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The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, May 14, 2009 The Lean Startup Workshop - now an OReilly Master Class My rate of posting has been much lower lately, and this is mostly due to preparations for the upcoming Lean Startup Workshop on May 29. We attempted to use Waterfall and market ourselves as B2C. It was a disaster.

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The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development

Startup Lessons Learned

This new volume also tackles examples from the Internet and wireless startups of today, both B2B and B2C. Ill give them the last word: You are already skeptical of Customer Development and Lean Startups and the slew of emerging buzzwords and supple-to-the-point-of-meaningless terms.

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Increase Repeat Purchases with Cohort Analysis

ConversionXL

Overall acquisition costs for both B2C and B2B have gone up by 50% in the past five years. As Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz detail in their book, Lean Analytics, cohort analysis has special relevance for the customer lifecycle, enabling marketers. Cohort metrics can help drive more repeat customers. mobile purchasers).

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 1) Manage the firm . This is harder than it sounds.

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Raising Money Using Customer Development

Steve Blank

Your presentation doesn’t have a single word about Lean Startups or Customer Development. We also talk about cash flow management rather than fund-raising though – watch and justifying expenses by cash coming in that matches or exceeds. Did the VC’s like your team ? This is a radical departure from a traditional VC pitch.

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Startups: It’s not Thelma & Louise

Austin Startup

As a boot-strapped founder aka our biggest investor, one of the things I leaned into uncovering was the unknown. Lean into it. If you’re a founder/product manager/business owner, I encourage you to find that out! swing for the fences category-building B2C software capital?—?wasn’t What did our customers think?

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Lean Marketing: Basic Metrics You Should be Watching. Now.

crowdSPRING Blog

But when it comes to measurement, many managers struggle with developing and tracking the metrics specific to their strategy. An important step is to figure out which metrics are the ones that are important to your business. Every business, whether B2B or B2C has to bring in customers. Customer Acquisition Cost.

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