Remove Business Model Remove Developer Remove Framework Remove Retention
article thumbnail

Why Build, Measure, Learn – isn’t just throwing things against the wall to see if they work

Steve Blank

Waterfall Development. While it sounds simple , the Build Measure Learn approach to product development is a radical improvement over the traditional Waterfall model used throughout the 20 th century to build and ship products. Waterfall Development was all about execution of the requirements document.

Lean 120
article thumbnail

Acquire New Users by Adding Growth Hacking to your Marketing Strategy

ConversionXL

John says to drive growth, growth marketers must develop a “ T formation.”. Growth hacking in marketing incorporates the five stages of the customer lifecycle into the “ AARRR Framework ,” otherwise known as the “Pirate Metrics model.”. Let’s look at each stage of the framework and how to use it to drive and measure growth.

Retention 113
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 The three drivers of growth for your business model. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?) He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one.

article thumbnail

Twitter Link Roundup #156 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Start With a Business Model, Not a Business Plan | WSJ – [link]. The danger of waiting to long to find a business model? The Biggest Problem in Mobile: Retention – [link]. The Biggest Problem in Mobile: Retention – [link]. 20 Useful Tools For Designer and Developers – [link].

article thumbnail

Pitch Deck Month: “Is It Working?” (aka the “Traction” Slide)

View from Seed

But here’s some examples or frameworks to consider. But even as a concept stage company there are ways to show progress with your business. Pre-launch customer development data is another way, sometimes in the form of user surveys for consumer companies or interviews with potential beta customers for B2B businesses.

article thumbnail

The Growth Marketing Process: How to Shake Your Growth Hack Addiction

ConversionXL

If you don’t have a validated product or business model yet, stop here. There are a lot of different ways to approach this, depending on your business model and your goals. For example, in a year, do you think you can increase your retention by 30%? It Starts with the Product. before continuing.

article thumbnail

Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

What matters is proving the viability of the company’s business model, what investors call “traction.&# Of course this is not at all true of many profitable small businesses, but they are not what I mean by startups.) And what of the product development team? Every board meeting, the metrics of success change.

Customer 167