Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2012

These days every new entrepreneur understands that an innovative product or service is necessary, but not sufficient, to start a business. But most entrepreneurs don’t know where to start. Keep the atmosphere relaxed and fun, to increase traffic, and maybe even go viral. Keep them engaged with eNewsletters. Widgets and badges.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 7, 2014

Employee Retention - crowdspring.co/1f2fAz5. 7 Things Marketers Can Learn From 2,616 Viral Headlines. Don’t fear competition. Many of the best companies embrace it - crowdspring.co/1kgAen9. The simplest and most important dashboard for early stage startups - crowdspring.co/1gMgfqV. ripenn - crowdspring.co/1gSudHW.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2013

These days every new entrepreneur understands that an innovative product or service is necessary, but not sufficient, to start a business. But most entrepreneurs don’t know where to start. Keep the atmosphere relaxed and fun, to increase traffic, and maybe even go viral. Keep them engaged with eNewsletters. Widgets and badges.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

It highlights the story of how United Airlines paid no attention to social media while Dave’s story of his crushed guitar and poor customer service went viral around the world. Maximize customer retention. United Airlines spend a long time recovering from that debacle. With over 78% of the U.S. You need to be there.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2013

If these three million see no timely response, your problem can go viral (like United Breaks Guitars ). Respond online and let the positive vibes go viral instead. Increase customer loyalty and therefore customer retention. entrepreneur startup social media customer care business'

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

Measuring viral adoption is obviously important. Retention / Churn. Most people under estimate the challenge of winning “share of mind” the least understood concept with tech entrepreneurs. How many adds came through organic SEO? How many through affiliate deals? How many through SEM? Do you have a customer referral program?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2013

It highlights the story of how United Airlines in 2008 paid no attention to social media as Dave’s story of his crushed guitar and poor customer service went viral around the world. Maximize customer retention. entrepreneur startup social media business' United Airlines is still recovering from that debacle. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2011

These days every new entrepreneur understands that an innovative product or service is necessary, but not sufficient, to start a business. But most entrepreneurs don’t know where to start. Keep the atmosphere relaxed and fun, to increase traffic, and maybe even go viral. Keep them engaged with eNewsletters. Widgets and badges.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2012

If these three million see no timely response, your problem can go viral (like United Breaks Guitars ). Respond online and let the positive vibes go viral instead. Increase customer loyalty and therefore customer retention. Before social networking, an unhappy customer might tell three people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2015

Image via Flickr by SideWages.com These days every new entrepreneur understands that an innovative product or service is necessary, but not sufficient, to start a business. But most entrepreneurs don’t know where to start. Keep the atmosphere relaxed and fun, to increase traffic, and maybe even go viral. Widgets and badges.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2016

Startup productivity is embodied in key ratios, including low cost of customer acquisition, high retention, and high revenue per employee. These days, you need customer evangelists who see the value and will pull in their friends through viral actions to keep the business growing. High customer loyalty and high team passion.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

One question that keeps coming up when speaking with early stage entrepreneurs when it comes to funding, is what metrics the company needs to hit to raise seed/series A/B etc: What’s a good conversion rate? cohort retention curves that flatten (stickiness) actives/reg > 25% (validates TAM). What should our MRR growth be?

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

Unit economics are something I’ve found most entrepreneurs (and investors!) As always, there are exceptions: if you build a viral consumer product (such as an Instagram) where people are just coming to your site / app in droves at no cost to you, then you’ve got a great business. don’t think about at all. or lack of).

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

Unit economics are something I’ve found most entrepreneurs (and investors!) As always, there are exceptions: if you build a viral consumer product (such as an Instagram) where people are just coming to your site / app in droves at no cost to you, then you’ve got a great business. don’t think about at all. or lack of).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2012

It highlights the story of how United Airlines in 2008 paid no attention to social media as Dave’s story of his crushed guitar and poor customer service went viral around the world. Maximize customer retention. United Airlines is still recovering from that debacle. You need to be there.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Favorite VC and Entrepreneur blogs. Software 2.0: How the use of internet is transform. ► 03/25 - 04/01. (1). Global warming: a plague for humanity? ► 03/18 - 03/25. (1). ► 02/11 - 02/18. (2). Getting the most of your online marketing: the In. Get your own helicopter for $50!

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The Next Web

MARCH 2, 2014

Successful mobile games rely on virality and retention just as much as monetization to stay afloat. Design & Dev Entrepreneur Analysis and Opinion How-To''s' In these cases, make a donation as a studio to the non-profit and let players know that your game is helping to support that cause. How everybody benefits.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2021

Having just retired from a career as an entrepreneur I had started thinking about why startups were different from large companies. Paradoxically, resource limitations are the secret to success; they teach lessons that experienced entrepreneurs have harnessed. In other words, you prove retention. We call it an MVP tree.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2016

However, it’s home to some of the smartest entrepreneurs I’ve ever met, along with a long list of exceptional colleges and universities. What customer retention strategies are working best for other florists? They’re All in California. Social Has Been a Tale of One Coast. And as an innovation economy, we put up numbers.

