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The Lean LaunchPad – Teaching Entrepreneurship as a Management Science

Steve Blank

Students will start by mapping their assumptions (their business model) and then each week test these hypotheses with customers and partners outside in the field (customer development) and use an iterative and incremental development methodology (agile development) to build the product. Start your blog/wiki/journal.

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Business ecology and the four customer currencies

Startup Lessons Learned

A great product enables customers, developers, partners, and even competitors to exchange their unique currencies in combinations that lead to financial success for the company that organizes them. In a previous post , I covered the three main drivers of growth: Paid, Sticky, and Viral. And this is true outside of games.

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Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences

Startup Lessons Learned

You might get a bunch of inbound emails from other press and partners, and all of these things can contribute to a feeling that you’re on your way to getting tons of traffic. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Problem is, you inevitably become yesterday’s old news.

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Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

Establish credibility with potential partners. You need to combine your product with others, and this requires partners like OEMs or system integrators. A marketing launch can help you get in the door with those partners, if youre having trouble getting their attention. If the viral coefficient is 0.9, before you launch.

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Episode 3: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Do you feel like the more users you have it helps accelerate, is there some kind of, maybe not necessarily viral, but that people just tell their friends at all. One of the things we find, because we certainly threw out what can we do to make this more viral or to work more in a social way so that we can try to get more people on the system?

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Learning is better than optimization (the local maximum problem)

Startup Lessons Learned

Or should you focus on user engagement or virality? What about companies, like Siebel, that started with partner distribution first? Or should you focus on user engagement or virality? What about companies, like Siebel, that started with partner distribution first? There are no universally right answers to such questions.