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Beyond the garage

Startup Lessons Learned

It may be hard to remember that there was a time when people in the agile software development community thought Lean Startup was incompatible with agile practices. No BS, no vanity metrics, no launches, no PR. Yes, you really can use continuous deployment – even in an SEC regulated environment.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

In this model, you take some fraction of the lifetime value of each customer and plow that back into paid acquisition through SEM, banner ads, PR, affiliates, etc. For eBay, this is caused by the incredible network effects of their business (so-called demand-side increasing returns and supply-side increasing returns). Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Startup Lessons Learned

But too often when its time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits." This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development. Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

Startup Lessons Learned

It allowed me to assess the market demand for that offline product before I had the final product baked. On-demand utility pricing for services (aka "cloud computing"). In the meantime, I think we have a good explanation for what all those PR dollars are being spent trying to obscure. Dont fall for it - its a trap. Great post!

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Stop lying on stage

Startup Lessons Learned

Many journalists and conference organizers attempt to fill this demand by giving successful entrepreneurs the opportunity to tell their stories: in magazines, on blogs, and on stage. The higher the vanity ratio, the more effective the PR. It helps companies with PR. The higher the vanity ratio, the more effective the PR.

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Lessons Learned: What is a market? (a guide for hackers)

Startup Lessons Learned

In the world of startups, this is like trying to sell a product to a very demanding customer who needs to see a lot of features before buying. Why do you think outsources have been happy to generate all this PR the past few years about people losing their jobs to India? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.