The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2017

Also, these services can be focused on the cloud or virtual security data rooms. During business mergers or acquisitions there’s plenty of research and document reviews. VDR provides the necessary channel through which such companies can survive and launch careful IPO document management and retention.

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Software Review Technical Review Intellectual Property Due Diligence 60

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

It’s clear that in the future movies & TV will be delivered to our homes from the cloud. Equally, the streaming business has got to accelerate content acquisition, focus on customer retention, improve streaming technologies to make it better for users / worse for competitors, and they’ve got to continually improve the UI.

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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?)

San Francisco 167

San Francisco CPA SEM CTO Hire 167

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

According to ProfitWell , customer acquisition costs (CAC) have increased by over 55% in the last 5 years: At the same time, customer willingness to pay for features has dropped by 30% during that same period: So, on one hand, we have rising costs; on the other, we have a lower willingness to pay. customer acquisition process and channels).

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Marketing Sales Cycle Acquisition Sales 289

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 19, 2022

Especially during challenging times, retention is significantly more crucial than acquisition. Working with cloud technology has been a must. The pandemic also serves as a reminder to improve existing client connections rather than succumbing to shiny object syndrome and focusing solely on new prospects. 3- Caring for the team.

Entrepreneur 119

Entrepreneur Metrics Technical Review North America 119

Austin Startup

AUGUST 13, 2018

Learn how acquisitions can usher in new eras of growth and hiring, how to nurture existing cultures, how to merge different ways of thinking when the acquiring company doesn’t have tech roots, and how to deploy strategies for future success. These are 3 successful Austin CEOs who have built significant consumer-facing tech businesses.

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Austin Technical Review Cofounder Texas 48

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Instead of measuring Awareness, Appeal, and Ask separately, we combined all marketing acquisition efforts under the Awareness stage, leaving Act to account for conversions in the form of sign-ups. However, we split the Advocate stage into Activation, Retention, Trials, and Paid phases that contain information about product usage and sales.

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Churn Rate Analytics Retention SQL 78

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Anyone who is familiar with the ResearchXL model will know that the two go hand-in-hand to deliver insights… Let’s say your problem is customer acquisition (you’ve seen the numbers). For customers, ask about retention. Optimizing for retention is a high impact, on-going task. What gives? How to Get Started.

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Conversion Retention Audience Software Review 48

Transformify

JANUARY 31, 2024

So, get ready to ditch the outdated and embrace the future of talent acquisition. Predictive Analytics: AI is able to forecast future events, including candidate behaviour, performance, retention, and turnover, by using data and algorithms. Provides a cloud-based solution that is secure and scalable.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Retention Matching 52

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

The main B2C benchmarks have to do with traction: growth in user acquisition, user retention/churn, monetisation, as well as the effectiveness of consumer marketing + virality. cohort retention curves that flatten (stickiness) actives/reg > 25% (validates TAM). Source: The SaaS Napkin. Consumer apps and services.

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B2C Technical Review Startup Retention 141

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

Sales and marketing collaborate until a deal is closed and beyond to secure long-term customer retention. Cloud-based data warehouse Snowflake had an ambitious goal to triple its revenue. For 90% of companies , the top goal for ABM is new business generation— new clients, new contracts, new logo acquisition, etc.

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Customer Marketing Channel Acquisition 98

ReadWriteStart

MAY 14, 2012

We wanted to put analysts in the cloud for startups.”. See, for example, their customer acquisition costs. Startup Compass has 17,000 companies now using the service for things like checking whether their churn rate is too high or their retention rate is too low - or if they should be spending more money on customer acquisition. “We

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Churn Rate Cofounder Startup Acquisition 133

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 3, 2019

M1neral Mineral acquisition is going through a major transformation. M1neral collects data, applies AI, enriches it with actionable intelligence and provides a great user experience in the cloud. SimiDigi promotes retention by helping their customers implement an engaging, effective and top notch training program.

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Curation Artificial Inteligence CPA Texas 48

VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

If you’re a startup founder, you’re probably looking at Google in some way, maybe in terms of partnership or acquisition, but maybe some level of suspicion and fear. M&A – Acquisitions. Another big commercial area is Google Cloud for startups. Google Cloud or Google Compute).

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Technical Review Startup Early Stage Cloud 131

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Some are complex and require sales development and account executives to close, like Oracle’s marketing cloud. However it comes with its own set of challenges, like retention and churn. Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) – refers to the resources that a business uses in order to acquire an additional customer.

Conversion 48

Conversion Churn Rate Retention Metrics 48

Steve Blank

APRIL 1, 2020

B2B – cloud services, online meetings, virtual workforce management, collaboration tools. How can you shift focus to customer retention versus acquisition? Are there parts of your supply chain that can be repurposed? What about parts of your manufacturing lines? Your CFO now becomes the head of cash management.

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South Korea Salary Business Model China 333

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

The App Store is a channel for customer acquisition. I think its helpful to think about two kinds of competition for distribution: acquisition competition and retention competition. Retention competition is how you get people to come back to your app. Then, if your retention is good enough, you can stay there.

