TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

The app launched into iOS and Android in early 2020, with the number of signups doubling since the beginning of 2021. The company’s goal is to have over 100,000 accounts by year’s end. It’s also seen a spike in trade volume with cannabis and meme stocks ranking among its most popular trades of the year so far. .

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 31, 2022

Leave room in your personal budget to account for income fluctuations. Reach out to these signups to get further real market feedback. things you can implement to hit your money targets earlier, including: Don’t expect steady income growth?—?at at least in the beginning. Frame your services in a problem-solution context.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

N26 offers bank accounts and debit cards that you can control from a mobile app. Opening a bank account is quite easy as you don’t need to go to a branch and fill out lengthy paperwork. After that, N26 users get a bank account with their own account numbers and a virtual card that they can add to Apple Pay or Google Pay.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 18, 2023

This was followed by social accounts and then ads with 18 and 10%, respectively. They made a Twitter post at the end of March that went viral and got them 3000 signups. By July, they took it down to begin their actual growth efforts. After they took down the waitlist, they had roughly 200 daily active users (DAU).

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 13, 2021

If your idea hasn’t changed at all, despite not getting any traction on fundraising, hiring, or customer signups, and your biggest complaint is how much fundraising sucks or that VCs won’t take risks or fund founders like you, you’re playing startup. Companies are built on accountability.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The North African market’s private consumption accounts for nearly 85% of its nominal GDP, and only 4% of its overall GDP is cashless. However, for more than a year following this approval, Telda hadn’t still launched its app and card products to its over 30,000 signups. .

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

It’s the same situation in MENA, where only 40% of the population have access to a bank account. Its private consumption accounts for nearly 85% of its nominal GDP, and only 4% of its overall GDP is cashless. Like any digital bank globally, Telda enables customers to create a free account to send and receive money.

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Jason Malki

JULY 26, 2022

a unique and free PLG product, RevSetter Pulse, for Customer Success Managers, Account Managers and other customer-facing roles, designed to help them manage their top customers, find more opportunities and reduce manual work. RevSetter is an end-to-end Customer Platform for B2B companies of all sizes, from SMB to Enterprise.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 20, 2016

Let’s take the example of an inside sales account executive with a $500k annual quota. At a $300k annual quota and a fully loaded cost per AE of $100k, the account executive generates $200k of revenue over their costs. per working day. Why not lower quotas further? That’s not very efficient. Quota $300k $400k $500k $600k.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

There are countless other examples, from standard newsletter signup forms to others that you can build for specific use cases. Good to know: Newsletter signup forms are so common that Squarespace has specialized tools for them called newsletter blocks , which are related to but separate from form blocks. Google Drive.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

We maintain these accounts for R&D, and so my kids think I am less uncool. Accounts – businesses & organizations. These systems particularly shine in portfolio management, accounting, LP reporting, and deal term workflows. We upload videos occasionally from conferences. Instagram , Snapchat , and TikTok.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 17, 2015

More importantly, Xero has demonstrated that service providers, accountants in this case can be amazingly efficient channels. The typical accountant using Xero refers between 6-31 customers to Xero depending on the geography (see slide 16). Internet/mobile paid customer acquisition varies in effectiveness by the type of product.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 22, 2015

Unlike top down sales processes which offer a startup one shot at closing an account (a meeting with a CEO or VP), for bottoms up products, each employee is a credit-card-carrying-decision-maker. A startup can measure their effectiveness through the signup to paid flow, and again experiment their way to success.

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Y Combinator

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Signups just opened, so you can register for the sprint now. As the sprint progresses, you’ll be able to track your progress, get feedback from YC group partners and team members, and have weekly meetings with other sprint participants to provide accountability. Build Sprint signups are open now. Getting feedback from YC.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

And I always had in my mind that I wanted to be your primary bank account. And it’s not like we were serving a set of customers that didn’t have bank accounts, we were very deliberately serving a set of people that had alternatives so and then the bar is just much higher. Immad: Banking is a utility, right?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2021

The answer is… (3) Don’t quit your job, test your idea like a science project Armed with the confidence of $50,000 in a business bank account and a partner who believed in our mission, I set about testing our most fundamental question: Did people actually want to search for travel based on their budget?

