Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

The world does not need a new business framework. seconds)" for business framework on Google today. But most of the frameworks available to us solve for divisional silos. Then there is Agile for engineering. Then there is Agile for engineering. Why build a framework? And really the list is too long.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 15, 2010

Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review Way back when the money was doled out, the team made a compelling pitch about the large market that was going to adopt their new innovative product or service. They are on-schedule and on-budget, but their gross metrics are way off.

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OnlyOnce

JUNE 30, 2022

I can always picture the person narrating the book, or hear their voice saying the words, I can periodically see their personality showing through the words on the page, and books bring out so much more detail than I’d ever get from a conversation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

The way forward requires getting everyone together in a room, and having a conversation about where were headed. Tactics were discussed out of context, and there wasnt an overarching framework for figuring out what works for what kinds of companies, industries, and stages of growth. Thats what this conference is for.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

It is written in a conversational tone, doesnt take itself too seriously, and avoids extraneous fluff. While the customer development framework of Four Steps is universally relevant, The Entrepreneur’s Guide updates its practices for modern startups. I think theyve succeeded. The Entrepreneur’s Guide is an easy read.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The site visits include stops at Square (the payments startup founded by Twitter co-creator Jack Dorsey), WeWork Soma (an amazing co-working space) and Pivotal Labs (leaders in Lean and Agile consulting), along with one more super-interesting location we’ll announce shortly. Which are the most important pieces, and which can you delay?

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. Go on an agile diet quickly. With a product development team that is not shipping, any agile methodology will surface major problems quickly. Time-to-complete-a-sale is not a bad metric for validated learning at this stage. And yet, their investors are frustrated.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 1, 2015

Why Revenue Isn’t the Most Important Financial Metric for Startups – buff.ly/1DhyQo4. A Conversation With Stewart Butterfield nyti.ms/1JZMxhm. A Designer’s Introduction to “Agile” Methodology – Tuts+ Web Design Article bit.ly/1JT4QEb. Which is better – themes or frameworks? 1Ik7S68.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 14, 2020

No conversation in SEO can exclude user intent. The Jobs-to-be-done framework (JTBD) was invented by economist Clayton Christensen and is a great way to identify user intent for a topic and define the right features. For many inventory-driven sites, the JTBD framework is a better alternative to personas. Accessibility.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Metrics for this depth are rare and only long-term. Strategic content gives the audiences the frameworks and processes they need to make the conceptual ideas reality, and helps them frame up the solution space (again, not your product or service but how to think about solutions). The strategic level.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

I always learn a ton from him and this conversation was no exception. Below is a sample result of one such experiment: Instacart’s Fulfillment and Marketplaces team use this framework to run several product iterations and have been able to successfully keep up the pace of innovation with the pace of our business. Want to learn more?

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Once you build it, they will now ask you about the key metrics that they need proven in order to see if you really are a good investment. The real reason to build an MVP is to do early tests of key Startup Metrics for the business. " Once you have the metrics defined, it focuses your effort. To prove/disprove a hypothesis.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

In normal times, every company operates against some hypothetical growth model—a data-driven framework that describes how your product grows and how you acquire new users. In normal times, every company operates against some hypothetical growth model—a data-driven framework that describes how your product grows and how you acquire new users.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 15, 2019

The conversion rate is down 30% at launch. Bubble Kings most commonly reside in organizations where there is little to no accountability (or misplaced accountability, ex: celebration of vanity metrics). (That is different from everything that a company is doing not working out. :)). Bottom-line. Give it a try.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

This simple three-part framework underlies almost all discussions about technical design today, and it was clearly on display in the recent debates over technical debt. Commodity: A program should be suitable for the purposes for which it was intended. Delight: The experience of using the program should be pleasurable one. Expo SF (May.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

Adding pressure to this conversation makes it tougher. Provide the metrics you are trying to achieve. They can force a more open-ended conversation about what the possibilities are. It is better for them to come up with estimates on their own and have you go through to understand those estimates in a neutral way. Great question.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 4, 2020

You do CX a disservice if you focus only on metrics like NPS. waterfall, agile , etc.)? waterfall, agile, etc.)? agile vs. waterfall) you plan to implement, alongside how you’ll educate and increase the focus on CX throughout the business. Only then might you discover that it doesn’t impact conversion rates.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

One good example is the way in which we''ve adjusted the length of different phases of our agile sprints. We don''t follow a set agile methodology, but rather follow a more home-grown, minimal version of various approaches. Next Tuesday, October 22 at 10a PT, we’ll take a look at this advanced entrepreneurship question.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

CXLLive #conversion pic.twitter.com/qVYFcGhnD4. Corporate Agility. Transparency correlates to agility (Does your CEO know how many tests you ran last month?). previous conversations, facebook, intercom…). intimate communication is how we actually have our conversations, not email, or ads. from each of the speakers.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 21, 2015

Elite Camp is a 3-day traffic and (mainly) conversion event. Use ResearchXL framework. The more agile you are, the bigger effect your optimization will have. ROAR: Risk( 1000 conversions / mo ) -> Optimization ( 10 000 conversions / mo ) -> Automation -> Re-think. Find similar traffic sources.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2016

All basic conversion optimization things. We all know that the best way to come up with test ideas is to conduct conversion research. Here’s a look at pirate metrics (AARRR) as designed by Dave McClure of 500 Startups … Image Source. Activation: Optimizing for that first conversion. They’re growth hacking.’

