Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, November 7, 2008 Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step If you want to build an online service, and you dont test it with a fake AdWords campaign ahead of time, youre crazy. Turns out, there was aboslutely no demand whatsoever for that particular product.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

I break the answer to that question down into three engines: Viral - this is the business model identified in the presentation as "Get Users." Here, the key metrics are Acquisition and Referral, combined into the now-famous viral coefficient. If the coefficient is > 1.0 , you generally have a viral hit on your hands.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

As I ask questions to understand the thinking, what usually comes out is something vague along the lines of web marketing, and/or viral growth with no numbers attached. A quick look around all the B2C startups shows that, although viral growth is often hoped for, in reality it is extremely rare.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

PPC / SEM Analytics: 5 Actionable Tips To Improve ROI. Solving For The What & The Why: On-demand Webinar. Tip#4: Make Your Analysis/Reports "Connectable" Tip#3: Turbocharge Your SEM/PPC Analysis. Email Marketing: Campaign Analysis, Metrics, Best Practices. . #1: Leverage Custom Reports For Better Insights!

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Duct Tape Transcript Email Download New Tab John: Hello and welcome to another episode of the duct tape marketing podcast. Like, is there demand for this content? So those are all owned platforms in terms and email is a [00:09:00] huge one to email and text, right? This is John Jantsch. My guest today is Ryan Stewart.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand. Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. Philippe Botteri.

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