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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one.

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 8: Key Resources, Activities and Expense Model

Steve Blank

Their initial customer segment were upwardly mobile professionals with $2-10K discretionary purchases/year (excluding travel,) and their revenue model was affiliate program fees. What are the key financials metrics for costs in your business model? Importance of cash flows? When do you get paid vs. when do you pay others?

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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

Up and Running

Noah Parsons says, “Start collecting contact information for interested, prospective customers. Develop a landing page, do some lightweight advertising, and generally reach out to as many potential customers as you can.”. Step 8: Track your metrics. We use LivePlan’s Scoreboard feature to keep track of our own metrics.

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Introduction to Growth Hacking for Startups

VC Cafe

1) It all starts from the Growth Hacking Funnel - in the early stages, startups should not just focus on top/bottom line metric like unique users and revenue. Customer Development Labs recently shared a great experiment on using mTurk to interview 100 customers in 4 hours for less than $200. Distribution Hacks.

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Customer Discovery Tools for Lean Startups | Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

I am slowly going away from Google Analytics in favour of Clicky (although this is an affiliate link, I genuinely recommend this tool). Out of the box, Clicky gives you actionable metrics, rather than a awful lot of useless data. What are they looking for in your website? which sources send better traffic?

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Customer Discovery Tools for Lean Startups

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

I am slowly going away from Google Analytics in favour of Clicky (although this is an affiliate link, I genuinely recommend this tool). Out of the box, Clicky gives you actionable metrics, rather than a awful lot of useless data. What are they looking for in your website? which sources send better traffic?

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup comes to Stanford

Startup Lessons Learned

hitchens - theyre not open to the public as far as I know, but if you have an affiliation with Stanford engineering, undergrad, or GSB, its possible you could come audit. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Labels: events , lean startup 5comments: Hitchens said.

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