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Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 8, 2008
Most likely, your business plan is loaded with opinions and guesses, sprinkled with a dash of vision and hope. Customer development is a parallel process to product development, which means that you dont have to give up on your dream. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 8, 2008
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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Startup Lessons Learned
JUNE 5, 2009
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?
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 19, 2009
"We do not develop a product until we get a paying customer," says Orit Pennington , who co-founded the six-employee company with her husband in 2002. Development time is typically no more than two to three weeks, and it generally takes just a few orders to cover development costs. Read the rest. Read the rest.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 6, 2008
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. I think Drucker said it best.
Startup Lessons Learned
MARCH 13, 2009
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.
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 14, 2009
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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