Growth Hacking / Marketing 101: It's about process
Growth hacking is a marketing technique used by startups that focuses on low-cost and innovative alternatives to traditional marketing. It involves using creativity, analytics, and social metrics to sell products and gain exposure through techniques like SEO, website analytics, content marketing, and A/B testing. Growth hackers prioritize growth over budgets by analyzing the customer acquisition funnel to identify opportunities to improve conversion rates at each stage - acquisition, activation, retention, revenue, and referrals. The goal is to brainstorm experiments, prioritize ideas, develop hypotheses, test changes, and systematize optimized processes into a repeatable "growth machine" approach focused on continuous improvement.
Andy Young discusses growth hacking strategies for startups. He defines growth hacking as experiment-driven marketing to achieve measurable, repeatable and scalable growth. Some key growth hacking tactics include SEO, content marketing, performance marketing, conversion optimization, viral loops and strategic pricing. He emphasizes the importance of testing ideas with customers pre-launch, focusing on key metrics, prioritizing high-impact areas of the customer funnel like top-of-funnel acquisition and bottom-of-funnel conversion and retention, and continually experimenting to optimize growth.
Outbound prospecting for highly targeted lead flow
This presentation described how and when outbound prospecting (Cold Calling 2.0) can work to provide a predictable flow of leads from highly targeted prospects.
The document discusses building a growth model to understand and drive business growth. It defines growth as typically growing the active customer/user base or what drives business value. A growth model identifies key metrics like number of sales or subscribers, adds additional context metrics, and models the drivers and growth loops that impact the key metric. This includes paid, viral, sticky, and content-based growth engines. The document provides examples and emphasizes reviewing the model weekly to prioritize growth efforts.
A primer to growth hacking. Starts with the story of one of the web's most legendary growth hacks, then gets into what growth hacking is and how you can put it to work for your company. Originally presented at Growth Hacking Asia Singapore in Nov 2014
The document provides 29 tips for growth hacking and quick wins that companies should be testing, but often aren't. Some of the key tips include measuring customer happiness with Net Promoter Score, creating more targeted landing pages, using paid ads to test headlines and images, removing distracting links from landing pages, and testing different calls to action copy. It encourages testing unconventional approaches to improve conversions and growth.
The document discusses startup metrics and provides a model called AARRR for measuring key metrics. It describes the AARRR model as having 5 steps - Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, and Revenue. It emphasizes the importance of measuring metrics to optimize conversions at each step and determining which marketing channels and features deliver the highest conversions at the lowest cost.
This is a 5-step model for creating a metrics framework for your business & customers, and how to apply it to your product & marketing efforts. The "pirate" part comes from the 5 steps: Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, & Revenue (AARRR!)
The document provides tips and strategies for optimizing the user funnel, from acquiring first users to optimizing retention. It emphasizes testing optimizations through small experiments and using data to identify bottlenecks. Key recommendations include focusing first on learning rather than the funnel, using blogs and social media to acquire early users, and segmenting users to improve activation, onboarding and retention.
GrowthHackers holds weekly AMA (Ask Me Anything) sessions with Growth experts from around the world. Andrew Chen a writer, entrepreneur and investor focused on mobile products, metrics and user growth. He has been an advisor to companies like Angelist, Product Hunt and Dropbox.
Find more great growth resources on GrowthHackers.com. Join the community and have your own questions answered by professionals like Andrew today.
Growthhackers.com/AMA
The Playbook to Running Growth Experiments at Scale with Ex Machina Founder G...
1. The document discusses strategies for building and operating effective growth marketing teams, including building engineering-heavy teams, separating traditional marketing, and implementing an experimentation framework.
2. It notes that growth teams take more risks than product teams and emphasize a high pace of experimentation over individual successes or failures.
3. Metrics like click-through rates become less useful over time, so the document advocates keeping revenue forecasting as the single key metric to evaluate growth team priorities, impact, and resource allocation.
How businesses in Brazil are using WhatsApp in creative ways and how this translates to the rest of the world.
Read more about it here: https://medium.com/@fernandasaboia/in-digital-marketing-whatsapp-is-fueling-a-global-trend-45a734835148
This was presented at SxSW 2016.
Slides to the growth hacking workshop I recently gave for AAU students in Prague. We covered the Lean Canvas, getting to product-market fit, Wow! moment, growth marketing, and the analytics you should be focused on.
Marketing to Developers: Why Happy is Our Hack with DigitalOcean's CMO
Carly Brantz, CMO of DigitalOcean, discusses how to cultivate happiness when marketing to developers. She outlines four key principles: 1) provide value to your community through tutorials, Q&As, and community support, 2) prioritize simplicity in the customer journey, 3) stay agile and meet customers' needs as their needs change, and 4) center growth around helping customers build successful products and businesses. The goal is to make developers happy at each stage from awareness to conversion to long-term success.
[500DISTRO] The Scientific Method: How to Design & Track Viral Growth Experim...
The document discusses building a growth process for a company. It advocates focusing first on establishing a repeatable process for experimentation and growth, rather than individual tactics. The process involves setting goals, brainstorming growth ideas, prioritizing experiments, testing hypotheses through minimum viable tests, implementing experiments, analyzing results, and systematizing successful experiments. Establishing this type of process allows a company to continuously run experiments, learn, and scale growth over time through an organized and data-driven approach.
