Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Now it’s all about how fast you recognize and adapt to market change, new competitors, and new technology. Smart entrepreneurs overtly plan every month to re-sync their vision and objectives with newly-learned market realities. It’s better to listen carefully, test them market, and take baby steps in the beginning.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 22, 2016

We regularly share our favorite posts on entrepreneurship, small business, marketing, logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! The Metric that Matters for Startups in 2016 | by @ ttunguz – [link] buff.ly/1T3827r.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 22, 2016

That should make you wonder - how do you measure traction in a metric? While thinking about the parameters of traction, and how to measure it, I was impressed with a new book, “ Scaling Lean: Mastering the Key Metrics for Startup Growth ” by Ash Maurya, a serial entrepreneur, and creator of the one-page business modelling tool Lean Canvas.

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For Entrepreneurs

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

The forEntrepreneurs 2016 SaaS Survey Infographic highlights key metrics from this year’s SaaS Survey and includes links to advice and insights on improving these metrics. You can find the full 2016 SaaS survey results here: Part 1 covers growth rates, go-to-market trends and cost structure.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 27, 2016

You’ve made it through the hectic holiday season and it’s now time to start planning for success in 2016. While establishing your 2016 business goals, wouldn’t it be valuable to know how many orders your competitors processed last year? by Brandon Levey, CEO of Stitch Labs. The New Year is here! Laying the Groundwork for Success.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Kahn had a better idea – several, in fact – that led to the Smart Parka, the first product of North Aware that launched in 2016 with the help of a highly successful Kickstarter campaign. Things like negotiating distribution channels and partners and how to handle market expansions.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 2, 2017

Largely yes, but the pot of gold might be more modest than some of 2016’s notable transactions suggest (Jet, Cruise, Dollar Shave Club). We had our first taste of this trend playing out early in 2016 when GM acquired self-driving tech startup Cruise for north of $1b. So, is it true? ” Next Level – Buying Product.

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VC Adventure

AUGUST 31, 2017

If you read my blog regularly you know I love (LOVE) metrics. They took the 92 public SaaS companies and analyzed their key operating metrics. The valuation metrics show this clearly. In 2016 there were over 2,000 financing rounds of private SaaS companies ($18.5Bn invested). The methodology here was great. on average.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 7, 2016

Companies that do this best become market leaders. Smart entrepreneurs architect a value chain that includes customers, partners and vendors, based on market dynamics. Set business goals and milestones, and use metrics to track performance. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 02/26/2016.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 7, 2019

without any personalization (from Statista in 2016). Can it integrate with your email marketing platform or accounting system (like Quickbooks or Xero)? Use your membership software or integrated email marketing service to create emails to go out at a later date. Embed this in the greeting (e.g. Use scheduled emails.

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For Entrepreneurs

AUGUST 17, 2016

Intro Sales development teams are taking a much more data-driven approach in recent years by closely tracking their metrics and performance. Benchmarking your performance against other companies offers a valuable way to see how your company stacks up against the competition.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

There is no golden metric for everyone, we are all unique snowflakes! :). That then takes us down the very best way to answer that question, to use the five-step process to build out the Digital Marketing and Measurement Model. and tell you what are the best key performance indicators (metrics) for them.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 29, 2017

The truth is, they simply had a solid growth marketing process. Yet, marketing teams continue to make decisions based on what has worked in the past, what has worked for other people and what appears to be working for competitors. High-growth companies simply have something most companies don’t, right? before continuing.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

We offer investors venture economics with public market liquidity. But we got serious in early 2016 when we developed deep conviction around the immense technical vision of Ethereum. We doubled down on our Ethereum bet through the DAO crisis during Summer 2016. Our Story The two of us met at NYU almost 10 years ago.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Reports are vital for establishing the success of marketing campaigns and tracking sales trends. However, extrapolating the necessary information from various marketing platforms is often time-consuming and difficult. Although Google first introduced Data Studio in 2016, it’s gained momentum as a reporting tool only recently.

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Austin Startup

JULY 22, 2017

Back in December 2016 I had the idea to develop a startup pledge for diversity and inclusion here in Austin and since have informally been working with some folks to develop the idea.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

In order to achieve 20x growth, Snap needs grow both of those metrics 4–5x. User Growth Snap’s user growth came to a near stop after Instagram launched a direct clone called Stories in September of 2016: Snap’s daily active users grew just 3% in Q4 2016. Let’s look at each figure. years to grow its user base 4x.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 25, 2020

This post details our process to start the transition from a “traditional” blog into a modern resource center for marketers. With roughly 700 posts, there are too many for a manual review, but we don’t have to automate every last metric. This metric is static unless a post is updated enough to change the publish date in WordPress.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Lately I’ve been having to say things I thought I’d never have to remind people, like, “getting to positive gross margin in several territories is a very low bar to claim success” or “profitable excluding marketing costs” is not actually a real thing. Market Size. MakeSpace provides physical storage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2017

Most startups, and many big businesses, still don’t have a clue on how to use social media productively for marketing their business. The first thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 11, 2017

What You Need to Know About Google Posts written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. I recently discussed in an episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , that fewer people will start to land on a business’s website to get the information they need, and this seems to be another step in that direction.

