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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. How to listen to customers, and not just the loud.

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

I wanted to say that as a student I was working for a start-up company in town using the Rails framework. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? How to listen to customers, and not just the loud. August 31, 2009 9:17 PM Anonymoussaid. Stumbled across this.

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You don't need as many tools as you think

Startup Lessons Learned

It also has the nice side-effect of driving down the batch size of work, but thats for another post) This framework for making progress evident applies to more than just scheduling, of course. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Seth Godin: How often should you publish?