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Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now

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Of the techniques he mentioned, I think four are fundamental and critical for any lean startup: TDD (or the even more politely named TATFT ) Continuous integration Automate your deployments Collect statistics The tools to help you do these things are getting better and better every day, but dont confuse tools with process.

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Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences

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It’s easy to overestimate the impact of this kind of traffic because it just feels good to have your name and company featured. How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim. It strokes your ego. Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

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Names have, of course, been changed to protect the innocent: Hope youre well; I thought Id relay a recent experience and thank you. How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim. How to listen to customers, and not just the loud.

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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

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Check if the currently logged-in user is part of this experiment already. If she is, return the name of the hypothesis she was exposed to before. If the user is not part of this experiment yet, pick a hypothesis using the weightings passed in as parameters. Return the name of the hypothesis chosen or assigned.

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Lessons Learned: SEM on five dollars a day

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 13, 2008 SEM on five dollars a day How do you build a new product with constant customer feedback while simultaneously staying under the radar? SEM is a simple idea. We would pretty much bid on any phrase that was "[name of competitive product] chat" and variations like that.

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How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, September 18, 2008 How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone I have had the opportunity to meet a lot of iPhone-related companies lately. Most of my time in the store is spent scrolling through endless lists. There are other models, in other distribution channels. I cant really tell.

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You don't need as many tools as you think

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Simply put, we upload all the tasks and assign a name to each task. How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim. 1 comments: Josh Moore said. Our business uses a similar system but using excel (about to move to Google Docs).