The document provides an overview of startup metrics using the AARRR framework. It discusses how to measure key metrics around user acquisition, activation, retention, referral, and revenue. For each stage, it outlines example metrics to track, tools to use, and tips for improving performance. The goal is to help startups understand their customer lifecycle and focus on metrics that provide actionable insights to optimize their business model.
This document discusses metrics for product marketing and management. It introduces the AARRR framework for understanding the customer lifecycle, which stands for Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, and Revenue. Each step of the lifecycle is defined. The document also provides examples of conversion metrics and percentages at different stages, and discusses qualitative and quantitative measurement approaches. It emphasizes testing marketing channels and features to improve conversion rates.
Metrics-oriented approach on how to design [internet] marketing strategy, how to select customer acquisition channels. Plus a little bit on product strategy too.
This document discusses metrics-driven marketing strategies and focuses on three key factors for marketing channels: volume, cost, and conversion. It emphasizes measuring conversion as deep down the conversion funnel as possible and estimating customer lifecycle, conversion, and revenue potential when designing marketing plans. Three scenarios are presented as examples to brainstorm marketing channel strategies based on factors like target customers, customer lifetime value, company funding, and marketing budgets.
You're Too Focused on Product/Market Fit - Brian Balfour at SaaSFest 2016Price Intelligently
Over the past ten years, software gurus have been preaching the notion that you need to find product/market fit. Balfour presents an extremely cogent argument that because of the speed of technology now, this advice is no longer valid. In reality, you need to find market, product, channel, model fit (in that order). Balfour lays out his argument in this presentation at Price Intelligently's SaaSFest 2016 by cataloging his experience over his career and view of the market.
12 Steps to Effective Growth Hacking (www.wepullthetrigger.com)Trigger
Do you consider growth hacking to be a fluffy concept and practice? Are you unsure how to crack the code on how to get started? Good news ahead. We have broken down the process in 12 effective steps that will help you kick off your growth (hacking) efforts. Let's get started!
Startup Metrics For Scottish Pirates (AARRR!) v1.3Dave McClure
The document discusses business metrics and models for startups, focusing on the AARRR framework of Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, and Revenue. It provides examples of metrics for each stage of the customer lifecycle and conversion funnel. Key recommendations include focusing on the critical few actionable metrics that drive decisions, optimizing for conversion improvement, and testing assumptions through A/B testing.
Growth Hacking / Marketing 101: It's about processRuben Hamilius
Growth hacking is a marketing technique used by startups that focuses on low-cost and innovative alternatives to traditional marketing. It involves using creativity, analytics, and social metrics to sell products and gain exposure through techniques like SEO, website analytics, content marketing, and A/B testing. Growth hackers prioritize growth over budgets by analyzing the customer acquisition funnel to identify opportunities to improve conversion rates at each stage - acquisition, activation, retention, revenue, and referrals. The goal is to brainstorm experiments, prioritize ideas, develop hypotheses, test changes, and systematize optimized processes into a repeatable "growth machine" approach focused on continuous improvement.
Andy Young discusses growth hacking strategies for startups. He defines growth hacking as experiment-driven marketing to achieve measurable, repeatable and scalable growth. Some key growth hacking tactics include SEO, content marketing, performance marketing, conversion optimization, viral loops and strategic pricing. He emphasizes the importance of testing ideas with customers pre-launch, focusing on key metrics, prioritizing high-impact areas of the customer funnel like top-of-funnel acquisition and bottom-of-funnel conversion and retention, and continually experimenting to optimize growth.
Outbound prospecting for highly targeted lead flowDavid Skok
This presentation described how and when outbound prospecting (Cold Calling 2.0) can work to provide a predictable flow of leads from highly targeted prospects.
Building a Growth Model to Drive Your StartupAndy Young
The document discusses building a growth model to understand and drive business growth. It defines growth as typically growing the active customer/user base or what drives business value. A growth model identifies key metrics like number of sales or subscribers, adds additional context metrics, and models the drivers and growth loops that impact the key metric. This includes paid, viral, sticky, and content-based growth engines. The document provides examples and emphasizes reviewing the model weekly to prioritize growth efforts.
A primer to growth hacking. Starts with the story of one of the web's most legendary growth hacks, then gets into what growth hacking is and how you can put it to work for your company. Originally presented at Growth Hacking Asia Singapore in Nov 2014
The document provides 29 tips for growth hacking and quick wins that companies should be testing, but often aren't. Some of the key tips include measuring customer happiness with Net Promoter Score, creating more targeted landing pages, using paid ads to test headlines and images, removing distracting links from landing pages, and testing different calls to action copy. It encourages testing unconventional approaches to improve conversions and growth.
Startup Metrics 4 Pirates (Brazil, April 2011)Dave McClure
The document discusses startup metrics and provides a model called AARRR for measuring key metrics. It describes the AARRR model as having 5 steps - Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, and Revenue. It emphasizes the importance of measuring metrics to optimize conversions at each step and determining which marketing channels and features deliver the highest conversions at the lowest cost.
This is a 5-step model for creating a metrics framework for your business & customers, and how to apply it to your product & marketing efforts. The "pirate" part comes from the 5 steps: Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, & Revenue (AARRR!)
The document provides tips and strategies for optimizing the user funnel, from acquiring first users to optimizing retention. It emphasizes testing optimizations through small experiments and using data to identify bottlenecks. Key recommendations include focusing first on learning rather than the funnel, using blogs and social media to acquire early users, and segmenting users to improve activation, onboarding and retention.
