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Customer Development Sean Ellis Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA Program (Steve Blank) October 16, 2009
Startup Risk & Upside = Customers Traction is tough Acquiring at scale even tougher Where do you start? Hundreds of things you “could do” Most early marketing effort wasted 2 startup-marketing.com
Road to IPOs: What Really Mattered? Apply engineering to marketing Focus on right metrics & optimize Understand users and use cases Early execution is most critical 3 startup-marketing.com
My Key Focus Now Critical Zone Critical Zone IPOs Growth Stage Then light advising in growth stage 4 startup-marketing.com
Customer Development Sequence 5 startup-marketing.com
Growth Starts with Right Product 6 startup-marketing.com
What is Product/Market Fit? People want/need your product And they represent large enough market Differentiated from alternatives Users will pay for your product Or you are advertising supported 7 startup-marketing.com
“Life of any startup can be divided into two parts -before P/M fit and after P/M fit” Marc Andreessen Founder Netscape, Opsware, Ning 8 startup-marketing.com
PayPal’s Quest for P/M Fit $200K seed funding - cryptography “No one really needed it” Max Levchin $4.5M VC funding - PDA payments People preferred web demo (100X users) $1.5B sale to eBay – web payments 9 startup-marketing.com
Survey Your Product/Market Fit Free template at Survey.io 10 startup-marketing.com
Key Product/Market Fit Question “How would you feel if you could no longer use Product?” 11 startup-marketing.com
Transition to Growth 12 startup-marketing.com
Transition to Growth Track/report right metrics Positioning (based on perceived value) Start recruiting head of marketing Viable economics (business model) Scalable growth strategy 13 startup-marketing.com
Hiring/Managing VP Marketing Hire marketer with founder DNA CEO & VP Marketing form partnership CEO shouldn’t abdicate startup’s fate Goal = Scalable, profitable channels Insist on perfect execution  14 startup-marketing.com
Optimize Before Growing Landing pages Funnel (acquisition through transaction) 12% 13% 8% … 15 startup-marketing.com
Scalable Growth Now Possible 17 startup-marketing.com
Test from Free to Paid Channels 18 startup-marketing.com
Driving/Managing Growth Budget to maximize positive ROI spend 19 startup-marketing.com
Improve Lifetime Value Customer retention is critical Cross/up sell additional products This expands profitable channels 20 startup-marketing.com
Complete Startup Pyramid Growth Optimize Economics Positioning Product/Market Fit Twitter:  @seanellis Blog: startup-marketing.com

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Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA Program (Steve Blank)

  • 1. Customer Development Sean Ellis Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA Program (Steve Blank) October 16, 2009
  • 2. Startup Risk & Upside = Customers Traction is tough Acquiring at scale even tougher Where do you start? Hundreds of things you “could do” Most early marketing effort wasted 2 startup-marketing.com
  • 3. Road to IPOs: What Really Mattered? Apply engineering to marketing Focus on right metrics & optimize Understand users and use cases Early execution is most critical 3 startup-marketing.com
  • 4. My Key Focus Now Critical Zone Critical Zone IPOs Growth Stage Then light advising in growth stage 4 startup-marketing.com
  • 5. Customer Development Sequence 5 startup-marketing.com
  • 6. Growth Starts with Right Product 6 startup-marketing.com
  • 7. What is Product/Market Fit? People want/need your product And they represent large enough market Differentiated from alternatives Users will pay for your product Or you are advertising supported 7 startup-marketing.com
  • 8. “Life of any startup can be divided into two parts -before P/M fit and after P/M fit” Marc Andreessen Founder Netscape, Opsware, Ning 8 startup-marketing.com
  • 9. PayPal’s Quest for P/M Fit $200K seed funding - cryptography “No one really needed it” Max Levchin $4.5M VC funding - PDA payments People preferred web demo (100X users) $1.5B sale to eBay – web payments 9 startup-marketing.com
  • 10. Survey Your Product/Market Fit Free template at Survey.io 10 startup-marketing.com
  • 11. Key Product/Market Fit Question “How would you feel if you could no longer use Product?” 11 startup-marketing.com
  • 12. Transition to Growth 12 startup-marketing.com
  • 13. Transition to Growth Track/report right metrics Positioning (based on perceived value) Start recruiting head of marketing Viable economics (business model) Scalable growth strategy 13 startup-marketing.com
  • 14. Hiring/Managing VP Marketing Hire marketer with founder DNA CEO & VP Marketing form partnership CEO shouldn’t abdicate startup’s fate Goal = Scalable, profitable channels Insist on perfect execution 14 startup-marketing.com
  • 15. Optimize Before Growing Landing pages Funnel (acquisition through transaction) 12% 13% 8% … 15 startup-marketing.com
  • 16. Scalable Growth Now Possible 17 startup-marketing.com
  • 17. Test from Free to Paid Channels 18 startup-marketing.com
  • 18. Driving/Managing Growth Budget to maximize positive ROI spend 19 startup-marketing.com
  • 19. Improve Lifetime Value Customer retention is critical Cross/up sell additional products This expands profitable channels 20 startup-marketing.com
  • 20. Complete Startup Pyramid Growth Optimize Economics Positioning Product/Market Fit Twitter: @seanellis Blog: startup-marketing.com