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

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 The three drivers of growth for your business model. Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. Choose one.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

Paring down products, target customers, business models etc takes courage, but it must be done to have any chance of success. Eric, As you touch on, the lean venture has been the basic model employed by entrepreneurs throughout history until the past 12 years or so when venturing became institutionalized.

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Austin: the Lean Startup tour continues

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, May 27, 2009 Austin: the Lean Startup tour continues Next week I head to Austin, TX for my first visit ever. and lean manufacturing to guide the creation of technology businesses that create disruptive innovation. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, I’ve talked often about our belief that an instant messaging add-on product would allow IMVU to take advantage of a network effects strategy. For example, IMVU’s early business model was made possible by Paypal’s easy self-serve and open access payment system. One last thought.

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10 years of entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

Unfortunately, we were fixated on "building a real business" and never noticed that maybe students would want to share their profiles with each other. Could we have built the first college-based social network five years before Facebook ? No business model, either. Figuring out a business model is easy from there onwards.

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Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

You have to know your business model. Most startups launch before theyve figured out what business theyre in. Know what the success metrics are for the launch. Would have been nice to have this last year when I started my own business. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Gattiker said.

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Lessons Learned: When NOT to listen to your users; when NOT to.

Startup Lessons Learned

Whats needed is a disciplined methodology for understanding the needs of customers and how they combine to form a viable business model. The site is now a sad footnote in the history of Social Networking Services. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. How did they do it? By listening to their users.