Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

The Startup Death Spiral: The Cost of Getting Product Launch Wrong By the time of first customer ship, if a startup does not understand its market and customers, failure unfolds in a stylized ritual, almost like a Japanese Noh play. Without the revenue to match its expenses, the company is in now danger of running out of money.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 18, 2013

Amazon reported already in 2006 that they got 1% revenue increase for every 100ms of improvement. What will a 1-second delay cost you? Tagman has a conversion loss calculator so you can work out how much revenue you could gain by speeding up your site. 8 Use caching (plugins). Are you thinking about mobile users?

Conversion 131

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 7, 2017

That is, ask the question, “what would we do differently if we were trying to increase revenue 10x instead of by 10%” or “instead of working on features which improve conversion by a few percentage points, what would we need to do to experience an order of magnitude lift?” Embrace the 10x factor. That might work.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2017

You can expect a variety of costs; office leasing, accounting equipment, insurance plans, professional fees, advertising campaigns, and living expenses for your family and for the employees you hire. While costs depend on your location and size, the average accounting firm needs at least $50,000 to get started.

Caching 62

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Native applications resolve some of these issues but bring their own baggage—development costs, platform irregularities, download requirements, update needs, and issues with search indexability. The magic—and limitations—of caching. The service worker is also a crucial element to PWA performance that depends on caching.

Web 103

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 7, 2016

We’ve also had some very generous artists contributing to our cache of usable imagery and promotional material – for which we are VERY grateful. Bento Box – our mobile-friendly website was created by them to help drive revenue and customers. BS: I would like an effective tool for creating easy-to-use costing tools (i.e:

Caching 69

Caching DC Social Media Finance 69

ConversionXL

JUNE 23, 2019

Your website is often the first point of contact for customers, responsible for first impressions and, of course, revenue. People always want to know how much a product or service costs. Use caching or a CDN. Companies that design for credibility have a strategic advantage over the competition. Show prices. Show a client list.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Yes, while most companies are probably not taking full advantage of things such as their CRM/Email Lists, unless you have a large cache of proprietary data – such as large amount of data flows stemming from log-ins, email lists, etc. There’s been an over-emphasis on the importance of “big data.” Diversifying social channels.

Media 154

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 7, 2016

We’ve also had some very generous artists contributing to our cache of usable imagery and promotional material – for which we are VERY grateful. Bento Box – our mobile-friendly website was created by them to help drive revenue and customers. BS: I would like an effective tool for creating easy-to-use costing tools (i.e:

Caching 48

Caching DC Social Media Finance 48

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

AUGUST 31, 2011

If your web application is slow, this can cost you money. Souders says web performance optimization will drive traffic, improve user experience, increase revenues, and cut costs. Browsers caching are too small and purging algorithms are poor. Let’s get started about the talk take aways. In 2010, 2.6%

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Mobile Java Caching HTML 63

ConversionXL

MAY 16, 2016

For you, that means a slower site is less revenue. How a Testing Tool Cost Us 12 Points On Google Page Speed. Marketizator increased the number of servers and added a layer of caching to serve variations (whether that be A/B testing or personalization) faster. Visitors have a patience threshold. Just like in a any shop.

Flash 86

Flash Metrics Caching Conversion 86

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Sloan put in place GM’s management accounting system (borrowed from DuPont) that for the first time allowed the company to: 1) produce an annual operating forecast that compared each division’s forecast (revenue, costs, capital requirements and return on investment) with the company’s financial goals.

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Silicon Valley United States RSS Customer Development 179

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Your website is often the first point of contact for the customers, responsible for first impressions and of course sources of revenue. People always want to know how much a product or service costs. Use caching or a CDN. Companies that design for credibility have a strategic advantage over competition. Show prices.

Reputation 133

Reputation Caching Stock Design 133

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Building a cache of user data in a CRM that’s strong enough to inform demand gen campaigns—what content to produce, where to distribute it—can take years, according to Brandt Bogdanovich of MST Solutions. But, as he contended, if you can show someone that for every $5 spent you generate $25 in revenue, you have their attention.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 30, 2020

If your website is heavily cached, you may need a lot of developer help to deal with this—not ideal for a proof-of-concept. Email is often a good channel to start with as it does not suffer from caching issues, users logging out, and other events that make test analysis difficult. But if the website runs a good merchandising tool (e.g.,

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

The longer you wait to find out about the problem, the more likely it is to have fallen out of the human-memory cache. Ship more infrequently While this may decrease downtime (things break and you roll back), the cost on development time from work and rework will be large, and mistakes will continue to slip through.

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css-tricks.com

JANUARY 2, 2013

Likely you are caching assets, so youll need to break that cache on assets that change and not break it on assets that dont. What are the costs? Cache as much as you can both on server and client. Think/Plan about Site revenue model. Deployment itself is an entire big topic. Can you upgrade your servers on the fly?

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Web Software Review Technical Review Caching 96

Up and Running

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Each option has unique costs, reliability, control, technical knowledge, server speed, and storage capacity requirements. This is typically the most economical option with maintenence costs and other fees being covered by more than one customer. Or eliminate your website’s cached results. Loss of revenue. Shared hosting.

Hosting 63

Hosting Bandwidth Technical Review eCommerce 63

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 30, 2012

In this case, I've done that by adding a filter to segment revenue to only show social value. The challenge is that you might not have enough cache allocated to your browser. Nextanalytics costs $199/year and GA Data Grabber costs $299/year. For example, go create glorious tag clouds with Tagxedo or Wordle.].

Analytics 145

Analytics Metrics API Web 145

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

After a somewhat disappointing congress in 2009, in which companies showcased products from previous years, this year is expected to be faster, greener and ‘cloudier’ Looking at the conference agenda , it’s not hard to spot the trends for 2010: Mobile Clouds – additional storage and new revenue streams to operators.

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Mobile IP SMS Networking 109

mashable.com

MAY 24, 2011

Mobile commerce revenues may still pale in comparison to their ecommerce brothers, but we’re already seeing signs of mobile commerce’s potential. The added cost of converting your existing web-based customers to new native app customers might make any benefits of increased conversion useless. My 2 cents.

Mobile 90

Mobile Web Social Media Software Review 90

ConversionXL

MAY 8, 2019

If you don’t have an internal cache of data or a big budget, the third option is your best bet. It teaches readers: What an electric bike is; Why electric bikes are better than others; How to find the best electric bike; The costs of owning an electric bike; The pros and cons of electric bikes; How to purchase an electric bike.

eCommerce 131

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VC Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

VC Cafe: Sounds like there’s a lot of caching and data transfer. It also has synching services that usually cost money. How are you planning ramp up the revenue? Also, the nice thing about these revenue streams is that they actually help the Libox user. What’s the impact on performance on the PC?

Media 84

Media Management API HTML 84

ConversionXL

JUNE 19, 2019

Occurs when your business achieves $100k+ in revenue monthly. Don’t use cost per acquisition— use the cost to acquire a customer and the retention cost to keep that customer coming back to buy again. Ben Labay: “How to Add Millions in Revenue with Voice of Customer”. What is it? Who is it for? We sell success.

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