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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

Names have, of course, been changed to protect the innocent: Hope youre well; I thought Id relay a recent experience and thank you. Labels: agile , continuous deployment , customer development , events , listening to customers , slides 3comments: Sean Murphy said. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. Would love to get in touch.

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Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now

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Of the techniques he mentioned, I think four are fundamental and critical for any lean startup: TDD (or the even more politely named TATFT ) Continuous integration Automate your deployments Collect statistics The tools to help you do these things are getting better and better every day, but dont confuse tools with process.

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Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences

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It’s easy to overestimate the impact of this kind of traffic because it just feels good to have your name and company featured. 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: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

Check if the currently logged-in user is part of this experiment already. If she is, return the name of the hypothesis she was exposed to before. If the user is not part of this experiment yet, pick a hypothesis using the weightings passed in as parameters. Return the name of the hypothesis chosen or assigned.

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Pivot, don't jump to a new vision

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As the CTO/VP Engineering, I was the worst offender. Pivotal Labs doesn't carry "Pivot" in its name by accident. I'm glad there's a 'name' for this part of the process Eric. I think i must have read this article a few times since you first posted it - mainly as a theoretical excercise.

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How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone

Startup Lessons Learned

Most of my time in the store is spent scrolling through endless lists. All I see is a name, an icon, a price, the developers name, and a review star-rating. But even clicking through to see a screenshot and some reviews is incredibly time consuming, given the hundreds of apps in most categories. I cant really tell.