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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process. Since that time we've seen a massive change from product engineering to financial engineering. Otherwise it's a great idea.

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Lessons Learned: CPI > CPC

Startup Lessons Learned

This model has not translated well to the world of social networking, because customers of social networks engage sites in a different way than customers of search engines. Other than that, you know their IP address, maybe their browser version or what country they are in. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

Users also asked that IMVU identify and aggressively act to eliminate the source of such products up to and including IP bans. 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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