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

Startup Lessons Learned

Finally the day came, we unleashed the landing page, emailed our existing customers, and started advertising online. False negatives would be an issue, but combining ad words with other forms of advertising, such as guerrilla marketing, might yield a more robust answer. February 7, 2009 5:40 AM Major_Grooves said.

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Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret

cdixon.org

Great tips, fully inline with “Four Steps to the Epiphany” Also reminds me of Dharmesh’s “Stealth Mode, Schmealth Mode” — [link]. 4:32 pm on September 3, 2009 Reply Tags: business (100) Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret. § [.]. I’ve personally never heard of it happening.

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Startup CEO New Years Resolutions

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Lisa Marino of RockYou , a leading developer of social games and advertising solutions for social media, is focused on building a great team with more gaming DNA to improve the quality of the games it publishes: Make RockYou the place talent wants to be. Improve the product. Internalize culture and values.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

What are “Reg D” filings with the SEC and why does this make it harder to stay in stealth mode? I asked some of the participating VCs, and they told me their attorneys had figured out a way to keep their stealth-mode companies stealthy.Yes, this strategy is not for every company. We spoke briefly about why.

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10 Startup Red Flags

adamac.blogspot.com

Adam MacBeth Tuesday, April 07, 2009 10 Startup Red Flags Ive worked on a number of startups: from seed-stage through IPO, as a founder, employee, advisor, and consultant, as well as evaluating a bunch from the outside, so Ive seen my share of screw-ups. Adamac Attack! If its your company, bear this strongly in mind.

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How to Compete Against Open Source Competition

Software By Rob

August 11th, 2009 | Micropreneurship , Startups Building your startup? 11 Arjan’s World » LINKBLOG for August 11, 2009 on 08.11.09 34 Knowtu » links for 2009-08-11 on 08.11.09 39 links for 2009-08-12 | Yostivanich.com on 08.12.09 Check out my book Like this post? Subscribe via RSS On Twitter?

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How to conduct a Five Whys root cause analysis

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, July 2, 2009 How to conduct a Five Whys root cause analysis In the lean startup workshops , we’ve spent a lot of time discussing the technique of Five Whys. "Problems are caused by insufficiently robust symptoms" symptoms => systems July 3, 2009 12:29 AM Daniel Tenner said.