[Updated May 5, 2017] "Successful startups are all alike; every unsuccessful startup is unsuccessful in its own way." These are my personal observations on a few traits that make startups successful. You can find a video of the talk at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_D9oXCK2lM and the book at http://www.hello-startup.net/.
69. Wrap new features in if-
statements. Default is “off”.
Group users into buckets.
Toggle features for some
buckets: A/B testing,
ramping (1%, 10%, 100%).
76. Using A/B testing to pick the right
image significantly increased
clickthroughs
77. Note: use data to inform your
decision-making process, not
replace it.
78. “If we can’t identify a
decision that could be
affected by a proposed
measurement and how it
could change those
decisions, then the
measurement simply has
no value.”
Douglas W. Hubbard
79. 1. Make excellent mistakes
2. Speed wins
3. Data
4. Distribution
5. Sharing
Outline
135. Rocket: manhhai
Leo Tolstoy: Wikimedia
Biz Stone: Joi Ito
Richard Branson: Chatham House
Thomas Edison: Louis Bachrach
Reid Hoffman: startupofyou
Dogfight: Alan Wilson
MVP car: Henrik Kinberg
Crowd of people: Scott Cresswell
Picadilly Circus Ads: Sebastian Bertalan
John Wanamaker: Bain News Service
Social media: Ibrahim.ID
Man using laptop: Negative Space
Laptop with Google: Pixabay
Handshake: Flazingo Photos
Woman coding: Hamza Butt
Resume: Flazingo Photos
References & image credits