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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

What matters is proving the viability of the company’s business model, what investors call “traction.&# First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Business ecology and the four customer currencies

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 14, 2009 Business ecology and the four customer currencies Lately, I’ve been rethinking the concept of “business model&# for startups, in favor of something I call “business ecology.&# Constructing a working business model is a form of ecosystem design.

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