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

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 The three drivers of growth for your business model. 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. Choose one.

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Pivot, don't jump to a new vision

Startup Lessons Learned

Each has its own iterative process: customer development and agile development respectively. As the CTO/VP Engineering, I was the worst offender. In a customer problem pivot, we try to solve a different problem for the same customer segment. Thats why its so essential to have a co-equal problem team.

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Lessons Learned: Q&A with an actual reader

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 29, 2008 Q&A with an actual reader One of my favorite things about having a blog is the feedback I get in comments and by email. Either way, you would have been better off focusing your split-test on high level metrics that measure how much customers like your product as a whole.