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San Francisco Lean Retention SEM 68

ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Tara Robertson – How to 10x Growth by Optimizing Customer Marketing & Retention. Retention is the most important thing – if that’s poor, nothing else matters. Retention is the most important thing – if that’s poor, nothing else matters. Start with retention. Make it about the CUSTOMER.

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Retention Artificial Inteligence Channel Email 106

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

If freemium still seems like a barrier to acquisition, you’ve got plenty of money in the bank, and you’re crossing your fingers for a buyout by Google or Facebook, a fully free product may make the most sense. Those near-term sales, while enticing, may erode a brand and hurt retention. Free-trial models. How mature is your market?

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Customer Conversion Acquisition B2B 119

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Products can find sources of validation with impressive stats along a number of dimensions, such as high engagement, viral coefficient, or long-term retention. Do you have any thoughts on scalable customer acquisition in cases where a decent bit of knowledge work has to be invested into each customer?

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VC Cafe

MARCH 15, 2016

At the end of the post, we’ll have a look at sales within the broader context of customer acquisition and customer success. Behind the Cloud , written by Marc Benioff of Salesforce.com, is a read about the changing nature of software sales and how to deliver great campaigns on a budget. The sales’y part. The buying cycle.

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Sales Marketing Sales Cycle B2C 60

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

While one may see profits as a success, others may view it as customer satisfaction, employee retention, or innovation. Too often we let other peoples definition of success cloud our view and put us on a path to empty promises. The definition of success differs from person to person, and business to business.

Entrepreneur 133

Entrepreneur .Net Metrics Revenue 133

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Step #2: How good is the acquisition strategy? No company in the Milky Way has succeeded without having a balanced portfolio of acquisition channels (fancy word for source of traffic). If direct traffic is low, I worry if you are any good at customer service / retention (the latter is so often just an afterthought).

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Web Analytics eCommerce Campaign 139

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Enterprise tag management solutions are extremely feature rich now (they can even make you coffee), and hold the incredible promise of just having to touch your mobile site/app once and then being able to add more data capture sexiness remotely via the cloud. Mobile Marketing 2015: Rethink Customer Acquisition, Intent Targeting.

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Analytics Metrics Mobile DC 141

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

At IMVU , we would routinely find retention effects that would stem from registration changes and have impact days or weeks later. Why, we just unified acquisition and engagement! I do think the concept allows us to unify acquisition and engagement, and is important for that reason. helping you balance engagement vs acquisition.

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Metrics San Francisco Lean Viral 88

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

If you haven’t figured out the ecosystem, growth is useless – whether it is a acquisition-only viral loop, like Tagged, or an advertising blitz like countless dot-bombs. They get focused solely on growth. This isn’t helpful either, as countless companies have shown. Take the minimum viable product , for starters.

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Customer San Francisco Viral Lean 156

Occam's Razor

JULY 15, 2014

Your dashboards don't need more wiz-bang graphics or for them to be displays of your javascript powers to sql your hadoop to make big query cloud compute. This is a nicely customized data puke for our Ecommerce and Customer Retention team. Covers acquisition, behavior and outcomes. They need more English language.

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Analytics Metrics Web Ohio 159

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Here’s a review from Judah Phillips ,, an analytics expert, consultant, and author who wrote Building a Digital Analytics Organization , Digital Analytics Primer , and Ecommerce Analytics : Judah Phillips : “Adobe offers a selection of analytics products named “Adobe Analytics” as part of the “Adobe Marketing Cloud.”

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Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review Conversion 48

Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

It was really great because when I got funded I was able to invite my investors in, I was able to invite my board members in to look at my business plan, to look at my pitch, to make comments on my financials, and because it’s in the cloud, you can track and plan your business from anywhere. Are you doing an acquisition?

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Technical Review Software Review Due Diligence Exit Strategy 60

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

We were trying to broaden the conversation beyond just viral customer acquisition. I wrote about this challenge for iPhone developers, in an essay on retention competition : the battle over what icon the user will click when they go to the home screen. Have you struggled with engagement and retention? What do they get out of it?

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Viral San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 140

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Poplytics – online surveys and analytics AskYourTargetMarket – market research surveys SurveyMonkey - granddaddy of on-line surveys Amazon Mechanical Turk – you can set up a question and get answers PickFu – A/B testing $5 for 50 opinions Collaboration Dropbox – store, sync, and, share files online.

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Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

How personal opinions immediately cloud this topic, but how many new categories are evaluated with some marginal intellectual curiosity. HW: When we first met you had founded Belly , a B2B2C loyalty/retention startup. A lot of confused, raised brows, “Wait, aren’t unions bad?” then a passing reference to Jimmy Hoffa.

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Chicago Venture Capital Miami Employee 78

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Aptana Cloud (svn, IDE, php, java, rails etc…). Cloud Infrastructure. see the Libcloud -compatible cloud providers. great web customer acquisition tutorials. customer retention, churn reduction, lifetime value. cloud-based survey, free account. Cloud-based drawing tool. Contractor Management.

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