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Hippoland

OCTOBER 16, 2016

When I was an entrepreneur, I had no idea how this all worked. Companies in this category include companies like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Snapchat, etc… These are all companies that need a TON of users, great retention and engagement and continued-fast-growth of user adoption in order to later make money off ad revenue.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Growth Hacking isn’t viral marketing (although viral marketing is part of it). and answers with A/B tests, landing pages, viral factor, email deliverability, and Open Graph. If a startup is pre-product/market fit, growth hackers can make sure virality is embedded at the core of a product. like/+1/follow?

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Tim O’Reilly’s recent article, “ The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy ,” makes an impassioned argument that the ideas in our book, Blitzscaling , encourage entrepreneurs to behave in ways that are irresponsible or even dangerous in the pursuit of what he characterizes as “runaway growth.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

I have counseled innumerable entrepreneurs to change their focus to revenue, and many companies who refuse this advice get themselves into trouble by running out of iterations. Products can find sources of validation with impressive stats along a number of dimensions, such as high engagement, viral coefficient, or long-term retention.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

I think its helpful to think about two kinds of competition for distribution: acquisition competition and retention competition. On the web, we have many of these channels: SEM, SEO, world of mouth, PR and viral. Retention competition is how you get people to come back to your app. My advice: dont launch big.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2014

Others are fully sold on the value of users’ social data to marketers, including entrepreneur Higinio Maycotte. “ Going social improves the quantity and quality of data your marketing team receives, enabling you to make more informed decisions about everything your business does – including marketing & customer retention strategies.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Others are fully sold on the value of users’ social data to marketers, including entrepreneur Higinio Maycotte. “If Going social improves the quantity and quality of data your marketing team receives, enabling you to make more informed decisions about everything your business does—including marketing and customer retention strategies.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, December 16, 2008 Engagement loops: beyond viral Theres a great and growing corpus of writing about viral loops, the step-by-step optimizations you can use to encourage maximum growth of online products by having customers invite each other to join. This is essentially a version of the viral loop.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 30, 2023

Laughs and playfulness will connect your team and help strengthen bonds and relationships amongst them, which then will help solve issues that can be found in unhappy employees such as retention, engagement, physical and mental health problems, or lack of innovation and creativity. Listen to creative elements wherever you get your podcasts.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

Andrew : Why Loom and Zoom and Clubhouse and some of the other new social experiences benefit is that you can use the current boom in engagement and viral growth to build out your network. I think that will cause new entrepreneurs to maybe second guess on where they want to be. Lauren : Thank you for joining us on the a16z Podcast.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In a previous post , I covered the three main drivers of growth: Paid, Sticky, and Viral. Let’s look at a viral growth company, like Facebook. If you are building a large, viral, ad-support consumer internet property, you just want to go big! They’re off to cross the chasm. As soon as possible!&#

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The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2012

We are currently in the middle of a restart and would like to share our seven lessons learned in the hopes that other entrepreneurs can benefit from our experiences and increase their chances for success. The metrics that matter the most are returning customers (user retention), turnover per customer and viral growth (k-factor).

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

” April, 2012 – Andrew Chen writes Growth Hacker is the new VP Marketing , which goes viral (2.4K This means users love it, that there’s lots of retention and engagement, even at small numbers. Now, people begin defining growth hacking as a process, a systematic approach, a “viral loop”, etc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2018

The value of such viral efforts is huge. For entrepreneurs and startups, it can be a bit easier, but still requires resources and risk. They have negative emotional and viral reactions to people getting bonuses and raises, despite visible product and customer support shortcomings.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started - OnStartups , September 27, 2010 "The best part of blogging is the people you will meet"- Hugh MacLeod repeating wisdom from Loic Lemeur to me at the Big Pink at 2 am in South Beach after the Future of Web Apps 2008. Why You Should Write. Your service: the game.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

This is a common problem that results from viral-loop optimization. By copying the exact same registration flow as every other successful viral app, many viral apps completely lose their positioning. At IMVU , we would routinely find retention effects that would stem from registration changes and have impact days or weeks later.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

You’ve built detailed analytics tracking into your product and you should be seeing organic and viral growth; and can provide Daily/Weekly/Monthly Active Users, 30d/90d/120d retention. Retention and low attrition are good signs of customer validation. serial entrepreneur. 2M in 18 months. A “hot” market.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 20, 2010

Although I had been developing softwares since 1999, it was the first time I could think of an idea, write the application, publish it online and virally reach thousands of people! well, millions actually) Basically, it is Facebook that turned me into an entrepreneur.

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