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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

That requires deep value creation that is difficult to do when everyone is using the same tools, even in different ways -- value requires differentiality which requires protection as soon as someone spots the value creation, for it will be copied soon thereafter. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

But because paid traffic is fundamentally a bidding war, its important that you have a differentiated ability to monetize customers better than other people who are bidding for the same traffic. For Neopets, its simply a side-effect of their game-like product design. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Four myths about the Lean Startup

Startup Lessons Learned

What differentiates them is their disciplined approach to determining when to spend money: after the fundamental elements of the business model have been empirically validated. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Myth: Lean Startups are small bootstrapped startups. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Lessons Learned: Three freemium strategies

Startup Lessons Learned

For founders, I think it also has another big attraction: the ability to avoid a lot of " free vs paid " arguments. What differentiates this model from "free serves paid" is that the free users dont need to consciously do anything special to be valuable. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: You buy virtual goods

Startup Lessons Learned

Perceived value - This is the extra value a customer perceives as a result of good marketing, product design, product quality, or exception product/market fit. Identity value - This is the strongest source of value of all, and its a little tricky to differentiate from the preceding two sources. Expo (and a call for he.

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Pivot, don't jump to a new vision

Startup Lessons Learned

Some startups fail because the founders cant have this conversation - they either blow up when they try, or they fail to change because they are afraid of conflict. Although I wish I could take credit for these pivots, the reality is that they were not caused by my singular insight or that of my other co-founders.

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Good enough never is (or is it?)

Startup Lessons Learned

This success was aided by the fact that it did just one thing extremely well – its lack of extra features emphasized its differentiation. This is precisely the dilemma that the doctrine of minimum viable product is designed to solve. And the rest is history: Google Maps was a huge success. So which is it?