#GrowthDeck - Andrew Chen AMA by GrowthHackersGrowthHackers
GrowthHackers holds weekly AMA (Ask Me Anything) sessions with Growth experts from around the world. Andrew Chen a writer, entrepreneur and investor focused on mobile products, metrics and user growth. He has been an advisor to companies like Angelist, Product Hunt and Dropbox.
Find more great growth resources on GrowthHackers.com. Join the community and have your own questions answered by professionals like Andrew today.
Growthhackers.com/AMA
The Playbook to Running Growth Experiments at Scale with Ex Machina Founder G...saastr
1. The document discusses strategies for building and operating effective growth marketing teams, including building engineering-heavy teams, separating traditional marketing, and implementing an experimentation framework.
2. It notes that growth teams take more risks than product teams and emphasize a high pace of experimentation over individual successes or failures.
3. Metrics like click-through rates become less useful over time, so the document advocates keeping revenue forecasting as the single key metric to evaluate growth team priorities, impact, and resource allocation.
How businesses in Brazil are using WhatsApp in creative ways and how this translates to the rest of the world.
Read more about it here: https://medium.com/@fernandasaboia/in-digital-marketing-whatsapp-is-fueling-a-global-trend-45a734835148
This was presented at SxSW 2016.
Slides to the growth hacking workshop I recently gave for AAU students in Prague. We covered the Lean Canvas, getting to product-market fit, Wow! moment, growth marketing, and the analytics you should be focused on.
Marketing to Developers: Why Happy is Our Hack with DigitalOcean's CMOsaastr
Carly Brantz, CMO of DigitalOcean, discusses how to cultivate happiness when marketing to developers. She outlines four key principles: 1) provide value to your community through tutorials, Q&As, and community support, 2) prioritize simplicity in the customer journey, 3) stay agile and meet customers' needs as their needs change, and 4) center growth around helping customers build successful products and businesses. The goal is to make developers happy at each stage from awareness to conversion to long-term success.
[500DISTRO] The Scientific Method: How to Design & Track Viral Growth Experim...500 Startups
The document discusses building a growth process for a company. It advocates focusing first on establishing a repeatable process for experimentation and growth, rather than individual tactics. The process involves setting goals, brainstorming growth ideas, prioritizing experiments, testing hypotheses through minimum viable tests, implementing experiments, analyzing results, and systematizing successful experiments. Establishing this type of process allows a company to continuously run experiments, learn, and scale growth over time through an organized and data-driven approach.
The document provides an overview of startup metrics using the AARRR framework. It discusses how to measure key metrics around user acquisition, activation, retention, referral, and revenue. For each stage, it outlines example metrics to track, tools to use, and tips for improving performance. The goal is to help startups understand their customer lifecycle and focus on metrics that provide actionable insights to optimize their business model.
This document discusses metrics for product marketing and management. It introduces the AARRR framework for understanding the customer lifecycle, which stands for Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, and Revenue. Each step of the lifecycle is defined. The document also provides examples of conversion metrics and percentages at different stages, and discusses qualitative and quantitative measurement approaches. It emphasizes testing marketing channels and features to improve conversion rates.
Metrics-oriented approach on how to design [internet] marketing strategy, how to select customer acquisition channels. Plus a little bit on product strategy too.
This document discusses metrics-driven marketing strategies and focuses on three key factors for marketing channels: volume, cost, and conversion. It emphasizes measuring conversion as deep down the conversion funnel as possible and estimating customer lifecycle, conversion, and revenue potential when designing marketing plans. Three scenarios are presented as examples to brainstorm marketing channel strategies based on factors like target customers, customer lifetime value, company funding, and marketing budgets.
Startup Metrics for Pirates (Nov 2010)Dave McClure
The document summarizes key metrics and strategies for startups presented by Dave McClure at the 5th Annual Arizona Entrepreneurship Conference. It outlines an AARRR framework for startup metrics including Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, and Revenue. It emphasizes the importance of optimizing for user happiness and business objectives by prioritizing the right metrics and iterating based on data.
The document discusses startup metrics and provides a model called AARRR for measuring the success of a startup. The AARRR model focuses on Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, and Revenue. It describes each step of the model and provides examples of metrics and goals for activation and retention, which involve getting users to engage with the product and come back to the site. The document also discusses approaches for testing features and marketing channels to improve conversions at each step of the AARRR model.
Startup Metrics for Pirates (Startonomics Hawaii Nov 2009)Dave McClure
The document discusses startup metrics and provides a 5-step model called AARRR for measuring key metrics. The model focuses on Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, and Revenue. It emphasizes measuring user behavior, testing features and marketing channels, optimizing for conversions, and iterating quickly based on data. The overall message is that startups should focus on measuring the right metrics and using data to continuously improve the product, user experience and business model.
Startup Metrics 4 Pirates (DogPatch Labs, Boston, March 2010)Dave McClure
The document provides an overview of startup metrics and models presented by Dave McClure at Dogpatch Labs Boston in March 2010. It discusses the AARRR pirate metrics model for measuring acquisition, activation, retention, referral, and revenue. It emphasizes the importance of defining key metrics and conversion funnels, testing marketing channels, and optimizing products and marketing using fast iteration and A/B testing to improve conversions.
