Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

One of the problems they run into is building a web site. and Balsamiq and throwing together a web site. But for the rest of us mortals whose eyes glaze over at the buzzwords, the questions are, “How do I get my great idea on the web? What are the steps in building a web site?” Craft company hypotheses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Every time I challenge a business plan with little or no budget for marketing, I get the answer that they will be using “viral” marketing, which costs nothing. First of all, Seth Godin pointed out a long time ago that viral marketing does not equal word-of-mouth. Develop viral content. Seed viral activity.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. In it, I got asked a question I often hear: “What if we have a web-based business that doesn’t have revenue or paying customers?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

A blog is basically a journal (“web log”) that is published on the web. Search engine marketing (SEM). This popular form of Internet marketing seeks to increase website ranking in search engine results. Techniques include search engine optimization (SEO) and paid result placement. Viral marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2010

A blog is basically a journal (“web log”) that is published on the web. Search engine marketing (SEM). This popular form of Internet marketing seeks to increase website ranking in search engine results. Techniques include search engine optimization (SEO) and paid result placement. Viral marketing.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine. The opportunity to transact at the point of purchase increases the sheer number of revenue opportunities.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

AUGUST 5, 2011

In this post I will share with you some of my favorite resources on the web that I keep in my bookmark. As an online entrepreneur, I am constantly working on web projects. IconFinder.com : Icon Search Engine What? You can use Iconfinder.com to search for all kinds of icons. TextLinkAds.com : Web Ad Marketplace What?

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mashable.com

MAY 24, 2011

Sourcebits offers design and development services for iOS, Android, Mobile and Web platforms. Mobile commerce revenues may still pale in comparison to their ecommerce brothers, but we’re already seeing signs of mobile commerce’s potential. ); // Welcome to Mashable! Sign in with Facebook or Twitter to get started!

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Dell announced years ago that it had earned $3 million in revenue from using Twitter, and other businesses report daily on increases in web traffic up to 800%. Read everything you can about viral marketing. I suspect that a good part of the problem is that startup and small business owners still don’t know where or how to start.

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Social Media Small Business Media Technical Review 289

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Growth Hacking isn’t viral marketing (although viral marketing is part of it). and answers with A/B tests, landing pages, viral factor, email deliverability, and Open Graph. If a startup is pre-product/market fit, growth hackers can make sure virality is embedded at the core of a product. Rinse and repeat.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 14, 2022

Our major challenge was how do we compete with companies that have billion-dollar valuations, millions in investor funding, and millions in revenue? Our answer was simple– SEO (search engine optimization). Web traffic represents the number of visits or sessions spent on a given site. Our analysis included: Overall traffic.

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SEO Software Review Search Acquisition 104

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

For this article, we asked 14 SaaS CEOs a simple question: “How much did you spend on your MVP before you had your first dollar of revenue?”. The MVP took around four months to build, during which time the company earned no revenue. They then spent the first year qualifying the product and testing out their revenue model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Yet I am amazed to see from recent data that nearly 36 percent of small businesses today still have no web presence at all. I still remember my disappointment the first time I published my website, did an immediate Google search on the name, and it said my company didn’t exist. Viral marketing needs a website.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 21, 2024

My guest today is Tim Brown Hook Agency, a Google paid ads, SEO and web design firm that focuses primarily on roofing companies, HVAC, companies and home services businesses. So search engine result pages. Fuel your growth, boost revenue and save precious time by upgrading to active campaign today. This is John Jantsch.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. But its not really viral growth, even when its exponential.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

Between January 2015 and January 2016, we grew our platform Slidebean from $1K to $20K in monthly recurring revenue. Getting the first tracks of revenue is one of the toughest processes of building a startup. Customer Lifetime Value (LTV): The potential revenue that you’ll be receiving from a given user. in other countries).

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Every year I teach classrooms full of students who leave class understanding the basics of how to search for product/market fit—and thinking their next goal is to “get funded.”. You (think) you have product-market fit with real customers and real revenue and need money to grow and expand. That’s a mistake.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

They are from my post The Biggest Mistake Web Analysts Make… And How To Avoid It! There are Search people and Content people and Landing Page Optimizers and Cart fixers and Attribution Specialists and more. Every ecommerce site has to obsess about Revenue. With advertising revenue in a tailspin, it is more important than ever.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Can enterprise SaaS products be viral? A very detailed look at Google’s personalized search results – [link]. Google Ad Revenue Now More Than U.S.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

For this article, we asked 14 SaaS CEOs a simple question: “How much did you spend on your MVP before you had your first dollar of revenue?”. The MVP took around four months to build, during which time the company earned no revenue. They then spent the first year qualifying the product and testing out their revenue model.

