Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2020

Every startup dreams of achieving that milestone, when they can focus more on scaling the business and enjoying their earnings, rather than fighting for another investment infusion. Startup productivity is embodied in key ratios, including low cost of customer acquisition, high retention, and high revenue per employee.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 4, 2019

By understanding employee engagement , you can enhance productivity, improve retention in demanding fields and deliver higher quality products and services. It’s on the rise at forward-thinking businesses and startups because it leverages something deep within the human psyche.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. I break the answer to that question down into three engines: Viral - this is the business model identified in the presentation as "Get Users."

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

It’s a very important concept for me because in a startup you are constantly under pressure and have way too many distractions. Commitment & urgency are key drivers of success in startup businesses. I was recently talking with a startup company who wanted me to try their product. Retention / Churn. On measurement.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2021

An all-too-common question I get from startups and small businesses is “Which is the right social media platform for my business?” It highlights the story of how United Airlines paid no attention to social media while Dave’s story of his crushed guitar and poor customer service went viral around the world. Maximize customer retention.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 7, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Small Business and Startups: Tips for Reducing Refunds - crowdspring.co/1eLxfzG. Small Business and Startups: Tips for Reducing Refunds - crowdspring.co/1eLxfzG. crowdspring.co/1l7OfAL.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2017

When Does Paid Acquisition Work for SaaS Startups? There are many who aren’t doing it well , but to me it seems this is a natural extension of any other acquisition channel, and a super important lever for retention and relationship building. Virality and Referral. billion searches per day and 1.2 Unbounce blog.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2013

These are regular updates, usually monthly, via website and email that help with customer retention, and remind your customers that you are the expert in your industry. Keep the atmosphere relaxed and fun, to increase traffic, and maybe even go viral. Arnie Kuenn business content marketing entrepreneur startup' Marty Zwilling.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Startup strategy is like Kung Fu. All startups are screwed up. HT Mike Maples Jr ) Corollary: A startup has to be so excellent at one or two key things, that they can screw up everything else up and not die. Fermi estimation is a good way to figure out whether a startup or product could even theoretically be viable.

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David Teten

MAY 1, 2013

This is part 1 of a 2-part series on domain names and startups; part 2 will be “ Build Your Startup on a Vacant Domain Name ”. A startup called Corpora made headlines for all the wrong reasons after tech bloggers ran an image search to find the company logo. credit: Wikipedia)). Facebook paid $8.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2013

An all-too-common question I get from startups and small businesses is “Which is the right social media platform for my business?” It highlights the story of how United Airlines in 2008 paid no attention to social media as Dave’s story of his crushed guitar and poor customer service went viral around the world. You need to be there.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2016

Every startup dreams of achieving that milestone, when they can focus more on scaling the business and enjoying their earnings, rather than fighting for another investment infusion. Startup productivity is embodied in key ratios, including low cost of customer acquisition, high retention, and high revenue per employee.

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Revenue Valuation Startup Viral 145

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 8, 2009

A post by Fred Wilson pointed me to Dave McClure's Startup Metrics presentation. This is a great presentation and one that I'm going to point out to startup / early stage company CEOs. Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp, Sept 2009) View more documents from Dave McClure. R : Revenue - can you monetize any of this behavior?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2019

An all-too-common question I get from startups and small businesses is “Which is the right social media platform for my business?” It highlights the story of how United Airlines paid no attention to social media while Dave’s story of his crushed guitar and poor customer service went viral around the world. Maximize customer retention.

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Social Media Media Reputation Viral 246

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Top-line metrics are indicators of success, not the one bar to clear to raise funding for your startup. The main B2C benchmarks have to do with traction: growth in user acquisition, user retention/churn, monetisation, as well as the effectiveness of consumer marketing + virality. Benchmarks for deep tech startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2011

These are regular updates, usually monthly, via website and email that help with customer retention, and again remind your customers that you are the expert in your industry. Keep the atmosphere relaxed and fun, to increase traffic, and maybe even go viral. It’s just another way to demonstrate credibility and attract traffic.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2014

Every startup dreams of achieving that milestone, when they can focus more on scaling the business and enjoying their earnings rather than fighting for another investment infusion. Startup productivity is embodied in key ratios, including low cost of customer acquisition, high retention and high revenue per employee.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2013

As I visit the websites of many startups, as well as more mature businesses, I still too often see a “contact” page offering nothing but a sterile form for customers to submit, never to be heard from again. Every startup these days must adopt this focus to survive and prosper. Respond online and let the positive vibes go viral instead.

