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What’s Plan B? – The Small, the Agile, and the Many

Steve Blank

This does not bode well for our treaty allies, Japan, the Philippines, and South Korea. war planners thought about a future war with Japan. Unfortunately for us Japan didn’t adhere to our war plan. The Navy has world-class engineering and acquisition processes to deal with hardware. War Plan Orange. In the 1930s U.S.

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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. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Paul Graham on fundraising

Startup Lessons Learned

Its the same with acquisitions. 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Subscribe via email Blog Archive ► 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?) Expo SF (May.

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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. As we move into a new economic climate, its my hope that our industry will stop this expensive kind of learning and start building lean startups instead. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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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. These concepts have important implications for any lean startup. These concepts have important implications for any lean startup. Expo SF (May.

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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? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? involved before we go into production. Expo SF (May.

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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. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?