Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Or follow all of the New York Times columnists equally? This is good news for everyone except those who have huge legacy investments in large-batch distribution. Mass blasts of information are ineffective, because the broadcast channels are suffering from information overload (even in social media). Is that a lot?

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View from Seed

JANUARY 21, 2016

When Tony first became CEO of Chartbeat, the analytics startup based in New York City, he faced this massive problem of an internet teeming with clickbait headlines and short-term thinking. Listen in these places or wherever you get your podcasts: Channel Links: iTunes | SoundCloud | Stitcher. This episodes also includes….

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

- simply because I left the large, famous MMO company I was working for to prepare a quiet startup) Personally, I got lucky and started in an area (online games) where I found channels such as MUD-DEV (and early GDCs) for meeting, listening to, and speaking to other people where people were taken how they were found.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

I dont see any reason why having the team offshore is any more of a liability in this area than, say, having to do this work while selling through a channel (and hence, not having direct access to customers). Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Paid Search or affiliates or email or display or YouTube or whatever channel you end up choosing. [ Remember: Engagement is not a metric, its an excuse. ]. You are a news site like The New York Times or you are a non-profit like Idealist or you are the team running Google Maps. 7 Best Practices ]. Share of Search.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

They would make commercials about a new book series, and then run the commercials at times when the TV rates were low (late night, UHF channels, etc) If they got enough orders, they then decided to print the series. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

She has a separate team, with its own culture and office, and a mandate straight from top management to innovate without regard to the company’s historic products, channels, or supply chain. So somebody from the CFO’s organization prepares an ROI-justification spreadsheet for this new team. .&# So far, so good.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Startup 102

Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

That is until 1947 when Myles Mace taught the first entrepreneurship course “Management of New Enterprises” at Harvard Business School. In 1953 Peter Drucker offered an Entrepreneurship and Innovation class at New York University, and in 1954 Stanford’s business school offered “Small Business Management” its first small business course.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule. Time-to-complete-a-sale is not a bad metric for validated learning at this stage.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 8, 2017

Quantitative research with digital analytics tools like Google Analytics , Mixpanel, Amplitude or RJ Metrics will inform you about where your users are coming from, what they are doing during their sessions and where they are dropping off from your conversion funnel or when they churn. Image Source. Image Source. Predictive targeting.

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Programming Revenue Analytics Software Review 97

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

This is another sub-optimization caused by incentivizing the wrong metric. Given that most recruiting channels are pay-for-performance, its usually cheaper, too, because it has a lower conversion rate. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

We combined three tactics: extensive use of free software, an open platform for user-generated content, and leveraged distribution channels. Leveraged distribution channels. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.

Product Development 88

Product Development Developer San Francisco Product 88

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 25, 2012

I’ve been here for two of the last three weeks (I spent four days in New York). My old neighborhood near Fort Point Channel (I used to live on Sleeper Street in a condo at Dockside Place) is bustling with startup activity. Then an even more powerful metric is entrepreneurial density, which is EPD / size of region.

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Boston New York Silicon Valley Community 152

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 17, 2011

Sawyier went to New York City to get investment capital and is most likely to go there for additional rounds. Understand your distribution channel, or how you reach your customers. Don't just rely on Facebook friends and other virtual methods in building your channel. Don't be afraid to leave town to get more money.

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Internet St. Louis New York City Entrepreneur 142

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

Today, Id like to spend some time on two techniques: the problem presentation and learning what channels of information reach customers. In particular, Ive focused on the two channels of communication that were most commonly suggested in the first survey: conferences and books. Lets start with what I learned last time.

San Francisco 68

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 68

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The New York Times named this urge to buy something the “TikTok Feta Effect,” after a viral recipe for baked feta pasta resulted in the cheese selling out nationwide in the U.S. From there, views increased for each video powering the channel to get over three million likes. It has significantly boosted our sales.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

So if Direct traffic is so important and often the metrics show very positive results then why don't we all obsess about it a lot more? We use redirects / vanity urls in our multi-channel campaigns , in our display or search campaigns or even just for the heck of it. The Problem: Unfortunately. That is not an issue.

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Analytics Software Review Campaign Flash 122

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 20, 2010

I recently did a webinar for the Search Engine Strategies conference (I am doing the opening conference keynote at SES London and SES New York ) and my Market Motive co-faculty member Greg Jarboe sent me this KPI via email: "Your webcast was a big success. Why not start a YouTube channel with a series of how-to videos?

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Analytics Search SEO Metrics 90

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

But instead of channeling all my energy towards building new features, I channel roughly 80% of it towards measuring and optimizing existing features. But instead of channeling all my energy towards building new features, I channel roughly 80% of it towards measuring and optimizing existing features.

