Continuous Deployment Developer Hiring Retention 
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?)
Startup Lessons Learned
JUNE 22, 2009
Each has its own iterative process: customer development and agile development respectively. The hardest part of entrepreneurship is to develop the judgment to know when its time to change direction and when its time to stay the course. IMVU had a roughly two-month-long development cycle. Heres what it looked like.
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Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 2, 2009
Retention cohort analysis. Here in Tampa, our biggest challenge is convincing the regions technology "leadership" that grassroots economic development is a good thing. My startup business (web development) is being shunned by virtually every other potential investor I approached thus far. Funnel averages over time.
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 3, 2009
davemcclure : amazing concepts on Continuous Development => "Cluster Immune System" @EricRies #LeanStartup @fbFund [link] dalelarson : Because most features take longer to argue and prioritize than to build. ericries #leanstartup Another new idea in the section on continuous deployment and the cluster immune system.
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 14, 2009
Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule. And what of the product development team? Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. Go on an agile diet quickly.
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 14, 2009
A great product enables customers, developers, partners, and even competitors to exchange their unique currencies in combinations that lead to financial success for the company that organizes them. We cultivated a passionate community that nurtured a skilled set of developers. Take the minimum viable product , for starters.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 29, 2008
Revenue is always my preferred measure, but you can use anything that is important to your business: retention, activation, viral invites, or even customer satisfaction in the form of something like net promoter score. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?
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