Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, December 16, 2008 Engagement loops: beyond viral Theres a great and growing corpus of writing about viral loops, the step-by-step optimizations you can use to encourage maximum growth of online products by having customers invite each other to join. This is essentially a version of the viral loop.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Lean Startups/Back to Basics (2000-2010): No IPO’s, limited VC cash, lack of confidence and funding fuels “lean startup” era with limited M&A and even less IPO activity. 2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup. During the the Lean Startup era, the advice was clear; focus on building the company and avoid hype.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

It has been awesome, flattering, and humbling to see that post went viral and has been seen by so many thousands of people — mainly aspiring entrepreneurs — and has been translated into many languages. Before there was Fab there was fabulis, a social network meets places guide targeted to the gay community.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Costs of product on YouTube content is literally 99% cheaper than traditional TV and; Distribution of content can now go viral and can predictably distributed via social networks. No matter how much it bothers you, people do like to entertain themselves with a “lean back” experience.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 8, 2013

This thought was in my mind as I was reading Lean Analytics a new book by my friend Alistair Croll and his collaborator Benjamin Yoskovitz. In this post, we’ll look at each of the four steps in the Lean Analytics Cycle in more detail. If it's the number of invites sent, it's virality. But it is not routine.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

A few weeks ago, I wrote about Lean Marketing Strategies for Small Businesses and Startups. Many asked if we could share more lean marketing strategies and tips. Today’s post starts a new series in the crowdSPRING Blog – Lean Marketing 101 – focusing on lean marketing for startups and small businesses.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

One of the most important lessons entrepreneurs can learn from Dropbox is to adopt the lean start-up methodology and start. They have completely changed the social network space, managing to innovate new ways to monetize creativity while competing against popular social media platforms. 2- Dropbox. 9- Discord.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 24, 2025

There will certainly be a place where a lot of companies lean into being more human, more service oriented. There's one prompt that I fell in love with and it went like super viral on LinkedIn. It's like my most viral post to date was a deep research prompt and it's really useful. Like AI frees us up to do the more human things.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking. 9) Accelerate portfolio company value.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 11, 2009

This model has not translated well to the world of social networking, because customers of social networks engage sites in a different way than customers of search engines. Social network page views are much more likely to be internally focused; ads are more of a distraction.

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Brandanew

MARCH 11, 2016

In fact they scored the opposite when their controversial statements were made viral by Obama supporters, leading to complete negative publicity. Participative democracy: The other important aspect of Obama’s social strategy was the empowerment of average people or at least the sense of it.

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Brandanew

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

In fact they scored the opposite when their controversial statements were made viral by Obama supporters, leading to complete negative publicity. Participative democracy: The other important aspect of Obama’s social strategy was the empowerment of average people or at least the sense of it.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

Lean marketing. There are a number of other variables here like virality (the chances of a user referring another user), but I don’t want to overcomplicate things. The faster your try and measure the effectiveness of a growth idea, the faster you’ll make it or break it and be able to move to the next one.

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View from Seed

MARCH 8, 2016

If you’re building a product that can grow virally—a social network, for example—brand is almost certainly less important at launch than product. Can you still operate in some kind of lean or scrappy way and launch a brand that resonates with the market? You can absolutely launch lean and scrappy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

On the web, we have many of these channels: SEM, SEO, world of mouth, PR and viral. If your app has strong word-of-mouth or viral components, your retention drives new acquisition, and its not so important to have good placement in the store. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. The observation sounds strange.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 18, 2016

Preysman’s infographic was a viral masterpiece. The Tumblr post was shared across the social network ( it now has over 19,000 notes ) and spawned spirited discussions about retail markup among social media and fashion blogs. The infographic was then posted to Tumblr with the simple title “ It’s a Fact. ”.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 9, 2020

John Jantsch: Well, and I think sometimes people hear that breaking through and crashing through and all that means is, turn up the volume, do something more viral, forget about the fact that it has any value to the brand, you’ve just got to get noticed. I always talk about the idea that virality. Tim Staples: Yeah, we are.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Your brand lives in everyday interactions with customers and prospective customers, the images you share, your company website, the content of your marketing materials, and in your posts on social networks. 5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!). What do you think?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

If the viral coefficient is 0.9, Launching is about creating circles within circles (groups of people that connect) and social networking, word of mouth, and real-world advertising are all contributing factors. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Pay attention to your fundamental driver of growth.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Wordoid , NameVine and Lean Domain Search generate new words by appending their own prefixes and suffixes to your root, though I’ve found many of these results are not very good. You’ve probably already used this trick when a username is taken on one of the big social networking sites. Social Media Lists. Social Media.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

As Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz detail in their book, Lean Analytics, cohort analysis has special relevance for the customer lifecycle, enabling marketers. Cohort analysis can be done for revenue, churn, viral word of mouth, support costs, or any other metric you care about. By traffic source.

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grasshopperherder.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

We’re testing a viral loop, direct sales, and affiliate marketing.&# &# A: “I don’t know, I’m targeting a six month schedule.&# Q: “What will be your best channel for customer acquisition?&# A: “I don’t know. Those are answers I respect, because you don’t know everything and neither do I.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Over 60% of small business owners are using social media to attract new customers, over 75% of these companies have Facebook pages;,and almost half of small businesses are successfully acquiring new customers through online social networks! Lean Marketing: Public Relations strategies for small businesses and startups.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. The way I see it, you have two options: (1) keep digging, this goes viral, and your company is a joke; (2) apologize and/or shut up, and your company keeps bumbling along as it has been.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 2, 2025

And I know this having worked previously on the inside of brands, leading social media, having previously worked for LinkedIn, being a social network that you can't really scale or automate relationships. You cannot rely on these social networks to give you reach. That's what these social networks do.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

You either luck out that your idea goes viral (which happens to maybe 1 out of 10,000 startups?) At the same time, by following better business practices one can be lean, flexible, efficient, nimble or fast-growing – whatever is required to succeed. In these cases, the market doesn’t matter because luck trumps everything.

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