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

Startup Lessons Learned

It was fall 2004, and the presidential election was in full swing. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people

Startup Lessons Learned

This was 2004, and we had never even heard of MySpace, let alone had any understanding of social networking. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down?

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup at UC Berkeley Haas School of.

Startup Lessons Learned

What happened when we got early press (circa 2004) in violation of our own no-PR rule. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? (a Expo SF (May.

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Lean Startup at Scale

Startup Lessons Learned

One good example is the way in which we''ve adjusted the length of different phases of our agile sprints. We don''t follow a set agile methodology, but rather follow a more home-grown, minimal version of various approaches. The webcast is free with registration and will include a live Q&A with attendees.

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Lessons Learned: SEM on five dollars a day

Startup Lessons Learned

BillSeitz - yes, but that was already true back in 2004. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

When we started IMVU in 2004, we could rely on a staggering amount of open source software that jumpstarted our initial product offering. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. From e-commerce to blogs to photo galleries, we benefited from tens of thousands of lines of code that had already been battle-tested. . Expo SF (May.

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16 Common Mistakes Young Startups Make

mashable.com

In fact, recent research shows that 75% of startups fail (based on a study of 2,000 startups that received VC funding from 2004 to 2010). You are small and agile, which means you have a high rate of innovation and growth, and with that comes work! Not Embracing Agility. "If Some startups are destined for failure. Hiring Poorly.

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