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Waves of technology platforms

Startup Lessons Learned

It cost us a few hundred thousand dollars to get our app up and running, but none of that was dollars spent on software licenses or professional services. Some combination of the dot-com crash and a just terrible business plan prevented us from having to take our scalability problems to the next level. yeah, its awesome.

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It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

Certainly venture-backed startups don’t have this luxury – every business plan has a model in it. If it costs $0.10 to acquire an early adopter, how much should it cost to acquire a mainstream customer? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. But $10.00?

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Startup Lessons Learned

Most likely, your business plan is loaded with opinions and guesses, sprinkled with a dash of vision and hope. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.

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Lessons Learned: Inc Magazine on Minimum Viable Product (and a.

Startup Lessons Learned

Development time is typically no more than two to three weeks, and it generally takes just a few orders to cover development costs. TPGTEXs approach is an example of a trend in business that has been dubbed minimum viable product or microtesting. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 6, 2008 When NOT to listen to your users; when NOT to rely on split-tests There are three legs to the lean startup concept: agile product development , low-cost (fast to market) platforms , and rapid-iteration customer development. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

Figuring this out takes time, and few entrepreneurs have the patience to wait it out, because the business plan does such a good job of explaining what customers are going to think. The problem is that customers dont read your business plan. Slow progress, but has cost less than 150k aud so far.

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Business ecology and the four customer currencies

Startup Lessons Learned

A business that strives for something like this should absolutely be charging money from day one, in order to establish baselines for their two key metrics: CPA (the cost to acquire a new customer) and LTV (the lifetime value of each acquired customer). Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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