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How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, September 18, 2008 How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone I have had the opportunity to meet a lot of iPhone-related companies lately. There are other models, in other distribution channels. On Facebook, viral distribution has proved decisive. I havent found any yet.

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Lessons Learned: Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

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Pick a similar product that they do use, and ask them "who was the first person you know who started using [social networking, mobile phones, plasma TV, instant messaging.]? How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim. can I talk to them?"

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Lessons Learned: The App Store after the gold rush

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, October 7, 2008 The App Store after the gold rush I wrote earlier about the issue of distribution advantage on the iPhone. I think its helpful to think about two kinds of competition for distribution: acquisition competition and retention competition. So what can you do?

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12 Questions: Meet Dragan Lon?ar (Belgrade, Serbia)

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I lived almost a year in Helsinki, Finland, and over six years in London, UK, where I had various experiences in fast paced market, even to the point of being a Creative Partner in my own company that was buried after several unpaid pitches, just after a half million pounds budget branding and launch campaign. You must be joking!

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

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Today, Syria shut down the Internet nationwide Sand are limiting the functionality of mobile services and land lines in some cities as well. Chinese mobile carrier China Telecom Corp. Chill Direct: Direct to fan content distribution. Putting commerce in the picture: Thinglink and Kiosked bring the visual Web alive from Finland.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

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So I think the most interesting aspect of this article is how just mind-blowing that distribution is. So I think at that point, in fact I've started looking into this and you actually can see the mobility in different Western countries dramatically go down after March 10th. There's a couple of interesting things that happened.