Dream It

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Over the next 14 weeks, these startups will work with the Dreamit team to de-risk their products, build their sales pipelines, pitch to new customers, improve their investor pitches and funding strategy, and present their businesses to venture capital investors. In weeks 6 and 7, the startups will hit the road for the Customer Sprint.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

Through this work, we’ve discovered a lot about how different founders fulfill their journey of customer discovery and product-market fit. Here’s what they had to share: Pre-MVP/customer discovery phase: Tiny Organics. Identify and define their customer personas. Conduct customer interviews and synthesize them.

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Startup Blogpost

AUGUST 25, 2023

Curran Van Waarde , Founder, CallScaler Utilize Strategic Sprints for Alignment As a startup leader, one approach to harmonize the big-picture vision with day-to-day execution is the concept of “strategic sprints.” Each sprint involves setting specific objectives, identifying key tasks, and allocating resources accordingly.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Today, the company announced $80 million in Series C funding, led by Menlo Ventures, which was joined by Advance Venture Partners, Sprints Capital, Pear Ventures, Sway Ventures, MassMutual Ventures, Teamworthy and ECT Capital Partners’ Brian N. Building customer-first relationships in a privacy-first world is critical.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

When you approach your business as a marathon, not a sprint, you’re using the power of grit. Had we given up, we would have disappointed countless customers, employees and investors in the company who were depending on my grit — a dogged perseverance — to lead the company to exponential growth and an inevitable exit to everyone’s benefit.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Amazon knew that the last mile is the way to reach customers,” he said, “but before COVID, that accessibility didn’t make sense for smaller companies. At Happily, we focus our project work in two week ‘sprints’ every Tuesday,” Kolomyjec said. Inside those sprints, everyone knows what to do.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

In addition to saving money, many customers think new phones only feature incremental updates compared to previous generation models. Many customers also want to avoid generating additional waste and choose a used device for that reason. By listing their inventory on Back Market’s marketplace, they can find customers more easily.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

The enlarged $270 million round — the January tranche was from Eurazeo Growth, Sprints Capital and Wellington Management — includes both primary and secondary capital, and this latest tranche is part of the secondary element, PPRO CEO Simon Black confirmed to me. ” In particular, the U.S. ” In particular, the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Gopal told TechCrunch that as its user base grows, it is acquiring more new customers through word-of-mouth and referrals. It’s only been live for a couple of months, but we’ve already gotten so much feedback from our users and we’re sprinting to unlock new capabilities such as real-time payments and credit,” said Gopal.

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

As Strong Compute founder Ben Sands, who previously also co-founded AR company Meta , told me, the team has recently made some breakthroughs where it was able to take Nvidia’s reference implementation, which its customer LayerJot used, to run 20 times faster. Image Credits: Strong Compute. “That was a big win,” Sands said.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

“We have over 1,000 customers across our four key verticals — machine learning and AI, batch processing, pixel streaming and visual effects and rendering,” Intrator said. Every day is a sprint for victory, and it shows in the quality and quantity of their customers.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In the early days, every project is a sprint, and there are times when putting on a show for investors can feel more important than actually serving your customers. “The truth is: vanity metrics don’t measure how engaged potential customers are, ” writes Christopher P. Thanks very much for reading TC+!

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

One of the winners is GrowthSpace, founded by Omer Glass, which leverages algorithms to match individual employees and groups of employees with experts for development sprints. But Glass claims that GrowthSpace has seen substantial growth over the past year, now reaching 3,000 active users across 200 paying customers, including a U.S.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Crafting an XaaS customer success strategy that drives growth. In one study, companies that spent 10% of their yearly revenue on customer success attained peak net recurring revenue. “Companies mostly deploy two or more customer success archetypes,” according to The Alexander Group’s Rachel Parrinello and John Stamos.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Hiring driven by the desire to grab talent before your competitor does rather than customer demand? Ideally, startups are hiring based on necessity, driven by customer demand. The best products of our generation don’t revolve around revenue; they’re all about the value being added to the customers. You need to grow fast!” ? —?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

10 onboarding improvements that cut our customer churn by nearly 3x. Managers who run businesses that rely on recurring revenue are often distracted by the never-ending sprint to maintain favorable KPIs. But one metric may rule them all: customer churn. ” 10 onboarding improvements that cut our customer churn by nearly 3x.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

“As a startup founder, you’d never dream of selling a product to a customer you don’t truly understand,” writes Haje. Offer the right person enough equity and delicious snacks and they will gladly work 60+ hours/week or take part in a weekend dev sprint. ” Thanks very much for reading TC+ this week!

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

Product managers for software have a pretty thankless job — figuring out which features to put into a development sprint, how to prioritize what the developers work on and collecting requirements from internal teams, external customers and figuring out what the company can use in its marketing materials — it’s an endless game of balance (..)

