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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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Lessons Learned: Achieving a failure

Startup Lessons Learned

As with many Silicon Valley failures, a flawless PR launch turned into a flawed customer acquisition strategy. 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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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: The metrics and levers of engagement.

Startup Lessons Learned

Why, we just unified acquisition and engagement! I do think the concept allows us to unify acquisition and engagement, and is important for that reason. helping you balance engagement vs acquisition. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. March 25, 2009 9:16 AM Jesse Farmer said.

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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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Business ecology and the four customer currencies

Startup Lessons Learned

If you haven’t figured out the ecosystem, growth is useless – whether it is a acquisition-only viral loop, like Tagged, or an advertising blitz like countless dot-bombs. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. They get focused solely on growth. They get focused solely on growth.

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