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Re: sxsw-panelpicker-logo PanelPicker®

David Cancel — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 18:42:30 -0000

Looking forward to this panel. Sounds awesome!

Osmond brothers too. WOW!

Re: NextView Investment Themes: A Search for Authenticity

David Cancel — Wed, 07 Oct 2015 10:35:30 -0000

My respect and love for you guys just continues to grow. Great post!

Re: Why There’s No Such Thing as an Aspiring Entrepreneur

David Cancel — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 13:38:01 -0000

HELL FUCKING YES!

MORE DOERS PLEASE!

Re: “I Have an Idea….”

David Cancel — Wed, 09 May 2012 16:58:24 -0000

Brings me back to one of my favorite rants. In a startup there are only two job roles: Selling and Building, nothing else. No Strategy VP, No HR, No other shit.

Re: http://nabeelhyatt.com/post/20477592292

David Cancel — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:11:19 -0000

Spoken like a true VC.

Just messing with you. Agreed.

Re: Who is this Email From? The Importance of the “From” Line

David Cancel — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:41:10 -0000

Hi,

I'm the head of Products at HubSpot. Thanks for the post you bring up a good point, I'll pass it on to the team.

As to what Email Provider we use, HubSpot of course! :)

Our marketing team sends all their emails from our new Email Product which will be rolling out to customers really soon. If you want to use it now you can signup to the beta group. It is totally amazing IMHO and will blow your minds when you use it.

David

Re: I'm starting a company

David Cancel — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:19:11 -0000

Cool sounds in the same world as Performable was. Good luck Colin!

Re: Looking for tmobile feedback

David Cancel — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 18:26:43 -0000

T-mobile is the only carrier I actually enjoyed my experience with. I had a blackberry with them before the 1st gen iphone came out, I briefly ran an unlocked iphone on their network before switching to AT&T. Worst mistake ever.

I never had an problems with T-mobile's service, they can't compare to Verizon's coverage or speed but were better than AT&T, even in the 1st gen iphone days were their coverage was much better than it is today.

I'm currently on Verizon with an HTC Incredible. I think the phone is ...fine... but the network is great. I would love to switch to the Nexus S if it proves to be as great as the specs say it is.

Re: You Are a Product - Blog - thoughts from the red planet

David Cancel — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:57:58 -0000

I'm not a businessman. I'm a BUSINESS, man.

Re: Data-Driven Startups by David Cancel

David Cancel — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 17:41:11 -0000

Thanks for the blog post!!!

You put the deck into better perspective than I did by including Mike's notes on maximizing iterations. Well done!

Cheers,
David

Re: Lifecycle Marketing & Building Successful Products

David Cancel — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 19:14:36 -0000

We, at Performable do too. I will upload the deck by this weekend.

;dc

Re: Lifecycle Marketing & Building Successful Products

David Cancel — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 18:59:06 -0000

I was just finishing up a slide deck on this exact topic. I'll post a link when I'm done.

Thanks for the link to my co-founder at Performable, Josh Porter.

Re: Tumblr Doesn’t Leave Posterous in the Dust (or “Why Facebook is scared of Twitter”)

David Cancel — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:35:37 -0000

I would like to see these metrics filtered for porn. I believe most of biggest traffic'd sites on Tumblr are porn sites.

Re: How we improved our conversion rate by 72%

David Cancel — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:42:51 -0000

Dan,

Thanks for the link to the Performable. Impressive results!

In-case you missed it we just released a new app called SuperConversionButton.com (http://www.superconversionb...). Would love your feedback on it.

Cheers,
David

Re: A/B Testing: Can you iterate your way to great products?

David Cancel — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:05:08 -0000

Hi Josh,

Thanks for the good post and contribution to the current Anti-A/B testing trend.

