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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?)

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. (So The lean startup is an application of Lean Thinking.

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Lessons Learned: SEM on five dollars a day

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 13, 2008 SEM on five dollars a day How do you build a new product with constant customer feedback while simultaneously staying under the radar? SEM is a simple idea. In a mature company with a mature product, the goal is to pay for lots of people to come to your website.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup comes to Stanford

Startup Lessons Learned

In fact, in the early days, when IMVU would experience unexpected surges of revenue or traffic, it was inevitable that every person in the company was convinced that their project was responsible. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? How to listen to customers, and not just the loud.

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Lessons Learned: Q&A with an actual reader

Startup Lessons Learned

Either way, you would have been better off focusing your split-test on high level metrics that measure how much customers like your product as a whole. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? How to listen to customers, and not just the loud. Seth Godin: How often should you publish?