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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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SuperMac War Story 9: Sales, Not Awards « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Best, Miguel Cavalcanti, from Brazil Reply Colin Rae , on September 22, 2010 at 2:20 pm Said: Steve, in many of your posts I’ve noticed you say certain things can not be delegated/outsourced (e.g Initially your job is to understand each of the parts of your business model before you hire someone to do it.

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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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Crisis Shmisis: 40 deals, more than $400 Million raised in Q2 2010 in Israel (Deal Summary)

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T he second quarter of 2010 has come and gone and despite the depleting VC and incubator capital in Israel, the quarter has brought approximately 40 deals with over $400 million invested. Can ‘related content’ work as business model? 04/07/2010 04/07/2010 Dia Cardio Ltd. The company has raised $1.1

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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

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Business Model I would like to propose that in addition to team, product, and market, there is actually a fourth, equally important, core element of startups, which is the need for a viable business model. These new business models focused heavily on how buying behavior has changed because of the power of the web.

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Crisis Shmisis: Q2 2010 Closes with 40 deals and more than $400 million raised in Israel (Deal Summary)

VC Cafe

T he second quarter of 2010 has come and gone and despite the depleting VC and incubator capital in Israel, the quarter has brought approximately 40 deals with over $400 million invested. Can ‘related content’ work as business model? 04/07/2010 04/07/2010 Dia Cardio Ltd. The company has raised $1.1