View from Seed

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

You can read various articles out there which will give you the cursory facts about Airbnb like their overall revenue or profitability or how their business has faired here in 2020 in the COVID environment. Additionally Airbnb charges both sides of the booking (guest & host) a separate service fee.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and whats changed since then) My recent article on technical debt and its positive uses generated a fair bit of controversy. The economics of these process trade-offs are discussed in the Principles of Product Development Flow.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

Ever since that time, I have struggled to explain how the feedback loop in customer development should interface with the feedback loop in product development. Eric Ries Lean Startup Schematic View Of Agile Development And Customer Development View more presentations from Eric Ries.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

In other words, it was first seen in an animal like a bat, and it consequently jumped from an animal host to a human host. Once in its human host, COVID-19 mutated so that it could spread via person-to-person transmission. Let’s assume, for this article, that you are a part-time social media expert.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Bob and his co-author, Huggy Rao, are hosting a free online class this fall, Scaling Up Your Venture Without Screwing Up. In addition to featuring entrepreneurs like Clara Shih and Michael Dearing, the course also includes a session with Ben Horowitz, another speaker we’re pleased to host at this year’s Lean Startup Conference.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

Note: Nothing within this article should be construed as legal advice. If that’s not enough to convince you to get on the self-help bandwagon, almost every inventor I spoke to when researching this article told me that being obsessive and sticking the inventing journey through was what got their idea or product invented.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

All of the incentives described in the article focus on making it easy and highly desirable to launch your product: [He] claimed that launching projects is the natural state that Googles internal ecosystem tends towards, and its because they pump so much energy into pointing people in that direction. Focus on launching.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2009

The core of the article is my first attempt to articulate the key metrics (in graph form) that I believe demonstrate customer value. You can read the article to find out why. You can read the article to find out why. Thank you for this excellent article. Thanks for the article. Retention cohort analysis.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

We call growth hacking the process of figuring out this extremely complex puzzle of selling a product better and faster than anyone else. In this article, I’ll go through the steps and the strategy we followed to achieve this and successfully solve this maze. 1x hacker in charge of product/development.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

This gets me into trouble, because it conjures up for some the idea that product development is simply a rote mechanical exercise of linear optimization. You just constantly test little micro-changes and follow a hill-climbing algorithm to build your product. Labels: customer development , split-test 7comments: Editor said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Luckily, I now have the benefit of a forthcoming book, The Principles of Product Development Flow. Labels: five whys root cause analysis , product development 11comments: Peter Severin said. This is a fantastic article. Sounds very similar to agile development which is the way. Interesting post.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JULY 7, 2021

Instead of 2D story uploads, Glossier takes things to the next level with interactive, audience-focused story uploads that include Q&As, link-offs to interesting articles, and polls to get the audience involved. View this post on Instagram.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

Now that I put on events with official hosts and sponsors, my experience is different. So the product development team was busy creating lots of split-tests for lots of hypotheses. Yet, when I tried other forms of promotion, I’d have to accept their failures when the emails failed to come.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The company, known for viral social content, is predicted to bring in $100 million in revenue in 2014 from native advertising on 150 million unique visitors a month, according to a 2013 Forbes article. From a publisher perspective, Demand Media , hosts native ads on its content channels, including Cracked.com.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Customer development is a parallel process to product development, which means that you dont have to give up on your dream. Our goal in product development is to find the minimum feature set required to get early customers. Very well written article. This is a common mistake. Lots of good usable information.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 9, 2016

In this article, social commerce is defined as the ability to make a product purchase from a third-party company within the native social media experience. For example, you can browse and compare products on Facebook and then make the purchase on Facebook itself vs. going to the company’s site to make the purchase.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

Finally, after launch, 30 professional money managers, having read articles on the company, contacted kaChing out of the blue. Finally, after launch, 30 professional money managers, having read articles on the company, contacted kaChing out of the blue. in fact only five people converted into paying customers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 20, 2010

Although the article is a bit me-centric, I think they did a good job capturing the fact that this is more than just the bloggers and writers, but represents a shift in thinking among entrepreneurs all over the world. The article includes comments from Kevin Dewalt and Drew Houston. Even Marc Andreessen weighs in.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

What led you to become a subscriber, versus just reading an article and leaving like everybody else? (or, In order to convince me, Id to see another link to an article here somewhere that I enjoyed. Read some articles, liked what I saw. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 25, 2021

The best product launches take into account the product lifecycle—understanding where it fits into the bigger picture, and how to transition through each phase. In this article, we’ll explain how to build a resilient product launch strategy that survives a non-linear journey. But it’s not a linear journey.

