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

Startup Lessons Learned

I break the answer to that question down into three engines: Viral - this is the business model identified in the presentation as "Get Users." Here, the key metrics are Acquisition and Referral, combined into the now-famous viral coefficient. If the coefficient is > 1.0 , you generally have a viral hit on your hands.

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Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startup Lessons Learned

This is one of the blog we posted about how some company is doing SEO to promote the website. I too would be concerned about false negatives, but perhaps this strategy could be integrated into a broader market research strategy that included user engagement, viral marketing, etc which would all be quantifiable under the Google analytics.

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Lessons Learned: The App Store after the gold rush

Startup Lessons Learned

The App Store is a channel for customer acquisition. As the channel gets more and more crowded, just launching an app in the store is getting worse and worse as a strategy for each new entrant. On the web, we have many of these channels: SEM, SEO, world of mouth, PR and viral.

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How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone

Startup Lessons Learned

There are other models, in other distribution channels. On Facebook, viral distribution has proved decisive. Those companies who have learned to build apps that optimize the viral loop dominate in every category where they compete. If you sell an online service that solves a defined problem, you can compete in SEO or SEM.

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Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

Again, its critical to focus your marketing launch on those publications, venues, and channels that your potential partners are paying attention to. If the viral coefficient is 0.9, Dont chicken out and do a closed beta; get real customers in through real renewable channels. March 13, 2009 11:09 PM Steen Seo Öhman said.