Thanks to KISSmetrics for supporting our interview with Sean Ellis. If you want an intro to KISSmetrics, send me an email. I’ll put you in touch if there’s a fit. Thanks. – Nivi Hiten Shah from KISSmetrics recently sat down with me to discuss how to optimize funnels with their upcoming analytics tool, KISSmetrics. You [...]
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How to optimize web apps with KISSmetrics
February 17th, 2010 · Comments Off · Customer Development, Interview, Podcast, Sponsor
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How to bring a product to market, Part 2 — after product/market fit
January 12th, 2010 · 14 Comments · Customer Development, Interview, Podcast
“Where the #@!*% is Part 2?” That’s what I’ve been hearing since we published Part 1 of our rare interview with Sean Ellis. Here’s part 2. In Part 1, Sean discussed what you do before product/market fit: how to get there, how to measure it, and how to survey your users so you can improve [...]
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Get our interviews on the Venture Hacks Podcast
December 25th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Podcast
You can always get our interviews — with Eric Ries, Sean Ellis, Naval Ravikant, Hiten Shah, and others — on the Venture Hacks Podcast. iTunes users: Click here to subscribe to the podcast Everyone else: feeds.venturehacks.com/venturehacks Put the podcast on your iPod and listen at the gym, in the car, on the train. If you’ve [...]
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How to measure product/market fit with survey.io
December 15th, 2009 · 13 Comments · Customer Development, Interview, Podcast
Thanks to KISSmetrics for supporting our interview with Sean Ellis. If you want an intro to KISSmetrics, send me an email. I’ll put you in touch if there’s a fit. Thanks. – Nivi Hiten Shah from KISSmetrics recently sat down with me to explain how to use their product, survey.io, to measure product/market fit and [...]
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How to bring a product to market / A very rare interview with Sean Ellis
December 14th, 2009 · 40 Comments · Customer Development, Interview, Podcast
Sean Ellis recently sat down with us and explained how to bring products to market. You should listen to this interview for ideas on how to get to product/market fit, how to measure fit, and how to survey your users so you can improve fit. If you don’t know Sean from his blog or tweets, [...]
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Interview: How to pick a co-founder
November 30th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Founders, Interview, Podcast
We received a lot of good questions and feedback on How to pick a co-founder: Is two co-founders the only way to go? How do we split up the company? Who’s the boss? How do I know when to compromise on a co-founder? So Naval and I recorded a 40-minute interview to answer your questions, [...]
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Opening board meetings to the entire company
March 25th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Board of Directors, Interview, Launch, Organization, Podcast
In the second part of my interview with Eric Ries, we discuss (1) acquiring customers without launching and (2) opening up board meetings to the entire company. At IMVU, Eric and the management opened up board meetings to the entire company. Why? To give people the information they need to do their jobs. To teach [...]
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What is the minimum viable product?
March 23rd, 2009 · 44 Comments · Customer Development, Interview, Podcast
Eric Ries and I recently sat down to talk about minimum viable products: the product with just the necessary features to get money and feedback from early adopters. The minimum viable product (MVP) is often an ad on Google. Or a PowerPoint slide. Or a dialog box. Or a landing page. You can often build [...]
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How to be an angel investor, Part 2
March 16th, 2009 · 9 Comments · Angels, Interview, Podcast
Naval and I recently put together a talk for AngelConf, a conference for new angel investors. The conference was organized by Y Combinator and included an great group of notable angels like Ron Conway. According to the AngelConf website, “Investing in startups seems mysterious and difficult. How much are you supposed to invest? What legal [...]
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The Venture Hacks Podcast
March 6th, 2009 · Comments Off · Customer Development, Podcast
A lot of people have asked us to post the rest of Steve Blank’s customer development classes. Thanks for the feedback — we’re glad you like the course and we’ll post more classes over time. Podcast-lovers can also receive Steve’s course as a podcast. Just use your podcasting client to subscribe to our feed: feeds.venturehacks.com/venturehacks [...]
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