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What Makes Employees Productive in a New Startup?

ReadWriteStart

After launching a new startup, you’ll be interested in growing the business as quickly as possible, thus generating more revenue, securing more stability, and improving your reputation as well. You can devise a streamlined, efficient workflow from scratch – but there’s no guarantee the “practice” is going to match the “theory.”

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27 Entrepreneurs Share Tips on Building an Ecommerce Business

Hearpreneur

The expansion of e-commerce should also bring about seeing returns as a strategic lever, similar to how companies used faster delivery to drive customer experience and revenue. The first step is to have a domain name that matches your business name. And that can make or break your customer retention, especially in the early stages.

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Why Build, Measure, Learn – isn’t just throwing things against the wall to see if they work

Steve Blank

Best practices in software development started to move to agile development in the early 2000’s. With Agile you could end up satisfying every feature a customer asked for and still go out of business. A major improvement over Waterfall development, Build Measure Learn lets startups be fast, agile and efficient. Lessons Learned.

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Three Counterintuitive Ways To Build A Business That Lasts

YoungUpstarts

When you consider that 88% of people leave their jobs for a position with a matching or lower salary you come to understand that the reasons for changing companies is rarely financial. Despite being a bootstrapped company with little revenue, we over-invested in a central New York City office at a rate of 15% rent to revenue.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? All things being equal, of course, you’d rather have more revenue rather than less. And yet revenue alone is not a sufficient goal. More on that in a moment.

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What Does the Future Hold for Conversion Optimization?

ConversionXL

With agile development cycles and uncertain monetization models, they live and die by data and experimentation. Using the knowledge gained from this type of CRO process can optimize your sales teams, retention teams and even your shipping methods. Image Source. How do you do that?

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Building a Company with Customer Data – Why Metrics Are Not Enough

Steve Blank

At the same time, they can gauge how well industry data and the actual sales match the company’s revenue and market-share expectations. Customer information dissemination is a cornerstone of Lean and agile companies. Just remember that most market research firms are excellent at predicting the past.

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