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

Startup Lessons Learned

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 Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

But if you want to practice rapid deployment, you need to be able to deploy that build in one step as well. If you want to do continuous deployment, youd better be able to certify that build too, which brings us to. For more on continuous deployment, see Just-in-time Scalability. Can you make a build in one step?

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Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

Start with a five-dollar-a-day SEM campaign. You create an entire framework of understanding and action based on your product/idea that sets it in motion in a self-sustaining way. the most sensible SEM advice Ive read - discussed in the context of a real situation. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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You don't need as many tools as you think

Startup Lessons Learned

If you read Lean Thinking , you can enjoy numerous examples of companies that replaced multi-million dollar MRP systems with a simple white board. The lean manufacturing guys call this visual control and its very powerful. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.