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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

Both Sides of the Table

In fact, their affiliate partners dissuaded them from doing so. So when Google started pushing AdSense (ads for affiliate or 3rd party sites) they had a HUGE cost advantage. They were able to “buy&# the affiliate business because they had the Google.com cash cow. Google had huge destination traffic.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

Paid - if your product monetizes customers better than your competitors, you have the opportunity to use your lifetime value advantage to drive growth. In this model, you take some fraction of the lifetime value of each customer and plow that back into paid acquisition through SEM, banner ads, PR, affiliates, etc.

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Customer Discovery Tools for Lean Startups | Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

You will find here a list of tools you can use during the customer discovery phase. Google Forms Simply go to [link] and select “Create new” / “Form” and you will be presented with a very good form designer. I found VWO very easy to use with their user friendly designer. The answers are saved in a spreadsheet. Its really easy.

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Customer Discovery Tools for Lean Startups

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

You will find here a list of tools you can use during the customer discovery phase. Google Forms Simply go to [link] and select “Create new” / “Form” and you will be presented with a very good form designer. I found VWO very easy to use with their user friendly designer. The answers are saved in a spreadsheet. Its really easy.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

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" => I have not bothered to put up a landing page, survey to test customer demand, or done any customer development whatsoever. "Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?" 24 Comments • Nov 8, 2010 I love this answer. Yishan Wong • Nov 8, 2010 lol.if

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup comes to Stanford

Startup Lessons Learned

hitchens - theyre not open to the public as far as I know, but if you have an affiliation with Stanford engineering, undergrad, or GSB, its possible you could come audit. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

Up and Running

I used a freelance web designer and I only created the core functions to create, send, and manage invoices. Further functions such as expense tracking, recurring invoicing, and quoting were on my development list but I waited with the implementation until I was able to prove that my customers were interested in these additions.