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Lessons Learned: Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for.

Startup Lessons Learned

tags: lean startup ) Labels: customer development , events , lean startup , slides 8comments: Nivi said. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Want to learn more about me?

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Lessons Learned: Five Whys

Startup Lessons Learned

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. link] June 20, 2009 2:52 PM Anonymoussaid. We had a comprehensive set of unit, acceptance, functional, and performance tests, and practiced TDD across the whole team.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

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This sounds simple, but in order to use it everyone on your team has to: 1) know where to find the list of mappings and 2) be able to read regular expressions correctly. 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.

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Lessons Learned: The metrics and levers of engagement.

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Id only ever consider going to #2 on the list if #1 failed me completely. the fatigue rate of customers in that notification channel 2. 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). It all depends on: 1.

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Business ecology and the four customer currencies

Startup Lessons Learned

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. This isn’t helpful either, as countless companies have shown. Let’s consider one last example, a sticky-growth company like eBay or World of Warcraft.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

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We change the code to have all of the queries identified in step 3 tagged with the apporpriate entity URL that they affect. To answer your question directly: 1) URL-based sharding never requires you to remap data, ever and 2) URL-based sharding is a lot simpler to use. January 8, 2009 2:43 PM Steve Jenson said.

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Video update on the Startup Visa Act

Startup Lessons Learned

(<30 sec) Write your local newspaper & tell them you support the Startup Visa Act Call your senators & let them know you support Startup Visa legislation Add the Startup Visa Widget to your blog or website Follow the #startupvisa hash tag on Twitter and voice your support Contribute to Startup Visa so we can spread the word!