Hearpreneur

JULY 19, 2021

I love being an entrepreneur , because I have the ability to impact my community and create change. Through our various community outreach events , volunteering, and mentorship we are able to make a difference in the girls' lives that we work with. It has been a blessing serving my community and has helped make me a better person.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

VC Platform community has grown approximately 120% in the last 3 years. Nick Kim , Crosscut’s Head of Platform, in his presentation at the 4th Annual VC Platform Summit, shared their Platform development methodology, which he viewed as an exercise in product development.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 2, 2020

.” And companies are catching on: from the Good News Movement to John Krasinski’s positive videos on YouTube , brands are sharing content that spreads empathy and a sense of community. Another common mistake that marketing teams are making is using the same metrics for success that they have used in the past. corporations.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Another great way to test your idea is to create a minimum viable product, or MVP. This is the simplest version of your product minus the frills and frosting. It’s a particularly popular strategy in the world of product development and is used to quickly and quantitatively test a product or a product feature.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

So What is Customer Development? Steve Blank, a serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, developed a methodology for creating businesses that runs in parallel with the traditional product development process. The core idea behind customer development is that the assumptions you make about a target market are only guesses.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Today, brands are hiring social media specialists for customer support, crowdsourced product development, promotions and even leads generation. Internal resistance, non-standardized metrics, multiple (and confusing) platforms and lack of resources prove great obstacles to planning.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

To create this first year in business checklist, I turned to our in-house experts here at Palo Alto Software: Sabrina Parsons, CEO; Noah Parsons, COO; Josh Cochrane, Vice President of Product Development; and Josh Fegles, Academic and Government Channel Sales Director, and founder of gluten-free cookie company Jude’s Foods.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Now, we want to share some general advice to the broader community. Be myopically focused on product-market fit and don’t waste your time on things that won’t contribute to achieving this goal. These metrics will become your business’ North Star for everyone to rally around. Start to be data driven.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Anyone who has worked in a real-world product development team can tell you how utopian that sounds. And, as you can see in my previous post on “ The cardinal sin of community management &# the feedback could be all over the map. Passionate online communities are real societies. It was absolutely worth it.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

I strongly believe that the first few hires of a startup should belong to the growth department, whether they’re marketers, community managers, or salespeople (selling your product is the best way to learn how to improve it). 1x hacker in charge of product/development. 1x hipster working with both product and growth.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

From Prototype to Community: Forrst Founder Kyle Bragger Shares His Startup Journey – [link]. Why marketer misuse of metrics may be an addressable cultural issue – [link]. Amazon’s Approach to Product Development – [link]. Startup Failures: Five Ways To Crash Your Startup, Which Will You Pick?

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

After this successful experiment, we put together our customer retention guide to share it with the small business community; feel free to take a look at it. We don’t have any traditional metrics in our customer support team. If you do genuinely need metrics, be truly customer-centric in the ones you choose to follow.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Over the summer, based on feedback from our portfolio and the broader startup community, NextView created pre-formatted board deck templates for seed-stage startups — part of our Growth Guides series. A seed-stage mobile startup’s housekeeping section might look something like this: Section 3: Core Metrics.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Every 6-8 weeks, we’ll bring you an awesome operator from our network, and I’ll ask three questions to learn more about his/her specific work and contributions to his/her organization and community at large. Question 1: How do you run experiments for product development in a two-sided marketplace? slow death).

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Ive written a little bit about the origins of Silicon Valley because I think its important for us to understand how we got here in order to make sure we preserve what is best about our community. The companies I spoke to all agreed that the community there was extremely supportive, especially in the critical ulta-early-stage.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JANUARY 6, 2011

Scott Albro of Focus , a knowledge sharing community for business people, has fully embraced the idea of constant iteration for 2011, taking the best practices of social media to the business media world. Our engineers often come up with great ideas, and they are the most productive when they work on these ideas.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

The investors, founders, and “community” are all super excited about ASC. ASC starts building product, but as they get into the thick of it, the team realizes executing on their vision is going to be extremely hard. No updates, screen comps, or metrics have been publicly shared yet. Heads down on product, they say.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, June 8, 2009 Datablindness Most of us are swimming in a sea of data about our products, companies, and teams. That’s because many of our reports feed us vanity metrics: numbers that make us look good but don’t really help make decisions. Too much of this data is non- actionable.

