Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Is that a lot? Is that good?

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

His descriptions of lean startup techniques and philosophies have had a big influence on the way I design and build software. Because it has an RSS feed, one could also use "Unresolved Hoptoad Errors" as a metric influencing the continuous deployment system. It would definitely be built using Rake like Vlad does.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Consider the method used by TPGTEX Label Solutions, a Houston -based software company that specializes in bar codes and labels for manufacturers and chemical companies. Then, the company spends no more than a few hundred dollars marketing the product through search engines and to the contacts in its sales database and LinkedIn.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 28, 2009

This builds on a lot of great thinking that has come before, like the agile movements insistence that only the creation of working code counts as progress for a software development team. We set sales targets from day one, $300 the first month. As the experiments progressed, day-in-day-out we werent making sales.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2010

(I am often asked to explain how to apply Lean Startup approaches to domains beyond software. On the extreme opposite end are rapid iteration businesses like software or fashion. Thus, more and more industries are starting to look like the software business. In order to answer, I have taken to drawing a two-axis diagram.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 9, 2009

So instead of having sales, marketing, and business development, we have a problem team implementing customer development. This is true whether youre selling million-dollar software to huge enterprises or selling fifty-cent virtual clothes to teenagers. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

In particular, a marketing launch can help you do three things (courtesy, as is most of my marketing advice, of The Four Steps to the Epiphany ): Drive customers into your sales pipeline. In some businesses, especially in certain industries like traditional enterprise software, you simply cannot bring a new product to market on your own.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Our CTO is the CEO himself, but he lacks the understanding of the new software development processes and the new technologies. In school I was being pounded day and night with anything that has to do with agile software development. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. I am basically a one-man shop.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Similarly, government purchasing is a frustrating series of hoops, even compared to enterprise sales. Thirdly, revamp how intellectual property rights are applied to software and code. So should copyrights and patents on software code. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2009

In the process, they learned a lot by asking initial prospects to sign a non-binding letter of intent to buy the software. – Eric Ries In April of 2009 my partner and I had an idea for a web app, a B2C platform that we are selling as SaaS [software-as-a-service].

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 28, 2009

Its an essential discipline of good software development, especially in startups. This is usually exacerbated by zealous sales persons who oversell the features, or even more typical, promise completely new features. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Heres a company I met with recently.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Without a basis for comparison, you first have to drive home the need, then you will have an easy time making the sale (after all, youre the person who they trust to bring it to their attention). For example, "If you hire me you can free up 10 of your staff in department X, because I will write software that." Expo (and a call for he.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

It took hundreds of years for newspapers to learn to behave as worthy holders of this public trust and cover the news without fear or favour, and create a firewall between news and views and the ad-sales side of the operation. Since LL took over xstreet, they have seen a 34% DROP in users and sales, why? YOU and ONLY YOU.

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