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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. To acquire new money managers, the company makes traditional sales calls, which means they’ve interviewed many, many professionals and gotten a strong sense of their needs. says Rachleff. says Rachleff.

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Datablindness

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, I quickly learned that when I twittered about the event, more often than not I would make a sale. 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. Asking imposes overhead. They’ve learned to see this waste.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

Most importantly, it’s now possible to have detailed analytics on exactly what’s happening to messages and ideas as they flow through word-of-mouth channels. When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium

Startup Lessons Learned

Rashmi Sinha, co-founder and CEO of SlideShare , describes an early version of the analytics package that’s part of the Pro accounts the company announced today. If your company is using minimum viable product , you’ve probably said the same thing yourself. “It makes the product team uncomfortable.