Acquisition Agile Design Retention 
Steve Blank
MAY 6, 2015
Founders assumed they understood customer problems/needs, wrote engineering requirements documents, designed the product, implemented /built the hardware/software, verified that it worked by testing it, and then introduced the product to customers in a formal coming out called first customer ship. customer relationships to create demand.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
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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The Startup Magazine
JANUARY 16, 2024
To maximize the impact of flash sales, position your campaigns as events that are designed specifically for loyal customers or members of a loyalty program. Firstly, these time-sensitive promotions can act as catalysts for customer acquisition and retention, fostering a sense of loyalty among those eager to capitalize on exclusive deals.
andrewchenblog.com
MARCH 10, 2010
However, there’s the other side of the coin, which is the product design. After you’ve added a ton of new features and stuck them all on the homepage, you create Product Design debt. Arguably, MySpace is a company that never paid down their product design debt, and their traffic has been impacted as a result.
Steve Blank
MARCH 4, 2014
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. For most companies it feels like innovation can only happen by exception and heroic efforts, not by design.
ConversionXL
JANUARY 24, 2017
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. research, data analysis, UX, psychology, copywriting, design and many more skills).”.
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 14, 2009
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. Go on an agile diet quickly. With a product development team that is not shipping, any agile methodology will surface major problems quickly.
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