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JULY 6, 2022

Contributor. More posts by this contributor. At the same time, customer acquisition costs have risen due to recent iOS updates as Apple continues to implement and ramp up privacy features. Share on Twitter. He focuses on software, fintech, digital health and consumer investments.

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OCTOBER 26, 2022

Contributor. More posts by this contributor. How much was spent on new features / functionality compared to maintenance? Matt Van Itallie. Share on Twitter. Matt Van Itallie is the founder and CEO of Sema , which provides codebase analytics for M&A. 8 questions to answer before your startup faces technical due diligence.

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MAY 24, 2022

Contributor. More posts by this contributor. We then drastically cut product features, re-thought our go-to-market strategy and rightsized the business. Navin Chaddha. Share on Twitter. Survival tips for startup founders living through their first market correction. What is happening to risk-taking in venture capital?

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MARCH 20, 2023

Jonathan Martinez Contributor Share on Twitter Jonathan Martinez is a former YouTuber, UC Berkeley alum and growth marketing nerd who's helped scale Uber, Postmates, Chime and various startups.

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APRIL 14, 2023

Oleksandr Yaroshenko Contributor Oleksandr Yaroshenko is head of investor relations at Headway , an edtech startup with operations in Ukraine, the UK, Poland, and Cyprus. This situation is when the direct relation between engagement and retention comes into play.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

As are “function-specific playbooks” such as new-hire onboarding, customer onboarding, or feature launches. For example, anything that recurs or repeats across the business sphere, such as all-hands meetings, investor updates, board meetings, newsletters, planning cycles, and so on, are within Relay’s scope.

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DECEMBER 9, 2021

Contributor. More posts by this contributor. But such an expansion isn’t usually a result of selling more products or gating advanced features behind up-sell packages. Kyle Poyar. Share on Twitter. Kyle Poyar is a partner at OpenView. Inside the rapid rise of usage-based pricing. Image Credits: OpenView Partners.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Caroline Hogan Contributor Share on Twitter Caroline Hogan is senior director of vendor marketing at Gartner Digital Markets , where she helps software providers accelerate growth. Therefore, it’s essential to clearly communicate the benefits of your product and develop use cases tailored to the challenges businesses are facing.

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OCTOBER 5, 2022

Contributor. ” This has also been the primary driver for larger companies acquiring smaller observability players: to reduce the risk of churn by baiting customers with additional observability features, then increase their average contract value (ACV). Chelsea Goddard. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

Contributor. For example, it was only after being prompted by an investor that I started putting time and energy into strengthening my relationship with Apple to get our app featured in the Apple Store. This App Store feature changed the company’s trajectory, and it came as a result of an investor making an introduction to Apple.

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AUGUST 26, 2021

Contributor. Sadly for them, new research has proven that such jargon-heavy copy — along with unclear features and benefits — is deterring customers and cutting down conversions. Konrad Sanders. Share on Twitter. Which terms come to mind when you think about SaaS?

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MARCH 8, 2022

After product-market fit, product teams hew the product roadmap from a panoply of options to the features best aligned with the company’s plans. Some teams wait to staff these leaders, preferring to employ individual contributors first. Startups create products.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Jonathan Martinez Contributor Share on Twitter Jonathan Martinez is a former YouTuber, UC Berkeley alum and growth marketing nerd who's helped scale Uber, Postmates, Chime and various startups. More posts by this contributor Teach yourself growth marketing: Which metrics really matter? Talent’s past work. Talent demographic.

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JANUARY 4, 2021

Contributor. More posts by this contributor. I’m still on the free tier of a few more services for some lower-priority features. Joe Procopio. Share on Twitter. Joe Procopio is a multiexit, multifailure entrepreneur. How startups fill the gap between revenue and investment. How startups close their first big sales.

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MARCH 29, 2022

Furniture is one of the largest investments consumers make, yet historically, re-selling has posed a significant challenge, making it a major contributor to landfill waste,” said Koralturk. Its unique feature is that sellers receive an instant offer immediately after their appointment is accepted.

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AUGUST 12, 2022

Contributor. Unlike typical enterprise software companies, open source startups must go through two journeys for finding product-market fit: First, building a product that users would download and use for free, and then building features that users would pay for. Arnav Sahu. Share on Twitter.

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AUGUST 2, 2021

Contributor. More posts by this contributor. More posts by this contributor. You can do this in two ways: Describe the features of your product as the solution to your customers’ problem. Stewart Hillhouse. Share on Twitter. By night, he interviews marketers and creatives on his podcast, Top Of Mind.

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OCTOBER 4, 2022

Contributor. More posts by this contributor. Instead of unleashing a ton of information about all your great features and capabilities, introduce new users to your product gradually. Ross Haleliuk. Share on Twitter. Ross Haleliuk is a venture capitalist and head of product at LimaCharlie.io.

