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How to Use Frugal Innovation to Grow Your Startup

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As a startup, you probably don’t have much money to spend on marketing or product development. For example, you might use guerilla marketing techniques to promote your product without spending much money on traditional advertising channels. The Renault Logan , released in 2004, is a prime example of frugal innovation.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

So the natural comparison, we thought, would be to other 3D avatar based products, like The Sims and World of Warcraft. This was 2004, and we had never even heard of MySpace, let alone had any understanding of social networking. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

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Lean Startup at Scale

Startup Lessons Learned

At this point, we have our own open-sourced click tracking "lil brother," an internal data visualization tool built on Rickshaw, as well as an A/B testing platform called Absinthe. 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

You mention "we had also built a simple cohort-based analytics system" Is tihs a commercial/open source systems. BillSeitz - yes, but that was already true back in 2004. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? Where can one get it, and for how much?

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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. From e-commerce to blogs to photo galleries, we benefited from tens of thousands of lines of code that had already been battle-tested.

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