Remove Customer Development Remove Media Remove SEM Remove Viral
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Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

Do some Customer Development instead. If the product needs to be tweaked just a little bit in order to convert users into customers, you want to figure that out before the launch. If the viral coefficient is 0.9, And if your product doesnt retain customers, whats the point of driving a bunch of them to use it?

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Lessons Learned: The App Store after the gold rush

Startup Lessons Learned

Customers and prospects are overwhelmed by the number of media and companies clamoring for their attention. Acqusition competition is how new apps get new customers. On the web, we have many of these channels: SEM, SEO, world of mouth, PR and viral. On the App Store, the same dynamic is in play.