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Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up

Startup Lessons Learned

bigs : @ericries says Stealth dev is a (undesirable, failure-presaging) customer-free zone. LeanStartup Of course, a big enabler of those kinds of mistakes is stealth-mode. Another recent meme that I hope more and more startups will take to heart: "stealth is a customer-free zone." Danger, Will Robinson.

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Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startup Lessons Learned

Now were not exactly in stealth-mode - weve pitched at Techcrunch - but Id rather not go dancing in my competitors faces. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th.

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How to conduct a Five Whys root cause analysis

Startup Lessons Learned

I suppose we could ask "why does our relationship with this vendor allow these problems to continually arise?" I feel like I would have to introduce this by stealth. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you?

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Lessons Learned: Achieving a failure

Startup Lessons Learned

Build the product in stealth mode to build buzz for the eventual launch. Stealth is a customer-free zone. My experience (3 time founder, 6 startups, 1 IPO, 5 colossal failures) is that we spend too much time looking for what we do wrong, when in fact, we may have done nothing wrong. February 5, 2009 5:43 PM Chris Lunt said.