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

Startup Lessons Learned

is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?)

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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

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Ability to explain to the following technologies, standards and regulations to non-technical staff: AJAX, UNIX, RFC, W3C, HTTP, RDBMS, SCM, SEM, PBX, SEO, P3P, PCI-DSS, DPA, XP. © 1996 - 2010 Reincubate Limited. Past contribution to one or more Open Source projects. Personal Entrepreneurial attitude. XML sitemap.

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The Growth Marketing Process: How to Shake Your Growth Hack Addiction

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Sean Ellis coined the term “growth hacking” way back in 2010. Rob Sobers of Varonis confirms… Rob Sobers , Varonis : “While traditional marketing teams might appear to operate like growth teams in terms of the channels they use (SEM, content marketing, email, etc.), Since then, the term has taken on a life of its own.

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Lessons Learned: The App Store after the gold rush

Startup Lessons Learned

I think its helpful to think about two kinds of competition for distribution: acquisition competition and retention competition. On the web, we have many of these channels: SEM, SEO, world of mouth, PR and viral. Retention competition is how you get people to come back to your app. So what can you do? My advice: dont launch big.

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Lessons Learned: Q&A with an actual reader

Startup Lessons Learned

Revenue is always my preferred measure, but you can use anything that is important to your business: retention, activation, viral invites, or even customer satisfaction in the form of something like net promoter score. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.