Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

If its part of a viral loop, its probably trying to get them to invite more friends (on average). Focus on the output metrics of that part of the product, and you make the problem a lot more clear. To promote this metrics discipline, we would present the full funnel to our board (and advisers) at the end of every development cycle.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

I’ve introduced a new class at Stanford to teach engineers, scientists and other professionals how startups really get built. There are few courses which teach aspiring entrepreneurs the skills (business models, customer and agile development, design thinking, etc.) ——————– Engineering 245.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Once you build it, they will now ask you about the key metrics that they need proven in order to see if you really are a good investment. Examples might be a recommendation engine, search engine, matching engine or something with a complex interface. " Once you have the metrics defined, it focuses your effort.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

There has never been a viral outbreak of such magnitude before. Your data will be ordered and structured into information based on specific niches like engineering and construction, finance, technology, and business. It’s vital to be aware of the fact that agile iterations are not random and haphazard. Invest in your brand.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, March 24, 2009 The metrics and levers of engagement, presentation on Engagement Loops for Facebook Developer Garage SF Ill be presenting a talk at the Facebook Developer Garage SF Wednesday evening. Unfortunately, its easy to lose track of positioning effects when optimizing for a single metric.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 8, 2015

6 Thoughts on Creating and Leading Engineering Teams – buff.ly/1zNp7eB. The Angel VC: Key Revenue Metrics for SaaS companies – buff.ly/1INSu29. The Basics of Email Marketing | Search Engine Journal crowdspring.co/1PYFIjm. Using PPC Marketing to Make Content Go Viral: Here’s How It Works crowdspring.co/1InOIwn.

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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?). Ed Fry – Customer Data Operations: Unleashing your hidden growth engine. Work hard to define meaningful product metrics – enabler of team success. Dropbox: first achieved growth through virality.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 11, 2009

This model has not translated well to the world of social networking, because customers of social networks engage sites in a different way than customers of search engines. If you ask an expert in Facebook apps to come help build yours, youll usually hear the same advice: build your app for virality. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 27, 2009

At a high level, anything that drives virality should be free. To take your specific example about virality - why do we want to have more users sign up? Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

On the web, we have many of these channels: SEM, SEO, world of mouth, PR and viral. If your app has strong word-of-mouth or viral components, your retention drives new acquisition, and its not so important to have good placement in the store. Labels: iPhone , search engine marketing 3comments: Th.Khangs said. Expo SF (May.

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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. A business that strives for something like this should absolutely be charging money from day one, in order to establish baselines for their two key metrics: CPA (the cost to acquire a new customer) and LTV (the lifetime value of each acquired customer).

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Noah says, “Agile is what most software companies use. You can learn more about the agile development methodology on Version One’s site. Producthunt.com is a great resource for viral marketing for the product launch as well as community feedback.”. Step 8: Track your metrics. The benefits of tracking key metrics.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Every experiment has to be evaluated based on a single standard report of 5-10 (no more) key metrics. Any team that creates an experiment must monitor the metrics and customer reactions (support calls, forum threads, etc) while the experiment is in-progress, and abort if something catastrophic happens. It promotes rapid iteration.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

On Facebook, viral distribution has proved decisive. Those companies who have learned to build apps that optimize the viral loop dominate in every category where they compete. So far, I dont see any apps that have much in the way of viral distribution. Labels: iPhone , search engine marketing 3comments: Blake Engel said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 7, 2010

At least, not in the traditional sense of trying to squeeze every tenth of a point out of a conversion metric or landing page. When people (ok, engineers) who have been trained in this model enter most startups, they quickly get confused. Even if it shows improvement in some micro metric, does that invalidate the overall design?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

If the viral coefficient is 0.9, Know what the success metrics are for the launch. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? keep iterating until its 1.1

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

In a few cases, they are clearly smart people in a bad situation, and Ive written about their pain in The product managers lament and The engineering managers lament. And we cant hire new engineers any faster, because you cant be interviewing and debugging and fixing all at the same time! Hire a CTO or VP Engineering.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Luckily, the metrics helped us figure out the difference. Question 2: If your product has areas where people read and then different areas where people interact, are there ways to do metrics to determine where people spend their time? Were looking to metrics to determine how users interact with our product. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 8, 2008

Theoretically, i can visualize the Continuous Integration as RAD ( Rapid action development) along with iterative method, which we used to study in Software Engineering's Process model. We, the s/w engineer have to rethink about the solution, the code which need to change, which would reflect the right change. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Many great engineers Ive worked with (especially the type I talked about in the hackers lament ) seem to think that if they get along well with someone in an interview, theyll be a good addition to the team. I experienced this when I was the engineering manager at a small company. Tell us what youve learned in those different contexts.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 6, 2008

The advantages of cross-functional teams are well documented, and for a thorough treatment I recommend the theory in the second half of Agile Software Development with Scrum. I want to focus here on one particular strength: the ability to operate semi-autonomously. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 13, 2010 The Superbowl ad test I am a firm believer in the danger of vanity metrics , numbers that give the illusion of progress but often mask the true relationship between cause and effect. Vanity metrics are generally bigger. Vanity metrics. The solution? Is that really news?

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mashable.com

MAY 24, 2011

Sourcebits has engineered over 200 apps to date, with plenty more to come. May 23, 2011 17:45:54 Reply 0 Flag this comment HD1080i Follow +1 DITTO ON THAT … counting app downloads vs use-case metrics shows that the native app gets lost in its own sea of icons. ); // Welcome to Mashable!

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

I am the VP of Engineering at a cutting-edge startup that sells software built on the.NET platform. You whine about how hard it is to find good engineers, then go on and on about how you intentionally avoid at least half of the market for skilled people? It’s also missing the point of engineering anything. Elaine Kenny.

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Cracking the Code

APRIL 13, 2007

4) Sales model: From seasoned sales people to a tiered sales engine To buy, people needs to be comfortable with the product. Successful companies have developed specific teams focused on developing and monitoring key usage metrics. What metrics drive the value of this new generation of software service providers? at 7:20 PM.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets. Learning is better than optimization (the local ma.

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