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

Startup Lessons Learned

For Neopets, its simply a side-effect of their game-like product design. Either way, you can use any marketing channel thats available to bring in new customers, including word of traditional advertising, SEO, SEM - wherever you can find prospects who are going to find your product addicting.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

And if you dont know who your customer is, perhaps some customer development is in order? Labels: customer development , search engine marketing 13comments: Jim Lindstrom said. Seems like a fairly low-cost method of gauging customer interest for a would-be product. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences

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vs. sustainable: Compare this to the renewable strategies, like viral marketing, SEO, widgets, and ads, which can scale into 10s of millions of users but are primarily centered around tough, non-user centric work. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Problem is, you inevitably become yesterday’s old news.

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How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone

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Not many customers ever browse the app directory or search for specific apps - they dont have to, they find out about apps by being invited by a friend. If you sell an online service that solves a defined problem, you can compete in SEO or SEM. And I dont see much searching for apps going on. I havent found any yet.

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Lessons Learned: Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for.

Startup Lessons Learned

It is becoming easier and cheaper for companies to bring products to market, leveraging free and open source software , cloud computing, open social data (Facebook, OpenSocial ), and open distribution (AdWords, SEO). Agile software development. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Learning is better than optimization (the local maximum problem)

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Many optimizers are in favor of split-testing, too: direct marketers, landing page and SEO experts -- heck even the Google Website Optimizer team. In fact, the curse of product development is that sometimes small things make a huge difference and sometimes huge things make no difference. Hell no, “fire that customer!

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Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

March 13, 2009 11:09 PM Steen Seo Öhman said. Anyhow I have used the soft product launch myself, and this is the best thing to do in most cases. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.