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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

In this model, you take some fraction of the lifetime value of each customer and plow that back into paid acquisition through SEM, banner ads, PR, affiliates, etc. For eBay, this is caused by the incredible network effects of their business (so-called demand-side increasing returns and supply-side increasing returns).

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

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.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

Customers found it confusing and it turned out to be at odds with our fundamental value proposition (which really requires an independant IM network). Labels: agile , continuous deployment , customer development , events , listening to customers , slides 3comments: Sean Murphy said. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Lessons Learned: Throwing away working code

Startup Lessons Learned

Ive told the story of how this desperation turned us on to Google AdWords in SEM on five dollars a day. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Lessons Learned: Great open source scalability tools from Danga

Startup Lessons Learned

Spray files across cheap disks on your network. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. MogileFS - "Distributed (meta) file system.

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How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people

Startup Lessons Learned

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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How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone

Startup Lessons Learned

If you sell an online service that solves a defined problem, you can compete in SEO or SEM. And in some markets its decisive, because of well-known network effects (as happened with Microsoft, eBay, and many others). This can even vary by category, as people apply different criteria to games vs. utilities vs. social networking apps.