Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Enable Google Analytics tracking. You just have to sign up for Google Analytics, get your account number, and plug it into your site. Use Googles built-in Analytics/AdWords integration, to track the effectiveness of each ad you run. If you cant find any , maybe that means you havent figured out who your customer is yet.

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Demand San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 167

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering. These three tools allow startups to focus on the parts of an early stage venture that matter the most: the product, product/market fit, customer acquisition, revenue and cost model, channels and partners.

Oakland 327

Oakland Incubator Lean Metrics 327

The Startup Toolkit

JANUARY 12, 2017

Learning in advance that you don’t need to build a feature is one of the highest-impact (and most common) results of good customer development. It’s why talking to customers is able to speed you up, even though it feels like it’s slowing you down at the time (“But we could be coooooodiiiiiiiing!

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Stealth Bootstrapping Valuation Equity 20