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

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, by making this button green, did more people click on it? That green button was part of a customer flow, a series of actions you want customers to complete for some business reason. Focus on the output metrics of that part of the product, and you make the problem a lot more clear.

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Lessons Learned: Achieving a failure

Startup Lessons Learned

Departments were built and were even metrics-driven. But there was no feedback loop to help the company find the right metrics to focus on. I myself didnt understand it until I had the opportunity to view that failure through the lens of the customer development theory. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23.

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The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post)

Startup Lessons Learned

Luckily for the rest of us, he was able to find his path to a green card, and now employs 24 Americans in West Lafayette, Indiana. Luckily for the rest of us, he was able to find his path to a green card, and now employs 24 Americans in West Lafayette, Indiana. He started Passageways Inc. He started Passageways Inc.

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How We Fight – Cofounders in Love and War

Steve Blank

She suggested that how cofounders fight was a key metric in predicting the success of a founding team. Are you fighting about whether a button should be green or blue or are you fighting about whether or not you want to raise money? Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career/Culture. What Are You Fighting About?

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

The green arm is the best. ;) October 2, 2008 10:27 PM Andrew Badera said. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

Unfortunately, this content-less decision-making process is inhibiting the ability of media companies to develop interesting new content at the very time when this supposed expertise should serve as their one true competitive advantage. When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300.

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Lessons Learned: Continuous integration step-by-step

Startup Lessons Learned

Generally, if all tests pass, its happy (a green build) and if any tests fail, it will notify you by email. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? It runs all the automated tests youve written, and keeps track of the results. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23.