Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

Our challenge is in the customer retention, and we're in the process of doing segment pivot to validate our hypothesis that the other market segment has longer retention. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Pivot, don't jump to a new vision Why Continuous Deployment?

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Today, many of these businesses are suffering because the ecosystem no longer balances thanks to the Internet. Here’s Andrew Chen’s description : “it strikes me that consumer internet companies often don’t care much whether or not they have viable businesses in the short run. Sorry about that.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Products can find sources of validation with impressive stats along a number of dimensions, such as high engagement, viral coefficient, or long-term retention. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Some products have relatively obvious monetization mechanisms, and the real risks are in customer adoption.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

And thanks to the radical transparency enabled by the internet, the quality of these proposals is actually constantly rising, to the point that it’s almost impossible to judge the quality of the final product – because all the proposals look polished and professional, even the terrible ones.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2009

Retention cohort analysis. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. When startups ask me what to measure, I always come back to these three as a starting point: Revenue per customer.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

davemcclure : amazing concepts on Continuous Development => "Cluster Immune System" @EricRies #LeanStartup @fbFund [link] dalelarson : Because most features take longer to argue and prioritize than to build. ericries #leanstartup Another new idea in the section on continuous deployment and the cluster immune system.

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