Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. So far, I have found "lean startup" works better with the entrepreneurs Ive talked to than "agile startup" or even "extreme startup.") Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
But because paid traffic is fundamentally a bidding war, its important that you have a differentiated ability to monetize customers better than other people who are bidding for the same traffic. Otherwise, your CPA will get driven up close to or exceeding your LTV, and you cant grow profitably anymore. . Expo SF (May.
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Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 18, 2010
What differentiates them is their disciplined approach to determining when to spend money: after the fundamental elements of the business model have been empirically validated. Myth: Lean Startups are small bootstrapped startups. Truth: There’s nothing wrong with raising venture capital. Expo SF (May.
ConversionXL
OCTOBER 14, 2021
You work tirelessly to understand your customer, market, and competition so you can differentiate. Brand momentum can be calculated similarly to physical momentum (mass x velocity): Brand momentum = brand mass (your company’s size, reputation, and relevance) x brand velocity (speed of growth, agility in keeping up with industry changes).
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 3, 2010
I then noticed that our head of sales in France had created almost a manufacturing process for responding to RFPs. To some extent this can be good and agile. I had a fair amount of “cut-and-paste&# text I would include when I wrote responses to RFPs but I hadn’t institutionalized it for the entire company.
Hearpreneur
JANUARY 29, 2017
Back in the day, when I worked for Xerox, it was a true differentiator from the typical copier salesperson. Getting things done well takes considerable testing and hinges on agile changes; striving for perfection is the opposite mentality. – Anatole France. Thanks to Peter James Lovisek, Fossil Realm Inc. !
Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 27, 2009
What differentiates this model from "free serves paid" is that the free users dont need to consciously do anything special to be valuable. Here the key is for your free customers to get value from the site that is greater than the costs they perceive by the fact that youre selling access to them. Expo SF (May.
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