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Startup Lessons Learned
JUNE 8, 2009
You constantly assess the situation, looking for hazards and timing your movements carefully to get across safely. For example, I quickly learned that when I twittered about the event, more often than not I would make a sale. So the product development team was busy creating lots of split-tests for lots of hypotheses.
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 17, 2008
Now its time to start to think seriously about how to find a repeatable and scalable sales process, how to position and market the product, and how to build a product development team that can turn an early product into a Whole Product. What is customer development? Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online.
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Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 8, 2008
Our goal in product development is to find the minimum feature set required to get early customers. In order to do this, we have our customer development team work hard to find a market, any market, for the product as currently specified. If I get sales I will expand on the site. What is customer development?
Duct Tape Marketing
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
So I helped, I was one of his first employees and wound up becoming the chief operating officer and running part of the firm and we grew at our peak to around 50 people or so. And what really it is, an accountability model of leadership team coaching. ” We’re looking at each other trying to get the next sale.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 20, 2008
The team cant get permission from the business leaders to get "extra time" for fixing. Because there are no tests for new features (or operational alerts for the production code), the code that supports those new features could go bad at any moment. Of course, the sales folks had new features as their #1 priority.
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