Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2011

As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. The cost of giving up more equity early is often more than offset by the increased flexibility to recover from mistakes. The cost of giving up more equity early is often more than offset by the increased flexibility to recover from mistakes.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit.

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Acquisition Cost Customer Entrepreneur 103

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. The cost of giving up more equity early is often more than offset by the increased flexibility to recover from mistakes. The cost of giving up more equity early is often more than offset by the increased flexibility to recover from mistakes.

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Burn Rate Startup Salary Equity 120

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Snyk was founded with the mission to help developers make their code secure, providing a platform to automatically assess and remediate open source vulnerabilities. The company’s success has been largely driven by its developer-led freemium model, going from Series A funding to a valuation of $2.6B in just 30 months.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 28, 2020

To do that, we built a demand funnel that took us from nothing to 44X revenue growth in a single year. But such a simple funnel works only if you have a lot of inbound interest and a sales team focused on fielding inquiries. Since we had a sales development team of our own, we needed to factor in their efforts, too.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Take the example of a design team prepping mock-ups for their development team. Give the dev team your very first sketches and let them get started. And over time, the development team may be able to start anticipating your needs. That frees up even more development resources, and so on.

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San Francisco Software Review Continuous Deployment Development Team Review 161

ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2020

Last year, I gave a presentation on how we generated 40% year-over-year organic revenue growth by focusing on out executing the competition, not outsmarting them. I compare it to parts of Market Muse—but at 1% the cost. The SEO team updates the Google Sheet, presses “import,” reviews, and clicks “publish.”

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SEO Technical Review Software Review XML 121

OnlyOnce

MARCH 14, 2011

In Part Two, I’ll talk about some of the practices we’re using in our product management and development teams. We all knew if the feature or function that the client was asking for was within the realm of the possible. • We were very, very focused on creating customers and revenue —We were a startup.

Software Review 67

Software Review Development Team Review Later Stage Technical Review 67

View from Seed

MARCH 19, 2015

” After spending some time at the acquiring company, I was hired by Google and eventually was put in charge of the development team that launched AdWords. You make your case with objective data: CTR, customer acquisition cost, etc. Why doesn’t everyone do this?” Another success. So I thought, “I am good!”

Product 120

Product Technical Review Marketing Lean 120

SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 26, 2020

…suddenly, nearly all technical jobs are remote-jobs, all dev-teams are distributed teams, and virtually all hiring is remote hiring. Cost savings companies experience when they eliminate expensive office rents and the payroll costs associated with the salaries required for people to live in major metro areas.

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Small Business Force

JANUARY 9, 2012

It gave you the opportunity to "live life on the fault line," as your business got launched and haltingly began to generate revenue, and maybe even some positive cash flow. Your first good review by some industry press. It provides the opportunity to recognize what individual or team achievement means to the company's success.

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Small Business Dividend Development Team Review Security 36

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 7, 2022

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! So a lot of agencies track revenue, some actually even track profit, but you, if we're gonna optimize, um, profitability, what, what should we be measuring? And that's mostly gonna be the labor cost of the work that we do for clients. His podcast — The Agency Profit Podcast.

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Cofounder Hosting Networking Software Review 76

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

There are three fundamental situations that change what your company needs to do: creating a new market (the original Palm), bringing a new product to an existing market (Handspring), and resegmenting an existing market (niche, like In-n-Out Burger; or low-cost, like Southwest Airlines). What is customer development?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

I learned how to get press coverage when we were no longer “hot.&# I learned how to manage costs effectively. and we ultimately sold when we hit $14 million and had more than $30 million in backlog revenue. and we ultimately sold when we hit $14 million and had more than $30 million in backlog revenue.

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Venture Capital Hiring Software Review Stock Options 285

trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

Fortunately these days there are very low cost ways to organize your communication. I think it saves time and effort and let's the marketing team and the dev team focus on what resonates instead of being focused on having a wider, low-quality audience from the onset. Both cannot become efficient without iteration.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Transactions, Revenue and Ecommerce Conversion Rate. This is a better view than the standard report, but this tab is mostly for your boss (with mildly interesting data around engagement ) and for your IT/Dev team as they decide which platforms to optimize the experience for or prioritize first. What do you learn from this tab?

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Analytics Metrics Mobile DC 141

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Some of you out there may find this Google Analytics feature overview to be mostly review. Adding features like Demographics & Interests, and Ecommerce can help you see more about who your visitors are, the products you’re successfully selling, and how much revenue you’re earning. That’s awesome!

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Analytics Software Review eCommerce Conversion 134

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Placement on the list was determined by a combination of the company’s G/SCORE assessment, stage and pace of growth, and business potential. The lightweight wind turbine is said to reduce installation costs by at least 50 percent. From 1999 to 2009, Teva’s revenue grew to about $14 billion from $1.3

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

sites from scratch - Experienced with the majority of the social api’s (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Meebo, PayPal, Flickr) - Experience managing offshore dev teams - Most recently a Director of Product Development at an early stage funded startup [link] meeblog » Blog Archive » starting up: finding your co-founders [.]

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Youll estimate time and cost better. Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews.

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