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Up and Running

JULY 24, 2015

On Bplans, you’ll find templates, free eBooks, and articles on how to plan and start your business. From financial calculators to startup checklists, there’s a whole host of helpful resources on the site. Product development. They can help with development and licensing, too. Business Model Generation.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 30, 2018

It slows product development. To find allies, ask : Which departments indirectly use your product and have connections to people in the user roles you’re targeting? Include notes from your internal team that explain how insights are influencing product development. It slows product development.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. My blog has over 14000 subscribers, for example. Is that a lot? I have given more than two-dozen paid speeches this year – is that a lot? Is that good? August 24, 2009 10:21 PM Hal Higdon said.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2021

How this story plays out has a lot to do with the type of product and how it’s improved over time, if at all. However, the shape of the curve—the length of the arc and the speed of the decline—is also determined by how you market that product at each stage of its life. These are the four stages of a product we’ll be focusing on. .

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 11, 2010

for Harvard Business Review) In the latest article for my series in HBR, I discuss the problem of how to figure out how much process startups should have. for Harvard Business Review) In the latest article for my series in HBR, I discuss the problem of how to figure out how much process startups should have.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, October 21, 2008 Lean startups vs lean companies Venture Hacks has a great article today on lean startups. They quote extensively from two of our most important thinkers: Taiichi Ohno , creator of the Toyota Production System, and Kent Beck , creator of extreme programming. Go read it.

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JUNE 5, 2009

An excellent article and responses. I've been using it in conjunction with the behavioral metrics you're describing for some great inspiration in the numbers. June 8, 2009 6:11 AM Jason said. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 30, 2010

He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. This article intends to answer those questions. More than two years ago, my business partner and I discussed launching a hosted version of our ASP.NET invoicing software, DotNetInvoice. Introduction.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, February 8, 2010 Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Review) The next article in my series on entrepreneurship for Harvard Business Review is live today. Once again, we revisit the topic of Actionable metrics and their nemesis: Vanity metrics. Dont forget to leave a comment.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

See Paul Grahams Why Nerds are Unpopular to learn more) Take a look at this article on a programming Q&A site: How old are you, and how old were you when you started coding? There are over forty pages of responses from programmers of all ages, and if you just read the stories at random, youll see a clear pattern. .

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 25, 2022

An edited version of this article previously appeared in the Boston Consulting Group’s strategy think tank website. This 100+-year-old company has seven major product divisions, each with hundreds of products. My hosts, John and Avika, at the offsite were the co-leads overseeing the 15 topic areas.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

You will be able to make the knowledgeable connections that are necessary to become an educated and skilled architecture professional by enlisting the assistance of the architectural associations that are listed further down in this article. Thanks to Claudia Torres, TheFab20s ! #12- Thanks to Joe Sanfilippo, Today's Business ! #16-

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

Labels: five whys root cause analysis , product development 15comments: Anonymoussaid. Great article as always, Eric. Great article, Eric. I have one comment on style: could you break up your articles with subheadings? Wyatt - if you are willing to suggest specific subheads for this article, I will add them.

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conversionxl.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

This is a customer development problem. By the end of this article, you should have a better understanding of how to develop new products or tweak your existing offerings by working with existing or prospective customers to incorporate their feedback to create viable solutions to their problems, and clearly communicate their value.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Or it might mean selling a few products on a site like eBay to see how well they perform before ordering in bulk from a wholesaler. What sets this approach apart from practices like using focus groups is that companies base product development decisions not just on what customers say they want but on how they vote with their wallets.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Labels: customer development 3comments: Anonymoussaid. Thanks for the interesting article. If you have further thoughts, please leave them as a comment. Cross posting is good. September 3, 2009 9:30 AM Tam said. is it more like a miss or hit, gut feel or what? Take a look and let me know what you think.

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