Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 19, 2011

Covered extensively here and here , Lean UX is a team-wide acceptance of significantly lighter-weight design deliverables that are used to drive conversation, estimation and validation both with internal stakeholders and ultimately customers. The low-fidelity nature of the deliverable also encourages non-designers to join the discussion.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 23, 2019

And Sin-Mei Tsai , VP of Engineering at Shippo, discussed code quality. Chelsea started her first business when she was 12, and her first non-profit when she was 13. Reviewed performance of BDRs and Sales. Reviewed data on bot conversion, had a discussion about % of future that’s managed services vs product.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

The reality of CAC is both the when you scale your acquisition “channel” costs usually go up plus when you find a great channel others notice it and drive up the costs as they compete with you in that channel. So it might actually be more productive for you to improve your conversion than to improve your ad buying, for example.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 25, 2010

You begin to do this almost without thinking (unconscious competence for those in know). Well…I’ve hit that point reviewing websites. I’ve recorded stacks of site review screencasts over the past four years, and I’m ready to take it to a whole ‘notha level. Any non-personal website will work.

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Up and Running

JULY 10, 2017

Although some companies optimize their pricing well enough to receive more than 4 percent conversion rate from freemium into premium, the majority of SaaS products are lucky to achieve a rate as low as 1 percent. Conversion rates for underdeveloped products are likely to be much lower. In our example, it’s 20K non-paying customers.

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Software By Rob

JULY 20, 2010

July 20th, 2010 | Cool News, Links & Reviews Building your startup? Luckily several thousand people have decided to stick around and join the conversation. I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself. I recommend it. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2009

One theme that I always get is, “I’ve gotten an offer from a VC, but they want me to do X, what do you think?&# X is always something non-standard that the entrepreneur knows in his gut isn’t right. I personally ruled out Pakistan due to the perception that our staff would feel less safe there.

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

I’d also encourage all business operators to systematically review aged debtors as this will allow you to identify slow-paying customers who need a follow up. You can also use this time to review any non-performing revenue lines and exit them. Ongoing vigilance around health and safety is also key.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

A non-traditional lender is another option; many small businesses are borrowing from on-line lenders like On Deck Capital Inc. CRM software uses analytics and reporting tools to keep small business leaders knowledgeable about their customers; unfortunately, only 29% of small businesses currently use a CRM system. LendingClub Inc. ,

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

13:51] What are some of the effective ways that you’ve seen people merging digital and non-digital? [16:30] Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! You can compete with anyone at any size if you simply follow the method you're about to learn. 16:30] How do use email to actually build trust? [18:19]

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ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

was selected due to its ranking for evergreen queries, such as “things to do in Canada.” As such, Google continued to get stopped at our paywall during crawls, and we became virtually non-existent in its search engine results pages. For sites that rely on a lead-in, it’s a different conversation. Currently, Independent.ie

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

It’s why Canva can call itself a multibillion-dollar platform and how ConvertKit pulled itself up to compete with goliaths like MailChimp and Campaign Monitor. For example, if you run a software company, talking to clients at a trade show might put you in touch with the right audience. Is your website optimized for conversions ?

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 15, 2019

The conversion rate is down 30% at launch. For three of the four, I’ve seen individuals successfully navigate the leader-type – never without scars though – and individuals emotionally burn-out due the environment the leader creates. To poke holes in the data/methodology (regardless of the Rationalizer’s analytical competence).

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blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

Bemoaning that non-technical people are the first to filter resumes is silly because it’s not going to change. To sort facts from folk wisdom, I isolated some features that were universal among resumes and would be easy to spot by technical and non-technical people alike and then ran statistical significance tests on them.

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Software By Rob

JULY 22, 2010

Tip #1: Use a Custom Design I’m typically a fan of text-only newsletter email due to the challenge of getting things to display correctly in email clients. Luckily several thousand people have decided to stick around and join the conversation. Despite low traffic numbers, it’s getting a good conversion rate.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

For us, it means separate organizations can collaborate in ways that previously were prevented due to the administrative complexities of sharing this information. My cofounder Tom Tichy and I worked together at our former employer to conceive of and launch their first cloud-based software application. This got me to thinking.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and whats changed since then) My recent article on technical debt and its positive uses generated a fair bit of controversy. The same might be said of good software. Here we have the beginnings of a theory of design for software.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2017

Some, on the contrary, say that the modern user is already experiencing app fatigue and that people tend to use just three apps at most , so competing for desktop attention still remains easier. You will have to compete for customer’s attention with other businesses. As a new business owner, you may be overwhelmed by the choice.