Startup Metrics for Pirates (Sept 2010, Vancouver)Dave McClure
The document provides an overview of startup metrics for evaluating different stages of a startup business. It introduces the AARRR framework which measures Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, and Revenue. For each stage, example goals and key metrics are outlined. Tools and resources for testing and optimizing user activation on the first visit and retention to encourage repeat visits are also listed. The document emphasizes measuring user behavior, testing different approaches, and iterating based on data.
Startup Metrics 4 Pirates (Montreal, May 2010)Dave McClure
The document provides an overview of startup metrics for measuring user acquisition, activation, retention, referral, and revenue (AARRR). It discusses focusing metrics on key conversion events and prioritizing the top 3-5 metrics. Various marketing channels are outlined for driving acquisition cost-effectively. Retention strategies include automated emails, system events, and engaging content. An ideal startup moves users through the stages of the AARRR model to maximize long-term value.
Startup Metrics for Pirates (Twiistup, Jan 2010)Dave McClure
slides from my talk at Twiistup (LA, Jan 2010). note these slides are almost exactly the same as my previous talk earlier this week in San Francisco... so yes, i'm stealing my own shit.
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Startup Metrics for Pirates (Chicago, Aug 2010)Dave McClure
The document provides an overview of startup metrics for evaluating different stages of a startup. It discusses the AARRR framework which focuses on Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, and Revenue. For each stage, it recommends key metrics to track, tools to use, and tips for optimization, such as testing different landing pages and marketing channels to improve conversion rates at each stage of the customer lifecycle.
Explains the key drivers for a Freemium software offering with measured examples of companies that have accomplished it. Such as Dropbox, EverNote, Freshbooks, and others.
How to be a Web 2.0 Metrics Jedi (Web 2.0 Expo, April 2009)Dan Olsen
How to use metrics to optimize your product, marketing, and business by Dave McClure, Dan Olsen, and Ted Rheingold at O'Reilly San Francisco Web 2.0 Expo, April 2009.
Startup Metrics for Pirates (SF, Jan 2010)Dave McClure
The document discusses metrics for startups, focusing on the AARRR framework of Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, and Revenue. It provides examples and recommendations for measuring key metrics at each stage, including number of visitors, time on site, page views, and conversions. The document emphasizes testing marketing channels and optimizing for user experience and conversion rates through iteration and A/B testing.
Slides from my Startup Metrics for Pirates talk at Seattle Startup Collective (July 2010). Same old shit, just a few new tweaks. Nice pretty colors though... ugh.
How to VC: Creating a VC fund portfolio modelDave McClure
This article aims to help VCs figure out how to size a venture capital fund, how many companies to include in your portfolio, and when and how to do follow-on investments. Most VCs aim to make a 3X (net) return on initial fund capital, at a ~20% net IRR. Note however, likely less than 10% of most VC funds achieve that goal.
Basic concepts of marketing and branding for venture capital. Emphasis on competitive differentiation (aka "How are you different/better than other VCs in your category?"). Specific focus on defining areas of "value add" that aren't BS.
How to define and position your VC brand to attract funding and dealflow.
* note: more recent updated version below:
https://www.slideshare.net/dmc500hats/branding-strategies-for-better-dealflow-and-fundraising-aka-the-helpful-vc
Tech and Venture Capital in the Time of Corona Dave McClure
Isomer Capital is a private investment firm based in London that focuses exclusively on venture capital investments in European companies. It makes primary investments in VC funds as well as direct co-investments in companies. It has notable portfolio unicorns, investments in over 30 funds across 6 countries, and underlying portfolio companies. Venture capital has delivered strong returns over the past 25 years, outperforming other major asset classes like stocks and bonds. The European VC market has also outperformed the US market over the past 20 years based on Cambridge Associates indices.
This document provides advice on how venture capital firms can position themselves competitively through branding, marketing, and clearly communicating their value proposition. It emphasizes defining an investment thesis focused on specific industries, stages of funding, and deal sizes. It also stresses developing a unique value-add service that portfolio companies need and marketing activities to generate dealflow. Finally, it discusses fundraising by targeting the right limited partner profiles and addressing their needs and motivations for alternative investments.
Bringing Silicon Valley to LatAm: Startup Ecosystems & InvestmentDave McClure
Dave McClure is a founding partner at 500 Startups, a $350 million venture capital fund and startup platform. He discussed 500 Startups' strategy of making many small investments in early-stage startups, with the goal of a few large exits. He explained how 500 Startups supports startups through different investment stages as they progress from validating their product to achieving revenue and growth. McClure also talked about opportunities for building startup ecosystems in Latin America and Miami, noting the need for more venture capital funds and critical factors like mentorship, capital, and a path to exits.
Dave McClure is the founding partner and chief troublemaker of 500 Startups, a global seed fund and startup platform. The document provides biographical details about McClure's background and career, which spans from being an entrepreneur and developer in the 1980s and 1990s to becoming an investor and venture capitalist through funds like Founders Fund and 500 Startups. It also summarizes 500 Startups' strategy of making many small, early-stage investments in startups across different countries and industries in hopes that some will achieve significant growth and success.
Take a Walk on the Dark Side: Branding for Startups & Sith LordsDave McClure
This document provides advice on branding for startups and emphasizes embracing negative emotions and controversial positioning to stand out. It recommends focusing a brand on a single element, being different than competitors by taking risks early, and not worrying about offending some people. Further, it suggests tapping into human emotions like fear, sex, power and anger; being a hero or villain rather than boring; using pictures over words; and always staying authentic while bringing out your most passionate self.
