Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 13, 2008 SEM on five dollars a day How do you build a new product with constant customer feedback while simultaneously staying under the radar? SEM is a simple idea. In a mature company with a mature product, the goal is to pay for lots of people to come to your website.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

This post describes how following the traditional product development can lead to a “startup death spiral.&# In the next posts that follow, I’ll describe how this model’s failures led to the Customer Development Model – offering a new way to approach startup sales and marketing activities. The board raises a collective eyebrow.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?)

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. So far, I have found "lean startup" works better with the entrepreneurs Ive talked to than "agile startup" or even "extreme startup.") Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Customer personas are often talked about in marketing and product design, but they’re almost never done well. You use them to make better marketing, product, and business decisions and to keep your customer top-of-mind when doing so. They can be utilized across teams— UX , CRO, social media, SEM, SEO , etc.,

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ConversionXL

MARCH 7, 2017

User personas are often talked about in marketing and product design, but they’re almost never done well. You use them to make better marketing, product, and business decisions and to keep your customer top-of-mind when doing so. They can be utilized across teams – UX, CRO, Social Media, SEM, SEO, etc.,

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ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2017

SEM is great because you can capture people as they’re searching for a solution, which is often some of the highest intent traffic you can find. Predictable Revenue. You know that multitasking is bad for your productivity. Some resources for sales: Close.io Hacking Sales. The Challenger Sale. Image Source. Does it scale?

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