Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. Pay people with equity or future revenue. Another one to avoid cash burn for software development is a contract for percent of future revenue. Focus precious cash only on producing revenue for your startup business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2011

As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. Pay people with equity or future revenue. Another one to avoid cash burn for software development is a contract for percent of future revenue. Focus precious cash only on producing revenue for your startup business.

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Burn Rate Startup Salary Equity 231

ReadWriteStart

MAY 16, 2018

The successful sales teams of the future will lean on these to win more deals: Personalized mobile apps. Plenty of sales fall through due to issues beyond the salesperson’s control, and those issues are often a result of the company’s product or service. AI has incredible potential in sales,” says Greg McBeth, head of revenue at Node.

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Sales Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Software Review 90

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, February 20, 2009 Work in small batches Software should be designed, written, and deployed in small batches. The batch size is the unit at which work-products move between stages in a development process. For software, the easiest batch to see is code. I dont think so.

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San Francisco Software Review Continuous Deployment Development Team Review 161

ConversionXL

MAY 3, 2020

Website quality assurance, frequently referred to as QA, pairs optimizers and developers to ensure everything looks and works correctly on all relevant devices and browsers. After all, if you don’t conduct proper quality assurance, you might declare a vastly better treatment a loser due to a technical problem.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Mobile 63

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. At Qualtrics, our mission is to create the Experience Management (XM) software category. You have strategy, content, design, and dev—that’s at least four people.

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SEO Technical Review Software Review XML 121

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Here’s how Lucian Adrian Stroie of R/GA explains quality assurance… Lucian Adrian Stroie , R/GA : “As it is the case with testing in any field (not just in software), it’s aim and scope is to provide information to stakeholders and decision makers about the tested item. So, What Exactly Is Quality Assurance?

Technical Review 104

Technical Review Software Review Mobile Analytics 104

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. Pay people with equity or future revenue. Another one to avoid cash burn for software development is a contract for percent of future revenue. Focus precious cash only on producing revenue for your startup business.

Burn Rate 120

Burn Rate Startup Salary Equity 120

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

But in these years I learned how to sell software – necessity is the mother of all invention. I learned how to integrate customers into our product development process. But in our first year of sales (and those were really shitty years to be selling software) we sold $2.1 I learned about revenue recognition.

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Venture Capital Hiring Software Review Stock Options 285

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. ” So I left Google to do another startup, Agitar Software. Another success. So I thought, “I am good!”

Product 120

Product Technical Review Marketing Lean 120

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Some of you out there may find this Google Analytics feature overview to be mostly review. From the time you set up your account and put your tracking code on your site, Google Analytics, starts to capture and display a lot of data. Events can be implemented without coding through Google Tag Manager. That’s awesome!

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Analytics Software Review eCommerce Conversion 134

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? More About Marcel Petitpas: His business — Parakeeto. His podcast — The Agency Profit Podcast. Like this show?

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Cofounder Hosting Networking Software Review 73

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. It didn’t work.

Software Review 67

Software Review Development Team Review Later Stage Technical Review 67

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.” Say, “We are hiring a developer to create only the beginning of an application. Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers.

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CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 84

SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo.

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Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire 150

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

If you are starting new, or going to touch the code on your website for any reason, please, in the name of Thor, Superman and Dilbert, use a tag management solution. Transactions, Revenue and Ecommerce Conversion Rate. Dive into the outcomes reports to measure in-app revenue by day or a time period that makes sense.

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Analytics Metrics Mobile DC 141

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

It appears that LTV should be about 3 x CAC for a viable SaaS or other form of recurring revenue model. Examples of free products include Open Source software, services like HubSpot’s Website Grader , free versions of a SaaS service that have limited, but still valuable, feature sets, etc. have multiples that are more like 5 x CAC.)

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Acquisition Cost Customer Entrepreneur 103