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So you say you want to be a Product Manager …?

Austin Startup

I got to know many of the people who endorsed me for this role and others through Techstars’ Startup Weekend , 3 Day Startup , and Lean Startup Machine events, as well as at conferences I made the effort to attend annually such as SXSW , LAUNCH and 500 Startups’ unSexy Conference. Be careful, though! What’s the platform? ( E.g. , Mobile?

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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. Retention competition is how you get people to come back to your app. Then, if your retention is good enough, you can stay there.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

Startup Lessons Learned

That's one of the very, very early companies that I was talking to Lean Startup about. I'm really curious, for now and when founders encounter Lean Startup, it's a famous old idea for most folks. So, we actually took the original live customer application, converting their live video dating application. ER : I remember Speed Date.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Resources. Lean Startup Circle â?? great web customer acquisition tutorials. customer retention, churn reduction, lifetime value. add mobile and sms to your app. Codeacademy.