Start Making. Venture Hacks - Good advice for startups. Chicago Lean Startup Circle. Pathfinder's Todd Wyder spoke at the Chicago Lean Startup Circle on December 16th about Customer Acquisition and Retention.
In this presentation, Todd discusses best practices on evaluating customers from first contact to customer to referrer and all the steps in between, drawing some of the great work done by folks like Dave McClure and Brant Cooper. The talk highlights what to measure, why it’s important, and the strengths and weaknesses of the various analytics tools available on the market today. Watch the video and be armed with the practices and tools you need to accelerate your product’s growth. Todd Wyder is Chief Product Officer at Pathfinder Development and has been involved in product management, marketing and engineering for over 25 years. Todd has worked on products for GE, Axciom, YesMail, OMRON Electronics, Appointments 1,2,3, Mitsubishi, Fanuc, AT&T, AHA! Alltop - Top Startups News. An Electronic Newsletter Rattles And Amuses Chicago's Start-Ups.
When more than 700 people gathered to talk technology at a swanky bar here a few weeks ago, Ron May, this city's newest celebrity journalist, was standing by the exit, multi-tasking. ''Hey, hey, hey.
Give me your card! '' he demanded of a man who was trying to get by. Meanwhile, one eye was trained on some young Internet executive who was mouthing off into Mr. May's tape recorder about all the things he ought to be covering in his gossipy online newsletter, The May Report. With sweat beading up on his forehead, Mr. Two years ago, when The May Report began, many of those executives could ignore him. His newsletter, which is e-mailed to about 15,000 subscribers at no charge and posted on his Web site, www.themayreport.com, is an odd mixture of news, gossip, job listings and e-mail from readers, as well as awkward personal digressions and philosophical musings from the 44-year-old Mr.
Indeed, some executives say The May Report functions much like an Internet chat room. But Mr. The Rumors of Our Death Have Been Highly Exaggerated. TL;DR As a founder, your natural inclination is to be singularly focused on your startup.
While this is great for as long as possible, balancing your life can help you achieve even greater success. Back in the Day I’ve fortunate enough to have taken a short vacation this week with my wife and family. For a long time, vacation was a completely foreign concept to me. When you’re driven to succeed and haunted by the specter of time, it feels impossible to let go. When I first started out as an entrepreneur, I had no idea what I was doing (I’d argue that may not be that different today).
Those times were really something. It took me 4 years of sleeping in corners and showering at the gym before I actually got an apartment again – it’s hard getting a lease when you have no steady income (different post). Focus Your Efforts The problem back then was I was running two businesses. This, in my opinion, is a bad habit to form. You see, startups are like fire. Letting Go Is Hard Fast forward to today.