Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

Eric has talked often about recognizing a startup as an organization designed to create a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty. Most commonly, that’s uncertainty about whether you can build the product at all (what MBAs call “technical risk”) or whether anybody will use or buy it (“market risk”). in ten years?

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 26, 2013

Why developers are leaving the Facebook platform | by Andrew Chen – [link]. “sometimes you have the right product but the wrong business model.” How to build great products – [link]. 11 Things I Wish I Knew About Django Development Before I Started My Company – [link]. ” – [link].

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Noah has been a key figure in the making of LivePlan, our own SaaS product. Instead of sitting down to write a 40-page business plan, start with a one-page pitch. The one-page pitch format is also more suitable for SaaS businesses that are constantly testing new ideas. One-Page Business Pitch Template.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

I use a more restrictive definition: A growth team is a product tech team that’s focused on acquisition instead of core product features. Using the same playbook that I developed at KISSmetrics, we ran non-stop A/B tests on our email subscription funnel, driving 480,000 leads in 2016 and smashing our lead goals for the year.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

In this case, it’s the pitch feature that allows you to get all of your most important points down in one place, either as a one-page format or as a pitch deck that you can export to Powerpoint if you need a slide deck for a presentation. Stock photo libraries. Launching and PR. If a reporter needs a source, they’ll post here.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 28, 2013

Investment Crowdfunding is A Ghetto Stock Market | Forbes – [link]. Revenue Traction Doesn’t Mean Product Market Fit – [link]. 15 Steps to the Ultimate Lead Capture Landing Page | Unbounce – [link]. 15 Steps to the Ultimate Lead Capture Landing Page | Unbounce – [link]. .

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 10, 2012

Productivity vs. Guilt and Self-Loathing – [link]. Good look at how Facebook’s stock price impacts the company and its employees (beyond the obvious) – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. – [link]. – [link].

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Listen to this episode if you want to hear about a founder who has a product and users and paying customers … and is trying to figure out how to take his company to the next level and grow faster. We started with the product about three years ago, development, a year later we released it. A lot has happened since then.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

September, 2012 – Andrew Chen, who currently does growth at Uber , writes You don’t need a growth hacker , which encourages companies to really consider whether they have product-market fit before hiring a growth hacker. They need products that are really working in the market. via AndrewChen.co). ” Curiosity.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

A startup that has found product-market fit needs to transition quickly into that category, with operational excellence taking precedence over bursts of creative brilliance. As it gains traction, every social or consumer internet startup should pause at some point and take stock of risk and abuse issues, viewed as broadly as possible.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 24, 2012

Be More Productive. Groupon’s Andrew Mason Talking About Daily Deals Site’s Stock Smack, Future Plans and IPO Regrets (Or Lack Thereof) – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Interpreting some of Twitter’s API changes – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

They had three new ideas: index more of the Web, uselinks to rank search results, and have clean, simple web pages withunintrusive keyword-based ads. During the Internet Bubble there were a number of startups founded by business people who then wentlooking for hackers to create their product for them. This doesnt work well.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 4, 2023

Historically it was s SCM rush and it didn't help when we went public because our stock checker is S E M R. I always, you know, I get pitches like everybody from SEO experts that are gonna put me on page one and it's like, I can't find you. We've developed a system by successfully working with thousands of businesses.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 12, 2017

This is a tool that we use on the Duct Tape Marketing website thoroughly for content upgrades, for slide-in boxes, actually, we even used the visual editor for all the pages and landing pages we designed. John: Yeah will you just — I believe gave a huge boost to the idea of local PR then didn’t you? Mike: Yes I did.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 8, 2014

Let’s face it: developing a marketing budget for a small business is usually not a very big priority. Campaign Development. Landing Pages. Proposal Development. Product/Service Packaging. Remember that investing in your marketing budget is like investing in a companys stock. Marketing Strategy.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). But just to clarify a couple points, 24-hours into the storm: Yes,NET developers are great at what they do. It’s the most modern platform for application development on the planet.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

So for this first post, here’s the best advice I can give you: join an awesome founding team and get your product out the door ASAP. But six months in, you’re gonna cry when you see someone else put out that same product you’re pitching me right now. Like I said, forget everything else and just get your product out the door.

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