I'm a big proponent of A/B Testing ( having created the site abtests.com ) but like any other tool it can and is often misused. I gave a talk recently called Data-Driven Startups ( http://davidcancel.com/data... ) at a Lean Startup Meetup that goes into this issue, as well as the whole lean startup/customer development trend

I won't repeat myself but will include a couple of excerpts from my presentation:

"There are *NO* repeatable patterns for startup success. *None*. Stop looking for one." (Slide 14)

"Analytics & A/B Testing are also *not* the answer" (Slide 23)

"Multivariate Testing is *Useless*." (Slide 26)

"The point of testing is to prove or disprove assumptions *quickly*".

Cheers,
David

Re: A/B testing is no panacea

David Cancel — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:03:43 -0000

Good post and contribution to the current anti A/B testing trend.

I'm a big proponent of A/B Testing ( abtests.com ) but like any other tool it can and is often misused. I gave a talk recently called Data-Driven Startups ( http://davidcancel.com/data... ) that goes into this issue, as well as the whole lean startup/customer development trend

I won't repeat myself but will include a couple of excerpts from my presentation:

"There are *NO* repeatable patterns for startup success. *None*. Stop looking for one." (Slide 14)

"Analytics & A/B Testing are also *not* the answer" (Slide 23)

"Multivariate Testing is *Useless*." (Slide 26)

"The point of testing is to prove or disprove assumptions *quickly*".

Cheers,
David

Re: Data-Driven Startups

David Cancel — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:40:36 -0000

Kevin,

Thanks for stopping by. The only repeatable patterns that I know of all lead to failure.

I don't see the contradiction. I am suggesting tools to add to your toolbelt. If you were building a house I'd advocate for using a hammer, but using a hammer doesn't mean you'll be successful at building a house.

Re: Data-Driven Startups

David Cancel — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:33:41 -0000

Good point, totally different for your business. Most startups won't have enough users to warrant a cohort analysis.

;dc

Re: Data-Driven Startups

David Cancel — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 16:55:34 -0000

I totally agree with you! I don't use them at all, wonder what compelled me
to include them in my presentation....

;dc

Re: Data-Driven Startups

David Cancel — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:53:18 -0000

The fact that you have to update it manually is why I recommend Excel. It's
ok that it is painful at first, this is the GPS for your business, w/o it
you don't know if you wandering in circles. Startups are full of PAIN, get
used to it, brush it off and keep on smiling.

If your team finds this painful and gives up what are they going to do when
things really get hard?? Startups are rollercoasters, great highs and
crushing lows, updating Excel is a mild annoyance in the grand scheme of it
all. Hopefully you'll solve a real problem and make enough money to warrant
investing in automation.

;dc

Re: 8 Startup Lessons from Constant Contact

David Cancel — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:10:24 -0000

Hi,

If you follow the link to the original article you can see photos and access
the full audio feed of the event.

Cheers,
David

Re: One Page Web Sites: Are they for You?

David Cancel — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:59:53 -0000

Hi Ted,

I think it's a pretty good idea and have seen it done that way before. Would also love for you to try out our app for this use-case. We'd love to get your feedback on using it for this use-case.

Cheers,
David

PS. You have a great website!

Re: Momentum Summit 2010 Features Great Content for Startup Founders

David Cancel — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:21:40 -0000

The next case is 7/15, please come down and if you ever see me at an event please stop me and say hi. I'm easy to spot in a crowd! ;-)

Looking forward to finally meeting.
;dc

Re: Momentum Summit 2010 Features Great Content for Startup Founders

David Cancel — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:29:46 -0000

Kyle,

Sorry we didn't get a chance to meet. Thanks for the mention!

Cheers,
David

Re: Notes of an Operational VC - Why do SaaS companies suck at making usable products?

David Cancel — Thu, 20 May 2010 21:08:00 -0000

Firas,

Agreed, it's something I advocated at my previous companies, Compete. I
started our blog back in 2006 and once we got in a rhythm most of our team
was contributing to it on a regular basis. Content generation along with our
free tool Compete.com became our largest lead sources and continue to be
core to the business.

David