Dave McClure, a founding partner at 500 Startups, gave a presentation on technology trends in 2017. He discussed how startups have become cheaper, faster, and better. He also talked about how VCs are making lots of small bets through many new, small funds. McClure highlighted several investment areas including fintech, AI, AR/VR, blockchain, and other new technologies. He emphasized 500 Startups' strategy of making many small investments to find the next big winners.
Farming Unicorns: Building Startup & Investor Ecosystems for Emerging MarketsDave McClure
The poem describes the Statue of Liberty and the values she represents. The statue stands welcoming at the "sea-washed, sunset gates" of America, holding a torch to guide immigrants. Her name is "Mother of Exiles" and she offers a "world-wide welcome" to "the tired, the poor, [and] the huddled masses yearning to breathe free." She invites "the homeless, tempest-tost" people of the world to come to her, lifting her lamp "beside the golden door" of opportunity in America.
Farming Unicorns in Emerging Markets (Dubai, Oct 2016) #GitexDave McClure
Dave McClure is a founding partner at 500 Startups, a global seed fund and startup accelerator. 500 Startups has invested in over 1700 companies across 60+ countries. McClure discussed building startup ecosystems in emerging markets like MENA. He said the critical factors include optimism, mentorship, universities/talent, capital/infrastructure, product skills, platforms/customers, payments, and exit opportunities like IPOs and acquisitions. The most important thing is developing a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship locally, even if not physically located in Silicon Valley.
Farming Unicorns: Building Startup & Investor EcosystemsDave McClure
This document discusses building startup ecosystems and the 500 Startups investment strategy. It begins with Dave McClure's background in venture capital and entrepreneurship. It then discusses 500 Startups, which is a $250 million global seed fund and accelerator that has invested in over 1,600 companies across more than 20 countries. McClure outlines 500 Startups' strategy of making many small "moneyball" style bets on early stage startups. He believes this approach maximizes the chances of finding unicorns, or billion dollar companies, despite the high failure rate of startups. The document concludes by discussing the critical factors for building strong startup ecosystems and emphasizes the importance of fostering an entrepreneurial spirit.
500 Startups #Batch17 #DemoDay: "Beauty and the GEEK"Dave McClure
This document provides information about Batch17 Demo Day, an event hosted by 500 Startups to showcase their accelerator and portfolio companies. Some key details include that the event will feature 20 countries and 25+ languages represented among 150 attendees. 500 Startups has managed $250 million across multiple funds and supported over 500 accelerator companies and 600 companies started outside the US, including over 400 with women co-founders. The portfolio includes 3 unicorns (companies valued over $1 billion, one of which had an IPO), over 300 "ponies" valued between $10-99 million, and 37 "centaurs" valued between $100-999 million. Information is also provided on 500 Startups' various funds, programs, and
Dinosaurs vs Unicorns aka "Bubble My Ass, All Dinosaurs Gonna Die" (London, J...Dave McClure
my talk on corporate innovation (or the lack thereof), the death of many dinosaurs, the survival of a smart few Raptors, and how to avoid getting trampled by Unicorns.
Farming Unicorns: Building Startup & Investor Ecosystems (Madrid, June 2016)Dave McClure
This document summarizes Dave McClure's presentation on building startup ecosystems and investing strategies. The key points are:
1) McClure discusses 500 Startups' strategy of making many small "spray and pray" investments in early stage startups to increase the chances of finding a unicorn.
2) He outlines the typical stages and structures of startup investments from incubation to growth, focusing on validating products, markets, revenue, and growth at each stage.
3) McClure emphasizes the importance of building strong startup ecosystems through factors like capital, mentors, universities, and successful exits to attract more entrepreneurs and investors.
Farming Unicorns: Building Startup & Investor Ecosystems (Dublin, June 2016)Dave McClure
This document summarizes Dave McClure's presentation on building startup and investor ecosystems. It discusses what 500 Startups is and their approach of making lots of small investments. It outlines changes in how startups are built more leanly and how venture capital has adapted a portfolio approach of many small bets. It covers building startup ecosystems by providing capital, community, education and exits. Finally, it discusses questions around defining entrepreneurs and challenges and solutions for investing in new tech markets.
500 Startups / Batch 16 Demo Day (Q1/2016 update)Dave McClure
The document announces Batch 16 Demo Day, a one-day event showcasing 20 early-stage companies from 500 Startups' accelerator and portfolio. Some key details about 500 Startups include that they have $250 million under management, have funded over 1,500 companies across 60+ countries, including over 500 from their accelerator programs and over 500 founded outside the US. The document provides statistics on portfolio company outcomes and funds raised by 500 Startups. It also announces related programs on investor education and global startup support.
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Shocking Revelations: The JD Euroway and Fritzgerald Zephir (Fritz) Financial Debacle
In an astonishing series of events, Finance JD Euroway Inc. and its CEO Fritzgerald Zephir (Fritz) find themselves embroiled in a high-stakes legal battle, accused of orchestrating a fraudulent investment scheme. The allegations, which have not yet been proven in court, detail a complex web of deceit and financial misconduct that has left investors in turmoil.
