ConversionXL

JANUARY 24, 2017

With agile development cycles and uncertain monetization models, they live and die by data and experimentation. At the core is still the same balance of analysis and creativity – but you’ll get an advantage with experience in product development, marketing, and commercial strategy. “. Image Source.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

davemcclure : amazing concepts on Continuous Development => "Cluster Immune System" @EricRies #LeanStartup @fbFund [link] dalelarson : Because most features take longer to argue and prioritize than to build. Use some customer development to find out. Danger, Will Robinson. Ive been there: is it me or my cofounder thats crazy?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

All successful media companies had at their heart a series of editors, producers, and agents tasked with discovering and developing new talent. When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. Look at the stories of the current generation of aging superstars in any industry.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2009

Retention cohort analysis. My son is planning a software product that will take the mystery out of wikis and make the technology easier for consumers to use. Here in Tampa, our biggest challenge is convincing the regions technology "leadership" that grassroots economic development is a good thing. Funnel averages over time.

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Venture Chronicles

JUNE 29, 2010

Accept has built a set of products for “innovation management&# and while I reflexively gag at the word “innovation&# when applied to large companies, I actually think Accept has the right approach for delivering a solution to the problem of connecting customers with product development.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Corporate Agility. Transparency correlates to agility (Does your CEO know how many tests you ran last month?). Tara Robertson – How to 10x Growth by Optimizing Customer Marketing & Retention. Retention is the most important thing – if that’s poor, nothing else matters. Start with retention.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

Each has its own iterative process: customer development and agile development respectively. The hardest part of entrepreneurship is to develop the judgment to know when its time to change direction and when its time to stay the course. IMVU had a roughly two-month-long development cycle. Heres what it looked like.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Take a look at The App Store after the gold rush - FierceDeveloper : According to a recent BusinessWeek feature , the flood of new games, productivity tools and related iPhone software is making it difficult for the vast majority of apps to crack the consumer consciousness. Retention competition is how you get people to come back to your app.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2012

For many start-ups, the central focus is developing a product that offers value to a target audience. For this reason you should find out as quickly as possible if the product is indeed offering real value to your customers by looking at real data. Keep the team small, agile and up-to-date. Develop a strong backbone.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Jennifer Brown: Because the question of retention is more about the workplace culture and it’s very expensive to bring people in only to lose them two years later because they don’t see anyone that looks like them or shares their identity. And, and it’s very difficult these days to come back from an embarrassing release.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, March 24, 2009 The metrics and levers of engagement, presentation on Engagement Loops for Facebook Developer Garage SF Ill be presenting a talk at the Facebook Developer Garage SF Wednesday evening. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

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. We cultivated a passionate community that nurtured a skilled set of developers. Take the minimum viable product , for starters.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Either way, you would have been better off focusing your split-test on high level metrics that measure how much customers like your product as a whole. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

I wrote about this challenge for iPhone developers, in an essay on retention competition : the battle over what icon the user will click when they go to the home screen. Our theory is that the key to long-term retention is creating an engagement loop where the reactivation rate exceeds the rate of fatigue. very cool post Eric!

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View from Seed

JUNE 13, 2016

And thus his model for product teams was born. First, be wary of waterfall and agile. Despite the popularity of waterfall and agile, David has tried to distance his company from them. The waterfall and agile models were great for their time, he said, but they are now outdated for the modern product development team.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

I've developed distaste for the time on site metric. But if you want to be an agile, nimble competitor, it is a discussion you have to have. There is nothing in # of Installs that drives an obsessive understanding of the customer, the app experience/value, product development and all those other more valuable strategic parameters.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2019

Optimization is by nature agile: CRO yields new data for the team to prove that whatever the organization did was good or bad. It’s a wave—the agile Tsunami. Chad Sanderson: “Aligning Experimentation Across Product Development and Marketing”. People closer to the product have more pull in the business. Validation.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. s helpful to find an developer tool that allows you to write html/css and renders the view in real time, so you donâ??t Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? s easier to use/develop with. Mobile Tools: If you are a web developer, you donâ??t Codeacademy.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 19, 2018

Development = rules. Alexa Hubley: The Agile Marketing Playbook. Create your agile process: Map (start at the end). It’s not about technology, but customer centricity + agility, data drivenness. Engagement & Retention. Evidence-based customer-centric product development. Design = rules.

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