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Continuous Deployment San Francisco Lean Wiki 151

David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

Kupietzky has spoken extensively on the value of domain names and has appeared on CNN and CNBC and has been quoted by numerous print sources including Investors Business Daily , The New York Times and The Los Angeles Business Journal. Location: Pillsbury Winthrop, 1540 Broadway, New York at 45th Street.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

Early this year, SlideShare launched custom channels. Designed for large businesses, the channels let a company share several types of documents, brand the channel with their own design elements, and then include display advertising, contest promotions, blog aggregation, social media integration and metrics reporting.

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San Francisco Lean Analytics Continuous Deployment 167

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, March 24, 2009 The metrics and levers of engagement, presentation on Engagement Loops for Facebook Developer Garage SF Ill be presenting a talk at the Facebook Developer Garage SF Wednesday evening. Unfortunately, its easy to lose track of positioning effects when optimizing for a single metric.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 23, 2010

So the New York City government has decided it needs a little social media savvy—you now, since that newfangled Twitter thing came out, they feel like they need to be jumping on board with technology as an early adopter. So, they’ve posted an open position for a Chief Digital Officer ( PDF posting ).

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

FM KQED live-streams over the internet here : [link] Forum is also broadcast on Sirius XM satellite radio (channel 135 NPR Talk) I know for many of you 10AM is not the common time you're sitting by the radio with nothing better to do than call into a live radio show. There are several ways to tune in: In the Bay Area, tune your radio to 88.5

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ConversionXL

JUNE 23, 2019

If The New York Times or TechCrunch has written about you, link to those stories. Provide the information about your secure channels (e.g. Stanford); Attack Resistant Trust Metrics (Raph Levien, UC Berkeley) Understanding How Internet Users Make Sense of Credibility (Miriam J. People still trust them. Display trust marks.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 3, 2016

Facebook likes are great if all you’re using to advertise your business is Facebook, but when it comes to truly reaching your target audience and current customers, understanding how every effort translates to income is nearly impossible without clear metrics guiding the way. Metrics You Didn’t Learn in School.

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Metrics Churn Rate New York City Marketing 100

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

We'll start with digital at the highest strategic level, which leads us into content marketing, from there it is a quick hop over to the challenge of metrics and silos, followed by a recommendation to optimize for the global maxima, and we end with the last two visuals that cover social investment and social content strategy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

In other words, the service transforms tweets into professional reports that are sent by snail mail, fax, and email - the channels that actually have attention paid to them. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.

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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. October 14, 2008 1:05 PM Th.Khangs said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 31, 2009

As you can tell from recent posts, Ive been experimenting with different formats and channels to try and find the best way to help. And today I am excited to announce a new experiment: the Lean Startup workshop. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.

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Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment DC 68

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

For drag-and-drop speed: Qlik Repurpose your data visuals for multiple channels Conclusion. Let’s look at how to do this through three channels: partners, sales, and product. Then collect data for the related metrics and create visuals. For creative visualizations: Tableau 2. How to use data visualization to accelerate growth.

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Marketing Analytics Channel Social Media 110

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

g2s The very abbreviated version of Customer Development (channeling Steve Blank ). Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Boyds ideas have inspired a lot of the principles underlying my work.

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San Francisco DC Washington Lean 92

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 22, 2008

living in Seattle and your "offline" presence is 15,786 people in the company with power concentrated in New York and Atlanta. The online channel often, though not always, can be a lower cost channel. will ensure your job security and the channel's security as well. Let's get going.

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Analytics Campaign Maldives Software Review 122

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 11, 2009

Those who have tried to build apps that exist just as glorified landing pages or marketing channels have generally failed. And, most importantly, you have several reliable communciation channels to talk to them including including email, profile notifications, feed items and status messages. Take a look and let me know what you think.

San Francisco 68

San Francisco Social Network Lean Continuous Deployment 68

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 4, 2020

They had an incredibly effective pressure campaign that helped ordinary citizens write their Mayor, write their governor with simple metrics like, "If we don't shut down, this many people will die." It's about the need for urgent action in an exponential crisis. They had calculators so you could see how every day of delay could cost lives.

New York 60

New York Campaign Technical Review Germany 60

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2011

I am going to attempt to significantly simply your life by recommending the critical few metrics you should use to analyze performance of your digital marketing campaigns and website. Recommend metrics / KPIs you can use based on the size of your company. Best Metrics / KPIs for Small Business Websites. Obsess about this metric.

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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. New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, the works. Dont chicken out and do a closed beta; get real customers in through real renewable channels. Dont scale.

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