Metrics, Partner, Product Development and Webinar

8 Strategies To Drive Your Startup To Profitability

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Continually add new marketing and distribution partners. Word-of-mouth and social media may get you started, but there is no substitute these days for special promotions, webinars, presence at trade shows, and actively calling on decision makers. Real growth always requires real marketing. Shorten the close cycle to grow faster.

Startup

Startup Social Media Metrics Viral

8 Keys To Scaling The Business After Initial Traction

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2020

Continually add new marketing and distribution partners. Word-of-mouth and social media may get you started, but there is no substitute these days for special promotions, webinars, presence at trade shows, and actively calling on decision makers. Real growth always requires real marketing. Shorten the close cycle to grow faster.

Social Media

Social Media Metrics Viral Channel

Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

In a startup, both the problem and solution are unknown, and the key to success is building an integrated team that includes product development in the feedback loop with customers. 2008 09 06 Eric Ries Haas Columbia Customer Development Engineering View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Expo SF (May.

Customer Development

Customer Development Engineer San Francisco Developer

8 Initiatives To Increase Your Business Growth Curve

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2016

Continually add new marketing and distribution partners. Word-of-mouth and social media may get you started, but there is no substitute these days for special promotions, webinars, presence at trade shows, and actively calling on decision makers. Real growth always requires real marketing. Shorten the close cycle to grow faster.

Social Media

Social Media Metrics Viral Channel

Datablindness

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, June 8, 2009 Datablindness Most of us are swimming in a sea of data about our products, companies, and teams. That’s because many of our reports feed us vanity metrics: numbers that make us look good but don’t really help make decisions. Too much of this data is non- actionable.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC

Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

You might get a bunch of inbound emails from other press and partners, and all of these things can contribute to a feeling that you’re on your way to getting tons of traffic. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? It strokes your ego. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

Audience

Audience San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean

Lessons Learned: A hierarchy of pitches

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 28, 2008

We pitch to potential partners, vendors, publishers, conferences, employees, and even lawyers. Its different from selling a product, because it is not part of our regular business practice, is not something that relates to our core competence, and tends not to happen in a repeatable and scalable way. Expo SF (May.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC

Techstars brings The Lean Startup to Boulder

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

I thought Id share a little bit of that, too: I’ve been interested in different approaches to software development going back to 1987 when – in my first company Feld Technologies – my partner Dave Jilk and I started talking about “semi-custom software development&# (way ahead of its time). Expo SF (May.

Lean

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment DC

The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

But be philosophically consistent: periodically take the time to question your own expertise and that of your friends, partners and investors. But be philosophically consistent: periodically take the time to question your own expertise and that of your friends, partners and investors. Make the effort to test your assumptions.

Customer Development

Customer Development Developer San Francisco Customer

Building a new startup hub

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

As a result, the companies get a lot of exposure to VCs, investors, and partners in larger, more traditional startup hubs. Inspiring ideas: real-time biz metrics; safe continuous deployment; A/B split testing. And they expose the startups to a vast network of mentors, none of whom get paid for their involvement. Expo SF (May.

San Francisco

San Francisco Silicon Valley Startup Lean

Austin: the Lean Startup tour continues

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2009

Herein lies the reason my partner and I started Dillotronics - as well as the reason your take on the matter resonated so well here. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Expo SF (May.

Lean

Lean Austin San Francisco Continuous Deployment

Happy new year

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 1, 2009

I see that as a great way for my product to grow, but while Ive partnered with companies in my consulting business, its not something Im as familiar with now that Im on the product side. I question what numbers I would need to be considered respectable and/or worth a potential partners time. Expo SF (May.

San Francisco

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC

Learning is better than optimization (the local maximum problem)

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 7, 2010

At least, not in the traditional sense of trying to squeeze every tenth of a point out of a conversion metric or landing page. In fact, the curse of product development is that sometimes small things make a huge difference and sometimes huge things make no difference. For example, I’m a big believer in split-testing.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Metrics Design

Lessons Learned: When NOT to listen to your users; when NOT to.

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 6, 2008 When NOT to listen to your users; when NOT to rely on split-tests There are three legs to the lean startup concept: agile product development , low-cost (fast to market) platforms , and rapid-iteration customer development. Were doomed! Or the press. Or to our team.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Agile

Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Establish credibility with potential partners. In some businesses, especially in certain industries like traditional enterprise software, you simply cannot bring a new product to market on your own. You need to combine your product with others, and this requires partners like OEMs or system integrators.

