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Business ecology and the four customer currencies

Startup Lessons Learned

Each of these four currencies represents a way for a customer to “pay&# for services from a company. Constructing a working business model is a form of ecosystem design. Thus, business ecology is concerned with both ecosystem design and finding a driver of growth for that ecosystem. And this is true outside of games.

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Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

Do some Customer Development instead. Figuring this out takes time, and few entrepreneurs have the patience to wait it out, because the business plan does such a good job of explaining what customers are going to think. The problem is that customers dont read your business plan.