Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

But because paid traffic is fundamentally a bidding war, its important that you have a differentiated ability to monetize customers better than other people who are bidding for the same traffic. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 1, 2010

Get to work and add all of these for first customer ship.”. Product development salutes and gets to work building the product. Only after the product ships does the company find out that customers couldn’t have cared less about most of the bells and whistles. No feature lists without facts.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 18, 2010

Lean, when used in the context of lean startup, refers to a process of building companies and products using lean manufacturing principles applied to innovation. That process involves rapid hypothesis testing, validated learning about customers , and a disciplined approach to product development.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 14, 2021

In this guide, you’ll learn how to differentiate your business and attract your ideal customers by creating a unique selling proposition. How do they differentiate from other competitors (including yourself) and handle objections? A common USP formula is: “We help [AUDIENCE] achieve [TRANSFORMATION] with [PRODUCT/SERVICE].”.

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Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2013

It’s important to differentiate between ideas that have been or can be patented and ideas thought up late night in a dorm-room. They deal with the daily crisis of product development and acquiring early customers. Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career/Culture.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

Each has its own iterative process: customer development and agile development respectively. In those cases, the product may stay mostly the same, but the positioning, marketing, and - most importantly - prioritization of features changes dramatically. This is an exciting kind of change, usually. Great post Eric.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

One of the sayings I hear from talented managers in product development is, “good enough never is.&# And, most importantly, it helps team members develop the courage to stand up for these values in stressful situations. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Another great way to test your idea is to create a minimum viable product, or MVP. This is the simplest version of your product minus the frills and frosting. It’s a particularly popular strategy in the world of product development and is used to quickly and quantitatively test a product or a product feature.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 27, 2009

Here the key is for your free customers to get value from the site that is greater than the costs they perceive by the fact that youre selling access to them. What differentiates this model from "free serves paid" is that the free users dont need to consciously do anything special to be valuable.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

On Sean’s GrowthHackers.com , categories include… So, essentially everything from customer development and onboarding to persuasion and social marketing fall under the umbrella of growth hacking. The key differentiator being the product-level focus vs. the channel-level focus of traditional marketing effort.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Identity value - This is the strongest source of value of all, and its a little tricky to differentiate from the preceding two sources. This is the benefit you get from incorporating a product into your self-conception. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

Overall, here are the lessons I take from (the imaginary) Steve Jobs: Hold your team to high standards, dont settle for products that dont meet the vision, iterate, iterate, iterate. Be disciplined about which vision to pursue; choose products that have large markets. Will start to pay attention. August 1, 2009 9:33 AM Brij said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2009

We have certain advantages that we are confident will differentiate us, but these may not be apparent if we just released as soon as the basic functionality of our app was ready. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

We knew IMVU would be a socializing platform, and so we decided that we would let our customers interact using their own rules for assigning status, like we do in the physical world. The companies that own those brands work hard to differentiate their offering so that people who wear their clothes will be perceived in a certain way.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

are just emerging for business people (customer development, business model generation,). He correctly identifies the three disciplines that have to be represented in a balanced and collaborative manner: developer, designer, distributer. The original name being Abraraccourcix.

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