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Pivot, don't jump to a new vision

Startup Lessons Learned

Each has its own iterative process: customer development and agile development respectively. IMVU had a roughly two-month-long development cycle. Each cycle was punctuated by a meeting of our Business Advisory Board (BAB). Heres what it looked like. This is an exciting kind of change, usually.

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6 Questions To Ask Before Launching a New Feature

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You need to have some sort of plan for testing to see how it’s affecting key metrics , whether those are revenue, retention, registration, user happiness, or some other number you care about. This feature will be part of a premium package that will only be available to subscribers/VIP members/paying customers.

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Marketing Metrics 101 for B2B Startups

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Oct, 2010 Andriy Podolskyy: Cara DeMichele: Marina Evaristo: Karl Gude: Scott Duncan: advertising advisory board advisory council awards b2b b2b marketing Beta Blogging brand Branding competition content marketing customer customer development customer retention customer service early adopters featured Google innovation launch lead generation leanstartup (..)

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How to Name Your Startup

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advisory board. advisory council. customer development. customer retention. customer service. Ive also held executive positions at Siebel Systems and IBM. Powered by Postrank. Tags advertising. b2b marketing. competition. content marketing. early adopters. innovation. lead generation.

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Startup Tools

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Reply steveblank , on September 16, 2009 at 7:00 pm said: Greg, The Google Group “Lean Startup Circle&# at [link] is a wonderful repository of Customer Development/Lean Startup success and failure. It’s more reference material. Thus, these pages. I’ll add more as time goes on.

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Startup Resources

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Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. customer retention, churn reduction, lifetime value. free/cheap web customer relationship mgmt software. Executive / Advisory Board Compensation. VentureHacks on Startup Advisory Boards â?? Customer Development. Codeacademy.