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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.

Startup Lessons Learned

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

Startup Lessons Learned

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

Startup Lessons Learned

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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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.

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How to Usability Test your Site for Free

Startup Lessons Learned

At Facebook we never did testing or looked at analytics. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. We did surveys, user testing and psychological profiles.

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Datablindness

Startup Lessons Learned

Of course, I can still get access to the data about who’s signing up and when – and a lot more analytics, to boot – but I have to ask. Each day, the analytics team would share a report with them that had the details of how each test was doing. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.