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 29, 2021

I discovered rhetoric in 2021 and read this book and The Elements of Eloquence which demonstrate the hundreds of literary devices we use to imbue language with flourish to entice or cajole the reader to hurdle over the period at the end of a sentence and sprint through the next, till the end of a tract.

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Jason Malki

JULY 26, 2022

I had the pleasure of interviewing Haydar Al-Saad, the founder and CEO of RevSetter , a modern Customer Platform built to help companies elevate the way their teams work with customers to improve retention, fuel expansion and accelerate business growth. as the only company in the Customer Success space?—?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2021

Working with customers [at Atlassian] — at some point, you didn’t get surprised anymore, but what the people can do and track with Jira is amazing. Indeed, Franz tells me that the team already has some large customers, with one of them having a 7,000-seat license. None of a customer’s data sits on JXL’s servers.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 11, 2019

However sleep is a wonderful, natural and free resource that anyone starting or running a business must draw on optimally to be the best they can be for their customers, colleagues, stakeholders and loved ones. Better accuracy and faster sprint times: This has been observed in basketball, swimming plus tennis among other sports.

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Startup Blogpost

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Regular sprint reviews and stand-up meetings keep everyone on the same page and focused on prioritized tasks. Embracing automation may help you save time, increase accuracy, and ultimately drive growth in your company, whether it’s through automated customer service responses, inventory management, or marketing efforts.

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Dream It

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Dreamit invests in startups with demonstrable traction that are looking to rapidly gain customers, initiate new partnerships and to raise additional capital. Startups participate in one of Dreamit's three industry verticals: Urbantech, Healthtech, or Securetech.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 1, 2021

Designing for Success: Focused, Customer-driven Approach to Launching Tech Products Picture credits: [link] The number one reason why startups fail is due to misreading market demand?—?found You want to start with signing up your first ~10 customers through your personal network, and grow this number by ~2% a week.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

During its test period, Runway has been used by a handful of early customers, including ClassPass, Kickstarter, Capsule and others, which, as of this March, had pushed out more than 40 app releases via its platform. Several of these customers have also contributed statements of support for using Runway over their old methods.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 13, 2020

We’re excited to announce our first-ever YC Build Sprint. The sprint will kick off on August 24 and be administered through our free Startup School platform. Also, we’ll be awarding 20 grants of $10,000 to winners selected from among the sprint participants! Sign up for Startup School and register for the sprint now.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Its leadership “sprints” focus on topics like retaining knowledge, and what goes into curating a safe environment for teams. NewCampus is an online, live learning platform that hopes to train rising managers within hyper-growth organizations.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

All you’re doing that sprint is working off your tech debt backlog,” said Somal. “I 4 ways to make DEI a key component of customer service and culture. Technology should enhance customer service operations, but automation can risk making the experience feel a little robotic. Host interactive forums. Define your commitment.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Here are some strategies from professional side hustlers: Awosika Ayodeji suggests you break up your time into 90-day sprints. This technique is well-used in customer interviews to uncover your user’s true motivations. In this scenario, finding the hunger can be harder, as our day jobs keep us ‘safe’. Basic, but it works.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

The MAS, in conjunction with BIS, has run tech sprints soliciting new ideas relating to regulatory reporting, while the FDIC has “a regulatory reporting solution that would allow ‘on-demand’ monitoring of banks as opposed to being constrained by ‘point-in-time’ reporting. .”

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Reforge

MARCH 28, 2023

The focus ends up being more on the user story as opposed to the true customer problem and the true value proposition. Its purpose is to break down the feature’s value proposition into actionable tasks and articulate how a piece of work will deliver that particular value back to the customer. It's like a red herring for me.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

A brand is a marathon, not a sprint. If you choose your name well and it represents what your customers value in you then it will be memorable, differentiated and meaningful. I often advise startup companies not to try and pin all of your brand equity into an announcement.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

In fact, Section4 thinks more affordable “sprints” — or two- to three-long week courses taught by prominent professors from top schools that can also be mind expanding — is the way to go. TC: So these are companies that are your customers, not individuals seeking betterment for themselves. SG: It’s both.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

I appreciated her desire to get back to work, but I convinced her to agree to a 2-3 week sprint. Anything from intense customer love despite barely even having a product, pre-sales, a deal for access to data that creates a moat that no one else has—the list goes on. What counts as a rabbit?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

In wake of Sprint/T-Mobile deal, Ryan Reynolds has an announcement. ” Mint also released a holiday ad just a couple of weeks ago warning of wireless promo season, wherein large wireless carriers may try to lure customers into expensive contracts using new devices.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

It has picked up some 6,000 customers to date — name-checking the likes of startups such as Voi, Kry/Livi, Juni and Estrid, and consumer SMEs such as Punchy Drinks, as well as some larger enterprises such as Babybjorn and Schibsted, among its client roster. Digital first and human touch as needed,” she adds.

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