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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?)

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams.

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Pivot, don't jump to a new vision

Startup Lessons Learned

Instead of these dead-ends, use the problem and solution team framework and then: pivot, dont jump. Our challenge is in the customer retention, and we're in the process of doing segment pivot to validate our hypothesis that the other market segment has longer retention. 15comments: chrislunt said. My question to you: 1.

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The Growth Marketing Process: How to Shake Your Growth Hack Addiction

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For example, in a year, do you think you can increase your retention by 30%? Drew talks about this in the sense of ecommerce (number of customers, AOV and retention), but you’ll find that the formula works for a lot of other business models as well. Note: Drew suggests starting with the retention goal first.).

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

A group of Seedcamp entrepreneurs started a startup tools wiki for that purpose, and we thought it would be well suited here. Express : Express is built on NodeJS framework. Web frameworks. Zend Framework (PHP). customer retention, churn reduction, lifetime value. open source framework for Ruby. But thatâ??s

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Products can find sources of validation with impressive stats along a number of dimensions, such as high engagement, viral coefficient, or long-term retention. Eric, I have Steves book and wish I had it for 1 couple of my earlier startups where the framework would have helped our team get on the same page. Bring your questions.

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Engagement loops: beyond viral

Startup Lessons Learned

I wrote about this challenge for iPhone developers, in an essay on retention competition : the battle over what icon the user will click when they go to the home screen. Our theory is that the key to long-term retention is creating an engagement loop where the reactivation rate exceeds the rate of fatigue. What do they get out of it?

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