Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2010

Beyond my own efforts on this blog ( and more ), there is now an amazing variety of resources for lean startup practitioners. When I first started blogging, the startup blogging mafia immediately came to meet me and find out who I was: Dave McClure , Andrew Chen , Sean Ellis and Venture Hacks. Have a favorite who I overlooked?

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 4, 2010

blog comments powered by Disqus Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe via email Blog Archive ▼ 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?) Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Basic metrics like deals completed and revenue generated don’t measure customer acquisition success. One HubSpot survey found that 62% of people consume online videos thoroughly but are more likely to skim photos, audio, and written content. Measuring customer acquisition for peak effectiveness. Image source ). Conclusion.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 2, 2010

Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable Beware of Vanity Metrics For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable Beware of Vanity Metrics For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? Startup Lessons Learned season one : Every post from the blogs first year in print form.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable Beware of Vanity Metrics For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable Beware of Vanity Metrics For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? Startup Lessons Learned season one : Every post from the blogs first year in print form.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, February 8, 2010 Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Review) The next article in my series on entrepreneurship for Harvard Business Review is live today. Once again, we revisit the topic of Actionable metrics and their nemesis: Vanity metrics. Remember "metrics are people, too."

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

I think one of the most important things is there's a lot of focus on metrics, and I think metrics is important, but we get caught up in these sort of acronyms and these buzzwords, but really it's all about asking the right questions, right? It's as simple as that, and that is what metrics are to me. So that is the third thing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. Brilliant insights, advice and information on your blog. Jim Murphy is a long-time agile practitioner in startups. Hes often felt that there was something missing.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2014

In this webinar, we take time to discuss the different metrics that startups—and established businesses—should be tracking. The full audio and slide deck are included above, and the full transcript below. In terms of pre-purchase, traffic and content metrics. Because what happens is pitching is going to take eight to 12 months.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, October 4, 2008 About the author ( Update January, 2010: This post originally dates from October, 2008 back when I first started writing this blog. I hope you take something of value from this blog. Eric, love the blog. Thanks for your professional blog. So thats me, your author.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 7, 2010

Although much of it will sound familiar to readers of this blog, whats new is my first step towards the " new entrepreneurship " that is my goal for 2010. Unlike previous cross-posting Ive done for blogs, where a lot of the discussion happens here, Id like to ask you to take a minute and click through to read the full article.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 15, 2010

Behind this analysis is a spreadsheet model, complete with detailed metrics for a set of customer behaviors that show just how valuable the new product will be. They are on-schedule and on-budget, but their gross metrics are way off. They are on-schedule and on-budget, but their gross metrics are way off. Read the rest here.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Great blog! April 30, 2010 12:14 PM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Subscribe via email Blog Archive ► 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?) Good stuff.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

Brad Feld also had some thoughts on this event on his blog. Weve got slides , video , audio and twitter commentary. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Read the rest.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, July 28, 2010 Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot (The following guest post is a new experiment for this blog. And if you’re a regular reader of this blog, you may know that IMVU started out as an instant messaging add-on. kaChing has been very active in the Lean Startup movement.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

You know, years ago I started getting, you know, remodeling contractors and plumbers, you know, blogging and on social media and they thought this is the stupidest thing in the world, but it, it was such a competitive advantage for them because nobody else was doing it. You can spend on as a risk without putting you outside of the metric.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 28, 2014

” The visitor/view metric is one you should only be competing against yourself on. From lighting, audio recording, cameras & music selection, there are too many extra things that go into making high quality videos to cover here. ” metric for featured products & +28.0 This is an example of “averages lie.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 2, 2008

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Get in touch: Twitter Email Facebook Linkedin Additional resources Startup LessonsLearned, All Seasons : Every post from the blog, in one 600+ page PDF.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

And since I have a blog, I have a way to ask questions directly to you. Heres what I want to know: First of all, the NPS question : On a scale of 1-10 (where 10 is most likely), how likely is it that you you would recommend this blog to a friend or colleague? Eric, great blog. Im keeping your blog. How annoying!)

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 15, 2012

Audio attached here, downloadable on iTunes or below, and transcript below. It’s just vanity metrics but they want it. Be sure to visit Jason’s blog at asmartbear.com for more episodes, and if you would like to ask a question of Jason in a future Smart Bear Live, please register at smartbearlive.com.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Focus on the output metrics of that part of the product, and you make the problem a lot more clear. To promote this metrics discipline, we would present the full funnel to our board (and advisers) at the end of every development cycle. Max Levchin of Slide and Paypal has noted that 10% of Slides headcount is devoted to metrics only.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 31, 2014

Ask Peep about analytics, and he’ll tell you, “Metrics are there to provide actionable insight. You need to look at a metric, ask “so what?” – and have an answer.”. For Spotify – a streaming music service – it certainly makes sense to incorporate audio/visual elements to flesh out their value proposition.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

This is one of the blog we posted about how some company is doing SEO to promote the website. To help find the right keywords, Ive written an article on my blog Web Startup Help that details How to Do Keyword Research for startups. This post has been removed by a blog administrator. link] November 8, 2008 7:13 PM Jason said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

May 12, 2009 7:42 PM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Subscribe via email Blog Archive ► 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?) Thank you very much for the video.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2009

In keeping with my recent theme of blogging about upcoming events, Im happy to announce that Ill be speaking at Agile Vancouver on April 21. For those of you who subscribe to the blog for substantive content and whatnot, I promise to get back to more regular posts soon. And when did there get to be 3000 of you?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Labels: Test-driven development 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Subscribe via email Blog Archive ► 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?)

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 30, 2013

7 Most Popular Blog Posts of 2013 written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Like a lot of content producers I’m using the end of the year to look back and reflect on the body of work produced throughout the year. Marketing Strategy Vision blog posts Content Marketing'

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

When I wrote a review of Four Steps on this blog in November, 2008, I did my best to be candid and warn of a few shortcomings: And Steve is the first to admit that its a "turgid" read, without a great deal of narrative flow. Well done, Brant and Patrick. I cant wait to see whats next. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 24, 2022

2:58] What metrics to look at throughout the different levels of the marketing funnel. [3:32] 9:11] Metrics at the middle of the funnel are more engagement-based. [11:39] That's the reason for tracking the metrics a again, yay. Topics I Cover: [1:41] What the point of tracking is. [2:58] Doesn't really matter.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Despite all the energy invested in talking to authors about the size of their platform, very few gatekeepers have a rigorous set of metrics for measuring it. My blog has over 14000 subscribers, for example. And how could they possibly review a blog? Is that a lot? What is the right revenue model?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

October 17, 2009 10:34 AM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Subscribe via email Blog Archive ► 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?)

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

Ive written about it on our development blog at [link] October 6, 2008 3:34 PM Chris Hondl said. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. The jury is still out on whether itll work long-term or not.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

That’s because many of our reports feed us vanity metrics: numbers that make us look good but don’t really help make decisions. Yet even among those who have access to good actionable metrics, I’ve noticed a phenomenon that prevents taking maximum advantage of data. Too much of this data is non- actionable.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

I immediately started digging deeper and found Steves course handouts ([link] podcast from his presentation ([link] and presentation slides from SKMurphys blog ([link] And yes, The Four Steps to the Epiphany is on its way too ;-). Eric Ries’ and Steve Blank’s blogs have enlightened my entrepreneur mind for the many years to come.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2009

I worry sometimes about making this blog too much into a travelogue or journal of my public events. wow this blog is god awful. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. hope your app is better.

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