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Document Your MVP for a Developer

SoCal CTO

And in the case of defining mobile/web/software, there is even more variability in terms of form and format. For example, if you are trying to determine viral coefficient (see Startup Metrics ), then the focus should be around those aspects of the MVP. Seeing the evolution of thinking is not a bad thing.

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Everything You Need To Know About Creating Killer Explainer Videos

ConversionXL

Even though the video may contain some of these elements, an explainer video is NOT specifically: A Viral video. This also doesn’t take into account other factors like mobile & tablet visitors are 3x more likely to view a video , or that consumption behaviors for mobile are dramatically different than desktop viewers.

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Lean Analytics: The Best Numbers for Non-Tech Companies

Startup Lessons Learned

In the Udemy course, Alistair and Ben expand these basics into a description of how to create empathy, stickiness, virality, revenue, and scale. Stickiness, Ben and Alistair say, is where people move on too quickly--they don’t make sure they really have a product that has the right features and functionality to meet their customers’ needs.

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

Customer Development , Agile Engineering and the Lean methodology enforced a process of incremental and iterative development. Startups could now get a first version of a product out to customers in weeks/months rather than months/years. That requires building a company using Agile and Customer Development.

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A Path to the Minimum Viable Product

Steve Blank

Shawn immediately said the name I had given the four steps was confusing – I had called it market development – he suggested that I call it Customer Development – and the name stuck. Sales channels are the paths through which your product lands in customers’ hands. Sales channels.

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How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone

Startup Lessons Learned

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. Not many customers ever browse the app directory or search for specific apps - they dont have to, they find out about apps by being invited by a friend.

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Twitter Link Roundup #170 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Bad Customer Development Questions and How to Avoid My Mistakes – [link]. Bad Customer Development Questions and How to Avoid My Mistakes – [link]. Google Study Says Mobile Searchers Act Quickly, With 55 Percent Of Conversions In The First Hour | TechCrunch – [link]. ” [link].