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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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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

Paring down products, target customers, business models etc takes courage, but it must be done to have any chance of success. Eric, As you touch on, the lean venture has been the basic model employed by entrepreneurs throughout history until the past 12 years or so when venturing became institutionalized.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, how are you going to explain that component drive architecture like.NET isn't going to work for cross platform open open source business models? However, they insisted on using a platform that totally contradicted their business model. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

You have to know your business model. Most startups launch before theyve figured out what business theyre in. Start with a five-dollar-a-day SEM campaign. Would have been nice to have this last year when I started my own business. the most sensible SEM advice Ive read - discussed in the context of a real situation.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

Save Asia for post-IPO Single instance, multi-tenant, single datacenter - Have only one version of the code in production. You validated our business model and added huge value to our efforts. However, as we know from the cable industry, subscription businesses can be very profitable over time. Michael Kassing.