Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Publishers and authors (like O’Reilly and us) also benefit from Amazon’s success.

Cofounder 28

Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

customer retention, churn reduction, lifetime value. questions and answers for non-programmers. Bethnal Green Ventures. green tech. Cloudomatic. The Toolkbox. Batchbooks. Market Research. LaunchRock. Google Insights. Keyword Research. Google Keywords. Wordtracker. Traffic Research. Startup Threads. Videos/presentations.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

ConversionXL

AUGUST 24, 2016

In fact, you’re also competing on… Customer service. What should you compete on if price is out of the question? While overall satisfaction with online shopping is high at 77%, it drops below 40% when consumers are asked about flexibility to choose delivery date, flexibility to reroute packages and green shipping.

Retention 48

Retention eCommerce Software Review Engineer 48

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Product/Metrics (70%/30% time) * Get your product activation (sign-up + meaningful action) to 60% * then, Get your product retention to 20% weekly. Non of this academic stuff. The only problem is I haven’t found a problem or an industry – web, enterprise software, green tech, etc – where I feel passionate.

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Microsoft started down this path when they were the only game in town, explicitly to maintain their monopoly by making it as hard as possible to either port Windows apps to non-Windows platforms, or to even conceive of how to do it in the first place. Basically, the lesson in this guys argument is entirely non-technical. Get a grip.

Java 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

ConversionXL

JUNE 19, 2019

Alexa Hubley: “How to Compete in a Saturated Market”. Don’t use cost per acquisition— use the cost to acquire a customer and the retention cost to keep that customer coming back to buy again. So how can we make timeless content (or salvage a non-performing piece of content)? As marketers, we compete for revenue and conversions.

Agile 90

Agile Analytics Algorithm Software Review 90