San Francisco

San Francisco PR Lean Early Stage

How to Build Robust User Personas in Under a Month

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Because they used the magic term ‘personas,‘ development teams were discouraged from developing their own, not realising that a market segment might contain multiple personas. Development teams couldn’t use marketing personas to make design decisions, so they decided personas weren’t that useful. (It

Software Review

Software Review Design Agile Analytics

How to Build Robust User Personas in Under a Month

ConversionXL

MARCH 7, 2017

Because they used the magic term ‘personas’, development teams were discouraged from developing their own, not realising that a market segment might contain multiple personas. Development teams couldn’t use marketing personas to make design decisions, so they decided personas weren’t that useful. (It

Software Review

Software Review Design Agile Analytics

Business ecology and the four customer currencies

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

A great product enables customers, developers, partners, and even competitors to exchange their unique currencies in combinations that lead to financial success for the company that organizes them. Each of these four currencies represents a way for a customer to “pay&# for services from a company. Expo SF (May.

Customer

Customer San Francisco Viral Lean

Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

At the end of the day, the product development team of a startup (large or small) is a service organization. It exists to serve the needs of customers, and it does this by offering its capabilities to other functions in the company, and partnering with them. So, fellow hackers, Id love to hear from you. Does this sound familiar?

Software Review

Software Review Technical Review Part-Time VPE San Francisco

How to Create a Marketing Campaign that Stands Out

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 11, 2018

In the book Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days, Jake Knapp and the partners at Google Ventures outline a process for delivering data-driven, research-backed projects. Product development is iterative—rapid prototyping, fast changes, continual improvement. Join me in a webinar on January 9.

Campaign

Campaign Marketing Design Differentiation

10 lessons from Syte on building an inside sales machine to survive the crisis [guest post]

VC Cafe

APRIL 22, 2020

Syte has partners such as Microsoft, SAP, and resellers in Japan who function as outsourced BDRs. We do content marketing such as webinars, guest posts, thought leadership pieces, press releases, and more. As events are moving to virtual conferences soon, we will definitely participate. You should too! Partnerships.

Sales

Sales Cofounder Channel Revenue

5 Content Marketing Strategies for Niche B2B Industries

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Partner with industry publications to reach hundreds of decision-makers. Virtually any type of content is fair game with industry publications sharing: Webinars, like this webinar targeted directly at call-center managers looking to improve performance. Use Q&A content to funnel prospects to your products.

B2B

B2B Marketing SEO Search

Case Study: Using an LOI to get customer feedback on a minimum.

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2009

– Eric Ries In April of 2009 my partner and I had an idea for a web app, a B2C platform that we are selling as SaaS [software-as-a-service]. – Eric Ries In April of 2009 my partner and I had an idea for a web app, a B2C platform that we are selling as SaaS [software-as-a-service]. Expo SF (May.

San Francisco

San Francisco Customer Wiki Lean

Towards a new entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2010

Sure, when entrepreneurs create startups that grow up into mature companies, they become part of an established industry, with its own ecosystem, norms, partners and best practices. This is just like a startup to me, complete with distribution and product development challenges, ecosystem design and many, many customers.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC

CXL Live 2019 Recap: Takeaways from Every Speaker

ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2019

There are tons of metrics you can monitor: Conversion rate; Bounce rate ; Click-through rate ; Pageviews; Lead captures; Purchase conversion rate. Setting up your experiments for success: Define success metrics. Statistical ghost: When you think your test has impacted your metric, but in reality there’s no impact.

Artificial Inteligence

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Suffice to say that our partners, vendors, and most importantly regular mainstream customers all found the idea disturbing. Eric, I am not only a member of the IMVU community, but I am your business partner. I was especially moved by this: "I am not only a member of the IMVU community, but I am your business partner.

Community

Community Management Lean Software Review

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

8 Initiatives To Increase Your Business Growth Curve

Datablindness

Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences

Lessons Learned: A hierarchy of pitches

Techstars brings The Lean Startup to Boulder

The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development

Building a new startup hub

Austin: the Lean Startup tour continues

Happy new year

Learning is better than optimization (the local maximum problem)

Lessons Learned: When NOT to listen to your users; when NOT to.

Lessons Learned: Don't launch

How to Build Robust User Personas in Under a Month

How to Build Robust User Personas in Under a Month

Business ecology and the four customer currencies

Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

How to Create a Marketing Campaign that Stands Out

10 lessons from Syte on building an inside sales machine to survive the crisis [guest post]

5 Content Marketing Strategies for Niche B2B Industries

Case Study: Using an LOI to get customer feedback on a minimum.

Towards a new entrepreneurship

CXL Live 2019 Recap: Takeaways from Every Speaker

The cardinal sin of community management

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