Kevin Hale, co-founder of Wufoo which is an online form builder that helps you create contact forms, online surveys, and simple payment forms talked about the products that users loved. First of all, the growth depends on two concepts or variables: conversion rate and churn. The best way to get to $1 billion is to focus on the values that help …
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Growth
Alex Schultz gives an overview of growth in the business. Everyone nowadays talks about growth, growth hacking or growth marketing. Retention is the most important thing for growth. You need to look for all of your users who have been on your product one day. What percentage of them are monthly active. Retention comes from …
Business Strategy and Monopoly Theory
Peter Thiel is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist, co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies and Founders Fund talked about strategy and competition. His business side is that if you’re starting a company, company you always want to aim for monopoly and you want to always avoid competition. To create a valuable company, you have to basically both create something of value …
Building Product, Talking to Users, and Growing
Adora Cheung is an American software developer. She is the co-founder and CEO of housecleaning business Homejoy. She talked about how to go from zero users to many users. When you start a startup you should have a lot of time on your hands to concentrate on the startup. You should have a lot of …
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Before The Startup
Startups are very counterintuitive and this is an area where you cannot trust your intuition all the time. The first thing that I want to mention startups are so weird that if you follow your instincts, they will lead you astray. But sometimes instincts about people can help to manage the interactions with people in …
Team And Execution
First of all, Co-founder relationships are the most important thing in the entire company. It is difficult to find the best Co- founder for startup. There are some combinations to choose a founder, you can choose someone from your school or University or someone whom you don’t really know or simply be a solo founder. …
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