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The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Startup Lessons Learned

Were not going to have any form of advertising, but I am considering trying to offer a scholarship program to worthy entrepreneurs, just as we did for the Web 2.0 I have contacts within the university and entrepreneurial communities and would be happy to help you set up something if interested. Let me know. It is valuable.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

Make it easy to “pilot&# new work with a test community of actively engaged readers, and provide a mechanism for measuring the impact of these pilots. Just as Erin mentions above -- replace content with games -- the same dynamics are at work in the advertising world. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: Three freemium strategies

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Their economics blends elements of the free, advertising-supported, "eyeballs" business with more traditional e-commerce and subscription businesses. For founders, I think it also has another big attraction: the ability to avoid a lot of " free vs paid " arguments. Is it that they act as free advertising for our premium product?

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Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you?

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I would recommend periodic surveys, along with some kind of forum or other community tool where the most passionate customers can congregate. Im Community Manager at VenCorps, co-host of commandN. I worked at Flock, ConceptShare and co-founded Raincity Studios in Vancouver. November 19, 2008 1:48 PM Will Pate said.

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Business ecology and the four customer currencies

Startup Lessons Learned

And passionate players are often the backbone of game communities – especially online. We cultivated a passionate community that nurtured a skilled set of developers. In the old days, these media companies would then themselves plow this profit back into marketing and advertising, and grow.

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Lessons Learned: Net Promoter Score: an operational tool to.

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Theres a lot of controversy surrounding NPS in the customer research community, and I dont want to recapitulate it here. Even if you have a very large community, I dont think this number needs to be higher than 100. In other words, we committed the one cardinal sin of community management. Heres how Ive set it up in the past.

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The cardinal sin of community management

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 11, 2009 The cardinal sin of community management Once you have a product launched, you will the face the joys – and the despair – of a community that grows up around it. This probably sounds illogical. After all, people rarely say they are mad because they are not being heard.

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