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Why Build, Measure, Learn – isn’t just throwing things against the wall to see if they work

Steve Blank

Best practices in software development started to move to agile development in the early 2000’s. With Agile you could end up satisfying every feature a customer asked for and still go out of business. A major improvement over Waterfall development, Build Measure Learn lets startups be fast, agile and efficient. Lessons Learned.

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8 predictions that will affect the way we sell this decade

NZ Entrepreneur

It’s about becoming more agile. If you don’t know this stuff, you’re missing a whole world of sales insight that could direct your customer acquisition and retention strategies. Prediction: More businesses will rediscover traditional sales and marketing channels, as customers demand more personalisation.

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Trends That Might Be Shaping the Future of Risk and Risk Management

The Startup Magazine

Navigating these complexities demands a sophisticated understanding of global dynamics and a proactive approach to risk management. Demographic Shifts and Talent Risks As demographics undergo significant shifts , the dynamics of talent acquisition and retention evolve in tandem.

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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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Why Companies are Not Startups

Steve Blank

These groups are adapting or adopting the practices of startups and accelerators – disruption and innovation rather than direct competition, customer development versus more product features, agility and speed versus lowest cost. KPI’s and processes are the root cause of corporations’ inability to be agile and responsive innovators.

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What Does the Future Hold for Conversion Optimization?

ConversionXL

With agile development cycles and uncertain monetization models, they live and die by data and experimentation. Using the knowledge gained from this type of CRO process can optimize your sales teams, retention teams and even your shipping methods. Image Source. ” Deeper Data Skills. AI and automatic optimization.

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You Are What You Measure, So Choose Your KPIs (Incentives) Wisely!

Occam's Razor

Choose the right metric and they'll create the most glorious digital experience in the universe, the perfect acquisition campaign, the most amazing customer service channel. "OMG we spend mmm millions on TV, Radio and Magazines trying to create demand by interrupting people. Other questions will be much harder. "OMG

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