VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Companionship Differentiated value prop vs. generalist chat products – AI companion products hat specialise in content that mainstream models aren’t good at (or don’t allow), like fictional role plays or erotica. Generalizable robotics represent a $24 trillion-plus global revenue opportunity. trillion by 2030.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2017

No one had differentiated a startup job description from a large company job. And it was going to mention the two words that marketing needed to live and breathe: revenue and profit. competitive analyses, channel and customer collateral (white papers, data sheets, product reviews), customer surveys, and customer discovery findings.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2021

Almost all metrics you currently use have one common thread: They are almost all backward-looking. If you want to deepen the influence of data in your organization – and your personal influence – 30% of your analytics efforts should be centered around the use of forward-looking metrics. Predictive metrics!

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ConversionXL

JULY 21, 2022

When researching a new product, buyers use 10 or more channels to interact with companies. Each channel presents a chance to make a good impression. Optimize each channel, and you’ll win new customers, enjoy higher order rates , and retain customers. This leads to greater brand awareness , revenues, and customer loyalty.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 2, 2023

It makes the product more user-friendly and can also help build trust with customers and differentiate the product from competitors in the SaaS market. A visually appealing and consistent design can help create a strong brand image and differentiate the product from competitors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Common failures I see along these lines include: solutions that are "nice to have" but don't address painful problems; a business model that lacks a means for bringing in revenue; and a founder who has turned a blind eye toward his or her competitors. Physical products often require access to existing distribution channels.

Exit Strategy 120

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

As Neal Schaffer points out: “…Companies still look at social media as a promotional and advertising channel rather than as a grand arena to collaborate with social media users, primarily customers and influencers, and work them through a relationship funnel to incite word of mouth marketing for your brand in social media.”

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Sometimes that’s defensible distribution channels. Instead, watch payback period for acquisition efficiency, watch retention for product/market fit, watch expansion revenue for long-term growth, and watch gross margin for long-term profitability. There isn’t one most important SaaS metric. Priority depends on your goals (e.g.

Restful 202

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Invest in the site experience now to differentiate yourself from the competition, and create irrational loyalty. Bonus: Facebook Marketing: Best Metrics, ROI, Business Value ]. From step five on you were likely already delivering some multi-channel value for your company. It is a part of multi-channel analytics chapter.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Meaning: C = Customers (traffic x conversion rate) CLV = Customer revenue – (CAC + cost of serving that customer) CAC = Customer Acquisition Cost G = Growth. The formula weans businesses from an obsession with traffic and instead focuses on increasing customers that generate the most revenue with the lowest acquisition and maintenance costs.

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Customer SMS Retention Acquisition 132

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

by Robbie Kellman Baxter, author of “ The Membership Economy: Find Your Super Users, Master the Forever Transaction, and Build Recurring Revenue “ Everyone knows that retention is crucial for subscription-based companies. And you might be a little generous about getting them to re-up if your variable costs are low. Dig deeper.

Customer 173

Customer Technical Review Retention Acquisition 173

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2021

You work tirelessly to understand your customer, market, and competition so you can differentiate. In this article, we’ll share key brand tracking metrics and methods for how to measure and optimize your success. Key brand tracking metrics. Brand tracking is how you measure if those efforts are paying off. Brand loyalty.

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Metrics Marketing Campaign Audience 157

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

In fact, SaaS industry revenue is projected to grow from $49 billion in 2015 to $67 billion in 2018, a compound annual growth rate of approximately eight percent. In the tactics section, list your sales channels and describe how you will be selling your products. Step 3: Brand and differentiate yourself. Do it yourself.

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ConversionXL

MAY 19, 2020

Or maybe it’s your keyword well that’s reaching its limits, leaving you with plenty of ideas, but no clear path forward about how to prioritize them or the distribution channels for which they’re best suited. Evaluation , where differentiation between competitors must occur. Purchase , in which the decision to buy is made.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 2, 2020

A next positive step is to make sure the content you are sharing is memorable and differentiated from the others.” Another common mistake that marketing teams are making is using the same metrics for success that they have used in the past. If you use these same metrics, you’re going to be sorely disappointed in the results.

Marketing 262

Marketing Metrics Channel Differentiation 262

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The only reason I know loads of new people and brands is because of my subscription to their channels on YouTube. So, lots of content combined with an engaged audience (contributing and participating in consumption), driving great branding and real world revenue. Owned Brand Channel. From Hannah Hart to Emily Graslie.

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Analytics Marketing Audience Channel 149

ConversionXL

APRIL 18, 2017

Today, there are so many ways, and the channel isn’t the important part. Though, blogging has the benefit of SEO, which lasts a lot longer than other channels. My advice: referrals are great, but have another lead generation channel as well. How do you build an audience? Getting results is hard. Competition is intense.

Conversion 87

Conversion Framework Revenue Analytics 87

Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 6, 2020

As the Greylock team has learned after decades of partnering with early-stage founders, the best approach is establishing a core set of fundamental questions that can be tailored to each individual company, rather than looking at a rigid set of metrics. WHAT METRICS SHOULD A FOUNDER SHOW TO RAISE A SERIES A FROM A VC FIRM LIKE GREYLOCK?

