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Beyond the garage

Startup Lessons Learned

I know this sounds foreign to many of you, and that we’ll have a few skeptics in the audience. No BS, no vanity metrics, no launches, no PR. My original intention was to have a completely new lineup this year, but the popular demand for a few of our top speakers was overwhelming.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

In this model, you take some fraction of the lifetime value of each customer and plow that back into paid acquisition through SEM, banner ads, PR, affiliates, etc. For eBay, this is caused by the incredible network effects of their business (so-called demand-side increasing returns and supply-side increasing returns).

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Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

Startup Lessons Learned

But part was a recognition that we could gain substantial competitive advantage by leveraging a community of like-minded visionary customers to serve a wider (and more mainstream) audience than we could alone. It allowed me to assess the market demand for that offline product before I had the final product baked. Great post!

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Stop lying on stage

Startup Lessons Learned

Many journalists and conference organizers attempt to fill this demand by giving successful entrepreneurs the opportunity to tell their stories: in magazines, on blogs, and on stage. The higher the vanity ratio, the more effective the PR. It helps companies with PR. It sells newspapers and magazines.

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

until I couldn't seem to find a way from getting away from all these nasty, vulgar teens (or people pretending to be teens) demanding explicit sex every time I went there. Same goes for the AP products that the General Audience consumers (whicn includes teens) get their hands on. So I gave up. September 12, 2009 5:48 PM Dlbluesaid.

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