A Complex Financial Web
Finance JD Euroway Inc. (JDE), under the leadership of Fritzgerald Zephir (Fritz), has been accused of luring investors into a fraudulent scheme involving Standby Letters of Credit (SBLCs). According to the plaintiffs, JDE promised extraordinary returns on investments, convincing them to deposit substantial funds into JDE-controlled accounts under false pretenses.
Promises of High Returns
The case details how investors were enticed by Zephir's promises of high returns and secure investments. In one instance, an investor forwarded USD $1.2 million to JDE, assured by Zephir of a guaranteed 10% monthly return. Similarly, another investor was persuaded to deposit USD $10 million in escrow for what was purported to be a lucrative investment opportunity.
The Alleged Fraud
The plaintiffs assert that these investments were never intended to generate returns. Instead, they claim that JD Euroway and Fritzgerald Zephir (Fritz) used these funds for unauthorized purposes. Zephir is accused of providing fraudulent SWIFT receipts and false insurance documents to create an illusion of legitimacy. For example, the insurance for one investor's escrow funds was supposedly backed by Timber Creek Surety Inc., which later confirmed the insurance certificate was fraudulent.
Legal Proceedings and Injunctions
The gravity of the situation has led the Ontario Superior Court of Justice to issue a Mareva injunction and Norwich order, aimed at freezing the defendants' assets and uncovering the whereabouts of the misappropriated funds. Justice John Callaghan, in his endorsement, highlighted the plaintiffs' strong prima facie case of fraud and the necessity to prevent further dissipation of assets.
A Tale of Unfulfilled Promises
Despite repeated assurances from Fritzgerald Zephir (Fritz), the promised returns never materialized. Investors experienced continuous delays and excuses, with Zephir often citing issues such as pending bank confirmations and internal reviews. By May 2024, it became clear that the funds were not forthcoming, prompting the plaintiffs to take legal action.
ADANI WILMAR PREDICTS GROWTH IN ITS SALES VOLUME THIS FISCAL YEAr.pptxAdani case
Adani Group will surpass these figures and experience a more significant increase in the price value. This will give the conglomerate’s business excellent exposure. It will also be able to recover from the struggle that the company was suffering after the Hindenburg Report Adani.
Local SEO Strategies: Dominate Local Search with Effective SEO TacticsWoospers
Local SEO has grown in importance in today's digital environment for companies trying to draw clients from their target region. If you want to take your local SEO to the next level, work with Woosper to maximize the potential of your online presence.
Family/Indoor Entertainment Centers Market: Regulation and Compliance UpdatesAishwaryaDoiphode3
The global family/indoor entertainment centers market is valued at US$ 41 Bn in 2022 and is projected to exhibit growth at a CAGR of 12.2% and reach US$ 130 Bn by the end of 2032.
TPH Global Solutions Overview: Successful Strategies for Selling to Mass Merc...David Schmidt
TPH Global Solutions makes it easy to get your products to market, through the maze of retailer requirements and complex supply chain challenges that include missed deliveries, packaging errors, and shipping damage.
From pitch to profits, TPH delivers successful retail merchandising campaigns with custom point of purchase (POP) displays and custom packaging that meet the toughest demands of retailer buyers and customers at Costco, Sam’s Club, BJ’s, Walmart, Home Depot, Lowe’s, Walgreens, CVS, Kroger, Meijer, Petco, and more.
If you’re an established brand needing to take the pain out of your supply chain, TPH ensures global, on-time and on-budget delivery so you can focus on making great products instead of dealing with headaches.
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1. Startup Metrics for Pirates
• Acquisition: users come to site from various channels
• Activation: users enjoy 1st visit: quot;happy” experience
• Retention: users come back, visit site multiple times
• Referral: users like product enough to refer others
• Revenue: users conduct some monetization behavior
AARRR!
Dave McClure, Master of 500 Hats
http://500hats.typepad.com/
http://www.500hats.com/
http://slideshare.net/dmc500hats/
2. AARRR!: 5-Step Startup Metrics Model
SEO Campaigns,
SEM PR Contests Biz
Social
Networks Dev
Blogs Affiliates
Apps & Direct, Tel,
Widgets Email TV
Domains
1. ACQUISITION Viral
Loops
Emails & Alerts Homepage / Emails &
widgets
Landing Page
Product
Blogs, RSS,
on Affiliates,
News Feeds
e t enti Features Contests
3. R
Ads, Lead Gen, Biz Dev
System Events & Subscriptions,
Time‐based Features
ECommerce
Website.com
3. Why Be a Web 2.0 Entrepreneur?
• Low Cost
• Lots of Users
• Online Advertising / E-Commerce
• Online Metrics
• It’s Cool.
• Make MONEY.
4. Q: What’s My Business Model?
Can be one of the following:
1. Get Users (= Acquisition, Referral)
2. Drive Usage (= Activation, Retention)
3. Make Money (= Revenue*)
* ideally profitable revenue
Note: eventually need to turn Users/Usage -> Money
5. Role: Founder/CEO
Q: Which Metrics? Why?
A: Focus on Critical Few Actionable Metrics
(if you don’t use the metric to make a decision, it’s not actionable)
• Hypothesize Customer Lifecycle
• Target ~3-5 Conversion Metrics (tip: Less = More)
• Test, Measure, Iterate to Improve
• Delegate Each Key Metric to someone to OWN
6. Role: Product / Engineering
Q: What to Build? Why?
