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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, August 24, 2009 Marching through quicksand I have been spending a lot of time lately talking to people in various media companies: editors and agents, executives, journalists, producers and directors. For established media empires, this is a scary fact.

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Thank you

Startup Lessons Learned

Expo Intensive rocked, the mainstream media has started writing about the Lean Startup, and - most of all - the movement continues to grow and evolve. Expo Intensive rocked, the mainstream media has started writing about the Lean Startup, and - most of all - the movement continues to grow and evolve.

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Business ecology and the four customer currencies

Startup Lessons Learned

A business that strives for something like this should absolutely be charging money from day one, in order to establish baselines for their two key metrics: CPA (the cost to acquire a new customer) and LTV (the lifetime value of each acquired customer). Now consider a traditional media business. Sorry about that.)

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How to Get Picked as a Speaker for The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

You may have to pay the writer and photographer, and perhaps you’ll spend some money on training the writer to use blogging software and social media tools that help them build a following. Last year, the co -founders of B ack to the Roots talked about their innovation accounting and how they were ignoring sales metrics in order to grow.

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The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Startup Lessons Learned

Twitter about it or post it to a social media site? Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

Know what the success metrics are for the launch. We used social media to get alpha users as outlined here during Feburary. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

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Lean startup tools for Rails apps

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Because it has an RSS feed, one could also use "Unresolved Hoptoad Errors" as a metric influencing the continuous deployment system. This isnt Rails-specific, but we use SimpleDB for dumping a lot of important metrics data, like performance measurements, which we then turn into metrics.

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