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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

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It should be even more important to the founders themselves, because it demonstrates that their business hypothesis is grounded in reality. These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process. More on that in a moment. They are close to breakeven.

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The Lean Startup Tokyo edition

Startup Lessons Learned

benjaminjoffe : early adopters of buggy product are visionary customers, sometimes smarter than founders! Many founders dont like to hear that visionary customers are as smart, maybe even more so, than they are. For one, it doesnt match my experience having worked with some true visionaries at all. Brilliant insight.

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Join the Lean Startup discussion at Web 2.0 Expo for free

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Ill do my best to match deserving people up with appropriate sponsors, and Ill be glad to recognize those that give on the blog and at the conference itself. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Similarly, if youd like to be able to come but cannot for financial reasons, please drop me a line.

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Not crossing the chasm

Startup Lessons Learned

In a subscription business, maybe your attrition starts matching your acquisition, balancing like magic. Or your cost of customer acquisition just magically floats up to match your customer lifetime value. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Nothing seems to matter. we dont talk enough about how it feels.

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No departments

Startup Lessons Learned

They are leaders, visionaries, founders and managers having tremendous success. This feedback is a nasty trap, and it’s just how this room full of otherwise rational adults wound up in a screaming match about rounded corners. They are leaders, visionaries, founders and managers having tremendous success.

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Minimum Viable Product: a guide

Startup Lessons Learned

Its power is matched only by the amount of confusion that it causes, because its actually quite hard to do. As I talked about in a previous interview, IMVUs original MVP took us six months to bring to market. Iterate quickly to uncover true market demands. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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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. However, its not very useful to mix and match features from different models. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. You can reach for all the scale of a free service and still make money.