerPlug Saved 25 Days of Work with Chargify Business Intelligence

Austin Startup

About CareerPlug Since 2007 CareerPlug has worked to make hiring easier for over 12,000 growing companies in the U.S. How CareerPlug Saved 25 Days of Work with Chargify Business Intelligence was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

Compensation decisions obviously affect hiring and retention. It behooves you to strive for similar succinctness and to carry that across all your communications, from web to social media to presentations to just casual conversations at your country club. Sooner or later everybody in a startup knows what everyone else is getting paid.

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a16z Podcast: Growth in Turbulent Times

Ben's Blog

If you’re Expedia or Booking, regardless of whether or not people are looking at flights, my guess is the percentage of people who look up a flight versus actually book the flight, that conversion rate is probably down. So you put them through a conversion funnel, let’s say, like a signup, and then they get into another lake.

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A Step By Step Guide To Building Customer Journey Maps

ConversionXL

Without realizing it, the businesses who want the secret sauce, the quick fix to more “conversions” are asking the wrong question. Because, we’re finding that the most successful companies are digging deep into the data driven research available to them… giving them a leg up on customer retention and bolstering the bottom line.

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Doing Financial Projections Right (A Five Step Process)

Growthink Blog

This is especially important in good economic conditions like we have currently (see here and here ), where the more relevant historical period might be say - the 2006/2007 period – i.e. one of similarly “frothy” macro-economic conditions. to proposals, to sales, to retention, to ongoing revenue. How Big is My M arket?

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Doing Financial Projections Right (A Five Step Process)

Growthink Blog

This is especially important in good economic conditions like we have currently (see here and here ), where the more relevant historical period might be say - the 2006/2007 period – i.e. one of similarly “frothy” macro-economic conditions. to proposals, to sales, to retention, to ongoing revenue. How Big is My M arket?