Sweat Equity 50

Sweat Equity Software Review Vesting Cofounder 50

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Google’s dominance of the ad market has bolstered its primacy for acquisition metrics—integrations with Google Ads (search and display) are comprehensive and seamless. Mixpanel also tracks acquisition sources but, in its tracking and reporting, emphasizes what those users do, not the raw visibility of web pages. From user to human.

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Analytics Technical Review Acquisition Retention 119

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Should you be buying key words from search engines, building fabulous web content, blasting out e-mail campaigns, or putting all your efforts into viral videos or social media? Content that works should be relentlessly repurposed, from web site to social media, events, etc.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

The search giant’s VP of Corporate Development, along with CEO Larry Page, signs off on the dozens of acquisitions and acqui-hires made every year, large and small. Google bought web 2.0 In July 2007 Google acquired web security and archiving company Postini for $625 million. Google bought web 2.0 On2 Technologies.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

Measuring viral adoption is obviously important. If you have multiple versions of your product, how many are web vs. mobile? You can find out how to more cost effectively buy search terms (i.e. Revenue Metrics. Revenue metrics are one of the first things I ask for from the startups in which I invest.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 6, 2021

Come up with a list of things you’re passionate about and use a tool like Keywords Everywhere to see what shows up in the Google search results. Promoting your business is how you generate revenues and attract consumers to buy your products/services. Once you’ve named your brand, you’ll need to register it. Promote Your Business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2013

In fact, you need to have at least a prototype web site published several weeks before you expect anyone to find yours, since it takes that amount of time for the web search engine “spiders” to find you and index your content. There are many practical reasons for going to work early on your web site.

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Internet Viral Naming Web 247

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! As Pay-Per-Click Ad Costs Rise, Small Businesses Search for Alternatives - [link]. SaaS products aren’t viral – [link]. See the video above. Then Act - [link].

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 21, 2012

Online marketing generates billions of dollars in revenue, and even local mom-and-pop businesses feel the pressure to build a solid web presence or risk losing local customers who search online for goods and services. Simple phone videos can sometimes go viral when they hit a nerve with the public.

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Web Social Media Advertising Search 159

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

Yet I am amazed to see from a recent survey that nearly half of small businesses today still have no web presence at all. I still remember my disappointment the first time I published my website, did an immediate Google search on the name, and it said my company didn’t exist. Viral marketing needs a website.

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Viral Internet Web Naming 120

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). Social Networking in Web 1.0: It was mostly timing.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Business model viability, in the majority of startups, will come down to balancing two variables: Cost to Acquire Customers (CAC) The ability to monetize those customers, or LTV (which stands for Lifetime Value of a Customer) Successful web businesses have long understood these metrics as they have such an easy way to measure them.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started - OnStartups , September 27, 2010 "The best part of blogging is the people you will meet"- Hugh MacLeod repeating wisdom from Loic Lemeur to me at the Big Pink at 2 am in South Beach after the Future of Web Apps 2008. Another important web 2.0 Why You Should Write.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 11, 2016

Big brands are spending tens of thousands on videos that fall flat while a lucky few are going viral. According to Aberdeen , companies using video enjoy 41% more web traffic from search than non-video users. YouTube is a powerful search engine that works hand-in-hand with Google. Optimize Videos for Search Engines.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Topics are divided into IT, marketing, sales, finance, customer service, operations and human resources sections, which makes it easy to search for the latest discussions on your interest area. Simply fill out a profile about yourself and your goals, and then search the mentor profiles that match your needs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In a previous post , I covered the three main drivers of growth: Paid, Sticky, and Viral. Let’s look at a viral growth company, like Facebook. If you are building a large, viral, ad-support consumer internet property, you just want to go big! They’re off to cross the chasm. As soon as possible!&#

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www.clickz.com

JANUARY 7, 2013

Search Engine Watch. SEO Paid Search Search Marketing. To get your 2013 marketing plans on track to increase revenues, here are seven social media tactics based on solid research that you need now. Show your emotional side to increase virality. Milkman in an article entitled, "What Makes Online Content Viral?"

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

What is your viral coefficient? Include screenshots of your product , a video walk-through and one or two charts that display traction or revenue. Start by searching AngelList by market and geography. For example, search for investors who are interested in mobile and also are willing to invest in Austin, Texas.

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