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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 The three drivers of growth for your business model. Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. Choose one.

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Paul Graham on fundraising

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 2, 2008 Paul Graham on fundraising I have found no better primer on the current realities of starting a new technology company in a startup hub like Silicon Valley than Paul Grahams essays. Its to everyones advantage to let the world think the founders thought of everything. Even VCs do it.

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Not crossing the chasm

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 2, 2008 Not crossing the chasm What does life feel like in the chasm ? In a subscription business, maybe your attrition starts matching your acquisition, balancing like magic. Or your cost of customer acquisition just magically floats up to match your customer lifetime value.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

It should be even more important to the founders themselves, because it demonstrates that their business hypothesis is grounded in reality. These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process. More on that in a moment. They are close to breakeven.

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Lessons Learned: The App Store after the gold rush

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, October 7, 2008 The App Store after the gold rush I wrote earlier about the issue of distribution advantage on the iPhone. The App Store is a channel for customer acquisition. Having that data will let you pick an acquisition strategy that is appropriate for your app. So what can you do?

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What is a startup?

Startup Lessons Learned

To see proof of this, simply observe the results of the large majorities of corporate acquisitions of startups. To see proof of this, simply observe the results of the large majorities of corporate acquisitions of startups. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Lessons Learned: The metrics and levers of engagement.

Startup Lessons Learned

Why, we just unified acquisition and engagement! I do think the concept allows us to unify acquisition and engagement, and is important for that reason. helping you balance engagement vs acquisition. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. March 25, 2009 9:16 AM Jesse Farmer said.

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