Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 The three drivers of growth for your business model. Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. Choose one.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2022

He was part of the management team that was instrumental in launching NYTimes.com’s first digital paid product and the acquisition of About.com. 22:24] Retention and recruitment have become really hot right now for a lot of organizations – what role can community play? [24:13] More About John Cantarella: Community Playbook.

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VC Cafe

JULY 15, 2021

The iOS app store officially launched on July 10 2008 with 500 apps. So while ads can be an effective way to grow, spending on user acquisition before figuring out monetisation is a sure way to shorten runway for early stage startups. Almost overnight, a huge new industry was created around mobile. Slack or Discord).

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule.

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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. Retention competition is how you get people to come back to your app. So what can you do?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

At IMVU , we would routinely find retention effects that would stem from registration changes and have impact days or weeks later. Why, we just unified acquisition and engagement! But from a pragmatic perspective I think its a dangerous thing to rely on when making concrete product decisions. March 25, 2009 9:19 AM Eric said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

If you haven’t figured out the ecosystem, growth is useless – whether it is a acquisition-only viral loop, like Tagged, or an advertising blitz like countless dot-bombs. Take the minimum viable product , for starters. Take the minimum viable product , for starters. They get focused solely on growth.

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