Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

But, getting in the doors of a Sand Hill Road VC in Silicon Valley can be an incredibly difficult undertaking. The Andreesen Horowitz blog is the work of the famous VC firm’s partners and covers all things software in Silicon Valley and beyond. Follow Bill on Twitter @billgurley. Don’t miss out on their great podcast!

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

SAS Canada “customer champions” helped the firm restore declining customer retention rates—which had fallen as low as the mid-80s percent — back to the firm’s traditional high retention rates of 97-98 percent. Some of the most creative technology coming out of Silicon Valley is designed to do exactly that.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Jerry Jao is the founder and CEO of Retention Science. The widely accepted “dream job” of many engineers is to work for a Silicon Valley tech giant such as Google, Facebook or Twitter. So I wasn’t surprised when, last summer, our intern Vedant told us that he had received a full time job offer from Apple.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

Online Education’s Dirty Secret — Awful Retention – [link]. Why Silicon Valley needs critics like Morozov | San Francisco Chronicle – [link]. Online Education’s Dirty Secret — Awful Retention – [link]. Why I No Longer Advise Startups to Hire M.B.A.s | The Accelerators-WSJ – [link].

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 1, 2015

More often than not, equity compensation is an attraction and retention tool, rather than a replacement to salary. Noah Parsons, COO at Palo Alto Software says, “If you’re in Silicon Valley and/or building any kind of tech startup, it’s considered the norm to offer equity as part of a compensation package.”. “If

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2013

And that is the tension in the acquihire – what is the purchase price for the company, what is the “earn out” if the acquired company hits some performance targets and what is the amount of money set aside for staff retention? And will investors allow a deal to happen in the first place. We get the mechanics.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Companies like Google and some glamorous Silicon Valley startups have built an image of company culture that revolves around (often expensive) perks: on site lounges, brand-new devices, swag- it can feel discouraging to think that you have to spend so much or try so hard to keep employees. Flashy perks? Not necessarily.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Last year I was on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley meeting with one of the most prominent venture capital firms in the country. And this Silicon Valley bias isn’t limited to any single meeting – it has been a recurring theme in my time as a VC. Funding is different outside of Silicon Valley.

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Babbling VC

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

So it''s been a couple hours now that the news is out: Facebook purchased WhatsApp for €16B (plus €3B on top for employee retention). Once again, Silicon Valley proves that if you want the real money, you have to have cross-pollination at board level and amongst your VC''s to really drive up valuation. Well played Mark.

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Yet, the Growth Manager role remains poorly understood, especially outside Silicon Valley. The Growth Manager function typically lives at the intersection of marketing and product development, and is focused on customer and user acquisition, activation, retention, and upsell.

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Yet, the Growth Manager role remains poorly understood, especially outside Silicon Valley. The Growth Manager function typically lives at the intersection of marketing and product development, and is focused on customer and user acquisition, activation, retention, and upsell.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Employee Engagement and Retention: The tech industry is an exciting bastion of innovation and hyper-growth. James began his career as a technical recruiter in Silicon Valley and San Francisco. James Van is Director of Career Services and Professional Development at SoloLearn.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

They work to improve top-of-funnel metrics like brand awareness and identify opportunities to improve customer activation, retention, and referral efforts. Growth hacking is a term that emerged from the Silicon Valley tech community and the lean startup methodology. Growth marketers focus on the entire customer journey.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 16, 2018

Tech-No-Color: Advancing Women of Color in Tech : It’s no secret that Silicon Valley is a white boys’ club that needs to be cracked open. They also discussed how to re-envision the recruitment, retention and advancement of women of color in tech.

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The Next Web

JUNE 20, 2013

More specifically, Miller suggested that it was much easier to find vendors like a good auditor and bank to work with than it would have been in Silicon Valley with its greater saturation of startups. The company has managed 95 percent retention of clients. We were essentially funded by our clients…in an indirect way.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. They have the same trade-off decisions that you do about packing up and moving to Silicon Valley vs. staying and building locally. The ingredients are all here. The answer seems obvious (to move) but it’s not.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 29, 2011

They didn’t stop at just writing reports, and have put together a startup accelerator in Silicon Valley, called Blackbox. "Is a 5% increase in retention good? Do I have enough users to declare product/market fit? Is now the right time to step on the gas pedal and scale?"

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Compensation decisions obviously affect hiring and retention. That will keep the Silicon Valley wags buzzing for some time to come. And, if there’s a spouse or significant other involved, you better make sure that person also can tolerate this ride. Sooner or later everybody in a startup knows what everyone else is getting paid.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Most Silicon Valley tech entrepreneurs I know are more like Al Gore. It is 101 for anybody who understands memory and information retention. He has a message he wanted to get across and he did so in a folksy manner. Obviously press narratives of people are characterizations that seldom match reality. But here’s the thing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Most publishers are still caught up in an outdated “vision vs. metrics&# argument, which is already obsolete here in Silicon Valley. The world is generally not as tech-savvy as Silicon Valley and will continue to rely on traditional mechanisms for content distribution for the foreseeable future.