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www.lanceglasser.com

MAY 13, 2012

Metrics for cyclical businesses. Product development. Queuing theory and product development. The Essential Product Investigation Phase Gate. For how to manage that see, for instance, Queuing theory and product development or take some time to investigate resource management tools.)

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 21, 2023

This involves understanding your customers’ pain points and addressing them through product development, marketing, and customer service. It’s also important to have a clear understanding of the metrics that matter to your business so that you can track progress and measure the success of your tech leadership initiatives.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Heres the short version: hire people from the online communities that develop free software. Beyond the quality of the candidates themselves, Ive noticed three big effects of hiring out of free software communities: You can hire an expert in your own code base. Ive had the good fortune to see this first-hand. Submit patches.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

To provide an opportunity for VCs and senior executives to engage with the community by giving back rather than just attending more cocktail parties. But the most important metric has been the deep and lasting relationships that have been built with startups and also between senior executives. Can the community support them?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Despite all the energy invested in talking to authors about the size of their platform, very few gatekeepers have a rigorous set of metrics for measuring it. When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. My blog has over 14000 subscribers, for example. Is that a lot?

San Francisco 113

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conversionxl.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

So What is Customer Development? Steve Blank, a serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, developed a methodology for creating businesses that runs in parallel with the traditional product development process. The core idea behind customer development is that the assumptions you make about a target market are only guesses.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

And do I still need to get out of the building if Ive got great metrics and surveys?" My hope for this conference is that it will benefit the global community of entrepreneurs. By creating a space for your startup community to congregate and share new ideas, youre enabling a new kind of economic growth.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2010

This is just like a startup to me, complete with distribution and product development challenges, ecosystem design and many, many customers. Ive been blown away by the level of demand you all have expressed in having a forum for the whole community to come together and share what were learning. Details soon, I promise.

San Francisco 122

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 3, 2009

In order to give people the data they need to apply the strategy, we were very open with our company metrics, making all reports generally available and easy to run. When you think a certain feature will give a 50% boost to a given metric, and it only eeks out a 5% boost, you cant spin that as failure. It worked incredibly well for us.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

The number one reason I keep coming back to PHP is that it has overwhelming community support. Ive written elsewhere that success in creating a platform is "becoming a function not of the size and resources of the company that builds it, but of the size of the community that supports it." Lets start with some circular reasoning.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

And passionate players are often the backbone of game communities – especially online. A great product enables customers, developers, partners, and even competitors to exchange their unique currencies in combinations that lead to financial success for the company that organizes them.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 24, 2017

Everyone has railed against these practices ( including us , many times), but it still seems that much of the industry is focused on short term metrics and surface level changes. With the overlapping areas of marketing or product with optimization, it helps to be skillful at one of the former areas. heterogeneous treatment effects).”.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Im open to being the coffee and snack technician :-) On another note, I live in Atlanta and believe that we have a strong enough start-up community that would greatly benefit from your lessons learned. I have contacts within the university and entrepreneurial communities and would be happy to help you set up something if interested.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 26, 2015

On Tuesday, we interviewed Amanda Krantz of Dohje, an early-stage startup, to talk about experimenting with product development. Alongside that case study is Daina Burnes Linton’s story about her startup, Fashion Metric, and running multiple tests without building a single thing —even when they really wanted to.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

This is another sub-optimization caused by incentivizing the wrong metric. You are doing the startup community a great service by sharing your insights via your blog. This can be especially challenging for HR professionals who measure their success based on the number of jobs they fill. This post has been removed by the author.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

So heres my simple question: What do folks in Washington need to know about the global community of entrepreneurs? I'll add two ideas: The modern structure of university patent licensing and technology transfer works really well in the life sciences and other fields with expensive product development processes.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

And finally, Scott demonstrated his internal management tool for managing the metrics of his business. Money to be used for hiring and additional product development. 2. -Offers two products: Palantir Government and Palantir Finance. Used by hedge funds, the intelligence community and multiple government agencies.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

We also learned that law is code , and that leadership was needed to build thriving communities in a digital age. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. Building Product 2. Building Metrics / Usage Reports / KPI 3. Product/Metrics (70%/30% time) * Get your product activation (sign-up + meaningful action) to 60% * then, Get your product retention to 20% weekly.

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