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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 The three drivers of growth for your business model. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?) He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

April 27, 2009 8:59 AM Anonymoussaid. Paring down products, target customers, business models etc takes courage, but it must be done to have any chance of success. Paring down products, target customers, business models etc takes courage, but it must be done to have any chance of success.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, July 29, 2009 Embrace technical debt Financial debt plays an important and positive role in our economy under normal conditions. For example, I’ve talked often about our belief that an instant messaging add-on product would allow IMVU to take advantage of a network effects strategy.

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Austin: the Lean Startup tour continues

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, May 27, 2009 Austin: the Lean Startup tour continues Next week I head to Austin, TX for my first visit ever. and lean manufacturing to guide the creation of technology businesses that create disruptive innovation. Thanks, Alexandre Gomes May 28, 2009 8:59 AM Eric Overton said.

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10 years of entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, July 9, 2009 10 years of entrepreneurship I recently passed my ten-year anniversary of becoming an entrepreneur. Unfortunately, we were fixated on "building a real business" and never noticed that maybe students would want to share their profiles with each other. No business model, either.

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Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, March 13, 2009 Dont launch Heres a common question I get from startups, especially in the early stages: when should we launch? You have to know your business model. Most startups launch before theyve figured out what business theyre in. March 13, 2009 1:50 PM dan simard said.

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Lessons Learned: When NOT to listen to your users; when NOT to.

Startup Lessons Learned

Whats needed is a disciplined methodology for understanding the needs of customers and how they combine to form a viable business model. The site is now a sad footnote in the history of Social Networking Services. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. How did they do it? By listening to their users.