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Is This Ex-Googler’s Pre-Product Approach the Fast Track to Product-Market Fit?

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He’s dubbed the approach “ pretotyping ,” and it shares many of the same principles as both its similar-sounding (if later-stage) cousin, prototyping, as well as the more well-known lean startup movement. The right metrics are key to identifying The Right It. Is this approach different? AS: Good question.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

Despite all the energy invested in talking to authors about the size of their platform, very few gatekeepers have a rigorous set of metrics for measuring it. The problem is that there are no other metrics they can look at to judge the content of a book to know if it’s worth reviewing. Is that a lot? 12comments: Dougvs said.

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Building for Massive Mobile Success: An Ex-Bleacher Report PM on Creating Their Hit App

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One of the biggest ways the app evolved from day one was from a design point of view. We followed the data: The iPhone app was initially twice the users of the Android app, so we started focusing more on that to design a more customized product. NVV: What key metrics did you track to make sure you were heading in the right direction?

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Piercing the Corporate Veil of Sweat Equity

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If there is traction, ok…there are some benchmarks and you can look at seed stage funding rounds. Unseen Metrics. The same company, didn’t have a system to accurately identify it’s own key metrics. Would you invest in a company that didn’t know it’s own metrics? Lean startup (26).

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Startup Tools

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AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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Startup Resources

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Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. LiveRoad : A Great IDE for design is very helpful. Color Scheme Designer. Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Resources.