Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. Products can find sources of validation with impressive stats along a number of dimensions, such as high engagement, viral coefficient, or long-term retention. This unit of progress is remarkable in several ways.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

And anytime you strike a deal for digital distribution of any content, insist that your creators be given real-time access to the big-picture metrics: not just downloads, but engagement, retention and replay. link] August 24, 2009 2:50 PM Quentin said. Very good "chewy" stuff, Eric - well done & thanks.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

Remember: All data in aggregate is crap, segment or suck. There are multiple points of value from the Trailheads program (lower support costs, higher retention, faster time to value for clients etc.) I pay monthly subscriptions for the Guardian, New York Times, Washington Post, The New Yorker and National Geographic.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In an ecosystem, each participant acts according to its own imperatives, but these selfish actions have an aggregate effect. What these products all have in common is the question their minimum viable product is attempting to answer: does this product have high natural retention built-in? Take the minimum viable product , for starters.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2018

RapidMiner has rolled out a SaaS beta that, with a bit of manual adjustment, translates an Excel sheet full of, say, employment data to a prediction of employee retention: A dataset in Excel—a starting point in which most marketers are already comfortable. RapidMiner parses the Excel file prior to crunching the numbers.

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