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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

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Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule.

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It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

It’s entirely possible for the startup to be a massive success without having large aggregate numbers, because the startup has succeeded in finding a passionate, but small, early adopter base that has tremendous per-customer behavior. Want to learn more about me? Try About the author.

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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

But aggregated across many schools, there are thousands or tens of thousands of them. a guide for hackers) You buy virtual goods The free software hiring advantage Continuous deployment and continuous learning The lean startup @ Web 2.0 President Work in small batches Continuous deployment with downloads What is a market? (a

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Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events

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Alerts and monitoring I use nagios and ganglia to implement both system and application level monitoring and alerting on the overall health of the production cluster. Examples of things I monitor are the numbers of user activations, active users, and aggregate page hits to user galleries. Want to learn more about me?

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Marching through quicksand

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When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. My blog has over 14000 subscribers, for example. Is that a lot? I have given more than two-dozen paid speeches this year – is that a lot? Is that good? link] August 24, 2009 2:50 PM Quentin said. Want to learn more about me?

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Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet

Startup Lessons Learned

In fact theyd cause there to be more jobs for Americans, because the companies they started would hire more employees as they grew. 2gov.org automatically routes your tweet (aggregating it with everyone else whos expressed a similar point of view) to the right legislator or agency. Want to learn more about me? Try About the author.

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Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business)

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Two others – that each team member give their input independently and that the results be objectively aggregated – are also key parts of building a meritocracy. After all, if you already have an all-male startup, you’re already at a disadvantage when it comes to hiring the very women that could fix that imbalance.