Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

It is a mystery actually whether the tagging of application as hot/popular has to do with the number of downloads or merely from the usage statistic. If the rating in the App Store is based on usage, I am sure those popular social networking applications are sure to be in the top and the hot seat always. However, this is not the case.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

Companies have an opportunity to influence these decisions, but only if they act well in advance of the result they are trying to achieve. Most people are going to hear about the site for the very first time via an organic notification, when a friend signs up for the site (or tags them in a photo, etc). Impressive. Expo SF (May.

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Metrics San Francisco Lean Viral 88

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In an ecosystem, each participant acts according to its own imperatives, but these selfish actions have an aggregate effect. If you haven’t figured out the ecosystem, growth is useless – whether it is a acquisition-only viral loop, like Tagged, or an advertising blitz like countless dot-bombs. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Our engineers built a series of test tags, so you could quickly run a subset of tests in your sandbox that you thought were relevant to your current project or feature. We had a comprehensive set of unit, acceptance, functional, and performance tests, and practiced TDD across the whole team. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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ConversionXL

MAY 24, 2013

Your goal is to find out why they acting the way they are. Instead of using a noindex meta tag on your variaton page, use rel=canonical. Integrated into the larger Marketing Cloud pakcage. Guess which variation has been more successful and see an archive of A/B tests. Use rel=”canonical”. For large businesses.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

We change the code to have all of the queries identified in step 3 tagged with the apporpriate entity URL that they affect. Cassandra is ultimately designed to act like Googles BigTable which automatically partitions data according to locality. The better your internal APIs and data architecture, the easier this step will be.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

But its exponentially more engaging to have each person tag their friends in each picture, because the notification is so much more interesting: "youve been tagged in a photo, click to find out which one!" Those customers get prompted to tag their friends in their photos. Positioning ( the battle for your mind ).

Viral 140

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Guy Nirpaz

OCTOBER 17, 2010

For this reason, it’s important to make sure customers are acting in their feedback – clicking a link, putting their email, filling a form, using a product etc. link] Tweets that mention Guy Nirpaz Blog » Blog Archive » Minimum Viable Product in practice – Thoughts from my startup journey — Topsy.com [.]

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

If youre emitting HTML, as 99% of all PHP apps are, its just so damn convenient to throw in PHP tags along with your layout tags, all inline on the page. PHP encourages one of the worst programming heresies of all: intermixing code and presentation logic in a giant mish-mash. In most cases, simple changes are simple to make.

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