Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

I break the answer to that question down into three engines: Viral - this is the business model identified in the presentation as "Get Users." Here, the key metrics are Acquisition and Referral, combined into the now-famous viral coefficient. If the coefficient is > 1.0 , you generally have a viral hit on your hands.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 13, 2017

This usually comes down to very company specific things, like what channels are effective for growth. As such, a company with SEO as a primary growth lever tends to hire differently than a company primarily growing by virality. They also run the all-so-important weekly growth meeting, and they monitor the performance of the program.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

I asked a panel of successful young entrepreneurs what fledging tech startups should be looking for in a CTO hire to ensure founders get the right person for the job. A Painter With Programming Chops What I usually look for is a developer who is creative. ); // Welcome to Mashable! Sign in with Facebook or Twitter to get started!

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OCTOBER 16, 2010

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. The result is that many venture capital firms are now making smaller angel investments in an attempt to get close with startup founders that are likely to raise bigger funding rounds later on. YouTubes Musicians Wanted Program Go.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. The result is that many venture capital firms are now making smaller angel investments in an attempt to get close with startup founders that are likely to raise bigger funding rounds later on. YouTubes Musicians Wanted Program Go.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Pay attention to your close rate per channel. Doman-Pipe’s team does this with a dedicated feedback Slack channel and an internal “Voice of the Customer” report. This reveals content types, channels, and possible themes); What kinds of content do you share most often? Alternatively, founder of contentlift.io

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 25, 2016

Everything You Need To Know About Marketing Channels In 5 Minutes Or Less written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. In this article, you’ll discover everything you need to know about marketing channels. First, let’s take a look at the most popular marketing channels. Those 19 channels are: Targeting Blogs.

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AUGUST 31, 2010

Nellie Akalp is the CEO & Co-Founder of CorpNet , her second incorporation filing service company based on the simple philosophy of truth in business and her strong passion to assist small business owners and entrepreneurs. YouTubes Musicians Wanted Program Go. 38 New Social Media Resources You May.

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AUGUST 31, 2010

Nellie Akalp is the CEO & Co-Founder of CorpNet , her second incorporation filing service company based on the simple philosophy of truth in business and her strong passion to assist small business owners and entrepreneurs. YouTubes Musicians Wanted Program Go. 38 New Social Media Resources You May.

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OCTOBER 27, 2010

OnStartups Created by the same folks who run the popular programming Q&A site StackOverflow , this site is a perfect place to crowdsource all of your small business questions. I've also recently created a private email discussion list for technology company founders at FounderList.com to network, share, and learn from each other.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2010

It's a very well managed company with superbly talented employees with programming skills, and easily understood how to implement all our requirement, quickly and on our budget. MapQuest Founder on the Past, Present. I'm really fortunate that I'd found a wonderful development outsource partner in them.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Over breakfast he got me up to date on his life since school (two non-CEO roles in startups,) but he wanted to talk about his third startup – the one he and two co-founders had started. The belief then was that most founders couldn’t acquire the skills rapidly enough to steer the company through this phase.

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JUNE 8, 2010

YouTubes Musicians Wanted Program Go. Movies music myspace ONLINE VIDEO politics pop culture privacy Search small business social good social media social networking social networks software sports tech television trending tv twitter verizon video video games viral video web video Wordpress Yahoo youtube Join More Than 2.8

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MAY 28, 2010

I suggest you never call this person again for information TheNameInspector The founder of Kodak was George Eastman. YouTubes Musicians Wanted Program Go. Was looking for something like this. thank you Edouard Reinach kodak is not a word made from nothing. the guy who built the kodak compagny is Eastman Kodak. I want my childhood back.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

He is the co-­founder and CEO of Quote Roller and PandaDoc. However, figuring out the way your startup should make money could be challenging, especially for us left­-brained founders. This post is about choosing the right sales strategy and channels for your startup from the start. Step 2: Choose your sales channels.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

I too would be concerned about false negatives, but perhaps this strategy could be integrated into a broader market research strategy that included user engagement, viral marketing, etc which would all be quantifiable under the Google analytics. A very interesting strategy. Im defiantly going to give it a shot on my next project!