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Technical Review Seed Stage Software Review Early Stage 69

Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

If you can fix that, more revenue will immediately flow into your client's bottom-line. I believe these two posts with a collection of some of my favorite metrics will inspire you: 1. Best Metrics For Digital Marketing: Rock Your Own And Rent Strategies 2. Best Web Metrics / KPIs for a Small, Medium or Large Sized Business.

Analytics 131

Analytics Marketing Campaign Metrics 131

ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

It’s your reputation and ultimate differentiating factor. Marketers must adjust their expectations and metrics with expanded brand tracking. A focus on brand awareness and brand lift, while harder to measure with numbers and revenue, contributes to overall growth by widening your customer base and deepening your relationship with them.

Marketing 128

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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Milestones and Metrics. Investors will want to know what advantages you have over the competition and how you plan on differentiating yourself. How do you plan on differentiating from the competition? You don’t need to be on every social media channel, but you do need to be on the ones that your customers are on.

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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.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

And I’m guessing one of them certainly is a lot of, “What’s the revenue? So what’s your top-line revenue? The more revenue you have, the more valuable your company is going to be, generally. The more revenue you have, the more valuable your company is going to be, generally. Here’s why.

Entrepreneur 49

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 4, 2023

17:16] Is there a small set of metrics that you rely on? [19:43] John Jantsch (05:07): I mean, you use that like as your core channel. We think that Bec, which is a new channel, right? Because the moment that you rest on the laurels of the channel that's working so well for you is the moment it stops doing that.

SEO 87

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Austin Startup

MARCH 26, 2019

Even pre-launch, there’s work you can do here to differentiate yourself. They will be your best friend when things go unexpectedly wrong with the channel or when something breaks. More mature DTC brands are finding success with a broad range of marketing channels?—?paid When is the right time to diversify your sales channel mix?

Technical Review 49

Technical Review Software Review China Acquisition 49

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

No changes were made to the customer journey, and it had nothing to do with revenue lift. You’ll also learn how to apply growth marketing to five key channels and how to plan and execute experimentation. It isn’t about finding quick hacks to boost short-term revenue. What are “pirate metrics?”.

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Framework Marketing Acquisition Retention 102

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2023

[07:00] How do you differentiate your content based on somebody who is in a potential buying situation? [09:42] 14:58] What are some of the metrics that show you’re doing things right? Maybe explain kind of how you differentiate your content based on maybe where somebody is in a potential buying situation.

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ChatGPT Advertising Email Viral 92

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

Lloyed explores the intricate art of harnessing the community’s strength as your ultimate acquisition channe l, brand differentiator, feedback source, retention lever, and catalyst for transformative change. It's as simple as that, and that is what metrics are to me. Then another time was when we were bootstrapping both.

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Community Kuwait Cofounder Bootstrapping 53

ConversionXL

MAY 29, 2019

What does it take to grow a YouTube channel? Is a channel more than the sum of its video parts? Some solutions are simple—you need a consistent visual presentation on your channel page and across videos. If YouTube channel growth has felt unattainable, you’re not alone. Are most companies’ YouTube channels succeeding?

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Channel Video Audience Software Review 106

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2017

Since bots don’t buy products or services, brands looking to increase revenue through digital advertising campaigns must demand transparency and understand how campaigns are measured. The ability for data scientists to assess and turn data into revenue will be the biggest differentiator for businesses in the years to come.

Advertising 113

Advertising Campaign Channel Differentiation 113

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 27, 2016

Or how many different channels they’re selling through, and what eCommerce solutions they’re utilizing? To establish a competitive benchmark for your business, you must: Determine Key Metrics – What data points are most central to your business? What different sales channels and retail technologies are they utilizing?

Michigan 100

Michigan Metrics eCommerce Differentiation 100

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

In other words, how can we adapt the Business Model Canvas when the metrics of success for an organization is not revenue? From Revenue Streams to Mission Achievement. For these organizations, the canvas box labeled Revenue Streams doesn’t make sense. Channel is changed to Deployment.

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Business Model Revenue Channel Community 120

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 3, 2010

The online video networks are doing terrific business, and even Yahoo is benefiting from increased brand spend, seeing revenue growth for the first time in a while. The key driver of this renewed confidence from brand advertisers is better measurement of brand metrics that can show the impact of online advertising beyond clickthrough.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn how ecommerce customer retention boosts long-term revenue and the strategies you can use to keep customers coming back. Customer retention is a metric that measures customer loyalty and how good your business is at keeping customers over time. Incentivize shopping with a customer loyalty program 7.

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Retention eCommerce Channel Community 111

The Next Web

MARCH 2, 2014

To measure the return on investment – or ROI – of your SEO campaigns, utilize the information aggregated from Positionly and Google Analytics to pull through the data and analyze patterns in traffic, increases in links, sustainable traffic and above all, increases in revenue. Most importantly – revenue. Increased inbound links.

SEO 159

SEO Analytics Social Media Metrics 159

Up and Running

JUNE 27, 2018

Differentiate yourself. Define success metrics before your campaign starts, then measure your effectiveness during and after the campaign. Plenty of small business owners make the mistake of diverting their resources toward the biggest and trendiest marketing channel there is today. Did your strategies work?

Marketing 109

Marketing Social Media Campaign Sales Cycle 109

Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

Revenue needs to grow 20x, and margins must expand dramatically. I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. Global smartphone revenue is about $420B.

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Valuation Technical Review Forecast Social Network 48