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Hippoland

DECEMBER 15, 2015

From my purview at 500 Startups in talking with many seed investors – both angels and VCs – this is what I predict will happen in 2016. The IPO markets have been tough, and late stage investors are realizing their unicorns actually are just My Little Ponies in a Halloween costume. Image credit: Giphy. What do you suggest?

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Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 12, 2016

The “venture recession” of 2016 is in full swing. Why should a public market downturn determine an investment in a startup that has seven to 10 years to go before it can even think about an IPO? Following the inevitable ups and downs of the VC investment cycle, and what founders can do when it all turns cold.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2016

Email marketing and customer communications strategies have long played an important role in a company’s user engagement and conversion rates. Spam filters are the perpetual bane of the email marketer’s existence, and the dawn of Google’s Promotions tab has made things even more difficult. What about you?

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Up and Running

APRIL 17, 2018

In 2016, mobile search officially overcame desktop search with nearly 60 percent of all searches coming from mobile devices. For more information about website architecture, check out this article from Matrix Marketing Group. How will you know if your website is working for you if you never look at your metrics?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 11, 2017

4 Onsite SEO Tips You Can’t Put Off in 2017 written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Performing a full indexable URL inventory will allow you to pull in various metrics needed for a content audit. Google has been pushing webmasters toward more secure sites for years, but in 2016 they began highly incentivizing it.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

by Pamela Webber, Chief Marketing Officer at 99designs. This is a massive 320% increase, and the sector experienced a particularly sharp spike between 2016 and 2018 when it grew 79%. Consider how your business can leverage these sectors, or be inspired by how emerging brands market themselves in high-growth industries.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2017

exabytes per month at the end of 2016, of which half was video. Data enable: use metrics and measurements. Extend data metrics into non-traditional channels, such as email, internal social media, and customer collaboration platforms. Look beyond today’s requirements for entire new market opportunities.

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Brandanew

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Content marketing has received a lot of attention in recent times but the fact is that not many were using the term till even five years ago. This is what you need to prep up for setting the content marketing goals for 2016 for your brands. 7 Content Marketing Goals For 2016 That You Can Set For Your Brand.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2014

zettabytes by the year 2016. Data enable: use metrics and measurements. Extend data metrics into non-traditional channels, such as email, internal social media, and customer collaboration platforms. Look beyond today’s requirements for entire new market opportunities. Accelerate: speed is life in this new world.

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Austin Startup

JULY 2, 2021

Chargify’s new BI tool has taken our speed-to-calculate and accuracy of MRR and financial metrics and reduced it down to a mere dashboard refresh with 100% accuracy,” said Jenny Leman, President of CareerPlug. After listening to the needs of our customers, we realized this was a serious gap in the market,” said Paul Lynch, CEO of Chargify.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2016

First you need to take consolation from the fact that you are not alone, and more importantly you need to implement an active growth and marketing plan to include the following initiatives: Ramp-up visibility and strategic alliances. Continually add new marketing and distribution partners. Real growth always requires real marketing.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

Between January 2015 and January 2016, we grew our platform Slidebean from $1K to $20K in monthly recurring revenue. I strongly believe that the first few hires of a startup should belong to the growth department, whether they’re marketers, community managers, or salespeople (selling your product is the best way to learn how to improve it).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2017

For example, what looks like a sales revenue problem may actually be a new competitor offering, a marketing decline, or a lag in receivables. Establish metrics to assure solution and prevent recurrence. Define the required metrics, including a check for side effects and follow-on problems. It’s easy to jump to conclusions.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Large Market Size. In 2015 alone, the market size for PCB printing as an industry in the U.S. The broader marketing category, electronics manufacturing, totaled roughly 430 billion dollars. Compared to many industries, that’s a large market split between relatively few competitors. Low Competition Markets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Some experts have tied this market to location detection hardware (GPS), but even that is now pervasive on all smart devices. You need metrics to show dominant penetration of the relevant customer demographic, added value over existing media, and real customer testimonials of value. Local businesses expect proof of value, not promises.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2017

billion lost to ad fraud in 2016 as reported by Advertising Age. Google, for example, has agreed to undergo an audit from the Media Rating Council that includes YouTube ad inventory as well as three of Google’s biggest third-party metrics companies: Moat, DoubleVerify and Integral Ad Science. This would more than double the $7.2

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