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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 The lean startup Ive been thinking for some time about a term that could encapsulate trends that are changing the startup landscape. After some trial and error, Ive settled on the Lean Startup. I like the term because of two connotations: Lean in the sense of low-burn.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?)

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How to Do a Competitive Analysis: A Step-by-Step Guide

ConversionXL

You’ll walk away with unstructured data as well as word clouds to let you see quickly how the first impression of your site lines up with the competition. The lean, aggressive ones do. Here’s Tony DeYoung explaining his process to do just that: Tony DeYoung: I always do competitive analysis for SEO and SEM.

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Conducting Competitive Analysis

ConversionXL

You’ll walk away with unstructured data as well as summary word clouds so you can quickly see how the first impressions of your site line up with the competition. Upsells and cross-sells (are there additional revenue opportunities you too could be leveraging?). The lean, aggressive ones do. Image Source.

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The Lean LaunchPad – Teaching Entrepreneurship as a Management Science

Steve Blank

Setup your Google or Amazon cloud infrastructure. Actually engage in “search engine marketing” (SEM)spend $20 as a team to test customer acquisition cost. Channel incentives – does your product or proposition extend or replace existing revenue for the channel? Class Lecture/Out of the Building Assignment: What’s a revenue model?

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Lessons Learned: SEM on five dollars a day

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 13, 2008 SEM on five dollars a day How do you build a new product with constant customer feedback while simultaneously staying under the radar? SEM is a simple idea. And one day a remarkable thing happened: we started making more than five dollars a day in revenue. Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup comes to Stanford

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 28, 2008 The lean startup comes to Stanford Im going to be talking about lean startups (and the IMVU case in particular) three times in the next two weeks at Stanford. Labels: events , lean startup 5comments: Hitchens said. How did we combat this tendency? When will you be speaking?

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