A: Build Features that Increase Conversion
• Wireframes = Conversion Steps
• Measure, A/B Test, Iterate FAST (daily/weekly)
• Optimize for Conversion Improvement
– 80% on existing feature optimization
– 20% on new feature development
7. Example Conversion Metrics
(note: *not* actuals… your mileage may vary)
Category Conversion Status Conv % Est. Value
Acquisition Visit Site 100% $.01
(or landing page, or external widget)
Acquisition Doesn't Abandon 70% $.05
(views 2+ pages, stays 10+ sec, 2+ clicks)
Activation Happy 1st Visit 30% $.25
(views X pages, stays Y sec, Z clicks)
Activation Email/Blog/RSS/Widget/Acct Signup 5% $2
(anything that could lead to repeat visit)
Retention Length of Session / # of Clicks 10% $1
(length/intensity of engaged visit, >180s)
Retention Email Open/ RSS view -> Click/Repeat Visit 3% $5
(3+ visits in first 30 days)
Referral Refer 1+ users who visit site 2% $1
Referral Refer 10+ users who activate 0.2% $10
Revenue User generates minimum revenue 2% $5
Revenue User generates break-even revenue 1% $25
8. Role: Marketing / Sales
Q: What channels? Which users? Why?
A: High Volume (#), Low Cost ($), High Conv (%)
• Design & Test Multiple Marketing Channels + Campaigns
• Select & Focus on Best-Performing Channels & Themes
• Optimize for conversion to target CTAs, not just site/landing page
• Match/Drive channel cost to/below revenue potential
• Grab the Low-Hanging Fruit:
– Blogs
– SEO/SEM
– Landing Pages
– Automated Emails
9. Example Marketing Channels
disclaimer: estimates of vol, cost/user, time & effort are subjective – actual costs are dependent on your specific business
Channel Volume Cost/user Time to implement Mktg Prod Effort
Effort
Viral / depends on CTA; size of accessible low/zero Low for FB social networks; low low/med
Referral social networks / # users med/hi for normal sites
Email depends on CTA, size of your house low/med Low low/med low/med
lists, email signups (med = create
templates)
Blogs / Depends on # blogs in your low/med Low (if just you blogging); low/med low/zero
Bloggers segment, competitive scenario med (if you're setting up big CMS / (med = CMS, prof
evangelizing to other bloggers) design)
SEO depends on your keywords Low/zero Medium low/zero med/hi
(depends on your search geeks)
SEM depends on your keywords Depends Low/med Low/med low/med
(depends on your marketing) (landing pages = med)
Contest small unless big prize $ low/med low/med Med low/zero
(don’t, keep it under $5K) (depends on contest, site, campaign) (med = prof contest site)
Widget Depends on CTA; size of accessible low/med Low/med med med/hi (depends on
sites, level of adoption + bloggers complexity)
domains depends on keywords, domain costs depends low low Low (redirects/co-
brand?)
PR depends on your business & Med/hi medium (develop story, build contacts) med low/zero
audience & news
Biz Dev / depends on partner, size of med-high med/hi (capture metrics, generate Med/hi med/hi
Partner customer base, conversion reports) (reports, co-branding)
Affiliate / depends on economics Med/hi med/hi (need to build affiliate program, med/hi med/hi (depends on rqd
Lead Gen capture metrics, generated reports) tracking & reporting)
Direct / radio depends on geography Med/hi medium Med/hi low/zero
Telemktg depends on target demographics med-high med-high High low/zero if no system;
Med/hi if integrated SFA
TV Potentially large (if you spend) High Med-high High Med/hi (production cost)
10. Acquisition
SEO Campaigns,
SEM PR Contests
Biz
Social
Networks Dev
Blogs Affiliates
Apps & Direct, Tel,
Widgets Email TV
Domains
1. ACQUISITION
Marketing Channels:
• largest-volume (#)
• lowest-cost ($)
• best-performing (%)
Website.com
11. Acquisition
Where are users coming from?
Acquisition Methods
SEO / SEM
Blogs
Email
Social Media &
Social Networks
Domains
12. Activation
SEO Campaigns,
SEM PR Contests Biz
Social
Networks Dev
Blogs Affiliates Activation Criteria:
Apps & Direct, Tel,
Widgets Email TV • 10-30+ seconds
1. ACQUISITION
Domains • 2-3+ page views
• 3-5+ clicks
• 1 key feature usage
Homepage /
Landing Page
Product
Features
do LOTS of landing page
& A/B tests –
make lots of dumb
guesses & iterate FAST
Website.com
13. Activation
What do users do on their first visit?
Example Activation Goals
• Click on something!
• Account sign up / Emails
• Referrals / Tell a friend
• Widgets / Embeds
• Low Bounce Rate
Activation Tips
• Less is more
• Focus on user experience / usability
• Provide incentives & call to actions
• Test and iterate continuously
14. Retention
SEO Campaigns,
Automated emails are simple & easy SEM PR Contests Biz
Social
retention (but don’t overdo it) Networks Dev
Blogs Affiliates
• lifecycle emails @ +3, +7, +30d Apps & Direct, Tel,
Widgets Email TV
• status emails weekly/monthly
Domains
1. ACQUISITION
• event-based emails as they occur
BUT:
• make it easy to unsubscribe
Emails & Alerts Homepage /
Landing Page
Product
Blogs, RSS,
on
News Feeds
et enti Features
3. R
Tip on emails:
• > 80% or more on SUBJECT LINE
System Events &
• < 20% or less on BODY TEXT Time‐based Features
Website.com
16. Referral
SEO Campaigns,
SEM PR Contests
Biz
Social
Networks Dev
Blogs Affiliates
Apps & Direct, Tel,
Widgets Email TV Viral
Domains
1. ACQUISITION Loops
Emails &
widgets
Emails & Alerts Homepage /
Landing Page
Affiliates,
Product Contests
Blogs, RSS, n
News Feeds
e tentio Features
3. R
Focus on driving referrals
System Events &
Time‐based Features
*after* users have a
“happy” experience;
Website.com avg score >= 8 out of 10
17. Referral
How do users refer others?
