Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Eric Ries : So if I'm getting it right, 60 million people is something like 5% of the possible audience of people who are on the internet and speak English. So it's the first time in my life that I pushed this to all my networks as hard as I could, and I was also very aggressive on the viral mechanics that I plugged into it.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

It made this site very sticky and it grew organically through viral word-of-mouth as a result of doing that. I would contact retailers of this card game and say, “I’ve got an audience of Magic players. In the Magic site’s case it was a forum that would grow virally by itself. I already had an audience of internet marketers.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 11, 2014

For example, I type in for "trip to Hawaii" (not an esoteric destination) into Google. Not only are they solving for the do audience, they also solve for the think audience. Owned audiences await. Take any metric you want. Solving for short-term virality is not a sustainable strategy. Subscribers.

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