Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 28, 2009

Or, phrased more hopefully, "I see how you can use continuous deployment to run an online consumer service, but how can it be used for B2B software?" Some of these benefits are shared by agile systems which have continuous integration but large batch releases, but others are unique to continuous deployment. Or variations thereof.

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

SaaS stacks give companies the agility they need to move fast, but often they are the cause of a huge data fragmentation. Is it a B2B or B2C email?” , “What is the company where this contact is working at?” Valuable customer data is buried in these disconnected tools. MQL starts with demographic properties of each user.

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OnlyOnce

AUGUST 12, 2013

The Customer Experience (CX) movement is gaining more and more steam these days, especially in B2B companies like Return Path. another suggestion the book had for weaving the customer experience into everyone’s objectives was one company’s tactic of linking compensation (in this case, 401k match) to customer experience metrics.

Lean 94

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. Having lived through this, I wholeheartedly agree that if we had not had enough runway, adopted an agile/lean approach or had patience from our investors it would have failed miserably. . It was a disaster. Expo SF (May.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

What are those metrics? Andrew : If you are a travel company right now, I think you’re seeing very specific metrics dropping. As a result of that, all of those metrics go up. People saying, “This is what’s happening to B2B SaaS or this is what’s happening to this category.”

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Founder Conversion Technical Review Cash Position 36

ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Corporate Agility. Transparency correlates to agility (Does your CEO know how many tests you ran last month?). Work hard to define meaningful product metrics – enabler of team success. Renee Thompson – How to Win at B2B Optimization. What makes B2B different? Culture of Innovation. Have a vision. .

Retention 106

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Up and Running

MARCH 14, 2017

Social channels are as agile as they are flaky—one wrong word can make all the difference between massive participation rates (which can also lead to comments and shares), and being ignored. Do not chase vanity metrics and warm fuzzy feelings when setting out on your quest for ultimate validation. Consider trade fairs or cold calling.

Business Plan 94

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Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

Then there is Agile for engineering. My solution to these problems was to create a simple framework we can use to put our customers first, evaluate our marketing programs, and right-align our view of success (metrics). I believe it has to do with choosing the wrong success metrics. And really the list is too long.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

They will realize that you have built a startup that’s agile, resilient and customer-centric. Good to see someone with authority advocating an approach to building startups that we at Agile Entrepreneurs focus on, week after week. Did the VC’s like your team ? Reply steveblank , on November 11, 2009 at 9:22 am Said: Nope.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 28, 2011

Web Analysts are blessed with an immense amount of data, and an amazing amount of valuable, even sexy, metrics to understand business performance. Yet our heroic efforts to report the aforementioned sexy metrics lead to little business action. Since crappy sounds bad, let's just say you are reporting super lame metrics.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

Because every tool uses its own sweet metrics definitions, cookie rules, session start and end rules and so much more. If you don't kill 25% of your metrics each year, you are doing something wrong. Why do you think introducing a completely different set of numbers is going to make your life easier? Usually for free.

Analytics 118

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2016

What guarantees that agility and innovation are present in your analytics practice? What one critical metric will help you clearly measure performance for each strategy above? How will you know if the performance was a success or failure, what's the target for each critical metric? You plus Finance plus CMO.].

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Agile VC

AUGUST 12, 2011

” The challenge is that while there’s a simple answer, it’s not one that can be easily distilled into a set of metrics that can be followed as a cookie cutter plan. 4) Metric momentum – Everybody likes those up and to the right graphs.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 9, 2012

If you are doing lame stuff, why try harder in an analytics context by asking for Economic Value or Visitor Loyalty or Conversation Rate or a thousand other super powerful and insightful metrics ? The web demands immense agility and flexibility from every company. Don't brush off Twitter or Google+ because you are B2B or A2K.

Marketing 140

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2009

This is especially useful in situations, like most B2B businesses, where the total number of customers is likely to be small. I encourage B2B startups to keep them in their customer development arsenal. This is especially useful in situations, like most B2B businesses, where the total number of customers is likely to be small.

San Francisco 144

San Francisco Customer Wiki Lean 144

market-by-numbers.com

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Then you should check out the Lean Startup Machine in Chicago 11/5-7th register: [link] 05:12:51 PM October 22, 2010 from TweetDeck Blogroll Calacles Futuristic Play by @AndrewChen Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Master of 500 Hats – Dave McClure SKMurphy Startup Marketing Blog – By Sean Ellis Venture Hacks Vlaskovits Recent Posts Market Segmentation (..)

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 20, 2009

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Combining agile development with customer developm. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment DC 68

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Startups for startups – the top B2B tools used by Startups – Includes the list of top 50 startup vendors in 2012 by Vendorstack , a reviews and Q&A platform on enterprise vendors for startups and mid-market companies. Startup Metrics for Pirates â?? SaaS Metrics Tutorial â?? Agile project management.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams. Bontq – hosted bug tracking and project management needs.

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Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110