Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Its easy to take Silicon Valley for granted. Ive written a little bit about the origins of Silicon Valley because I think its important for us to understand how we got here in order to make sure we preserve what is best about our community. And, as usual, I wanted to share some of the audience reaction with my commentary.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Which is what to me is deeply frustrating--thanks to the president''s creation of the CIO and the CTO, he has really great people from Silicon Valley, from our communities, that could have been instrumental in creating this website, but those people were bypassed because of the IT procurement process in the federal government, which is a nightmare.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

Id like to call special attention to Kurt Carr s perspective (lets hope he finishes his five-part series): Now that I’m back in Ohio (I was one of the token foreigners in a room full of Silicon Valley residents), I have found myself reliving and rethinking much of what I saw there.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 20, 2023

While Silicon Valley remains iconic, cities from Bangalore to Berlin are making names for themselves as hotbeds of tech innovation. Meeting growth metrics, achieving profitability, and ensuring a substantial return on investment are now integral parts of the startup journey.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 10, 2013

Defending the Brash Arrogance of Silicon Valley | by Mike Greenfield – [link]. The critical metrics for each stage of your SaaS business | by Lars Lofrgren – [link]. Men and Hard-to-Reach Audiences Are Spending More Time Streaming Digital Video | Adweek – [link]. 10 Myths about Startups – [link].

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 7, 2016

Living in Europe with easy access to different countries, divergent points of view, and experiencing the spectrum of “outsider” status relative to Silicon Valley has been life changing and a career choice I would recommend to everyone even if only for a couple of years. Small perspective shifts make an impact.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Growth marketers can then use audience segmentation and multivariate testing to understand what resonates best with different sub-segments, informing more personalized communication. They work to improve top-of-funnel metrics like brand awareness and identify opportunities to improve customer activation, retention, and referral efforts.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Despite all the energy invested in talking to authors about the size of their platform, very few gatekeepers have a rigorous set of metrics for measuring it. The problem is that there are no other metrics they can look at to judge the content of a book to know if it’s worth reviewing. Is that a lot?

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 4, 2017

You also need to understand your audience. Silicon Valley author, investor and entrepreneur Guy Kawasaki advocates using LinkedIn to look at everyone’s background and find points of common interest that you can use. Describe and/or quantify the problem to help your audience understand that a change needs to happen.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, June 9, 2009 The Lean Startup Tokyo edition I had a blast speaking at Startonomics Tokyo , which was organized to foster ties between the startup cultures in Japan and Silicon Valley. It was an eye-opening day, and a great crowd to present to. goap Thanks!

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Yet, the Growth Manager role remains poorly understood, especially outside Silicon Valley. This task is accomplished through the selection of key performance indicators, and the development of reports on these metrics for consumption across the organization. Each channel has its own advantages, trade-offs, and idiosyncrasies.

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Yet, the Growth Manager role remains poorly understood, especially outside Silicon Valley. This task is accomplished through the selection of key performance indicators, and the development of reports on these metrics for consumption across the organization. Each channel has its own advantages, trade-offs, and idiosyncrasies.

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

Common reason for failure: firms present their employer brand message in a perfect “corporate format” that is not judged to be authentic or believable by the target audience. Common reason for failure: no metric or feedback mechanism to measure the percentage of applications that were routed to the wrong job. advertising.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

We recently had Tim Berry, Palo Alto Software founder and business planning expert, present our Bplans audience with his latest advice on lean business planning. She’s opening a small deli in an office park in the Silicon Valley. You need metrics because we’re human. This is Magda. Are we recruiting?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

My wife worked at Google so while we had good income in Silicon Valley it’s hardly the life of luxury given the costs of housing. Succeeding on a panel is about pleasing the audience AND your fellow panel members (at least the ones you respect / like). I had two kids and a rental house.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 5, 2015

What the Weekends Are Like for Silicon Valley CEOs crowdspring.co/1PMVYSB. How to Create Social Media Images That Connect With Your Audience socialmediaexaminer.com/how-to-create-. The Traffic Prediction Accuracy of 12 Metrics from Compete, Alexa, SimilarWeb, & More – buff.ly/1KBkzIK. audio/draft/ro….

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Eric Ries, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author of The Lean Startup, popularized this strategy for web applications. When you’re working with a shoestring budget, you want to release your app, gets some real feedback from your targeted audience, and have some funds left over for marketing.”. Step 8: Track your metrics.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

bands take their built in audience and then branch into their own material. reminds us that Customer Development is not just collecting web metrics and it’s not about focus groups. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Huh…sounds like customer validation to [.] Order Here. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

To turn your company’s stock into cash, you engaged a top-notch investment bank (Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs) and/or their Silicon Valley compatriots (Hambrecht & Quist, Montgomery Securities, Robertson Stephens). In the 20th century tech companies and their investors made money through an Initial Public Offering (IPO).

