Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

The response so far has been nothing short of overwhelming, and I want to especially thank those of you who participated in the survey and customer validation exercise that helped shape this event. I have contacts within the university and entrepreneurial communities and would be happy to help you set up something if interested.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Your creators should always have a simple way to talk to current and potential customers in any segment. 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. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 27, 2009

Their economics blends elements of the free, advertising-supported, "eyeballs" business with more traditional e-commerce and subscription businesses. I think this is the right way to think about many advertising businesses, like Google AdWords. Is it that they act as free advertising for our premium product? Free as inventory.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

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. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Hi Eric, Will Pate here.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

And passionate players are often the backbone of game communities – especially online. A great product enables customers, developers, partners, and even competitors to exchange their unique currencies in combinations that lead to financial success for the company that organizes them.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

Theres a lot of controversy surrounding NPS in the customer research community, and I dont want to recapitulate it here. Collecting the answers Once you have the survey up and running, you need to design a program to have customers take it on a regular basis. Pick a target number of customers to take the survey every day.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

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. Most normal customers – even among early adopters - do not pay attention to the trolls.

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