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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

You need to make sure you dont get away from trying bold new things, using some combination of your vision and in-depth customer conversations to come up with the next idea to try. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. But where do those ideas come from in the first place?

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Leverage product development with open source and third parties. For example, early on at IMVU, we incorporated in tons of open source projects. Darn good - I have struggled in relevant conversations with our in house move to scrum/agile. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lean Startup at Scale

Startup Lessons Learned

That is, once you’re no longer a small company and you have some success, how do you execute and continue to grow through innovation? At this point, we have our own open-sourced click tracking "lil brother," an internal data visualization tool built on Rickshaw, as well as an A/B testing platform called Absinthe.

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The Lean Startup at SIPA follow-up

Startup Lessons Learned

This is the thinking that allowed us to overcome our fear of continuous deployment at IMVU. Thanks so much to everyone who made the trip to SIPA and participated in the conversation, as well as to SIPA and HP for hosting me. Whats the best open source platform to design 3d avatar environments for a webapp? (

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What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

Beyond just those who will be hearing about the lean startup for the first time, Im expecting to shake a lot of hands and have a lot of interesting side conversations. In Computer Science research, it is often better to open source an innovation than to go through the process of protecting it and then licensing it to a new startup.

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Lessons Learned: SEM on five dollars a day

Startup Lessons Learned

And then we would use that simple analytics system I mentioned to monitor the conversion rates of customers from each campaign. You mention "we had also built a simple cohort-based analytics system" Is tihs a commercial/open source systems. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: Getting started with split-testing

Startup Lessons Learned

Each experiment is like a little mystery, and if you can get into a mindset of open-mindedness about the answer, the answers will continually surprise and amaze you. A few days ago I open-sourced a framework for split-testing, A/B testing or continous optimization. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.