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

Startup Lessons Learned

I break the answer to that question down into three engines: Viral - this is the business model identified in the presentation as "Get Users." Here, the key metrics are Acquisition and Referral, combined into the now-famous viral coefficient. If the coefficient is > 1.0 , you generally have a viral hit on your hands.

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Twitter Link Roundup #53 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Design with Internet: 101 patterns for influencing behaviour through design (PDF) – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. Upcoming and OnGoing Web Design Trends of 2010 – [link]. – [link]. Everything is a Remix: [link].

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Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences

Startup Lessons Learned

vs. sustainable: Compare this to the renewable strategies, like viral marketing, SEO, widgets, and ads, which can scale into 10s of millions of users but are primarily centered around tough, non-user centric work. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startup Lessons Learned

I too would be concerned about false negatives, but perhaps this strategy could be integrated into a broader market research strategy that included user engagement, viral marketing, etc which would all be quantifiable under the Google analytics. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Thanks for the insight!

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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

If its part of a viral loop, its probably trying to get them to invite more friends (on average). This gets me into trouble, because it conjures up for some the idea that product development is simply a rote mechanical exercise of linear optimization. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

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.

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“Stay away from just making what the market is asking for” – How SF Gear Company DSPTCH Thinks About Design

Hunter Walker

Hunter Walk: DSPTCH started in 2010 as a side hustle out of your apartment. Practically speaking, the burning need was to begin hiring employees so that I could spend more of my day on product development, partnerships and driving sales. and reached out. The majority of my hours was previously being spent on the logistical side.