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Transformify

AUGUST 8, 2019

There, she works with teams across the business to enhance access to technical education, recruiting, retention and career mobility for underrepresented minorities. Aubrey, Atlassian has developed a remarkable strategy around talent acquisition, employer branding, onboarding and retention. What does diversity hiring mean to you?

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Guy Nirpaz

AUGUST 14, 2015

I’ve presented this presentation last week at the Silicon Valley Customer Success meetup , my goals was to make it dead-simple. Customer Success is really picking up momentum these days, and with momentum comes a lot of news that adds to a lot of confusion for people who are just starting to learn about what customer success is.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Not unless you’re Elon Musk and Governor Abbott has a smile as wide as the Texas Panhandle or you’re Joe Rogan and every tech bro in Austin is so pumped to point to your move (and Tim Ferriss’ move) here as some kind of stamp of approval that they never needed Silicon Valley.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 20, 2017

Dan Lyons — Disrupted: Ending Bro Culture and Bias in Startup-Land Writer for HBO’s Silicon Valley and author of Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble As Dan Lyons introduced his session last Friday, he verbalized every hunch I had about Luxury Retreats. Sounds cushy, doesn’t it? Dogs running around. A weekly push up club.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 7, 2020

It’s when you have paying customers and can show both customer growth and customer retention. . I took the stage at the Gore Silicon Valley Innovation Center in Santa Clara. Product-market fit is when your customers gain so much value from your solution that they’d be very disappointed if they didn’t have it anymore.

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www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Second, if people really followed these “rules&# no one would work at a start-up and Silicon Valley would spiral into nothing. I’d add that you should dig a bit into inbound marketing and “nepotistic retention&#. Questions 1,2,3 & 6 as deal breakers?

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Also, if the weather gets really bad, they offer a full refund voucher good for your next trip - all about customer retention. ProfessorVC. Thursday, November 13, 2008. Just returned from a golf trip to Bandon Dunes , Oregon.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 3, 2018

I additionally want to expand Cinqe into Silicon Valley and welcome new clients within and surrounding that area. We’ve found that when we do this, the sales come naturally and client retention is higher. I listen to podcasts all the time and would love to venture into doing a series myself. 12- Expansion.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 9, 2016

They’re not always flashy or “disruptive” in the Silicon Valley sense of the word, but these techniques are tried and true ways to stay connected with the clients you want to retain — whether you’re Business to Business, Business to Consumer, or somewhere in between. Your customer retention metrics will thank you.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Yes, that’s 25% of Zynga revenues for 2011 — which, as huge as that sounds, indeed is what I hear through the grapevine Zynga spends on player acquisition/retention. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Ergo, Zynga spends more like $250 million on Facebook ads. link] leehower. Read More ».

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

Some organizations also consider it a goal for recruiters to work individually with new hires to improve retention. He is a frequent speaker and advisor to Fortune 500 and Silicon Valley firms. Browse Articles by Tag. advertising. assessments. coldcalling. corporatecareerswebsite. corporaterecruiting. economicdata. financials.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

The term “Growth Hacking”, invented by Sean Ellis , and made popular by Andrew Chen , a Silicon valley marketer and entrepreneur, is a combination of two disciplines – marketing and coding: Growth hackers are a hybrid of marketer and coder, one who looks at the traditional question of “How do I get customers for my product?”

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Product-market fit, as defined by Stanford’s Steve Blank, occurs when a product’s features are a strong fit with its market’s needs, as measured by a combination of usage, retention, and sales. In other words, your success is contingent upon society functioning properly.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Game mechanics have become a popular way of increasing user engagement and pushing user adoption, referral and retention, and many startups have sought ways to incorporate game mechanics into their sites. Why You Should Write. Status / reputation.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

Brian : I know it’s like an old Silicon Valley message, talk to your customers, but honestly this is one of those times where you need to be talking to at least a couple customers a couple times a day. How can founders be proactive rather than reactive?

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 22, 2016

As a result, it’s employee retention should be a priority for your company if it is going to keep its skill base and be competitive on the global stage. Take a look at these ideas for improving employee retention. Retention Strategy #1: Keep Tabs On Your Managers. Retention Strategy #2: Provide Interesting Perks.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

A Silicon Valley-based company that provides remote desktop access services to businesses, Splashtop was finding it difficult to engage prospects with its existing chat solution. It is mostly implemented as part of a CRM retention system whose focus is to engage the customer for the long-term.

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