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

5:01) Brian's thoughts on the human dimension to his approach and how that sets him apart in Silicon Valley. (6:06) 59:03) The need for creativity, intuition and compassion in Silicon Valley and business. (1:00:23) 59:03) The need for creativity, intuition and compassion in Silicon Valley and business. (1:00:23)

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2013

As Eric puts it in the webcast, “I’ve met now the CEOs of some of the biggest companies in the world, and I still spend time with the CEOs of high-growth Silicon Valley companies from the garage on up, and what all those people have in common is that they are seeking out sources of sustainable growth….

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Silicon Valley Needs to Lose the Arrogance or Risk Destruction | Wired Opinion - crowdspring.co/1g2t41F. Say no to SaaS vanity metrics - crowdspring.co/NzqJ53. Flappy Bird is proof that no one knows what the audience wants | Polygon - crowdspring.co/Ntt8Or. Want to know what life is like as a @techstars associate?

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

I came to Silicon Valley when I was 25, turning 26. And I think one of the things that we’ve learned is, when I came to Silicon Valley in 2007, we were starting Airbnb in 2008, it was a marketplace. But there’s something else that I think I learned, and that was that a lot of focus on Silicon Valley is about growth.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. Building Metrics / Usage Reports / KPI 3. Product/Metrics (70%/30% time) * Get your product activation (sign-up + meaningful action) to 60% * then, Get your product retention to 20% weekly. 10) Metrics.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

I came to Silicon Valley when I was 25, turning 26. And I think one of the things that we’ve learned is, when I came to Silicon Valley in 2007, we were starting Airbnb in 2008, it was a marketplace. But there’s something else that I think I learned, and that was that a lot of focus on Silicon Valley is about growth.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

Look, one thing that everyone tends to do (in the whole cult of culture in Silicon Valley) is to establish one and then you stay there, almost like the 10 commandments. Our chief diversity officer is as metric-driven as you would see. Because that’s something that we all in Silicon Valley [need to do]. She’s great.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 27, 2013

But the counterpoint comes from a researcher named Kathleen Eisenhardt at Stanford, who did a study of Silicon Valley firms and found that the firms that considered more options were actually faster for three basic reasons. The tripwire might be a metric we’re following, or a budget, or a date. It’s more work, and it’s slower.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Thats because a marketing launch is a one-time event, and rarely translates into renewable audiences. In fact, we often felt frustrated when new startups with a fraction of our success got terrific write-ups in Silicon Valley-centric venues. Know what the success metrics are for the launch.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

I confess that I looked at it and concluded that I must be far outside the target audience. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. December 2, 2008 10:56 AM Ryan said. What is customer development?

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

First, understand your audience. And show that you’re focused on the metrics that matter: revenue numbers, engagement traction, etc. Among Silicon Valley investors, Monster and HotJobs were not considered great, investable businesses — even though Monster had a $4B market cap — because of the constant amount of churn for jobs listings.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Sure, I wrote about startups all the time, but my work experience with a classic Silicon Valley-styled startup was non-existent. In the early days, my belief was that blogs (or as I called them micro-pubs back in 2002) would grow really fast and it would allow me to aggregate large subsets of audiences around specific niches.

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Up and Running

JULY 29, 2014

Any of you who watch the HBO “Silicon Valley” show will recognize this; if you don’t watch it, you should definitely check it out. Metrics videos #trackthis parsons sabrina this track webinar' I love the images here. It’s a very fun satirical show about startups. Sabrina : Thanks, Matt. Thanks, everybody.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 7, 2014

Most of the attention given this term is coming out of Silicon Valley and the tech startups mushrooming in that space. Therefore there’s a great deal of emphasis on the need for growth hacking marketers to be tech savvy or even coders. Effective marketing is focused on growth – long-term, sustainable growth.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 30, 2011

And in the audience, there were people from at least 30 different corners of the world. The product has been validated on campaigns by a dozen major Indian brands and agencies, and has shown great metrics. The product has been validated on campaigns by a dozen major Indian brands and agencies, and has shown great metrics.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 3, 2017

Ryan H: Perennial seller, each industry has its own sort of metrics. But basically it’s defining things that sell for longer than the standard shelf life of products in that space, anything that year in and year out becomes kind of a dependable resource that’s always finding new customers, new clients, new fans, new audience.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 20, 2019

I want to help the best brands around the world find their voice so that their target audience can find them quickly when in need of their products or services. You see like Silicon Valley, Hawaii is becoming its own startup paradise. But unlike Silicon Valley, we’ve got our own set of problems.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

For many of us in Silicon Valley, one of the notable events of the crisis was Brian's public stance about the role of corporate leadership in social issues. And as Fred happened to move to Silicon Valley, he saw the prototype I had posted on Reddit, I think. None of them worked. And he reached out to me cold.

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