Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

If you don’t yet have a team yet, list the roles you need to hire for. Also, make a bullet list of the marketing activities that will drive customers to your door. If you don’t yet have a team yet, list the roles you need to hire for. Step 3: Brand and differentiate yourself. Step 8: Track your metrics.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 27, 2009

Here the key is for your free customers to get value from the site that is greater than the costs they perceive by the fact that youre selling access to them. What differentiates this model from "free serves paid" is that the free users dont need to consciously do anything special to be valuable.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

Each has its own iterative process: customer development and agile development respectively. Leading up to a pivot, each cycle, despite our best efforts, the metrics werent good enough. In a customer problem pivot, we try to solve a different problem for the same customer segment. It was painful.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Identity value - This is the strongest source of value of all, and its a little tricky to differentiate from the preceding two sources. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? This is the benefit you get from incorporating a product into your self-conception.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

September, 2012 – Andrew Chen, who currently does growth at Uber , writes You don’t need a growth hacker , which encourages companies to really consider whether they have product-market fit before hiring a growth hacker. Without metrics or data, a growth hacker can feel out of place and uncomfortably exposed.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2009

LIKED: Y startups fail, cont deployment vs waterfall vs agile, small batches & learn fr biz metrics #leanstartup As concise a summary as Ive ever seen. We have certain advantages that we are confident will differentiate us, but these may not be apparent if we just released as soon as the basic functionality of our app was ready.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

After quitting my job and starting Sorced , I spent a few months validating my business concept by creating the product mockups and doing customer development. Additionally, if you want to hire more engineers, how hard will it be to find people using this language. You might as well hire an outsourced team.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JULY 1, 2010

Out of the box, Clicky gives you actionable metrics, rather than a awful lot of useless data. Something that differentiates MixPanel from other solution is the ability to track server side events too. I am slowly going away from Google Analytics in favour of Clicky (although this is an affiliate link, I genuinely recommend this tool).

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

This success was aided by the fact that it did just one thing extremely well – its lack of extra features emphasized its differentiation. No vanity metrics should be looked at. This success was aided by the fact that it did just one thing extremely well – its lack of extra features emphasized its differentiation.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Because then you’d miss out on: Whether it’s better experience to build a complete, tiny startup or to do more in-depth customer development for a meatier problem. How to differentiate yourself in a crowded market (and when perhaps you shouldn’t try). How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JULY 1, 2010

Out of the box, Clicky gives you actionable metrics, rather than a awful lot of useless data. Something that differentiates MixPanel from other solution is the ability to track server side events too. I am slowly going away from Google Analytics in favour of Clicky (although this is an affiliate link, I genuinely recommend this tool).

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Because then you’d miss out on: Whether it’s better experience to build a complete, tiny startup or to do more in-depth customer development for a meatier problem. How to differentiate yourself in a crowded market (and when perhaps you shouldn’t try). How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

Discover whats in customers heads, and tackle problems where design is a differentiator. Not everything has to follow lean startup and customer development principles, and I write that as a devoted practitioner of both. Apple also hired away key engineers from Pixo, who I believe still work there.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

We knew IMVU would be a socializing platform, and so we decided that we would let our customers interact using their own rules for assigning status, like we do in the physical world. The companies that own those brands work hard to differentiate their offering so that people who wear their clothes will be perceived in a certain way.

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www.rocketwatcher.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Differentiated – Have a look at other companies in and around the space you will be playing in. She just missed "hire a name-nerd like @denvan" ;c{)} RT @aprildunford: How to Name A Startup [link]. Why Your Startup Shouldn't Hire a Marketer from Microsoft 139 comment(s). customer development.

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