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On deployment

Startup Lessons Learned

And the same is true in reverse - a lone brilliant coder can build a great widget, but it takes a system of people working well together to produce consistently great results. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Mechanical mistakes are the result of human mistakes. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Lessons Learned: The App Store after the gold rush

Startup Lessons Learned

On the web, we have many of these channels: SEM, SEO, world of mouth, PR and viral. If and when a good SEM solution shows up for iPhone, you may be able to use it to artificially drive your app into the Top 25, as a one-time event. Or if your lifetime value is high enough, you can just keep spending on SEM. Bring your questions.

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Lessons Learned: Throwing away working code

Startup Lessons Learned

Ive told the story of how this desperation turned us on to Google AdWords in SEM on five dollars a day. Luckily for me, my co-founders eventually prevailed and we went on to build a product that customers actually wanted. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Pretty soon we ran out of friends. Thanks for sharing.