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Lessons Learned: SEM on five dollars a day

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 13, 2008 SEM on five dollars a day How do you build a new product with constant customer feedback while simultaneously staying under the radar? SEM is a simple idea. We would pretty much bid on any phrase that was "[name of competitive product] chat" and variations like that.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

In addition to presenting the IMVU case, we tried for the first time to do an overview of a software engineering methodology that integrates practices from agile software development with Steves method of Customer Development. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below. What about a hardware business with some long-lead-time components?

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Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now A great checklist of techniques and tools for making your development more agile, written from a Rail perspective. Expo SF (May.

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Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences

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It’s easy to overestimate the impact of this kind of traffic because it just feels good to have your name and company featured. Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas. It strokes your ego. Expo SF (May.

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How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone

Startup Lessons Learned

All I see is a name, an icon, a price, the developers name, and a review star-rating. If you sell an online service that solves a defined problem, you can compete in SEO or SEM. Even with only a few months of development, third parties have crammed every single category in the store full of apps. I cant really tell.

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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

If she is, return the name of the hypothesis she was exposed to before. Return the name of the hypothesis chosen or assigned. From the point of view of the caller of the function, they just pass in the name of the experiment and its various hypotheses. Check if the currently logged-in user is part of this experiment already.

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You don't need as many tools as you think

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We had all the tools in place but we didn’t actually practice agile development. No fancy tools needed here — it’s about the mentality, attention to detail, and the actions that foster agile development, not the tools & systems you set up in place to facilitate this. 1 comments: Josh Moore said. Expo SF (May.