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Smith: Obsessing over early-stage metrics is just watching the scoreboard
“Cause I feel like at this stage, it's only watching the scoreboard during the game. The truth is, is that you're just trying your very hardest, no matter what the score is.”
Blake Smith Jul 3, 2017 ▶ 8:39 709: 17,000 Using This To Manage Wardrobe Efficiently
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Adding more onboarding quiz questions surprisingly increased Cladwell's completion rate
“Actually, the more questions we added up to that point, the more people actually filled it out, which I thought was really interesting.”
Blake Smith Jul 7, 2016 ▶ 2:50 EP 348: 11,500 Paying Him To Manage One-Piece Wardrobe with Blake Smith
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Smith: SaaS business models are entirely acquisition, churn, and pricing
“There's, it's a simple equation. You have new users, churned users, price per user. That is our entire business model. And you have to, as a product person, you have to be jumping from each of those three continually for the life of the business.”
Blake Smith Jul 3, 2017 ▶ 4:50 709: 17,000 Using This To Manage Wardrobe Efficiently
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Smith: A startup cannot effectively have two co-head leaders
“You can't really have two, two head leaders in a company.”
Blake Smith Jul 7, 2016 ▶ 6:50 EP 348: 11,500 Paying Him To Manage One-Piece Wardrobe with Blake Smith
Insight
Smith: Dropshipping and affiliates are 'shoveling nickels' with operational headaches
“Like, affiliates is shoveling nickels. I'd say drop shipping is shoveling nickels, and you have to deal with shipping problems.”
Blake Smith Jul 7, 2016 ▶ 9:18 EP 348: 11,500 Paying Him To Manage One-Piece Wardrobe with Blake Smith
Insight
Smith: Digital marketing is like drilling for oil until the well empties
“In general, I think digital marketing is really just the process, it's like, it's looking for oil, When you find it, you dump all your resources into it until it's empty, and then you go find some more.”
Blake Smith Jul 7, 2016 ▶ 16:28 EP 348: 11,500 Paying Him To Manage One-Piece Wardrobe with Blake Smith
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