Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 The three drivers of growth for your business model. Choose one. Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?) is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although w

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Found this via Ben Kuo - The math behind Internet advertising businesses The advertising equivalence principle? So if we assume that a $1 CPM is about right and figure out what audience is required to build a $100MM annual revenue business, we find out that we need 8.33 billion monthly page views and over 300 million monthly unique visitors creating 25 page views per user.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Friday, September 26, 2008. CFOs - More Guardian, Less Angel? Just received this months issue of CFO Magazine (yes, I know, it should be a very exciting weekend) and found an article I was interviewed for a couple of months ago. The article, " More Guardian, Less Angel " discusses how CFOs add value to angel groups by helping to kill deals.

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Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

The Wall Street of tomorrow is going to be a very different place than the one that investors and venture capitalists have known for the past 30 years. How will the continuing fundamental changes in the capital markets impact the model for venture capital investing in America and internationally? The NVCA has brought together a panel of VC’s, an attorney, and an institutional LP to discuss how venture investing has evolved over the past decade from an industry characterized by firms mostly

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Jason Ball

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

I agree, the iPhone looks snappy in those Apple TV commericals. I love my iPhone, but it doesn't work *exactly* as advertised. Some guys with too much time on their hands decided to make this comparison video- the "TV" iPhone versus the "Real" iPhone.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 Thoughts on scientific product development I enjoyed reading a post today from Laserlike (Mike Speiser), on Scientific product development. By embracing a scientific approach to product development, not only will your business have a much higher probability of success, but it will also be a more fun and creative place to work.

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