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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule.

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The #1 thing successful founders think about for their next startups

Hippoland

As a result, second time founders very often shy away from ad-based consumer ideas, but when they do, they think about what viral mechanisms you can implement *first* and engineer the product around that mechanism. Product second. Sales cycles matter though. Marketing first. 2) B2B startups have high margins.

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The #1 thing successful founders think about for their next startups

Hippoland

As a result, second time founders very often shy away from ad-based consumer ideas, but when they do, they think about what viral mechanisms you can implement *first* and engineer the product around that mechanism. Product second. Sales cycles matter though. Marketing first. 2) B2B startups have high margins.

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CXL Live 2018 Recap: Top 5 Lessons from Each Speaker

ConversionXL

Ed Fry – Customer Data Operations: Unleashing your hidden growth engine. Offline sale – typically. Long sales cycle – 18 months or more. Be agile, move at the speed of business, don’t hold up product development. edfryed talks at #cxllive pic.twitter.com/dQd4N5anQd.

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