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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. I break the answer to that question down into three engines: Viral - this is the business model identified in the presentation as "Get Users." Choose one.

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The Most Misunderstood Facts About Building a Business on YouTube

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YouTube takes too high of a revenue split (45% vs. 30% that Apple and many other distribution companies take – FWIW, YouTube argues this is because their costs are much higher since they host and stream the video). But you don’t need to spend money on SEM. YouTube is a distribution and marketing channel like any other.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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dominated by a few very large incumbents who control much of the distribution or are you going into a market that is “fragmented” where nobody controls the industry. That marketing can be PR or SEO or influencer distribution or other forms of “unpaid” marketing. Competition. You need a wedge.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

In addition to presenting the IMVU case, we tried for the first time to do an overview of a software engineering methodology that integrates practices from agile software development with Steves method of Customer Development. 2008 09 06 Eric Ries Haas Columbia Customer Development Engineering View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own.

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Lessons Learned: Just-In-Time Scalability

Startup Lessons Learned

Chris and I had the opportunity to present on our approach this past spring at the MySQL Conference. You can also download our presentation, " Just-In-Time Scalability: Agile Methods to Support Massive Growth." Update: PDF version for "lazy linux users" and others who love freedom. How to listen to customers, and not just the loud.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? How to listen to customers, and not just the loud. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now

Startup Lessons Learned

How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? How to listen to customers, and not just the loud. Take a look and let me know what you think.