ReadWriteStart
NOVEMBER 12, 2022
In recent years, however, frugal innovation has also gained traction in developed countries. This is partly due to the global financial crisis of 2008, which led many companies to reassess their spending to cut costs. As a startup, you probably don’t have much money to spend on marketing or product development.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
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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VC Cafe
JULY 15, 2021
The iOS app store officially launched on July 10 2008 with 500 apps. Build a community – often overlooked, but building a community around your app can help you build better products and dramatically increase retention. Almost overnight, a huge new industry was created around mobile. Slack or Discord).
Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 2, 2009
Retention cohort analysis. My son is planning a software product that will take the mystery out of wikis and make the technology easier for consumers to use. My startup business (web development) is being shunned by virtually every other potential investor I approached thus far. Funnel averages over time. I am chugging along.
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 14, 2009
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.
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 3, 2009
The power of A/B testing is so under-exploited in product development, that Im trying new ways to explain its benefits. Split-testing is great for linear optimization; making our landing pages, conversion rates, and retention metrics incrementally better day-in day-out.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 7, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, October 7, 2008 The App Store after the gold rush I wrote earlier about the issue of distribution advantage on the iPhone. I think its helpful to think about two kinds of competition for distribution: acquisition competition and retention competition. So what can you do? My advice: dont launch big.
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