Venture Chronicles

JUNE 29, 2010

I received an email from the PR contact for the company that mentioned the BP oil spill in the Gulf and the process of idea collection on the web they were undertaking. The four products that Accepts offers as part of their innovation suite are: Ideas: A classic ideation offering, non-employees can submit and vote on ideas.

Software 34

Software Portfolio Agile Retention 34

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

This is completely analogous to the situation elsewhere on the internet, where launching a new website, product, or service with PR is getting harder and harder. I think its helpful to think about two kinds of competition for distribution: acquisition competition and retention competition. My advice: dont launch big.

San Francisco 68

San Francisco Lean Retention SEM 68

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

In this way, it’s more indirect and can determine price elasticity as well as an accurate range of effective pricing for a product. simply include the feature as a retention mechanism (it’s ok for customers to be willing to pay more than prospects, because that means they’re loving the product, or. Image Source.

Product 48

Product Retention Revenue Acquisition 48

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

They need products that are really working in the market. This means users love it, that there’s lots of retention and engagement, even at small numbers. And it’s a combined product management and technical function, to boost an already positive growth curve into something even bigger.” Ads drive awareness…to drive sales.

Retention 48

Retention Metrics Acquisition Conversion 48

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Jennifer Brown: You don’t want to put out a PR campaign that gets pulled because you offended people. And when you have a workforce that doesn’t look like that world, you’re in at a lot of risk of falling behind and kind of losing that edge and you don’t want to make mistakes. Yeah, so there is a lot of change.

Hiring 39

Hiring Community Audience Bandwidth 39

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

I wrote about this challenge for iPhone developers, in an essay on retention competition : the battle over what icon the user will click when they go to the home screen. Our theory is that the key to long-term retention is creating an engagement loop where the reactivation rate exceeds the rate of fatigue. very cool post Eric!

Viral 140

Viral San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 140

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110