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Social Media Media Customer Viral 249

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2012

As I visit the websites of many startups, as well as more mature businesses, I still too often see a “contact” page offering nothing but a sterile form for customers to submit, never to be heard from again. Every startup these days must adopt this focus to survive and prosper. Respond online and let the positive vibes go viral instead.

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Social Media Media Customer Viral 228

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 23, 2013

I wish the modern startup community would understand the mindset that gets a company to this point, and resist it. Even with a great retention rate (e.g. time to earn back the revenue to cover all your customer acquisition expenses) 75% annual retention. Use viral growth to offset cancellations. ” It’s worse.

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VC Cafe

JULY 15, 2021

billion users for Facebook and Instagram app startups cannot afford NOT to be discovered on social media. The reality for startups is that it’s not enough to build, design and ship a great looking app – marketing and distribution are critical to success. Several startups, like Copy.ai Slack or Discord).

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. You will use your fridge for a decade or more so the retention here is high. 2) B2B startups have high margins. don’t think about at all. Marketing first.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. You will use your fridge for a decade or more so the retention here is high. 2) B2B startups have high margins. don’t think about at all. Marketing first.

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Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

An all-too-common question I get from startups and small businesses is “Which is the right social media platform for my business?” It highlights the story of how United Airlines paid no attention to social media while Dave’s story of his crushed guitar and poor customer service went viral around the world. Maximize customer retention.

Social Media 120

Social Media Media Entrepreneur Reputation 120

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2012

These are regular updates, usually monthly, via website and email that help with customer retention, and remind your customers that you are the expert in your industry. Keep the atmosphere relaxed and fun, to increase traffic, and maybe even go viral. It’s just another way to demonstrate credibility and attract traffic.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

When we invested in Snapchat a year ago it had a few hundred thousand installs, but incredible retention and frequency of usage. No wonder they won the Crunchie for Fastest Rising Startup of 2012. Here’s the secret sauce to Snapchat’s viral growth: its group messaging functionality. In effect, mass snaps feel personalized.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2016

For those of us that have been working in the startup and technology space for at least the past 10 years, these addresses mean two things. Despite that data, we don’t compete in one of the largest opportunities (in terms of sheer number of people using the product) that the startup and technology world has to offer. 1 Hacker Way.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2012

An all-too-common question I get from startups and small businesses is “Which is the right social media platform for my business?” It highlights the story of how United Airlines in 2008 paid no attention to social media as Dave’s story of his crushed guitar and poor customer service went viral around the world. You need to be there.

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Social Media Media Marketing Reputation 198

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2015

These are regular updates, usually monthly, via website and email that help with customer retention, and remind your customers that you are the expert in your industry. Keep the atmosphere relaxed and fun, to increase traffic, and maybe even go viral. It’s just another way to demonstrate credibility and attract traffic.

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Hippoland

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Companies in this category include companies like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Snapchat, etc… These are all companies that need a TON of users, great retention and engagement and continued-fast-growth of user adoption in order to later make money off ad revenue. Do you have virality built into the product?

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Skip to content Follow: RSS Email Twitter Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli On building profitable web applications Home Contact me Creations Blog Books Entrepreneurship & Startups General Online experiments Programming tips and tricks Startup tips and tricks Tags facebook Is it still possible to be a successful developer on Facebook?

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Skip to content Follow: RSS Email Twitter Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli On building profitable web applications Home Contact me Creations Blog Books Entrepreneurship & Startups General Online experiments Programming tips and tricks Startup tips and tricks Tags facebook Is it still possible to be a successful developer on Facebook?

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Developer Ruby Australia Chile 28

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Skip to content Follow: RSS Email Twitter Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli On building profitable web applications Home Contact me Creations Blog Books Entrepreneurship & Startups General Online experiments Programming tips and tricks Startup tips and tricks Tags facebook Is it still possible to be a successful developer on Facebook?

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Paul Graham’s Startup Curve – avoid the “through of sorrow”! Growth Hacking isn’t viral marketing (although viral marketing is part of it). Growth Hacking isn’t viral marketing (although viral marketing is part of it). First Steps in Growth Hacking for Startups.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2021

Having just retired from a career as an entrepreneur I had started thinking about why startups were different from large companies. Over the last two decades Shawn has seen hundreds of startups use the Lean Methodology. Many startups fall into the trap of building toward a “mission” rather than a minimum viable product (MVP).

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