Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

As a boot-strapped founder aka our biggest investor, one of the things I leaned into uncovering was the unknown. Lean into it. swing for the fences category-building B2C software capital?—?wasn’t We have the consumer market, but not investor market for what I’m selling : B2C software.) What did our customers think?

Silicon Valley 54

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

But there is also opportunity in lean times. If you understand the premise of blitzscaling, it’s not truly growth at any and all cost… it’s a strategic mindset for building a company from scratch at previously unheard pace specifically where digital innovation enables capturing a large addressable market.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

The majority of funds are using the popular B2C websites and services for basic due diligence, e.g., Linkedin, Twitter, HackerNews. Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

As we have seen with the recent speed bumps at highfliers like Groupon and Zynga, taking “lean startups” from foundation to creating sustainable, scalable, profitable business models is a very rare and special task. Going B2C was daunting and not in our core DNA,” Kaufer remarked. As I mentioned in my post last week , scaling is hard.

Part-Time VPE 54

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

But there is also opportunity in lean times. If you understand the premise of blitzscaling, it’s not truly growth at any and all cost… it’s a strategic mindset for building a company from scratch at previously unheard pace specifically where digital innovation enables capturing a large addressable market.

IPO 100

IPO Early Stage Cofounder B2C 100

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2015

Customer Acquisition Cost. Every business, whether B2B or B2C has to bring in customers. The important thing is to understand how much it costs you to acquire a single customer. However, there are certain fundamental metrics that are common to all businesses, and a basic understanding of these is where you should start.

Metrics 48

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

There is a lot any business — B2C, B2B, A2Z — can learn from Songza. It is ok that when I'm shopping for a $368 dress they show "Ads by Google" to Lean Cuisine (PS: I'm not fat), NextTag, UGG, and Nordstrom. What is the cost of, and options for, an ADT security system? I like the bonus.

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ConversionXL

JULY 9, 2015

Depending on your cost per lead acquisition, as well as conversion rates per traffic source, you’ll want to spend time A/B testing the amount of information asked for, the way it’s asked, and the order it’s asked in (among other things), while prioritizing specific sources. There are pros and cons to this approach. More on that, later.).

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2009

The lean startup methodology is based on enlisting customers as allies, which requires honesty and integrity. The following was written an actual lean startup practitioner. It was originally posted anonymously to the Lean Startup Circle mailing list, and then further developed on the Lean Startup Wiki ’s Case Studies section.

San Francisco 144

San Francisco Customer Wiki Lean 144

Software By Rob

OCTOBER 14, 2010

At $25/month for the cheapest plan it’s a bit pricey for a developer who can use one of the options above for little or no cost And although I like their selection of landing page layouts , I wish they had more look-and-feel choices (they launched a few months ago so I imagine they are working on this). . #9 9 Ruben on 10.14.10

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Consider that NYT.com readers are on average 44 years old, have an average income of just under $75,000, over 50% are college educated, and over 25% work in some professional or managerial position – it makes sense that awe or anger inducing, opinionated articles perform the best on the left-leaning news site. image source.

Sales 126

Sales B2B Campaign Video 126

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Harley Goes Lean to Build Hogs. Consumer Services (B2C). Low Cost Franchises. JAIRO PUENTES asks… Q: What is the best way to cut Medicare and Medicaid costs and provide affordable healthcare to most Americans? Subscriber Content Read Preview. Pension Crisis Looms Despite Cuts. Subscriber Content Read Preview.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

In this post let's look at each Social Network, see what B2B and B2C brands are doing there today, from that draw lessons as to 1. Economic Value (EcV) is the value of short and long-term revenue and cost savings. The serious point is that when we choose to invest in Social Media, it comes at a cost. The opportunity cost.

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The Next Web

MARCH 3, 2014

Your mission is to grow, and for B2C companies it means more users. This is how we generated our first wave of downloads and it had cost us nothing at all. It cost us exactly $0. Using the resources we had at no or little cost allowed us to quickly grab markets that are less well served. We didn’t invent this approach.

Brazil 158

Brazil Technical Review PR Development Team Review 158

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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