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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

That institution will touch many people in its life: customers, investors, employees, and everyone they touch as well. Without those open and yet expert-filled channels, it might have taken me many years more to correct my naivety and fill out my understanding of core topics. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

Startup Lessons Learned

We combined three tactics: extensive use of free software, an open platform for user-generated content, and leveraged distribution channels. Its an amazing thing when you can hire an employee who knows more about your code base than you do, and this turned out to be a big source of advantage. Leveraged distribution channels.

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Lo, my 2295 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

Today, Id like to spend some time on two techniques: the problem presentation and learning what channels of information reach customers. In particular, Ive focused on the two channels of communication that were most commonly suggested in the first survey: conferences and books. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers. This is why companies often get out-competed by former employees (Palm vs Handspring to name just one), even though the upstart lacks all of the familiar resources, tools, processes, and support they used to have.

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Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet

Startup Lessons Learned

In fact theyd cause there to be more jobs for Americans, because the companies they started would hire more employees as they grew. In other words, the service transforms tweets into professional reports that are sent by snail mail, fax, and email - the channels that actually have attention paid to them.

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Lessons Learned: The Lean Startup workshop coming soon

Startup Lessons Learned

As you can tell from recent posts, Ive been experimenting with different formats and channels to try and find the best way to help. 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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Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

Again, its critical to focus your marketing launch on those publications, venues, and channels that your potential partners are paying attention to. Dont chicken out and do a closed beta; get real customers in through real renewable channels. I do agree on the point of knowing how to channel that marketing pr into hard cash.