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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. We run a web development company and we start by creating a splash page very similar to what is describe here. If we don't get a certain amount of signups on that splash page, we don't develop the rest of the site becuase they will not have any customer.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

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But it also seems like it could severely limit your long-term options: Once youve actually managed to make it through the first couple years and build up a customer base, you now have to invest thousands of man-hours into aggressively refactoring, and replace reams of PHP code with code thats secure, maintainable, and reliable. Thanks Again.

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Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what's changed since.

Startup Lessons Learned

This includes the designers as well as the engineers and product managers. 1] For more on SBCE, see this MIT Sloan Management Review article. Heres an excerpt: In a previous article, we called Toyota’s product development system the “second Toyota paradox.&# Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.