Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 13, 2008 SEM on five dollars a day How do you build a new product with constant customer feedback while simultaneously staying under the radar? SEM is a simple idea. chatted five times? Its simplicity made it effective - everyone in the company could use and understand it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

You can also download our presentation, " Just-In-Time Scalability: Agile Methods to Support Massive Growth." SEM on five dollars a day Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences Marc Prensky's Weblog: Cell Phones in Class A new version of the Joel Test (draft) Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your c.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

I usually use a "funnel report" that looks like this: Control Hypothesis A Hypothesis B Registered 1000 (100%) 1000 (100%) 500 (100%) Downloaded 650 (65%) 750 (75%) 200 (40%) Chatted 350 (35%) 350 (35%) 100 (20%) Purchased 100 (10%) 100 (10%) 25 (5%) In this case, you could run the report for any time period.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

For example, we used to be baffled at IMVU by the significant minority of people who would download the software but never chat with anyone. Like gmlk, I usually subscribe the first time I find something useful. Could this be done on mouse focus, commenting amounts, answer percentages, download percentages, etc?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

If you sell an online service that solves a defined problem, you can compete in SEO or SEM. I downloaded and tried all four of them (because I had time to kill) - and Im still not sure which one was the best. Hi Eric - Great post -- we have launched several apps and have spent time in the top 50 and top 100 lists.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 6, 2008

I tried your compiler and it generted the XPI file but when I link to it and click the link it actually downloads the binary into my browser window instead of popping up the Firefox plugin window. As I make more, youll find them (with source) at my Greasemonkey Compiler page. 2comments: Matthew Quinlan said. BTW, its FF 3.07

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Question 2: If your product has areas where people read and then different areas where people interact, are there ways to do metrics to determine where people spend their time? Could this be done on mouse focus, commenting amounts, answer percentages, download percentages, etc? How to listen to customers, and not just the loud.

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