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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. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?) He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

Paring down products, target customers, business models etc takes courage, but it must be done to have any chance of success. Eric, As you touch on, the lean venture has been the basic model employed by entrepreneurs throughout history until the past 12 years or so when venturing became institutionalized. Good stuff.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

March 23, 2010 2:05 PM Anonymoussaid. Not all CEO's have business sense. For example, how are you going to explain that component drive architecture like.NET isn't going to work for cross platform open open source business models? Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

One way to conceive of our goal in an early-stage venture is to incrementally “fill in the blanks&# for the business model that we think will one day power our startup. For example, say that your business model calls for a 4% conversion rate – as ours did initially at IMVU.

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Austin: the Lean Startup tour continues

Startup Lessons Learned

and lean manufacturing to guide the creation of technology businesses that create disruptive innovation. This presentation will empower entrepreneurs and managers to: -Identify a profitable business model faster and cheaper than your competitors. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, IMVU’s early business model was made possible by Paypal’s easy self-serve and open access payment system. To do that, we add specific speed regulators, like integrating source control with our continuous integration server or the more elaborate dance required for continuous deployment.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

What matters is proving the viability of the company’s business model, what investors call “traction.&# Of course this is not at all true of many profitable small businesses, but they are not what I mean by startups.) Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Bring your questions.

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