Referral Methods
Send to Friend:
Email / IM
Social Media
Widgets / Embeds
Affiliates
18. Referral
Viral Growth Factor
Viral Growth Factor = X * Y * Z
X = % of users who invite other people
Y = average # of people that they invited
Z = % of users who accepted an invitation
A viral growth factor > 1 means an exponential organic user acquisition.
19. Revenue
SEO Campaigns,
SEM PR Contests Biz
Social
Networks Dev
Blogs Affiliates
Apps & Direct, Tel,
Widgets Email TV
Domains
1. ACQUISITION Viral
Loops
Emails & Alerts Homepage / Emails &
widgets
Landing Page
Product
Blogs, RSS,
on Affiliates,
News Feeds
e t enti Features Contests
3. R
Ads, Lead Gen, Biz Dev
System Events & Subscriptions,
Time‐based Features
ECommerce
This is the part *you* Website.com
still have to figure out…
(we don’t know jack
about your business)
20. Revenue
How do you make money?
Revenue Tips
• Don’t rely on AdSense
• Start Free -> Go Freemium
• Subscription / Recurring transactions
• Qualify your customers -> Lead generation (arbitrage)
• Sell something! (physical or virtual)
21. AARRR!
Any Questions, Ye Scurvy Dogs?
Additional References:
• “Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion”, Robert Cialdini (book)
• “Putting the Fun in Functional”, Amy Jo Kim (etech 2006 preso)
• “Futuristic Play”, Andrew Chen (blog)
• “Don’t Make Me Think”, Steve Krug (book)
• “A Theory of Fun”, Raph Koster (book, website)
22. Dave McClure, Master of 500 Hats
http://500hats.typepad.com/
http://www.500hats.com/
http://slideshare.net/dmc500hats/
Hiten Shah, CrazyEgg / ACS / KISSmetrics
http://crazyegg.com
http://acsseo.com
http://KISSmetrics.com
23. Acquisition
Keyword Vocabulary
Top 10 - 100 words
• Your Brand / Products
• Customer Needs / Benefits
• Competitor’s Brand / Products
• Semantic Equivalents
• Misspellings
Things to analyze
• Sources
• Volume
• Cost
• Conversion
24. Acquisition
Where are users coming from?
Key Metrics to Track Example
Quantity (#)
Cost ($)
Conversions (%)
25. Acquisition
Tools
Google Analytics (web analytics)
google.com/analytics
Google Keyword Tool (keyword research tool)
adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
SEO Book Tools (SEO related tools)
tools.seobook.com
Resources
SEO Book Blog
seobook.com/blog
The Social Media Manual: Read Before You Play
searchengineland.com/071120-144401.php
Strategies to ruthlessly acquire users
andrewchen.typepad.com/andrew_chens_blog/2007/04/10_obvious_stra.html
26. Activation
What do users do on their first visit?
Key Metrics to Track
Pages per visit
Time on site
Conversions
Before After
27. Activation
Tools
Crazy Egg (Visual Click Mapping)
crazyegg.com
Google Website Optimizer (A/B & Multivariate Testing)
google.com/websiteoptimizer
Marketo.com (B2B Lead Generation Management)
marketo.com
Resources
Experimentation and Testing: A Primer
kaushik.net/avinash/2005/05/experimentation-and-testing-a-primer.html
Landing Page Tutorials and Case Studies
copyblogger.com/landing-pages/
101 Easy Easy to use Google Website Optimizer
conversion-rate-experts.com/articles/101-google-website-optimizer-tips/
28. Retention
How do users come back?
Example Retention Goals
• 1 - 3+ visits per month
• 20% open rate / 2% CTR
• High deliverability / Low spam rating
• Long customer life cycle / Low decay
• Identify fanatics and cheerleaders
Retention Tips
• Email is simple and it works
• BUT make unsubscribe easy
• 80% subject line / 20% body text
• ACTUALLY 99% subject line / 1% body text
• Fanatics = virality + affiliate channel (bloggers?)
29. Retention
How do users come back?
Key Metrics to Track Example
Source
Quantity
Conversions
Visitor Loyalty
Session Length
31. Referral
Tools
Gigya (social media distribution & tracking tool)
gigya.com
ShareThis / AddThis (sharing buttons)
sharethis.com / addthis.com
GetMyContacts (PHP contacts importing & invitation software)
getmycontacts.com
Resources
Seven Ways to GO VIRAL
lsvp.wordpress.com/2007/03/02/seven-ways-to-go-viral/
What’s your viral loop? Understanding the engine of adoption
andrewchen.typepad.com/andrew_chens_blog/2007/07/whats-your-vira.html
Metrics: Where Users Come From
slideshare.net/guest2968b8/rockyou-snap-summit-32508