Internet Networking Product Development SEM 
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
Paid - if your product monetizes customers better than your competitors, you have the opportunity to use your lifetime value advantage to drive growth. In this model, you take some fraction of the lifetime value of each customer and plow that back into paid acquisition through SEM, banner ads, PR, affiliates, etc.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process.
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Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 7, 2008
In a startup, both the problem and solution are unknown, and the key to success is building an integrated team that includes product development in the feedback loop with customers. 2008 09 06 Eric Ries Haas Columbia Customer Development Engineering View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Talk about waste.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 14, 2008
This was 2004, and we had never even heard of MySpace, let alone had any understanding of social networking. It required hearing customers say it over and over again for us to take a serious look, and eventually to realize that social networking was core to our business. But the early customers all compared it to MySpace.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 5, 2008
Spray files across cheap disks on your network. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? For tips on how to integrate it into your database and application layers, you can see the tail-end of my JIT Scalability talk. MogileFS - "Distributed (meta) file system. Pay less for storage.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 18, 2008
If you sell an online service that solves a defined problem, you can compete in SEO or SEM. If everyone I know is using a specific product, in most markets thats a heavy influence. And in some markets its decisive, because of well-known network effects (as happened with Microsoft, eBay, and many others).
Startup Lessons Learned
FEBRUARY 28, 2009
We picked those numbers by counting up the numbers of friends, family, and relatives we thought we could cajole into buying our early product. Ive told the story of how this desperation turned us on to Google AdWords in SEM on five dollars a day. Labels: product development 4comments: Doug said. Thank you Eric.
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