ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2019

They can work if: You get your research questions right. your users are not psychics. Confirmation and thank-you pages are great opportunities to ask people questions. Gain insight into the flow of how your prospect is actually thinking. Surveys don’t suck, but most surveys suck. How hard was it to…”). What’s different?

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2017

Website, web app, or a mobile app—what would be the right “form” for your business idea ? Since the release of the very first iPhone, everyone has been treating the mobile-first business model as the new gold rush. As a new business owner, you may be overwhelmed by the choice. What is your product goal?

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Up and Running

JANUARY 15, 2018

For web designers, transitioning from working full-time for someone else to freelancing has some perks, like being your own boss and having a more flexible work schedule. But you’ll also be in charge of every aspect of running your business and making hard decisions which can impact the success and growth of your company.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

They can keep doubling down on advertising with the digital goliaths of today or begin to diversify and invest in other marketing channels, with an eye toward the future. For example, how would a company like yours create a partner? [21:32] Listen to the salesman podcast, wherever you get your podcast. Thanks for having me.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

It can also keep your employees employed or help you retain your job—a modicum of security in uncertain times. Yet in expansionary periods, successful leaders spent significantly less on [selling, general, and administrative costs] than did their former peers. But nothing gets better if we stand still. Promotion. Image source ).

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 1, 2017

A common misconception about conversion optimization is that your work ends when the user converts. Generally speaking, customer loyalty is defined as the intention and action of choosing a certain brand or product repeatedly instead of other alternatives. To most businesses, customer loyalty is worth a lot of money.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Noah has been a key figure in the making of LivePlan, our own SaaS product. If you’ve got your own story or any useful resources to share, we’d love to read more in the comments below. Instead of sitting down to write a 40-page business plan, start with a one-page pitch. Step 1: Start with a lean plan.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Business schools teach aspiring executives a variety of courses around the execution of known business models, (accounting, organizational behavior, managerial skills, marketing, operations, etc.). In contrast, startups search for a business model. (Or Others emphasize how to build a product.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 1, 2017

A common misconception about conversion optimization is that your work ends when the user converts. Generally speaking, customer loyalty is defined as the intention and action of choosing a certain brand or product repeatedly instead of other alternatives. To most businesses, customer loyalty is worth a lot of money.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Welcome back to Smart Bear Live … the show were Jason speaks with entrepreneurs looking to improve their businesses. Listen to this episode if you want to hear about a founder who has a product and users and paying customers … and is trying to figure out how to take his company to the next level and grow faster.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

The UK is Israel’s second largest export market following the US, but Israeli startups often ‘forget Europe’ when it comes to Internationalizing their product. UK Startups can receive an *almost free* ticket by registering on this page. – get your free ticket while they last: Israel and UK Digital Drinks.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Before you can actually invest, you have to manage your fund. One aspect of management which merits attention is your own cybersecurity, which should not be left until a crisis to address. Qnary is one of numerous tools which can help build out your team members’ virtual presence. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 14, 2009 Business ecology and the four customer currencies Lately, I’ve been rethinking the concept of “business model&# for startups, in favor of something I call “business ecology.&# Constructing a working business model is a form of ecosystem design.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2010

Our goal is to teach students the key concepts of the startup process and help them understand that a startup is a search for a profitable business model. Students formed 5-person teams, came up with a business idea then got out of the building to validate their business model. What is a business model?

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Startups that are searching for a business model need to keep score differently than large companies that are executing a known business model. Yet most entrepreneurs and their VC’s make startups use financial models and spreadsheets that actually hinder their success. Managing the Business. Here’s why.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 12, 2016

That’s the sound of potential customers leaking out of your sales funnel. After fighting tooth-and-nail to launch your SaaS business, the last thing you want is a leaky sales funnel to undermine all your hard work. How Healthy Is Your SaaS Right Now? Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). Image Source.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Packaging is a fantastic marketing channel that’s often overlooked. It’s the ideal canvas for branding, but it’s also a significant environmental factor for your brand. . Brand owners are responsible for the carbon footprint of their brand — packaging, product, delivery process — all of it. What is value-engineered packaging?

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Like SaaS products themselves, we now intend for these laws to be periodically refined through major releases to reflect the changing landscape of the SaaS world. Save Asia for post-IPO Single instance, multi-tenant, single datacenter - Have only one version of the code in production. Great companies innovate, but pick your battles!

