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Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 18, 2010 Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events The following is a case study of one entrepreneurs transition from a traditional development cycle to continuous deployment. Continuous Deployment is Continuous Flow applied to software.

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A new field guide for entrepreneurs of all stripes

Startup Lessons Learned

TLDR: Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits , authors of The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development are back with a new book called The Lean Entrepreneur. They are launching their next book, a true field guide for entrepreneurs, called The Lean Entrepreneur: How to Create Products, Innovate with New Ventures, and Disrupt Markets.

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Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startup Lessons Learned

The net result: we sold exactly zero presidential debate avatars. So, if youre interested in helping avoid mistakes like that, here are the steps: Get a domain name. It doesnt have to be the worlds catchiest name, just pick something reasonably descriptive. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post)

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In the past two decades, they have accounted for nearly all the net job growth in our country. Many of these companies are started by entrepreneurs, and are now household names: Google, Yahoo, eBay and Intel. In the past two decades, they have accounted for nearly all the net job growth in our country.

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Lessons Learned: SEM on five dollars a day

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Since we were only paying per click, it didnt cost us anything to cast a wide net. We would pretty much bid on any phrase that was "[name of competitive product] chat" and variations like that. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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A real Customer Advisory Board

Startup Lessons Learned

In previous posts, I’ve mentioned quite a few of these, including these most important ones: having engineers post on the forums in their own name when they make a change routinely split-testing new changes routinely conducting in-person usability tests and interviews Net Promoter Score Each of these techniques is fundamentally bottoms-up.

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Startup Lessons Learned

I highly recommend this book for all entrepreneurs, in startups as well as in big companies. The book takes its name from Steves theory of the four stages of growth any startup goes through. Ive only had luck sharing it with other entrepreneurs who are actually struggling with their product or company. Heres the catch.