Startup Terminology 101 презентация

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Created by: Luke J. Fitzpatrick @iamwormify

the minimum requirements for you to put your product online (aka ship it).
Product Market Fit: This is the point whereby you have built a product that "many" users love = growth. Often a lot of testing & altering things slightly, until you get it right.
Execution: Knowing how to get your first users. More importantly a team that 'knows' how to do it.
Growth Hacking: Creative ways of doing marketing. Coined by Sean Ellis. Think of non-traditional marketing, focussed on user growth.
Chicken & Egg Problem: Social networks need users in order to be sustainable and grow. No users = a dead product.

money your startup is spending before making a profit.
Churn Rate: The percentage of customers that keep coming back to you. It shows how many customers you are keeping/losing, based on user retention.
Pitch Deck: A PPT presentation of your service. The best pitch deck: http://www.slideshare.net/mobile/hnshah/mintcom-prelaunch-pitch-deck
Value Proposition: The value you provide to users or customers. For example: http://mjskok.com/resource/building-compelling-value-proposition
Elevator Pitch: Less than one minute/ one sentence pitch of your startup. Usually "we're X for Y" - is the most common phrase.

be either, the % of users signing up/ the % of payable users.
A/B Testing: Testing different variants of a landing page (this is a sign up page before launching). Can also be used for testing Adwords campaigns, book covers, colors, pricing etc.
Pivot: Can be either - changing your product slightly OR changing your market segments.
The Lean Startup: A book that created a startup movement based on strong product testing, by Eric Ries.
The TechCrunch Trough of Sorrow: Developed by Andrew Chen, link: http://andrewchen.co/after-the-techcrunch-bump-life-in-the-trough-of-sorrow/

simply, how do you plan to get your first users? For example: word-of-mouth (organic growth), Adwords etc.
User Acquisition Cost: The $ cost value to acquire your users. In simplicity, advertising/ marketing cost.
Business Model: How will you make money? Often enough, what startups think, and what they do is totally different. Think freemium, SaSS (Software as a service), subscription based etc.
Freemium: Giving your service away for free and plan to profit in the future.
Pricing Structure: How much do you plan to charge per user/ per customer. Do you offer tiered payment structures with multiple plans - like SaSS?

focuses on the ideas validation stage. Usually lasts for 4-8 weeks.
Accelerator: A 3-4 month training program for startups. Startups receive an investment, mentors and other benefits. Y Combinator (YC), is regarded as the best.
Incubator: Uses an external management team to give advice. Takes a larger equity percentage than an accelerator and often the duration of the program is much longer.
VC: Venture Capitalist's are investors that invest a large amount over $500K USD.
Angel: Angel investors are investors that invest a small amount often between $10-20K USD.

market into small markets (cohorts).
Cohort: This means, customer segments. For example, age cohorts aged 21-25, female cohorts in New Jersey etc.
LTV: Lifetime Value of a customer. Think, how long will they use, and continue to use your service in years. The longer, the better. Put simply, the amount of yearly revenue you get from one customer.
Product Differentiation: How does your product differ from your competitors?
Product Defensibility: What will you do to protect your product? For example, are you protected by a patent? How will you react to competitors and future competitors?

startup like a big pizza. It starts off in slices, gets smaller and smaller when someone takes a bite. Equity refers to the % ownership someone holds in a company. Tip read Slicing Pie, by Mike Moyer & read-up on Paul Graham's views on founders' equity.
Vested Equity: You get equity over time in small percentages. This prevents people leaving, (should) motivate people to work harder to attain company goals. Standard in startup contracts.
Cliff: Linked to vested equity. A cliff is a specific time period set as a trial. For example, one year, three years etc. It protects the company to an extent.
Company Structure: LLC, C Corp, S Corp. Tip: If you're in the U.S, register in Delaware, all startups do.
Stake: The percentage ownership someone has in your company.

"believe" your startup is worth? David S. Rose shares a lot of insightful content on Quora about investments & valuation.
Exit Strategy: Do you plan to sell your company? Which company will buy it? Will you get an IPO, and go public?
Go-to-Market Strategy: How you plan get your users and grow your service? For example: StartupLister -> BetaList -> Product Hunt -> TC
Validation: Think "The Lean Startup", go out & survey potential users to find out if they want your solution. Another way, can you verify that users will pay?
Scalability: The ability to add on more services OR expand to other markets. Tip: your first version should be minimalistic giving you room to grow.

founders don't know all of this. They learn it on the way :)