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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.

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How do I get my first few customers?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

If you’re Oracle with 47 product lines in 100 countries and 20 languages with distributed teams of tech writers is this the best tool? I spent only hundreds of dollars a month and covered the entire spectrum of SEM. If printing and binding the documentation is important, is his the best tool? And what’s the point anyway?

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

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Rob Sobers of Varonis confirms… Rob Sobers , Varonis : “While traditional marketing teams might appear to operate like growth teams in terms of the channels they use (SEM, content marketing, email, etc.), If you don’t have a validated product or business model yet, stop here. It Starts with the Product.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process. Paring down products, target customers, business models etc takes courage, but it must be done to have any chance of success.

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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

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Business Model I would like to propose that in addition to team, product, and market, there is actually a fourth, equally important, core element of startups, which is the need for a viable business model. These new business models focused heavily on how buying behavior has changed because of the power of the web.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

So I initially gravitated to the CTO title, and not VP of Engineering. But since I spent a long time in a hybrid CTO/VP Engineering role, I still have this nagging question. The CTOs primary job is to make sure the companys technology strategy serves its business strategy. I mean, have you seen other people? Heres my take.

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A/B Testing Mastery: From Beginner To Pro in a Blog Post

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100 conversions is possible in only the most remote cases and with an incredibly high delta in behavior, but only if other requirements like behavior over time, consistency, and normal distribution take place. PPC/SEM campaign. Experiment Engine. Even then it is has a really high chance of a type I error, false positive.”.