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Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
For example, one angel investor reportedly invested in several hundred social networking ventures employing this philosophy. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 14, 2008
This was 2004, and we had never even heard of MySpace, let alone had any understanding of social networking. It required hearing customers say it over and over again for us to take a serious look, and eventually to realize that social networking was core to our business. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.
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Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 1, 2009
My guess is they have lots of people constantly working on interesting new tools for their designers to play with. Those new capabilities must translate into a constant stream of prototypes - most of which turn out to be utterly bad ideas. Discover whats in customers heads, and tackle problems where design is a differentiator.
Startup Lessons Learned
JUNE 22, 2009
Ive spoken in some detail about a specific pivot that we went through at IMVU , when we decided to abandon the instant messaging add-on concept, and switch to a standalone instant messaging network. We went through another pivot when we switched again from instant messaging to social networking.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 6, 2008
The site hung on to its design philosophy of being an island cut off from the rest of the Web, and paid the price. The site is now a sad footnote in the history of Social Networking Services. Thats what business is designed to do. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. But none of that happened.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 18, 2008
This can even vary by category, as people apply different criteria to games vs. utilities vs. social networking apps. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 7, 2008
Even if, in a previous life, you were a world expert in some functional specialty, like in-depth market research or scalable systems design, the compressed timeline of a startup makes it irrelevant. These are two other Extreme Programming practices that are explicitly designed to counteract the problems inherent in this situation.
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