Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2013

Business Model Issues. Business Model Issues. Yet healthcare has its own unique regulatory and reimbursement issues and business model issues that must be understood. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Science and Industrial Policy , Teaching. Regulatory Issues.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 14, 2012

It’s been over 10 years since Napster came on the scene to disrupt traditional music business models, sparking a wave of debate on the right mix of “free” vs “paid” content going forward with digital that has yet to be fully settled. In the shift to digital music, several models emerged, with the jury still out on the clear winner.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

If you've read my first book Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, you know that I've advocated this strategy since 2008! This recommendation also valuable for companies that have very unique business models, or face other unusual circumstances (geographic, size, amount of innovation, and many others). See Page 269. :).

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

It requires separating the product launch from the marketing launch (see Dont Launch ) as well as other staple Lean Startup tactics: minimum viable product, split-testing, customer development and the pivot. Those tools, combined with focused customer interviews, have turbo-charged the company’s ability to learn.

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San Francisco Lean Analytics Continuous Deployment 167

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

Let’s look at XX completely different types of business, and pick just six metrics (two each for A, B and O) that would be the very best ones to measure their digital success. The goal is for each company’s Google Data Studio to not look like a CDP (customized data puke), but to be a focused strategic dashboard with an emphasis on IABI.

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Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 141

ConversionXL

JUNE 21, 2015

Give the gift of simplicity, too much info is annoying to the customer. Conduct cohort analysis -see what your customers do over a 30 day timeline, why are there changes in their activity? Peep Laja ( ConversionXL ): This I Believe – From Data to Customers. Oli Gardner ( Unbounce ): Your 12-step Landing Page Rehab Program.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Teams can prove their competence and validate their ideas by showing investors evidence that there’s a repeatable and scalable business model. A Lean Startup methodology offers entrepreneurs a framework to focus on what’s important: Business Model Discovery. We focus on evidence and trajectory across the business model.

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Oakland Incubator Lean Metrics 329

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

At Top Tier, we have been continuously refining our database and analytics engine, and we use it and other software mentioned in this article to make better decisions, spot trends, and stay in front of targeted venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. What has been helpful to funds to manage their deal negotiation processes?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2014

There is much more to say about registration processes than I have space for in this article, but you can read more here: Why user registration sucks and how it hurts your business. The number of visitors directly correlates to revenue – whatever business you are in. Better Data Means (Potentially) Better Marketing Decisions.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

In other words, potential customers are often put off by the effort to fill out a form, and may even leave the checkout process altogether. 77% of users believe social login is a good registration solution… …and should be offered by any website, according to the aggregated research published by WebHostingBuzz.

Social Network 73

Social Network Viral Social Media B2C 73

ConversionXL

APRIL 22, 2015

Even if we sell the same products to the same demographic, many things can be different – traffic sources, relationship with the audience, customer support etc. It’s not like you open up Google Analytics and the data will come telling you stuff. It’s proven to work across industries and business models.

Analytics 48

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

Caroline: Small businesses first of all should have a website, even though there’s a statistic out there like 60% of small businesses in America don’t even have a website, which is sort of crazy. Then if you have a website, you should have analytics behind it because analytics is free. That should be the starting point.

Small Business 60

Small Business Email Startup Aggregator 60

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

You’ll understand their weak points and even win those customers to your side by suggesting your better solution. On a higher-level, it’s a good way to understand your niche and target customers. Check aggregator sites that feature tweets. This works great if you use it to monitor a more established competitor.

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ConversionXL

MAY 16, 2018

I believe that by changing the banner on our website to something more representative of our core customer demographic, visitors will convert more frequently. For example, a leading indicator of customer lifetime value might be user satisfaction. Some business models use experimentation to great effect already.

Marketing 133

Marketing Metrics Programming Design 133

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 4, 2016

Viralheat is a great social media listening tool that provides in-depth analytics for mentions of your brand name, products, location, and competition. Using Hootsuite, you can set up a stream that will aggregate all of the conversations about your brand even if they don’t tag you in it.

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Affiliate Technical Review Advertising Conversion 28

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

From live & on demand video with endless interactive overlays, through 2nd screen, synchronized & social experiences, to brilliant mobile apps that may function in all connectivity environments and support every possible business model. Unlike other companies, we are a true digital record label, not aggregators.

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Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand. ” Take advantage of being on-demand and allow customers to try and buy your service with as little friction as possible. Labels: SaaS , sales and marketing , software. 16 comments: BdH. Brian, Paglo www.paglo.com.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Finally, DataSift has an enormous about of historical data already stored we we can help you go back and retrieve some older data for analytical purposes. has now made these analytics available to the public. DataSift has a product that builds a permanent database for you of just the information you want to capture. million followers).

Viral 307

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

AtlasCT – (Atlas Cartographic Technologies LTD) offers a wide range of products for LBS applications and services, with the ability to provide a complete solution, adjusted to the customer needs, for all types of platforms, with remote or standalone. We provide our customers with a combination of sophisticated data analytics techniques.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Mobile analytics – measuring the impact of mobile and increasing customer engagement (Check out G-Stat). This allows customers to create, manage and track processes that include tagging of physical objects using barcodes. Data mining-based Customer analytics. Craze Productions.

Mobile 103

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Half-way through this post, you'll seriously wonder why you've spent so much time obsessing with Adobe/Google Analytics/Chartbeat or other web analytics tool. CIA also formed one of five foundational elements in my best-selling book Web Analytics 2.0. Every website in the world has a unique business strategy.

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Metrics Analytics Non-Compete Search 60

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Real time web usage outpaces business models. Similarly, the check-in services are attracting experimental budgets from national retailers as well as forward thinking small businesses who are eager to attract new customers into their stores, and reward regular customers.

Internet 114

Internet eCommerce Advertising Flash 114

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Customer service. Google Custom Search Engine. Google Analytics. Site Pulse – Live Web Traffic Monitor and Analytics. Customer Relationship Management. SEO and Analytics Tutorials. Analytics review â?? Analytics blog â?? Codeacademy.

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