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ConversionXL

JULY 22, 2021

Much like you periodically review your digital marketing campaigns to get the most from them, a technical SEO audit evaluates site performance to identify areas for improvement. . Indexability: This shows where a URL is indexable or non-indexable. Indexability status: The reason why a URL is non-indexable. 4xx status codes.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Turns out everybody likes to produce content and take part in the “conversation.&# Massive uptake of user-generated content including blogs (e.g. Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). Image courtesy of Bernhardt Haussner. The initial data we are seeing at Ad.ly

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

52% of buyers say they’ve shifted more of their spending to online due to the pandemic. We’re seeing about a 70 to 75 conversion rate from appointments in terms of purchase ,” said Joanna Griffiths , Founder and CEO. It’s all about finding businesses with complementary offerings that don’t compete with yours.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 12, 2010

By now we’ve discussed the fact that you should first plug your funnel , then improve conversion rates , then work on sending as much traffic as possible to your website. But we haven’t talked about how big of a role traffic quality plays in determining your conversion rate. This is because the quality is so much better.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

And, there are potential tax traps as well, especially when Non Qualified options are traded for services. Your investors, the smart ones at least, are certainly making decisions the other way among competing deals. Make your choices only after you’ve done some due diligence with other companies where they’ve served.

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Software By Rob

APRIL 13, 2010

Our goal is to help non-venture-backed, bootstrapped startups, microISVs and Micropreneurs. That’s why we’ve made it out mission to provide practical information based on our real-life experience as software/web entrepreneurs (20+ years between the two of us), as well as the entrepreneurs we work with in the Micropreneur Academy.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 12, 2023

People absolutely love using its conversational interface to fulfill their information needs. Recently, we have started to see how quickly this will change different kinds of productivity software, such as the customer service platform Cresta , the productivity platform Coda , or the storytelling tool Tome. But, already, we have magic!

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

And thus it is with the majority of open source software: Open source software is free if your time is worth nothing. I’m bracing my inbox for emails from disgruntled Gimp users explaining how charging for software is bad, commercial software is evil, and my mother dresses me funny. But I don’t buy it.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Whether you’re a conversion optimization agency, consultant, or in-house at a startup or enterprise, investing in the right conversion optimization tool is a big decision. Vlad Malik from www.goodui.org gave a review of A/B Tasty: Vlad Malik : “The things I like about ABTasty I like a lot. It’s not cheap.

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Up and Running

JUNE 27, 2018

However, this move alienated their current customer base, as they felt that Gap was moving away from the comfortable, non-trendy items and into a more fashion-forward brand. If you want to create a solid end-to-end marketing plan, make sure that you review your strategies and align them with your current customer’s expectations.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 29, 2009

The Findings Five days later Patrick had 250 responses and enough information to decide on a name, but let the survey run because he was receiving solid information from the other (non-naming) survey questions, as well as leads who were interested in being notified when the app launched. had confirmation codes. #7

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 25, 2010

If they had done it for the money they would have stopped long before they became an overnight success five years of non-stop practice later. Luckily several thousand people have decided to stick around and join the conversation. Heading out from school to hone your songwriting skill is not on the radar for most high schoolers.

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Software By Rob

JULY 1, 2010

In a traditional business this means offering non-commodity products and services. Luckily several thousand people have decided to stick around and join the conversation. I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself. at 12:52 pm [.]

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Memorable Postcard from a New Mechanic My Report on StackOverflow DevDays → Are Twitter and Facebook Killing Blogs? It’s like open shared IM conversation with everyone.

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Up and Running

JULY 31, 2015

This week Peter and Jonathan talk to Tim Berry, founder of Palo Alto Software, about lean business planning, strategy, tactics, specifics (milestones), and the forecast. We have Tim Berry, founder of Palo Alto Software with us. It really jabs with my experience too in starting in software. Expect to be reviewing results often.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 14, 2010

And after talking about this subject at length, I found myself again evangelizing it last week at the Business of Software conference. And these days with how easy it is to build an application, your code isn’t worth much, either. Ideas (and in many cases the code itself) are not worth as much as we think.

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

You often end up with lots of half-done experiments lying around, an infrastructure that isn’t built to scale, and a mishmash of code that needs to be refactored. For example, a design approach just turns out to be error-prone or a junior programmer just writes bad code. Of course, we are mostly interested in the second type.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2020

Competing businesses. Competing businesses may click on each other’s PPC ads to waste money. If you conduct some intricate research (detailed below), you may be able to identify the IP address of competing businesses. Wired refers to these as “hordes of linked machines controlled by rogue software.” Software can help. (

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

You can listen to our conversation on Apple Podcasts , Google podcasts , or wherever else you like to download podcasts. You can find my conversation with Mark in that format below. Here's my conversation with Mark Cuban. I got fired from a software sales job, started a systems integrator called MicroSolutions.

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