YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2020

Before rushing to build your concept to push out to consumers, it’s important to first undertake product discovery. Product discovery is the purpose of identifying the smallest amount of software needed to determine market value. Notably, this occurs prior to building the Minimum Viable Product , or ‘MVP’. How is it done?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Almost every early-stage startup who has approached investors for funding has heard the innocuous sounding rejection “I love your idea, but come back when you have more traction.” Free and freemium products need a solid base. Average transaction size and revenue per customer. First of all, a definition.

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View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

Initially, we promoted it to a list that we’d already developed through Website Grader, the free app our CTO Dharmesh Shah had built before we even had a product. So we had those two assets: Website Grader and the resulting email list. Then there were also certain social channels that worked for awhile but didn’t stick.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Almost every early-stage startup who has approached investors for funding has heard the innocuous sounding rejection “I love your idea, but come back when you have more traction.” Free and freemium products need a solid base. Average transaction size and revenue per customer. First of all, a definition.

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Hockey Stick Early Stage Metrics Acquisition 266

Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

If you’re building a startup, you’re likely to be in one of these two situations: Launching and selling a new product that nobody’s ever heard about, and probably don’t even know they need, or… Improving an existing product or service, which means that you’re going head on against someone with more traction, people, and money than you.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Having an excellent product and demand for that product is one thing. It’s not enough that your business has product/market fit. Especially in the early stages of growth, standing up to competition means that your business also needs to minimize the cost of acquiring new customers.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Point Nine Capital’s website is now powered by Contentful ; they use Unbounce for landing pages ; and Typeform for surveys and other data collection. Last but not least, we still use MailChimp to publish our (in)famous newsletter.” A tool like Quuu identifies relevant, shareable content to keep your social media channels active. .

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