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

Startup Lessons Learned

Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one.

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Lessons Learned: The metrics and levers of engagement.

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, March 24, 2009 The metrics and levers of engagement, presentation on Engagement Loops for Facebook Developer Garage SF Ill be presenting a talk at the Facebook Developer Garage SF Wednesday evening. Unfortunately, its easy to lose track of positioning effects when optimizing for a single metric.

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Pivot, don't jump to a new vision

Startup Lessons Learned

Leading up to a pivot, each cycle, despite our best efforts, the metrics werent good enough. Our challenge is in the customer retention, and we're in the process of doing segment pivot to validate our hypothesis that the other market segment has longer retention. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned on Mashable today

Startup Lessons Learned

The core of the article is my first attempt to articulate the key metrics (in graph form) that I believe demonstrate customer value. Retention cohort analysis. My son is planning a software product that will take the mystery out of wikis and make the technology easier for consumers to use. Funnel averages over time.

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Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up

Startup Lessons Learned

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.

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Lessons Learned: Q&A with an actual reader

Startup Lessons Learned

Luckily, the metrics helped us figure out the difference. Question 2: If your product has areas where people read and then different areas where people interact, are there ways to do metrics to determine where people spend their time? Were looking to metrics to determine how users interact with our product.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. Products can find sources of validation with impressive stats along a number of dimensions, such as high engagement, viral coefficient, or long-term retention. Time-to-complete-a-sale is not a bad metric for validated learning at this stage.

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