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Open Letter to a New Austinite

Austin Startup

Since at least 2007, Austin has been the fastest growing metro area in America. which clearly suffers from a myth of meritocracy and has fewer women and people of color in positions of leadership than sectors like automotive, government and manufacturing. and not the startup kind but the Facebook/Google/Apple/Big Tech Co kind?—?which

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Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

Startup Lessons Learned

When we started at Udemy, in Turkey in 2006 and 2007, there was no funding available. So we had managed to provide a really modern healthcare experience with very high NPS score, very high retention, while still having a very strong provider experience. And one of the most immediate things was going to residential.

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Inspiring Entrepreneurs: Ted Livingston’s rollercoaster ride as CEO of hit messaging startup Kik

The Next Web

In my third co-op term I got a job at RIM (now BlackBerry), I started in May 2007, about a month before the iPhone initially came out. The Canadian government matched the investment, and the 15-year plan kicked off. Not only is the company small, but the startup’s retention rate is near zero. Over the 4.5

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

Compensation decisions obviously affect hiring and retention. Board and Governance issues arise from day one in most startups. Many of us suffered in the 2000–2002 dotcom crash and/or the 2007–2009 Great Recession; others hardly noticed a blip. Sooner or later everybody in a startup knows what everyone else is getting paid.

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Customers Love Free Stuff … But That’s Not Your Problem

abovethecrowd.com

Would that help retention and NPS (Net Promote Score)? It took courage for Zach Nelson and the team at Netsuite to also use a Dutch Auction in 2007. Do you think those customers would find that interesting and compelling? Would they be loyal? Damn straight it would. It would cost a tremendous amount of money to run such a program.

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Guy Kawasaki’s 10 Questions to Ask Before You Join a Startup

www.mint.com

People living off the government cannot always buy the cool new products we want to offer them. I’d add that you should dig a bit into inbound marketing and “nepotistic retention&#. Here’s my question…&# Why should I go to work for a startup, because 90% of them fail?&# All Rights Reserved.

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Knowledge

Occam's Razor

Customer Personas, Customer Value, Customer Retention and Non-line Marketing. Web Analytics Success Measurement For Government Websites. The Awesome Power of Visualization 2 -> Death and Taxes 2007. 2007 Predictions: Web Analytics. Five Rules for High Impact Web Analytics Dashboards. Web Analytics Demystified.

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