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Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startup Lessons Learned

So, if youre interested in helping avoid mistakes like that, here are the steps: Get a domain name. It doesnt have to be the worlds catchiest name, just pick something reasonably descriptive. If youre concerned about sullying your eventual brand name, dont use your "really good" name, pick a code name.

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Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences

Startup Lessons Learned

It’s easy to overestimate the impact of this kind of traffic because it just feels good to have your name and company featured. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? How to listen to customers, and not just the loud. It strokes your ego.

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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

That green button was part of a customer flow, a series of actions you want customers to complete for some business reason. If its part of a viral loop, its probably trying to get them to invite more friends (on average). If she is, return the name of the hypothesis she was exposed to before.

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The Lean LaunchPad – Teaching Entrepreneurship as a Management Science

Steve Blank

We’ll build the class around the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. Instead you will be getting your hands dirty talking to customers, partners, competitors, as you encounter the chaos and uncertainty of how a startup actually works. What did you discover from customers?

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Lessons Learned: The App Store after the gold rush

Startup Lessons Learned

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. If your app has strong word-of-mouth or viral components, your retention drives new acquisition, and its not so important to have good placement in the store.

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How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone

Startup Lessons Learned

Even with only a few months of development, third parties have crammed every single category in the store full of apps. All I see is a name, an icon, a price, the developers name, and a review star-rating. On Facebook, viral distribution has proved decisive. And what distinguishes a good app? I cant really tell.

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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?