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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

So if entrepreneurs want to pioneer new ideas with a lean model, my advice is to use low cost alternatives to build differentiality that can be protected from institutions with far more money than ethics, creativity, or innovation-- other than skirting the loopholes in our justice system regarding protection of IP, and honing predatory tactics.

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Lessons Learned: CPI > CPC

Startup Lessons Learned

Other than that, you know their IP address, maybe their browser version or what country they are in. ► 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. In other words, not very much.

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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. ► 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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