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Hands-on Lessons for Advanced Topics in Entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for T he Lean Startup Conference. We’ve posted the full program for The Lean Startup Conference , and it includes more than three days of events for Gold pass holders and six days of events for VIP pass holders. On the evening of December 8, Ignite Lean Startup kicks off the conference.

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Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startup Lessons Learned

Most of the time, the experiments you run will have a zero percent conversion rate - meaning no customers were harmed during the making of this experiment. Enable Google Analytics tracking. You just have to sign up for Google Analytics, get your account number, and plug it into your site. Measure conversion rates.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

So I generally feel right at home in these conversations. Most importantly, it’s now possible to have detailed analytics on exactly what’s happening to messages and ideas as they flow through word-of-mouth channels. Each new campaign is a startup where Lean principals can be applied to maximum effect.

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Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium

Startup Lessons Learned

First, SlideShare is a fantastic product (that I use on a regular basis) and an impressive company example of Lean Startup practices in action. Second, their story illustrates a key Lean Startup idea: proving the business in micro-scale. ’&# They removed the core plan, and conversions went up. How are we doing?

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Lean Startup webcast post-game

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, May 1, 2009 Lean Startup webcast post-game Wow, what an incredible turnout for webcast this morning, right on the heels of a phenomenal crowd at startup2startup last night. Its been a great twelve hours for the lean startup! wogsland : Still not understanding the "lean" aspect. What a thrill.

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Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Review)

Startup Lessons Learned

How do we know how much energy to invest in analytics vs. doing real work? Entrepreneurs: Beware of Vanity Metrics - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review : The idea is simple. Read the rest of Entrepreneurs: Beware of Vanity Metrics at The Conversation on Harvard Business Review. Remember "metrics are people, too."

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Lessons Learned: SEM on five dollars a day

Startup Lessons Learned

In the process, we had also built a simple cohort-based analytics system. And then we would use that simple analytics system I mentioned to monitor the conversion rates of customers from each campaign. You mention "we had also built a simple cohort-based analytics system" Is tihs a commercial/open source systems.

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