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Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences

Startup Lessons Learned

vs. sustainable: Compare this to the renewable strategies, like viral marketing, SEO, widgets, and ads, which can scale into 10s of millions of users but are primarily centered around tough, non-user centric work. Problem is, you inevitably become yesterday’s old news. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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On deployment

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 2, 2008 On deployment My favorite question to ask a software development team is "how do you do a release." And the same is true in reverse - a lone brilliant coder can build a great widget, but it takes a system of people working well together to produce consistently great results.

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Video update on the Startup Visa Act

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(<30 sec) Write your local newspaper & tell them you support the Startup Visa Act Call your senators & let them know you support Startup Visa legislation Add the Startup Visa Widget to your blog or website Follow the #startupvisa hash tag on Twitter and voice your support Contribute to Startup Visa so we can spread the word!

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Startup Visa update

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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? Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets. Learning is better than optimization (the local ma.

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Happy blogiversary (my present: a brand new URL)

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When I first started writing this blog, I made a promise to myself that I would spend more time on the content of the essays than on layout and fancy widgets. Minimum Viable Product: a guide You can see and even install the Top Posts widget yourself if you like (simple install for blogger blogs): [link] Not bad, dude. Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: Continuous integration step-by-step

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 8, 2008 Continuous integration step-by-step Lets start with the basics: Martin Fowlers original article lays out the mechanics of how to set up a CI server and the essential rules to follow while doing it. December 10, 2008 6:37 AM Anonymoussaid. I think they are the same thing.

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Cracking The Code: Software 2.0: How the use of internet is.

Cracking the Code

The post-internet sales force evolved into a more agile tiered engine, starting with leads generated on the website, followed by a telesales team that would further qualify the lead and assigned it to the proper sales team (telesales for SMB or direct sales for Enterprise). 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 ► 2008. (11).