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. . The core of the article is my first attempt to articulate the key metrics (in graph form) that I believe demonstrate customer value. Funnel averages over time. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

The power of A/B testing is so under-exploited in product development, that Im trying new ways to explain its benefits. Split-testing is great for linear optimization; making our landing pages, conversion rates, and retention metrics incrementally better day-in day-out. . Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. And anytime you strike a deal for digital distribution of any content, insist that your creators be given real-time access to the big-picture metrics: not just downloads, but engagement, retention and replay. Is that a lot?

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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

OCTOBER 7, 2008

I think its helpful to think about two kinds of competition for distribution: acquisition competition and retention competition. Retention competition is how you get people to come back to your app. If your app has incredibly strong retention, you will probably do very well with the current PR/new app system of acquisition.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

Each has its own iterative process: customer development and agile development respectively. Our challenge is in the customer retention, and we're in the process of doing segment pivot to validate our hypothesis that the other market segment has longer retention. June 23, 2009 9:55 AM LKsaid. Expo SF (May.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2012

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. The metrics that matter the most are returning customers (user retention), turnover per customer and viral growth (k-factor). Keep the team small, agile and up-to-date.

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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

At IMVU , we would routinely find retention effects that would stem from registration changes and have impact days or weeks later. Combining agile development with customer developm. But that is not the only source of positioning: brand advertisers have been using packaging and TV ads to do this for years. Expo SF (May.

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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. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

What these products all have in common is the question their minimum viable product is attempting to answer: does this product have high natural retention built-in? Take the minimum viable product , for starters. Take the minimum viable product , for starters. . Expo SF (May.

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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. Expo SF (May.

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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

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. The debate is important. And so much more.

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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.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams. Lighthouse – Issue Tracking Tool.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

customer retention, churn reduction, lifetime value. Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Great for visualizing work of product development. Agile project management. agile product management. agile product management and Scrum tool. Agile eLearning.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 19, 2018

Alexa Hubley: The Agile Marketing Playbook. Create your agile process: Map (start at the end). If you want more product adoption, market to your user base. . It’s not about technology, but customer centricity + agility, data drivenness. Engagement & Retention. Workflows as rules: “When and where to say it”.

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