ConversionXL

AUGUST 24, 2021

As you can see, there are many names for marketing managers and many niches for marketing managers. Marketers can be involved in product development to ensure the product aligns with the customers’ needs, in communicating price points, in finding the best angles to keep customers coming back, and so on. Know the magic.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, September 18, 2008 How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone I have had the opportunity to meet a lot of iPhone-related companies lately. Even with only a few months of development, third parties have crammed every single category in the store full of apps. I cant really tell.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Another great way to test your idea is to create a minimum viable product, or MVP. This is the simplest version of your product minus the frills and frosting. It’s a particularly popular strategy in the world of product development and is used to quickly and quantitatively test a product or a product feature.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2011

Inspired by lessons from lean manufacturing, it relies on “validated learning,” rapid scientific experimentation, as well as a number of counter-intuitive practices that shorten product development cycles, measure actual progress without resorting to vanity metrics, and learn what customers really want. It's self-serving.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Their distribution and relationship are based on empirical data.”. You then give them a Limbic Map® and ask them: When you are shopping for [Product Name], pick the top 3 words that BEST describe what you associate with the product. Why these particular values? The Seven Limbic® types.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

One of the sayings I hear from talented managers in product development is, “good enough never is.&# And, most importantly, it helps team members develop the courage to stand up for these values in stressful situations. We already know who to distribute the product to (or else why would we care what they think?).

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

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. I think its helpful to think about two kinds of competition for distribution: acquisition competition and retention competition. So what can you do? I am a little curious here.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 7, 2010

At least, not in the traditional sense of trying to squeeze every tenth of a point out of a conversion metric or landing page. In fact, the curse of product development is that sometimes small things make a huge difference and sometimes huge things make no difference. For example, I’m a big believer in split-testing.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Map out each lifecycle stage and variations, and name each. Understand growth accounting – new, resurrected vs churned = net growth (can also look at this at feature level, not only product). Work hard to define meaningful product metrics – enabler of team success. Find agreement on a common definition.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

They took on cheesy stock photos and cringey names like Big Spender Billy. In addition, the adoption of personas by marketers led to distrust in the validity of the methodology by designers and developers. Development teams couldn’t use marketing personas to make design decisions, so they decided personas weren’t that useful. (It

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Our tests suite takes nine minutes to run (distributed across 30-40 machines). In a lot of cases, thats just a fancy name for revenue or profit, but not always. This development philosophy created a culture around rapid prototyping of features, followed by testing them against large numbers of actual customers. But it worked.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 7, 2017

They took on cheesy stock photos and cringey names like Big Spender Billy. In addition, the adoption of personas by marketers led to distrust in the validity of the methodology by designers and developers. Development teams couldn’t use marketing personas to make design decisions, so they decided personas weren’t that useful. (It

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

We would pretty much bid on any phrase that was "[name of competitive product] chat" and variations like that. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

Also SJ's obsession with better taste (positively) contributes to the overall product development process. There are some good anecdotes about Chief Engineers in the Toyota Product Development Book. I really enjoyed this article, my first time reading any of your stuff. Will start to pay attention. Great post Eric.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2022

My name milita tub was an early investor in communities and started the community fund. You know, we're seeing multiple companies use it for product development and they're, they're using what they're hearing in their communities to make their product better and have a, a continuous conversation with, with a customer.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 21, 2013

If you're working on the Sticky Engine of Growth , you're focused on very different metrics from those that you care about in the Viral Engine of Growth. Similarly, a two-sided marketplace cares about different things from a traditional e-commerce product. Finding your One Metric That Matters But it's not enough just to know "normal".

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Even the most radical Bell Curve -style thinkers have to concede that even if there are differences between men and women in the distribution of these traits on average, these curve have substantial overlap, and there should still be a lot more of them represented in high-tech startups. “Who is this guy?&# “Who is this guy?&#

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. Building Product 2. Building Metrics / Usage Reports / KPI 3. Product/Metrics (70%/30% time) * Get your product activation (sign-up + meaningful action) to 60% * then, Get your product retention to 20% weekly.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

I used to think a giant flat-panel screen that broadcast our companys key metrics would be what was required to get everyone to pay attention to them. Simply put, we upload all the tasks and assign a name to each task. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Imagine you want to store data about customers, each of whom has "last name" field in your database. The problem should be familiar to anyone who plays Scrabble: not all letter are equally likely to be used as the first letter of someones name. Give each entity a name. For example, consider this simple scheme.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2009

We walked them through what we thought would be the major application of our product. Namely, that they agree to use it free of charge if we deliver it to them and it is capable of X, Y and Z. We walked them through what we thought would be the major application of our product. Most people were quite receptive and encouraging.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Content, including articles, guides, and case studies, can still generate prospects and customers consistently—you just need to approach distribution from a different angle. But, ultimately, it generates paying customers—and that’s the only metric that really matters. Use Q&A content to funnel prospects to your products.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

Many of these companies are started by entrepreneurs, and are now household names: Google, Yahoo, eBay and Intel. The cost of creating new companies is falling rapidly, and access to markets, distribution, and information is within the reach of anyone with an Internet connection. Startups are the lifeblood of our economy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

Since then, PHP (as part of the LAMP stack ) has really been the dominant development platform, at least in the free software and startup worlds. Some of them are probably still cursing my name, because - lets face it - PHP can be pretty painful. The IMVU downloadable client, just to name one example, is written primarily in python.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 17, 2017

They have a ratings system and build distribution algorithms to best distribute lawn care providers to customers. Since LawnStarter involves more than the traditional add-to-cart and then complete purchase conversion metrics, they utilize their customer and web data in various channels. ” Algorithm Optimization.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Add a class name to buttons, forms, quotes, etc. Startup Metrics for Pirates â?? SaaS Metrics Tutorial â?? free, distributed source code control management system. Great for visualizing work of product development. Eventbrite. Women Focus. Girls in Tech. and they will instantly look pretty. Mercurial â??

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

No, I am the troll who who stood proudly on the APC until a man who was nothing more than an egotistical and maniacal bully named Clifford Hicks proved once and for all that IMVU only cared about IMVU - and not its community. It's nice to "see" that human beings are actually behind a name. I'm not just any troll.

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