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Hands-on Lessons for Advanced Topics in Entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

We wanted to give you a rundown of what’s in store, along with particular insight into two of the workshops we’re most excited to have lined up for Gold and VIP attendee s—one session with Jez Humble on implementing continuous delivery and one with Alistair Croll on Lean analytics for corporate entrepreneurs. How do you address that?

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Lessons Learned: Five Whys

Startup Lessons Learned

Its why, at my previous job, we were able to get a new engineer completely productive on their first day. Most engineers would ship code to production on their first day. Let me show you what this looked like after a few years of practicing five whys in the operations and engineering teams at IMVU.

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

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Enable Google Analytics tracking. You just have to sign up for Google Analytics, get your account number, and plug it into your site. Use Googles built-in Analytics/AdWords integration, to track the effectiveness of each ad you run. Labels: customer development , search engine marketing 13comments: Jim Lindstrom said.

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Lessons Learned: SEM on five dollars a day

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Trying to answer that question at IMVU led me to discover Google AdWords and the world of search engine marketing. You declare how much someone clicking an advertisement is worth to you, and then the search engine does its best to get you as many clicks as it can at that price. Labels: search engine marketing 4comments: Tauya said.

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Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot

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If you havent seen it, Pascals recent presentation on continuous deployment is a must-see; slides are here. If you havent seen it, Pascals recent presentation on continuous deployment is a must-see; slides are here. It was written by Sarah Milstein in collaboration with kaChing CEO Andy Rachleff.

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Speaker Lineup for the 2013 Lean Startup Conference

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New webcasts include one on Friday, October 25, Lean Analytics for Non-tech Companies with popular speakers Alistair Croll and Ben Yoskovitz, and on one November 5, Lean Impact--Implementing Lean Startup in Mission-driven Organizations. Usage of a new feature was a useless stat for us until we changed it to repeat usage.

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Minimum Viable Product: a guide

Startup Lessons Learned

In a lot of cases, this requires a lot of energy invested in talking to customers or metrics and analytics. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.