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Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Harvard Business.

Startup Lessons Learned

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.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule. People often forget the most important part of the hockey stick: the long flat part.

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Lessons Learned: A hierarchy of pitches

Startup Lessons Learned

Most important slide: hockey stick Micro-scale results Key questions: who is the customer, and how do you know? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Most important slide: valuation Promising results Key questions: can you monetize that traffic? (or