Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

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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The Startup Toolkit

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

It’s harder for people (including your own team) to intuit the implications of your retention rate. The lean startup book’s engines of growth is a great starting point for picking good metrics: Growing virally? Focus on retention. They’re default. You must actively reject them. Picking good metrics.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, December 16, 2008 Engagement loops: beyond viral Theres a great and growing corpus of writing about viral loops, the step-by-step optimizations you can use to encourage maximum growth of online products by having customers invite each other to join. This is essentially a version of the viral loop.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

This is a common problem that results from viral-loop optimization. By copying the exact same registration flow as every other successful viral app, many viral apps completely lose their positioning. At IMVU , we would routinely find retention effects that would stem from registration changes and have impact days or weeks later.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

Andrew : Why Loom and Zoom and Clubhouse and some of the other new social experiences benefit is that you can use the current boom in engagement and viral growth to build out your network. In a lot of the startup conversations I’ve been having, if you lean too far that way, it doesn’t resonate with people. Andrew : Right.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

” April, 2012 – Andrew Chen writes Growth Hacker is the new VP Marketing , which goes viral (2.4K This means users love it, that there’s lots of retention and engagement, even at small numbers. Now, people begin defining growth hacking as a process, a systematic approach, a “viral loop”, etc.

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klinger.io

JANUARY 17, 2014

As a analytics consultant I am working with a lot of startups and help them in the topics of metrics, analytics, retention and growth. Conversion Rates, Landing Page Optimizations, Funnel Optimizations, Viral Loops, Quick questions and insights are they typical examples of usecases of exploration. 6th January 2014.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Revenue is always my preferred measure, but you can use anything that is important to your business: retention, activation, viral invites, or even customer satisfaction in the form of something like net promoter score. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May. for Harvard Business Revie.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

And thanks to Ann Miura-Ko of Floodgate (my first Lean LaunchPad co-instructor) for her suggestions. You’ve built detailed analytics tracking into your product and you should be seeing organic and viral growth; and can provide Daily/Weekly/Monthly Active Users, 30d/90d/120d retention. 2M in 18 months.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 16, 2016

See, when people lean on NPS like it’s a magic number, it doesn’t do much good. Net Promoter Score has been shown to correlate with customer loyalty, retention and growth – but not always. There are also studies that have suggested NPS isn’t as predictive of growth, retention, or virality that the initial research claimed.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 6, 2016

Strategy & Testing: The a-ha moment is the tipping point for retention. The a-ha moment is the tipping point for retention. This entire model is very close to the Lean Startup model. Day 3 – Analytics, Personalization and Retention. Retention is probably the most under talked about part of CRO.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Just as.NET is both a lock-in and very restricting, and Java violates both “lean cuisine class hierarchy” and “objects if necessary, but not necessarily objects”, the “we’ll just use XML” mantra deserves to die. That would have given you a trifecta. Only like minds want to work for someone like that.

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