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Speed up or slow down? (for Harvard Business Review)

Startup Lessons Learned

for Harvard Business Review) Over at Harvard Business Review, Ive been building up a series designed to introduce the Lean Startup methodology to a business-focused audience. This is the first post that moves into making specific process recommendations for product development.

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30 Entrepreneurs Share Their One Prediction for Business in 2022

Hearpreneur

To prevent hackers from gaining access to your business's checking account, use low-cost software and dual controls to strengthen your payment processes. Press releases are becoming less successful, partly due to the difficulty of obtaining earned media. Photo Credit: Ernests Embutniek. Thanks to Michael Ziarko, No More Chores ! #3-

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Pros and Cons of Being Your Own Boss

Up and Running

And I built a software company because I believed the product was needed. Over and over, during the decade and a half that I was a sole proprietor consulting on business planning with clients, I ended up late at night, tired, stuck with finishing up a presentation due the next day. We needed to keep our website up to date.

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Twitter Link Roundup #130 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Six Myths of Product Development – [link]. Unlimited Vacation Doesn’t Create Slackers–It Ensures Productivity – [link]. The Scarcest Resource at Startups is Management Bandwidth – [link]. Unlimited Vacation Doesn’t Create Slackers–It Ensures Productivity – [link].

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Continuous deployment with downloads

Startup Lessons Learned

Lets start with a distinction between shipping new software to the customer, and changing the customers experience. The idea is that often you can change the customers experience without shipping them new software at all. Then we could render the whole site with much less latency, bandwidth usage, and server cost.

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CXL Live 2018 Recap: Top 5 Lessons from Each Speaker

ConversionXL

Hear hear, @matseinarsen explaining at #cxllive that every company has a specific experimentation bandwidth and that you can calculate this! Be agile, move at the speed of business, don’t hold up product development. Small snippet of code. power pic.twitter.com/KpApNa8z6C. — Ton Wesseling (@tonw) March 29, 2018.

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Why Free Plans Don't Work

Software By Rob

About the Author Ruben Gamez is the founder of Bidsketch , web based proposal software for designers. When he’s not developing software, he’s furiously working towards becoming a better Micropreneur. If you offer a product for free you get more users and more feedback on your product. at 10:31 am [.]