Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, March 24, 2009 The metrics and levers of engagement, presentation on Engagement Loops for Facebook Developer Garage SF Ill be presenting a talk at the Facebook Developer Garage SF Wednesday evening. Unfortunately, its easy to lose track of positioning effects when optimizing for a single metric.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, May 27, 2009 Austin: the Lean Startup tour continues Next week I head to Austin, TX for my first visit ever. On the day before the TeXchange event (June 2nd), Ill be at a much smaller invite-only gathering sponsored by Austin Ventures. Labels: events 3comments: Alexandre Gomes said.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 4, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean Marketing Strategies for Small Businesses and Startups – [link]. Lean Marketing Strategies for Small Businesses and Startups – [link]. – [link].

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

While the journey of JuiceBox Hero is coming to a close, we know that our small but mighty team’s commitment to innovation for women, families, and under-represented markets is far from over. The Skinny: Two years ago I embarked on a mission to bring to market a modern way for parents to find daycares and preschools. We did that?—?and

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

We offer investors venture economics with public market liquidity. Before graduating, I decided to forgo the finance path and instead dove into engineering and later sales and product management roles at VersaSuite (health IT) in Austin. Tushar moved to Austin and joined VersaSuite after graduation.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2012

That earned us the right to ask questions of fact about their department’s mission, goals, operations, volumes, tools, methods, and success metrics. The same thing happened on Friday in Austin. Humility had crumbled the walls between marketing and engineering. Two years after release, product market share was up by 30% to 70%.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Is it an exciting challenge to create and study information about markets, industry trends, competitive movements, user sentiment; and to evaluate that information, and to find within it the answers about what a fast-growing and fast-developing company should do next? Are you passionate about creating great user experiences within a product?

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 5, 2020

The residential real estate market is ripe for disruption because as millennials enter the home buying market (now they are 30% of all homebuyers in America) they are looking for online tools and apps that will empower them with information and tools to help them manage this extremely stressful, overwhelming, and expensive process.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

They understand the key metrics and how they interact. Do you have data proving the leads are out there and can be successfully brought into your sales & marketing funnel? 6) Are you planning on selling into a new market in 2022? Are you expanding into new geographies or moving up-market to Enterprise?

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Speed Up Your Business Growth Through Experimentation written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Andrew Warden. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Andrew Warden. 17:16] Is there a small set of metrics that you rely on? [19:43] What would your answer be?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 2, 2019

validate your idea while you also use your own judgment about market timing. As Bill Gross spoke about at 2015’s TED conference, market timing is the single biggest factor for startup success (a worthy watch). Editor’s note: Since I wrote this, Compare Metrics was renamed Edgecase and was acquired by GroupBy in Canada.

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Austin Startup

MAY 12, 2020

“Growth marketing” sounds enticing–who doesn’t want marketing that leads to growth? While growth marketing has gained a lot of recent attention, it can be hard to know the potential it has for your specific startup organization. Most people employed as “growth marketers” have a background in data collection and analysis.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 19, 2019

Alexa Hubley: “How to Compete in a Saturated Market”. Product market fit: Value hypothesis is validated. The role of product marketing is to define and operationalize the context. How do you bring it to market? Use product lifecycle marketing to map campaigns to the stage of your product. What is it? Who is it for?

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Austin Startup

MAY 29, 2019

I use the word natural deliberately because it is far easier to build solutions that will offer network effects if your market is actually wired that way. Austin, the level of difficulty in changing an industry’s behavior depends on how long that industry has been engaging in that behavior. The retailers were to provide the audience?—?and

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

No wait, I forgot, actually the question is: What happens when employee #2 makes off with your code and roadmap and marketing data and customer list, moves to Bolivia, and starts selling your stuff world-wide at one-tenth the price? To summarize: Anything that can be copied will be copied, including features, marketing copy, and pricing.

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Up and Running

APRIL 10, 2013

When launching a new company or marketing campaign, your major concern shouldn’t be whether or not you can execute on the plan. We shot the video during this year’s SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas. It should be whether the idea is worth investing in at all.

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Austin Startup

JULY 2, 2021

The Austin-based recruiting and HR software company saves up to six hours a week, or 25 days a year, by using the new product. The Austin-based recruiting and HR software company saves up to six hours a week, or 25 days a year, by using the new product. This saves our operations and finance teams hours of manual work each week.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

I thought the total available market (TAM) was too small and the team wasn’t complete?—?I I usually don’t back a business unless there are founders that can build, sell, and service the new solution that is being brought to market. My fellow partners at Austin Ventures may say this is the first thing they look for.

