Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2019

You may start with prototype products, but you need rock-solid processes for successful growth and agility. The problem is that you may not have the experience or connections to jump into new customer segments, manufacturing, and distribution. Focus on existing customer retention and repeat business.

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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?) Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. It’s just taking some longer than others.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2019

Fit for the test: Normal tests assume independence and that error is normally distributed. Optimization is by nature agile: CRO yields new data for the team to prove that whatever the organization did was good or bad. It’s a wave—the agile Tsunami. Interpretable: Easy to tell how a change altered user behavior. You can’t see it.)

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

And so this very agile, iterative process of bringing new technologies and prototyping systems. But we haven’t necessarily trained our acquisition people, incented them to have a greater risk tolerance that’s required for this agile development of emerging technologies.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers. 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. Great post! Expo SF (May.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Bontq – hosted bug tracking and project management needs.

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Up and Running

JULY 30, 2014

Micromanagement decreases business agility. As a result, they take on extra work and don’t distribute knowledge. But, it is important for a manager to learn to embrace the distribution of power and responsibility. Under the watchful eyes of a micromanager, innovation dies and companies stagnate.

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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. There are multiple points of value from the Trailheads program (lower support costs, higher retention, faster time to value for clients etc.) The site has tons and tons of content, almost haphazardly so.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

Bonuses have been distributed. But if you want to be an agile, nimble competitor, it is a discussion you have to have. First, the company deemphasizes short term win — installs — and emphasizes the long term win — retention. How do we go about releasing updates to ensure higher retention?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

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. If an optimization has an effect at the micro level that doesnt translate into the macro level - who cares? . Expo SF (May.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

customer retention, churn reduction, lifetime value. Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. free, distributed source code control management system. Agile project management. agile product management. agile product management and Scrum tool. Automates Agile / Scrum development.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, October 7, 2008 The App Store after the gold rush I wrote earlier about the issue of distribution advantage on the iPhone. I think its helpful to think about two kinds of competition for distribution: acquisition competition and retention competition. So what can you do?

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

If all of those buildings were to power down, it may be that the relative distribution of business would remain the same, but we’ll never know since that will never happen Important navigational areas like homepages, inboxes, notifications, etc are all the same way. If you liked this post, please subscribe or follow me on Twitter.

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