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JUNE 29, 2022

Contributor. More posts by this contributor. Stock price volatility applies pressure on publicly traded social media ad platforms, which motivates them to build new features, lower their rates to attract spend and experiment with new business models. Share on Twitter. Why D2C holding companies are here to stay.

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JANUARY 7, 2022

Contributor. If they rework to generalize features, they could lose a costly quarter to stabilization. What to do: When teams work on custom features for more than the specified timeline, merging them back with the core product becomes complex. Sowmyanarayan Raghunathan. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Contributor. Many of the world’s largest tech companies are already accessing point of interest (POI) data via the AWS Data Exchange (ADX) platform in order to power the core search, discovery, and map-building features that make their apps more useful and entertaining. Gary Little. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Contributor. More posts by this contributor. Your header must hook readers with your most compelling feature framed as a bold claim. Joey Noble. Share on Twitter. Joey Noble is community manager at Demand Curve. Demand Curve: How Customer.io’s homepage converts readers into customers. Image Credits: Demand Curve.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

More technical companies often leverage the green screen feature to explain more complicated concepts. For example, Dirol launched a black-colored chewing gum, and the campaign featured a Branded Effect that encouraged users to show off both their calm and sassy sides, reflecting the white and black gum colors.

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JULY 11, 2022

Contributor. More posts by this contributor. Even for startups that have already taken their product to market, it’s a good idea to periodically reassess pricing models in light of new products and features, or after changes to the competitive landscape. Michael Perez. Share on Twitter.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

Contributor. A year later, it had a new subscriber every two minutes paying for features like offline maps and detailed camping information. Eric Crowley. Share on Twitter. Eric Crowley is executive director in the San Francisco office of global investment bank GP Bullhound. The pandemic has been extremely painful for many.

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JANUARY 20, 2022

Contributor. There are a number of ways a PAC can influence your business decisions, but most importantly, they will help you prioritize features that have the most value to your customers and help position those features using the same language your customers use. David Annis. Share on Twitter. What are their challenges?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

While — on the influencer/mentor side — it names the likes of musician Kenny G, Buffy the Vampire Slayer actor “Spike” James Marsters and baseball Hall of Famer Andre Dawson as among its early contributors.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

What happens when you poll crypto traders about whether liking crypto was an “attractive feature”? Looking back over the last decade, TC+ contributor Grant Easterbrook recaps five trends that flopped and the underpinning factors that prevented them from changing fintech “in the way the founders originally intended.”

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

Contributor. Over the years, we have developed many features and continue to run A/B tests based on the hard data now available to us. Marnix Broer. Share on Twitter. Marnix Broer is the co-founder and CEO of StuDocu. Have you ever sat in a shared college dorm kitchen space with your roommate and decided to start a business?

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NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Egypt is one of the continent’s bright spots and an integral contributor to health tech market value in MENA, which is expected to reach up to $2 billion by 2024. With this investment coming in, we will be able to avail more features to our customers while maintaining our service level and growth momentum.

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JANUARY 11, 2021

Contributor. More posts by this contributor. Contributor. John Berger, director of Operations and Impact Solutions at Toniic , observed that this has clear investor benefits: “The grace period became a feature because it benefits investors in regions like the U.S. David Teten. Share on Twitter. Jamie Finney.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2021

He says that there are 55 contributors to the open source project and 700 community members overall. Activeloop image database. Image Credits: Activeloop. The program has been downloaded 300,000 times so far. He came up with the idea for streaming the data while working on large amounts of data at the neuroscience lab at Princeton.

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JULY 29, 2021

Contributor. The authorization controls in the cloud API gateway are critical to the security of the new feature. Idan Plotnik. Share on Twitter. Idan Plotnik is the CEO and founder of Apiiro , a code risk platform. DevOps is fundamentally about collaboration and agility.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Contributor. To increase engagement even further, we tried a number of things: encouraging more citation creation, adding research and note-taking features and building a Chrome extension to be more ever-present in the user’s research journey. Darshan Somashekar. Share on Twitter. there wasn’t much more room to grow.

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DECEMBER 14, 2022

Contributor. Your sellers may want to jump right into a selling motion without taking the time to research, but it’s critical to ask the right questions and understand why prospects need solutions like yours instead of simply selling features. Steve Goldberg. But revenue teams still have targets to meet.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Contributor. The microinvesting app offers three subscription levels — lite, personal and family — each with a clearly explained list of features. Joshira Maduro. Joshira Maduro joined the LendingTree team in April 2020 and uses her background in market research and branding to write about credit card news and better ways to spend.

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DECEMBER 20, 2021

Contributor. Emphasizing features. Some copywriters tend to focus on flashy product features, especially when a product involves revolutionary technology. These features are certainly important, but they don’t answer your prospect’s most important question: What’s in it for me? Joyce Chou.

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