Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Products can find sources of validation with impressive stats along a number of dimensions, such as high engagement, viral coefficient, or long-term retention. Go on an agile diet quickly. With a product development team that is not shipping, any agile methodology will surface major problems quickly. Great post! Expo SF (May.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Investors my tell you that, but what they can look at your product on paper and tell what it does and they will understand if it can be built.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

The challenge I want to take on is to be specific in the recommendations make, and to share how we can be very nimble and agile. tearsofpain One way of removing silos and focusing on the entire business is to leverage Acquisition, Behavior and Outcome metrics. You’ll see three consistent patterns in the thinking expressed below.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

The App Store is a channel for customer acquisition. 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. So what can you do? Its like knowing the future. Expo SF (May.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Corporate Agility. Transparency correlates to agility (Does your CEO know how many tests you ran last month?). Optimize for retention, not just acquisition. To understand acquisition you must understand lifetime value. Dropbox: first achieved growth through virality. Culture of Innovation. Continuous Optimization.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 5, 2022

Specifically, I plan on putting out one study per quarter that I'll send out to reporters and hopefully get viral coverage on social media. A spike in the amount of data needed to be stored has also necessitated the acquisition of more servers. It's important to keep business agile. Photo Credit: Scott Winstead.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

And if step one or two of the growth model start hitting a lot of friction, then of course it’s just going to get harder and harder, because each group of users is going to produce fewer and fewer users from an acquisition standpoint. Lauren : Yeah, it’s being able to lean into that agility—to shift strategies quickly and adapt.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

This is a common problem that results from viral-loop optimization. By copying the exact same registration flow as every other successful viral app, many viral apps completely lose their positioning. Heres why I dont think engagement loops are that helpful: unlike viral loops, its not bad if its not self-sustaining.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In a previous post , I covered the three main drivers of growth: Paid, Sticky, and Viral. Let’s look at a viral growth company, like Facebook. If you are building a large, viral, ad-support consumer internet property, you just want to go big! They’re off to cross the chasm. As soon as possible!&#

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, December 16, 2008 Engagement loops: beyond viral Theres a great and growing corpus of writing about viral loops, the step-by-step optimizations you can use to encourage maximum growth of online products by having customers invite each other to join. This is essentially a version of the viral loop.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

You have lots of sign ups, you’ve smashed your acquisition targets and the first slide of your pitch deck looks great! One of the great benefits of a startup is their ability to be agile and adapt quickly to a changing environment. These people hold the knowledge you need on what is happening and why. Engine of growth pivot.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 20, 2012

But even as nonpaying users, these earlyvangelists are willing or eager accelerators of your viral growth. A third, more productive approach is to develop the core features of the product (incrementally and iteratively with agile engineering methods), with the feature list driven by the vision and experience of the company’s founders.

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