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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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? It includes training videos, spreadsheet, templates, checklists, cheat sheets, with all these benchmarks.

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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. hero section, CTA row, video modals) look like. Marketers build pages; developers build systems. Partnering with your development team to templatize page creation.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

And to be honest with you till a few years ago, I didn’t even know there was such a thing as a leadership team coach. So when we started we were more broadly leadership development, team development across organizations. And our monthly revenue is smooth out, so we don’t have those peaks and valleys anymore.

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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 may over-invest in developing a variation of your product that people won’t buy or adding a feature to an existing product that people don’t use.

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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! file downloads. Outbound Links.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Now its time to start to think seriously about how to find a repeatable and scalable sales process, how to position and market the product, and how to build a product development team that can turn an early product into a Whole Product. What is customer development? Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

VentureHacks did a great summary , which includes slides and video. The theory of Product/Market Fit is one key component of customer development, and I highly recommend Marcs essay on that topic. Our goal in product development is to find the minimum feature set required to get early customers. What is customer development?

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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. recurring revenue) are illustrated in the diagram below: Lessons Learned – Ways to reduce customer acquisition costs Conversion rates play an extremely important role in your customer acquisition cost.

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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

For example: If you want to sell videos, you dont need to say whats in the videos. Just “sell downloadable and streamable video files.” 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.” The translator rejects or approves.

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trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

The only thing I would add is that there are alternatives to going “full stealth&# – one of my start-ups is front-ending the data collection interface to a customer group that is not anticipated to be the core contributor to revenue two years from now. nielr1 Dave, Excellent question. Great post!

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Transactions, Revenue and Ecommerce Conversion Rate. In your case these might include videos people watch (See), car configurators people use (Think), handy guides they download (Think/Care), social amplification (Do) or follows (Care), and so on and so forth. Mobile content consumption, behavior along key metrics (time, bounces etc.)

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