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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. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Paul Graham on fundraising

Startup Lessons Learned

Its the same with acquisitions. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. No one wants to buy you till someone else wants to buy you, and then everyone wants to buy you.

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Startup Stories: Looking back on the acquisition of our first 1,000 customers

The Next Web

Yeah, I’m a big believer at being lean and to always practice continuous deployment. In order to get more customers we needed to simplify our value proposition. The first step in this road was to truly understand our customer’s needs.

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Not crossing the chasm

Startup Lessons Learned

In a subscription business, maybe your attrition starts matching your acquisition, balancing like magic. Or your cost of customer acquisition just magically floats up to match your customer lifetime value. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Nothing seems to matter. we dont talk enough about how it feels.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Do you have any thoughts on scalable customer acquisition in cases where a decent bit of knowledge work has to be invested into each customer? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.

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Lessons Learned: The App Store after the gold rush

Startup Lessons Learned

The App Store is a channel for customer acquisition. I think its helpful to think about two kinds of competition for distribution: acquisition competition and retention competition. If your app has incredibly strong retention, you will probably do very well with the current PR/new app system of acquisition. So what can you do?

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What is a startup?

Startup Lessons Learned

To see proof of this, simply observe the results of the large majorities of corporate acquisitions of startups. To see proof of this, simply observe the results of the large majorities of corporate acquisitions of startups. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.