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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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IT Management Company InvGate Just Got a Huge Cash Injection

ReadWriteStart

The company, which started up in 2009 , has grown steadily over the past three years, expanding by an average of 60% annually. Companies in the IT management industry need customer acquisition and retention strategies that work to set them apart from the competition.

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Startup Metrics

SoCal CTO

In many cases, I can break it down into: Customer Acquisition Cost – how will you reach prospects, how will you convert them and how much will it cost to convert them Customer Lifetime Value – how much will you make off of each converted customer This very simple model works for a surprising number of business models.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? Products can find sources of validation with impressive stats along a number of dimensions, such as high engagement, viral coefficient, or long-term retention. Great post!

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Starting an Online Casino

The Startup Magazine

Size of the online gambling market from 2009 to 2020 (in billion U.S. The venture requires a massive financial investment due to the numerous expenses that include marketing, payment services, license acquisition alongside an early license fee. Overall the costs will involve a retention program for the loyal players.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 10 – The DOD and Modern War –– Michèle Flournoy

Steve Blank

She served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from February 2009 to February 2012. We’ve started to adjust our acquisition approach. And the departments have put out some very useful new guidance on how to approach software acquisition in a very different way than hardware acquisition.

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How to Handle Mobile “Moneyball Syndrome” & Cross-Device Attribution

ConversionXL

This “gap” first came to fruition in 2009 when retailers decided that the best way to attract mobile users was to create a mobile application. Marketers should also be looking at acquisition (visits, unique visitors, pageviews), behavior (pages per visit, time on site, bounce rate), and revenue (if you’re eCommerce). Image Source.

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