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8 ways to incorporate customer feedback into your startup’s strategy

The Next Web

One of the worst things a successful young startup can do once it actually starts generating reliable revenue is to ignore the people who made that happen in the first place: its customers. Utilize Support-Driven Development. We focus on customer feedback through support-driven development. Chad Halvorson , When I Work.

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Lessons Learned: Continuous deployment and continuous learning

Startup Lessons Learned

In a lot of cases, thats just a fancy name for revenue or profit, but not always. Luckily, Chad Austin has recently weighed in with an excellent piece called 10 Pitfalls of Dirty Code. It would be hard to argue against this product development strategy, in general. But it worked. We made it. So can you.

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CXL Live 2018 Recap: Top 5 Lessons from Each Speaker

ConversionXL

mobile is ~50% of revenue, shorter form works better. Flip your funnel – only 5% of revenue comes from optimisation but 92% of revenue from retention. Chad Sanderson – The Statistical Pitfalls of A/B Testing. Be agile, move at the speed of business, don’t hold up product development.

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The unimportance of product names

37signals.com

I agree – this reminds me of a friend who was involved in three different IT start-ups, none of which ever turned a dime of revenue. I definitely agree you shouldn’t get caught up on the URL , as there are endless ways of getting a good url to relate well to your biz or product. 27 Apr 10. Sören Meyer-Eppler. 27 Apr 10.

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Finding Your Co-Founders

techcrunch.com

Chad and Steve from YouTube met while working at PayPal. More often than not, a startup/company fails because the product developed is not what the marketplace sought. But at the end of the day, it is about a product being accepted. Expand ONLY when you have generated enough revenue to keep you alive 2 years from today.

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CXL Live 2019 Recap: Takeaways from Every Speaker

ConversionXL

million; Total revenue: $97.5 Impact of Implementation without testing: Baseline run rate: $100 million per year; Test lift: 10%; Test duration: 12 months; Negative impact: $10 million; Total revenue: $90 million. Chad Sanderson: “Aligning Experimentation Across Product Development and Marketing”.

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What is the perfect startup team?

www.quora.com

You can argue that the DNA created by Microsoft's over emphasis on distribution (Steve) and development (Bill), has ultimately cost it $50bn or more in lost revenue, market share and market capitalization. Developers have worn the crown for the last 30 or more years in the technology industry - rightly.