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Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

Sometimes an early negative result from an experiment is a harbinger of doom for that product, and means it should be abandoned. Imagine a general manager that has read The Innovator’s Dilemma and related books, and is therefore trying hard to help her organization make a transition to a new product category via disruptive innovation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Announce a new product, start its PR campaign, and engage in buzz marketing activities. Marketing launch) Make a new product available to customers in the general public. Product launch) In todays world, there is no reason you have to do these two things at the same time. Do your customers really read TechCrunch?

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Technologies that promote remote working and make the experience more productive for both businesses and employees will have the biggest impact on entrepreneurship. Remote working is here to stay, and entrepreneurs will continue adapting their business models to this new reality. Photo Credit: Joe Flanagan.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

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? This may sound crazy, coming as it does from an advocate of c harging customers for your product from day one. But all things are never equal. What’s going on?

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

When you are done reading the post, you'll be super mad that your marketing strategy is not more influenced by your competitor's data! Competitive intelligence data will never match your site's analytics tool. It is incredible to realize that you can spy on your competitors. You are going to learn A Lot!

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

Digital Response (USDR) CalFresh Onward California Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture (CUESA) "President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1935-1944" SF New Deal donation/volunteer page Transcript for Out of the Crisis #15: SF New Deal Eric Ries : This is Out of the Crisis, I'm Eric Ries. She's awesome.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

The idea for my business came when I was stranded on the side of the road with my broken down vehicle. I knew it was an easy fix, so I really didn’t want to pay for a tow truck in addition to the cost of the repair. I called a mechanic friend of mine and asked if he could come out and do the repair on site. Thanks to Keya F.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? Updated Business tools for Startups. Also includes the most popular platforms, based on a year of data on business buy and sell marketplace, Flippa.com.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Since SaaS businesses (or any other subscription-based business) are different from standard software businesses, there are some interesting elements that we will uncover. This is a little harder to do for channel sales, but still extremely valuable. Let’s take the first of these, Profitability, and work backwards.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind. 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind. Cause your scared. There’s a great quote that I love that goes “Ask not if you’re worthy of your goals, ask instead, are your goals worthy of your life?”. Building Product 2. Maple Butter.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

In normal times, every company operates against some hypothetical growth model—a data-driven framework that describes how your product grows and how you acquire new users. We begin by describing a typical a growth model and discuss how that fundamentally drives a company’s business strategy.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

This presentation reveals some really practical details on how I made money investing in websites online, on a part time basis, and your friends will thank you for passing it on to them. Download the PDF Text Transcript [ 41 Pages | PDF ]. Here’s the text transcript as a blog post (warning – this is 40+ pages long!).

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Many of us were taught to go to grad school, get an MBA, get some experience, and set up your business step-by-step. Once you’ve laid the foundation and launched your business, leveraging these tools is essential to be able to grow and thrive. Increasing results: Maximizing your time, freedom, and visibility.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

So for this first post, here’s the best advice I can give you: join an awesome founding team and get your product out the door ASAP. So, this is what I tell them: At the exact moment you had your idea, ten other people had the exact same idea. Like I said, forget everything else and just get your product out the door.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Resegmentation means these startups are trying to lure some of the current or potential customers away from incumbents by either offering a lower cost product, or by offering features that appealed to a specific niche or subset of the existing users. Me – “Have you used Company x’s product? Do you know how they create demand?

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Silicon Valley Startup RSS Customer Development 203

grasshopperherder.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Unless your name is Mesmero the Magnificent, it’s probably not going to work on me. Q: “What will be your best channel for customer acquisition?&# Why should I work on your idea instead of my idea? Along the same lines, don’t try to convince me your idea is unique. Names redacted.) It’s not.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 6, 2013

If an organization is to have any chance of bringing sales and marketing onto the page where collaboration and engagement impacts the buying process a sales coach mentality must be in place. 1) Change the channel. Make an assessment of your current sales channel. How was your sales process, assuming there is one, built?

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Are you unhappy with your current job? Have you always dreamed of being your own boss? I had the opportunity to speak with Melinda Emerson, the “SmallBizLady” and America’s #1 small business expert, who took the opportunity to share with us her proven, step-by-step method to transition from employee to entrepreneur.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

I have come to believe during my time as an operator, entrepreneur and investor that the balance of these skills is so important to the long-term health of a business that if balance is not achieved early then the impact later can be profound - sometimes terminal. They are many more examples. Lakshman Prasad • Nov 16, 2010.

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