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

It should be even more important to the founders themselves, because it demonstrates that their business hypothesis is grounded in reality. These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process. More on that in a moment. They are close to breakeven.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

SolidWorks 2: The best VAR management program in the world? SolidWorks 3: The best VAR management program in the world? In the second case, it is clear that management will know how to fix the problem (by adding new traffic generation programs). This is a little harder to do for channel sales, but still extremely valuable.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

This partnership speaks to a core philosophy of the program where we encourage entrepreneurs to get as much customer validation as possible before raising too much money, use other people's channels if you can get to them, don't burn too much cash, and all that good fiscal conservative stuff. SOCO Games.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

My whole growth system fell apart, and I learned a lot of tough lessons about the limits of growth programs. Finding winners was never my biggest problem when running a growth program. A methodical program built on data and testing won’t spare you from the internal conflicts that happen at every company. Things…did not go well.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 30, 2023

03:44] As you’re pitching this idea maybe to some sort of corporate program to an executive, what do you talk about as the top-line benefits of bringing this into a culture? [06:24] In a recent episode, they talked with Kevin Perry about how he goes viral on every single platform. Kristi Herold (03:54): Hmm.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 11, 2009

Starting with Facebook s developer program, social networks are all jumping on the apps bandwagon. If you ask an expert in Facebook apps to come help build yours, youll usually hear the same advice: build your app for virality. Thats sensible advice; most people who have made a business on Facebook rely on the viral driver of growth.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In a previous post , I covered the three main drivers of growth: Paid, Sticky, and Viral. A minimum viable product in this category must answer the question: does my media content or channel command the attention of a valuable audience? Let’s look at a viral growth company, like Facebook. As soon as possible!&#

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

The App Store is a channel for customer acquisition. As the channel gets more and more crowded, just launching an app in the store is getting worse and worse as a strategy for each new entrant. On the web, we have many of these channels: SEM, SEO, world of mouth, PR and viral. for Harvard Business Revie.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

); // Welcome to Mashable! Sign in with Facebook or Twitter to get started! But a new angel fund is hoping that they’ll do the same in exchange for engineering talent. “Most of that money [from venture capitalists and angels] is used to build a product,&# explains Haig Kayserian, the CEO of Kayweb Angels. startupcto

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2016

How founders find the determination to push through tough times was the focus on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Jacqueline Ros. Christina Stembel.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 6, 2023

She is the Founder and CEO of Weaving Influence. She's the founder and CEO of weaving influence, a full service marketing agency that specializes in digital and integrated marketing services and public relations for book offerers, including business leaders, coaches, trainers, speakers, and thought leaders. This is John Jantsch.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

This is a common problem that results from viral-loop optimization. By copying the exact same registration flow as every other successful viral app, many viral apps completely lose their positioning. Heres why I dont think engagement loops are that helpful: unlike viral loops, its not bad if its not self-sustaining.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

This series is brought to you by the Intel AppUp℠ Developer Program , which provides developers with everything they need to create and then sell their applications to millions of Intel Atom™ processor-based devices. YouTubes Musicians Wanted Program Go. Learn more here. Please share your observations in the comments.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

This series is brought to you by the Intel AppUp℠ Developer Program , which provides developers with everything they need to create and then sell their applications to millions of Intel Atom™ processor-based devices. YouTubes Musicians Wanted Program Go. Learn more here. Please share your observations in the comments.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

There are other models, in other distribution channels. On Facebook, viral distribution has proved decisive. Those companies who have learned to build apps that optimize the viral loop dominate in every category where they compete. So far, I dont see any apps that have much in the way of viral distribution.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Droid X Feature Comparison [INFOGRAPHIC] iPad By the Numbers [INFOGRAPHIC] LinkedIn Explores What It Takes To Be an Entrepreneur [INFOGRAPHIC] September 1, 2011 by Ben Parr 15 Share on Tumblr email share Share on Tumblr email share Where does the ideal startup founder come from? Sign in with Facebook or Twitter to get started!

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 1, 2020

Two, if you are lucky, you are still being paid to do a job—a job that, for founders, marketers and sales teams, means connecting with customers during a terrible health crisis and a recession. Channels meant for conversion, while cheaper right now, might not work for weeks or even a couple of months. Here are some tips: 1.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Again, its critical to focus your marketing launch on those publications, venues, and channels that your potential partners are paying attention to. If the viral coefficient is 0.9, Founders push for it. In some ways, founders are even worse. Pay attention to your fundamental driver of growth. keep iterating until its 1.1

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mashable.com

AUGUST 20, 2011

“There’s simply no budget for [an office], as I bootstrap the company,&# says Paul Molluzzo, founder of Baby Goes Mobile , a web app that lets parents create a private baby book they can view and update from their mobile phones. Sign in with Facebook or Twitter to get started! instead of having to travel home.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2016

How founders find the determination to push through tough times was the focus on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Jacqueline Ros. Christina Stembel.

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

Curalate allows us to see how the content we pin to our boards is performing, as well as the content people are organically pinning from our sites, and more importantly how viral those actions are, since it’s reported that 80 percent of Pinterest activity comes from repins.” Zite Expands Its Publisher Program.

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