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 15, 2015

Well, the easy part is setting up just the basic account--name, ID, password, etc. Maybe you create some kind of self signup that isn''t nearly full functionality, but it''s actually more than your competitors have. Today, we let users change their screen names without creating new accounts.". It''s a thing you can point to.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 11, 2022

I tried for a month & increased the signup to 256, and 1000+ pieces of content were added. This cycle goes on, and maybe forever, because you’re building accountability for the long run. I decided to take other tactics and approaches to encourage people to use it. One of the hardest yet the best performer was cold emailing.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 17, 2014

While the math works out very neatly, the challenge with this idea lies in accounting for referral properly. Customer signup surveys asking new customers how they heard about the product is another effective mechanism. There are no water-tight mechanisms for attributing the source of a particular customer.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2020

For the past few years, the startup has been growing rapidly; engagement drives user signups, which drives engagement. First, many companies hand customers a debit card when they create an account. But they can add up when you have millions of users actively using your cards to transfer money out of their accounts.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

The company says that it has attracted nearly 300,000 signups on its waitlist. The company has promised a lot of features and now has enough cash in its bank account to deliver. American Express veteran Ash Gupta is also joining the company as an advisor — he was the Chief Risk Officer of American Express.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2023

When people click on an Async profile link and record an audio message, they have to create an account to send the message. That could also lead to new signups. Similarly, intensive Async users can synchronize their calendar with Async and choose to turn events into Async conversations. But it also creates a barrier to entry.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Irregularities that the company discovered in accounting practices also added to headaches, according to The Wall Street Journal. . In the early innings of the pandemic, the social video chat app claimed that it was landing 50 million new signups a month, as humans sought virtual connection amid quarantine. Image Credits: TechCrunch.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 25, 2022

He’s trusted enough among founders and crypto enthusiasts that he was even roped into acting as the escrow account for $22M in bets between Do Kwon & some critics. Setup an account with Kraken, Coinbase, or FTX You need a way to convert your cash into crypto. You can signup here. Takeaway: You can’t know it all.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 17, 2023

In contrast, Mailchimp collects all that info when you create your account. Flodesk has a more inspiring range of signup forms Both email marketing platforms help you build your audience through signup forms. With Mailchimp, you can create a signup form, landing page, social post, or social ad to build your audience.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 22, 2023

Using tools such as CTAs and form fills, your website converts this traffic using tactics such as leads magnets, newsletter signups and contact sales form submissions (free account signups for PLG companies). Capturing contact information is the key to lead generation. Sales works your leads until they close.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 30, 2021

Second, there is significant signup friction for benefits and payroll products. Gusto also integrates with expense and accounting tools, eliminating the manual work of recording payroll entries and approving expenses. On the employee side, Gusto could become a primary bank account, seamlessly setting up direct deposits.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Last June, the duo started working on Mono , a project that would allow companies to access their customers’ financial accounts in Nigeria. One such way will be to improve onboarding processes on applications through its one-click signup feature. But there are plans to diversify this clientele.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

You draw from this line by making a direct deposit to your checking account, or you can use a debit card linked to your account. Some cards will give you signup perks like bonus cash, and most provide ongoing incentives like cash back, miles and points on purchases you make. Rewards programs. Zero percent introductory rates.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

Fast-forward to the present day and Siroker is now CEO at Scribe, which is taking signups for its first product. Siroker said he hopes that’s “not common,” but he also argued that it could create an increased sense of transparency and accountability if it happens occasionally.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

I maintain these accounts for R&D, and so my kids think I am less uncool. Likewise, orphaned accounts such as Twitters languishing untweeted for months are a bad look. We add news from our partners and book recommendations, as well as Bionic’s hiring page and a signup link to share with the subscriber’s friends.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

I maintain these accounts for R&D, and so my kids think I am less uncool. Likewise, orphaned accounts such as Twitters languishing untweeted for months are a bad look. We add news from our partners and book recommendations, as well as our hiring page and a signup link to share with the subscriber’s friends. Goodreads.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

Make a new Zap (and a Zapier account , if you don't already have one), and choose the Webhooks app and its Catch Hook trigger to start your Zap. There are quite a few apps that make QR codes; two easy-to-use options are qr-code-generator.com or QR Code Monkey , neither of which require signup. Skip the options. All work the same.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Cook says FitOn has seen accelerated growth in the digital fitness industry during the pandemic and that it has experienced a significant increase in workouts and signups. The new investment brings the company’s total funding to $70 million. FitOn also saw a three times increase in friends working out together.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

X takes over @music handle, hinting at future music plans The @music account was originally operated for 16 years by software developer Jeremy Vaught, who grew the @music handle to roughly half a million followers. Vaught posted in anger that X had commandeered the account for itself. Follow @x for updates.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

The average credit score of users at signup is 580. According to Zarrad, Experian Boost allows users to link their bank accounts via Finicity, then automatically identifies certain recurring bills like utilities and rent and extracts that data into their internal model designed to showcase alternative payment behaviors.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 5, 2023

I think our first one was America Express and we built into a couple more in order to allow people to connect their bank account and use our budgeting tool. For all these people that we hired, we made a huge focus on building a relationship first and then selling the product, or account managing the product or whatever it is.

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