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

Startup Lessons Learned

I break the answer to that question down into three engines: Viral - this is the business model identified in the presentation as "Get Users." Here, the key metrics are Acquisition and Referral, combined into the now-famous viral coefficient. If the coefficient is > 1.0 , you generally have a viral hit on your hands.

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Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

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I too would be concerned about false negatives, but perhaps this strategy could be integrated into a broader market research strategy that included user engagement, viral marketing, etc which would all be quantifiable under the Google analytics. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences

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vs. sustainable: Compare this to the renewable strategies, like viral marketing, SEO, widgets, and ads, which can scale into 10s of millions of users but are primarily centered around tough, non-user centric work. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Business ecology and the four customer currencies

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In a previous post , I covered the three main drivers of growth: Paid, Sticky, and Viral. Let’s look at a viral growth company, like Facebook. If you are building a large, viral, ad-support consumer internet property, you just want to go big! They’re off to cross the chasm. As soon as possible!&#

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Lessons Learned: Continuous integration step-by-step

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Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Bring your questions.

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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

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If its part of a viral loop, its probably trying to get them to invite more friends (on average). Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone

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On Facebook, viral distribution has proved decisive. Those companies who have learned to build apps that optimize the viral loop dominate in every category where they compete. So far, I dont see any apps that have much in the way of viral distribution. We're leading the charge in enabling viral distribution for iPhone apps.