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 30, 2019

How you can put this lean marketing framework to work in your business? Create specific landing pages to drive conversions. The right metrics will let you know what’s working and what isn’t. And weak conversions may mean that your copy, call to action, or design is weak. . If you can’t measure it, don’t do it.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 26, 2017

Elite Camp is a traffic and (mainly) conversion event held in Estonia every summer. Know your North Star Metric. Hint: it’s not usually a company-valued metric like revenue. Bob Ruffalo : How IMPACT Used the ResearchXL Model to 3x Conversions from Content Marketing. Implement Agile ! Optimize for that.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2015

And above all, it is truly an honor to be among the practitioners of like passion who is passionately believing in conversion, AB testing and site optimization. Or should it be a part of the development organization or in the Agile development environment? Does that sit into the Agile scrum team? Thank you for that.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

Each has its own iterative process: customer development and agile development respectively. Some startups fail because the founders cant have this conversation - they either blow up when they try, or they fail to change because they are afraid of conflict. And how do you pick a new direction? Both are lethal outcomes. It was painful.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2009

LIKED: Y startups fail, cont deployment vs waterfall vs agile, small batches & learn fr biz metrics #leanstartup As concise a summary as Ive ever seen. Q: Does the Lean Startup framework work efficiently within a company of 2-3 people (think small)?" farazq : Awesome session @ericries. A: yes, absolutely. Expo SF (May.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

More detail on those techniques, and three more, are in this blog post: Multichannel Analytics: Tracking Offline Conversions. But each keyword gets "credit" for other metrics. These are also reasons why click attribution to multiple campaign prior to conversion is such a thankless exercise. i.e. Con +2%, T +10%.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 6, 2008 When NOT to listen to your users; when NOT to rely on split-tests There are three legs to the lean startup concept: agile product development , low-cost (fast to market) platforms , and rapid-iteration customer development. So, both split-testing and customer feedback have their drawbacks.

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ConversionXL

JULY 17, 2015

If you have thousands of conversions and you have tens of thousands in your variant, statistics is useless. When we’re using Test&Target for a very large side we definitely try to use 200 plus conversions each recipe before we start to look at the results because there’s too small a sample size. We need to test faster.”

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Evolve: See – Think – Do – Care: An intent-centric marketing framework.). Don’t test for a vanity metric. Staring at the start of the conversion process, rather than close to the end. Think needing to have 800,000 humans to go through an experimental design variation on the landing page to detect an impact on conversion rate.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2016

What guarantees that agility and innovation are present in your analytics practice? At the end of this post, I'll share the two that I recommended to the team in our conversation above. What one critical metric will help you clearly measure performance for each strategy above? " That lead to this post. There they are.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

We were trying to broaden the conversation beyond just viral customer acquisition. Our goal is to understand the metrics, mechanics, and levers of engagement. But I think the value in this framework is that it can help make overall business decisions that require thinking about the whole rather than just one of the parts.

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market-by-numbers.com

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Get notified of new posts by email Popular Posts Updated Customer Development Image The Art of the Customer Development Conversation How to find early adopters What is Customer Development? A How-To Customer Development e-book Cust Dev Downloads Check out our download section! My Recent Tweets #SanDiego added to Startup Digest!

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

net is the only framework in which you can build an app for all the major mobile operating systems (iphone, android, wp7). First of all,NET is a “framework”, not a “language” as you have said in your post. They use the MVC framework, which gets almost entirely out of your way. net implementation.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2014

They are generic mash-ups that tailor to almost no one's needs, and more often than not contain awful things like nine not-really-thought out metrics for one dimension in a report. Site Conversion Rate. the instinctive response of the Squirrels is to go grab the most obvious metrics and start partying. " Kisses.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

A few days ago I open-sourced a framework for split-testing, A/B testing or continous optimization. For example, does an Extended Validation (EV) SSL certificate gain higher conversions than a standard SSL? Does having an expensive Verisign branded SSL and site logo gain higher conversion than the low-cost GoDaddy equivalent?

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

a guide for hackers) (This post was inspired by a conversation with Nivi from Venture Hacks , but is otherwise not his fault) There has been a proliferation of frameworks and metaphors lately that are designed to help startups avoid the all-too-common fatal mistake of failing to find a market. . Expo SF (May. Expo (and a call for he.

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