Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 14, 2009 Business ecology and the four customer currencies Lately, I’ve been rethinking the concept of “business model&# for startups, in favor of something I call “business ecology.&# In a previous post , I covered the three main drivers of growth: Paid, Sticky, and Viral.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, March 24, 2009 The metrics and levers of engagement, presentation on Engagement Loops for Facebook Developer Garage SF Ill be presenting a talk at the Facebook Developer Garage SF Wednesday evening. This is a common problem that results from viral-loop optimization. It all depends on: 1.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Thursday, October 08, 2009. But does Larry hate cloud computing that much or is he hiding a potential future acquisition of Salesforce.com? 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 ▼ 2009. (9). ► 2008. (11). The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008 Release. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? Products can find sources of validation with impressive stats along a number of dimensions, such as high engagement, viral coefficient, or long-term retention. Great post!

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 10, 2008

Monday, March 10, 2008. Lets call this ratio the Customer Acquisition Cost ratio or CAC ratio. 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 ► 2009. (9). ▼ 2008. (11). The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008 Release. Cracking The Code. Measuring sales and marketing effectiveness of SaaS companies.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

Finally, we’ll zoom out and assess the big picture: how various categories of company may be impacted long-term, how this crisis compares to 2008 (and what that means for early-stage founders), and the industries and business models that are now prime for growth. Those things all got created in 2007, 2008.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

Monday, February 04, 2008. A few times per year, Bessemer organizes a CxO event for our portfolio companies and we decided to focus our first session of 2008 on Software-as-a-service (SaaS). 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 The 10 laws of SaaS unveiled at Bessemer CEO Summit. “Bookings” is for suckers.

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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. The App Store is a channel for customer acquisition. On the web, we have many of these channels: SEM, SEO, world of mouth, PR and viral. So what can you do?

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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. 90 Things I’ve Learned From Founding 4 Technology Companies. Find your Allen Morgan.

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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?) September 22nd, 2009 | Micropreneurship , Startups Building your startup? I used the app in early 2008 and thought it was great, having no idea Peldi was doing everything on his own. You just need to be lucky. Balsamiq is awesome.

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

2008 FOLIO Award Winners. 2009 Eddie and Ozzie Awards Winners. Curalate allows us to see how the content we pin to our boards is performing, as well as the content people are organically pinning from our sites, and more importantly how viral those actions are, since it’s reported that 80 percent of Pinterest activity comes from repins.”

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