Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

This is completely analogous to the situation elsewhere on the internet, where launching a new website, product, or service with PR is getting harder and harder. I think its helpful to think about two kinds of competition for distribution: acquisition competition and retention competition. My advice: dont launch big.

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San Francisco Lean Retention SEM 68

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

.” April, 2012 – Andrew Chen writes Growth Hacker is the new VP Marketing , which goes viral (2.4K In the article, Andrew describes growth hackers as a cross between marketers and coders. This means users love it, that there’s lots of retention and engagement, even at small numbers. It is simply getting customers.

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Retention Metrics Acquisition Conversion 48

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

But my coders will beat up your coders, any day of the week. No offense, but I honestly think you have no idea what you’re talking about, and your irrational language biases are probably making you lose some really good coders. ” So, essentially you want redneck coders that will kill it and grill it.

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Java PHP Software Review Coder 107