Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 5, 2010
Brant and Patrick undertook a difficult challenge: to provide a generally accessible introduction to Customer Development, without diluting its impact or dumbing-down its principles. On the minus side, that has made it a wee bit hard to understand. I think theyve succeeded. The Entrepreneur’s Guide is an easy read.
Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 24, 2009
Despite all the energy invested in talking to authors about the size of their platform, very few gatekeepers have a rigorous set of metrics for measuring it. When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. My blog has over 14000 subscribers, for example. Is that a lot?
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Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 26, 2009
Anyone who has worked in a real-world product development team can tell you how utopian that sounds. Every time you listen to customers, you fear diluting your vision. Anyone who has worked in a real-world product development team can tell you how utopian that sounds. That’s natural. That’s natural.
K9 Ventures
OCTOBER 10, 2017
If the Micro-VCs are looking for Series A-like metrics, what does a company do when it’s just getting started? If it doesn’t have the product fully baked yet? And people are expensive (especially in the Bay Area), so some Pre-Seed financing goes towards recruiting the right minimal set of people who can help to build the product.
ConversionXL
AUGUST 30, 2018
It slows product development. The key is to connect user research to an improved user experience and, in turn, an increase in customer retention, leads, or any other metric for which C-suite members are accountable. Your established structure protects the ideas and process from free-wheeling input that can dilute your message.
Startup Lessons Learned
JUNE 15, 2009
In fighting to have developers checking in code dictate production releases, you risk looking unreasonable and diluting a powerful message that everyone should agree on: "small batches of changes that are automatically and continuously tested" June 15, 2009 7:55 PM Matthew D Edwards said.
maplebutter.com
JANUARY 8, 2013
Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. Building Product 2. Building Metrics / Usage Reports / KPI 3. Product/Metrics (70%/30% time) * Get your product activation (sign-up + meaningful action) to 60% * then, Get your product retention to 20% weekly.
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