Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Products can find sources of validation with impressive stats along a number of dimensions, such as high engagement, viral coefficient, or long-term retention. but few step back and really examine the underlying assumptions of startup finance. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

Staff functions in finance, human resources, legal departments and business units developed Key Performance Indicators, processes, procedures and goals to measure, control and execute. Finance The goals for public companies are driven primarily by financial Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s). This is a big idea. What to Do?

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

As such, most entrepreneurs focus all their energies on customer retention. Based on Jacco Van Der Kooij’s book The SaaS Sales Method: Sales As a Science , Lean-Case enhanced its metric model and put this method a SaaS business model – how to double revenues with incremental steps into practice.It Putting Theory into Practice.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

That's one of the very, very early companies that I was talking to Lean Startup about. That is a common experience we hear from outsiders that there's only two cultures of Silicon Valley, and when we get into the funding and financing of companies, that that's really where the bias can come in. ER : I remember Speed Date. EB : Yeah.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Resources. Lean Startup Circle â?? customer retention, churn reduction, lifetime value. Lean project management. easy business finance software. Codeacademy. Steve Blank.

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Up and Running

JULY 1, 2019

This site features their podcast episodes and articles on everything from financing your startup to company culture. This blog run by Lincoln Murphy focuses on the customer lifecycle and how to best optimize customer acquisition and retention. Price Intelligently. Check out the 20 most popular articles to get started. Tomasz Tunguz.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

In February, Greylock kicked off “Iconversations,” a new speaker series featuring “icons” across tech, finance, media and culture. So the norms that we have were a combination of bottoms-up and then some top-down leaning. On the other side, we decided to lean into delivering in a big way, so we bought Postmates.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 15, 2012

I read some great stuff today on topics like why aren’t VCs lean and scrappy , and why Pinterest took so long to go viral , but the pick of the bunch by far were some of the answers to What are some decisions taken by the “Growth team” at Facebook that helped Facebook reach 500 million users? But maybe I should.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Or, put another way, great product managers are often the “weird kids” in the MBA program who, while sitting in a finance class, wonder if they should have enrolled in a design school or coding bootcamp instead. (I Be careful, though! Being a data nerd is a very useful trait of product managers, but it isn’t enough to be successful.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 3, 2021

We have put a long-term goal of attaining the highest market capitalization, primarily focusing on our finances and management in a bid to achieve the highest market value and cap position. Since then, we have been thriving in the market while leaning into becoming UK's number one private number plate supplier with a heart for people.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

This is the part that people hate the most, unless you’re a finance geek. That’s going to help you put your financials together, and it’s also going to help because everybody loses customers, so in your model you have to be able to say what the retention rate is of that customer as well, and the churn rate. This is what we track.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? Product/Metrics (70%/30% time) * Get your product activation (sign-up + meaningful action) to 60% * then, Get your product retention to 20% weekly.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 2, 2018

I’ve gotten the janitor, and I can tell you how the janitor impacts your customer retention. That’s the accounting department and finance not understanding inbound, and not understanding buyers. SAAS companies for years have had this kind of model for retention, for subscription based. I’ve yet to be stumped.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 6, 2016

Meet regularly – how would you feel if finance only “met when needed.” Strategy & Testing: The a-ha moment is the tipping point for retention. The a-ha moment is the tipping point for retention. This entire model is very close to the Lean Startup model. Why retention matters? Mid-term retention.

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