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Austin Startup

MAY 31, 2019

Across all markets and games, AdInMo ads were found to achieve a recall rate 4x better than traditional interstitials among our players. That penetration, coupled with our targeting functionality, convinced Parade Media of the worth of adding AdInMo to their marketing mix. At the very top end, the comparison showed an amazing 5.2x

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, February 8, 2010 Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Review) The next article in my series on entrepreneurship for Harvard Business Review is live today. Once again, we revisit the topic of Actionable metrics and their nemesis: Vanity metrics. Remember "metrics are people, too."

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Actually, what Id love to see are some responses via blog posts from different folks in the group: Bill Austin - Famous Quotes 2007 Weblog Awards Alister Cameron - www.alistercameron.com Dennis McDonald - www.ddmcd.com Jason Alba - [link] Ben Yoskovitz - [link] Ben - [link] My answers. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2011

Manuel Rosso was IMVU's first VP of Marketing, and is now CEO of Food on the Table , one of the leading lean startups in Austin. Because of their dedication to metrics, they knew all the details of their registration funnel and subsequent user journey. The attendees at sllconf 2010 were wowed by Food on the Table's presentation.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Thanks to Tyler Rice, Animas Marketing ! #4- Without these key metrics, employees will be free agents and looking for better work culture. The real estate market that we are used to is missing out on a lot– the evolving consumer market, meeting the changing demands of buyers and real estate owners. 4- Agriculture.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Austin-based Bazaarvoice , the leader in social commerce, has been aggressively building out an incredible suite of applications, furthered by the launch of Social Commerce Insights, which allows marketers to easily and precisely measure social commerce ROI. Tags: Enterprise austin Bazaarvoice commerce insights. Bazaarvoice.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

For much of 2014 and 2015, I banged my head against a plane window flying back and forth between Austin and Silicon Valley while trying to raise institutional VC money for Localeur. Those were CEOs of public companies and founders or executives of some of the fastest-growing and most successful tech companies in Austin and tech.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

In a lot of cases, this requires a lot of energy invested in talking to customers or metrics and analytics. As I talked about in a previous interview, IMVUs original MVP took us six months to bring to market. Iterate quickly to uncover true market demands. " September 17, 2009 9:40 PM Anonymoussaid. Thanks Eric, great blog!

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 9, 2009

blader : @ericries my #1 takeaway from #leanstartup : "No marketing team. So instead of having sales, marketing, and business development, we have a problem team implementing customer development. dalelarson : "Metrics are people, too." Metrics are a key questions startups face. No engineering team.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 26, 2019

Do you plan to regularly refresh your marketing collateral? When is the right time to diversify your paid marketing mix? More mature DTC brands are finding success with a broad range of marketing channels?—?paid All else being equal, the incremental cost of acquiring the next customer will always be higher than the last.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Much of the writing on startups focuses on two elements: finding product-market fit scaling the company once #1 is accomplished For product-market fit, we have a lot of source material to work with from the last decade: Steve Blank’s leadership on Customer Development , and Eric Ries’ on the Lean Startup ? We’re north of 100 people?—?but

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

For startup founders, it’s never too early to start thinking about putting together a target market advisory board. The target market advisory board should consist of 2–4 industry veterans who have connections to C-level execs and VPs in your target market. Target market advisors can help add to your credibility.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 4, 2010

Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Our talk consisted all things Internet, the evolution of the buyer’s journey thanks to digital marketing, content marketing/strategy — and public relations’ role in it all. Public relations is, and has always been, built on this kind of demand.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 2, 2010

Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable Beware of Vanity Metrics For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable Beware of Vanity Metrics For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? Read the rest of The Five Whys for Start-Ups. Speed up or slow down? Speed up or slow down?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable Beware of Vanity Metrics For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable Beware of Vanity Metrics For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? Read the rest of The Startups Rules of Speed - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 28, 2009

I used to think that investments in metrics were a form of waste. Customers dont care if you have good metrics, only if you have a good product. The only reason we learned the art of metrics-based decision making at IMVU was out of necessity. that justify decisions already made. I think it was $350 the next, and so on.

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