Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

SEM on five dollars a day Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences Marc Prensky's Weblog: Cell Phones in Class A new version of the Joel Test (draft) Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your c. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

Lean 168

Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment 168

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

SEM on five dollars a day Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences Marc Prensky's Weblog: Cell Phones in Class A new version of the Joel Test (draft) Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your c. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

Audience 119

Audience San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean 119

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

SEM on five dollars a day Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences Marc Prensky's Weblog: Cell Phones in Class A new version of the Joel Test (draft) Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your c. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

Customer Development 131

Customer Development Engineer San Francisco Developer 131

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

SEM on five dollars a day Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences Marc Prensky's Weblog: Cell Phones in Class A new version of the Joel Test (draft) Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your c. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

San Francisco 142

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC 142

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

SEM on five dollars a day Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences Marc Prensky's Weblog: Cell Phones in Class A new version of the Joel Test (draft) Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your c. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

Open Source 107

Open Source San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean 107

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? Platform selection and technical design - if your business strategy is to create a low-burn, highly iterative lean startup, youd better be using foundational tools that make that easy rather than hard.

CTO 168

CTO Fractional CTO CTO Hire Technical Review 168

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

The new design improved on the old one in several ways, but these improvements didnt translate all the way through the funnel. Usually, I think that means youve lost some good aspect of the old design. The designers might be telling you that the new design looks much better than the old one, and thats probably true.

San Francisco 166

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Continuous Deployment 166

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

SEM on five dollars a day Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences Marc Prensky's Weblog: Cell Phones in Class A new version of the Joel Test (draft) Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your c. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

San Francisco 60

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC 60

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Heres something I can relate to: We used assembla for subversion, scrums, milestones, wikis, and for general organizational purposes. Most engineers are terrible visual designers, but if the designer on their team is struggling, maybe they can help out with an icon or two. How to listen to customers, and not just the loud.

San Francisco 68

San Francisco SCRUM Lean Continuous Deployment 68

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

SEM on five dollars a day Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences Marc Prensky's Weblog: Cell Phones in Class A new version of the Joel Test (draft) Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your c. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

San Francisco 68

San Francisco Developer Continuous Deployment DC 68

ConversionXL

MARCH 29, 2017

Rob Sobers of Varonis confirms… Rob Sobers , Varonis : “While traditional marketing teams might appear to operate like growth teams in terms of the channels they use (SEM, content marketing, email, etc.), That’s why growth processes are designed to make both ideation and execution smarter and more efficient.

Marketing 48

Marketing Distribution Retention eCommerce 48

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 28, 2009

Ive told the story of how this desperation turned us on to Google AdWords in SEM on five dollars a day. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. We picked those numbers by counting up the numbers of friends, family, and relatives we thought we could cajole into buying our early product.

San Francisco 98

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC 98

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

SEM on five dollars a day Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences Marc Prensky's Weblog: Cell Phones in Class A new version of the Joel Test (draft) Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your c. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

San Francisco 131

San Francisco Customer Lean Continuous Deployment 131

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

If you sell an online service that solves a defined problem, you can compete in SEO or SEM. SEM on five dollars a day Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences Marc Prensky's Weblog: Cell Phones in Class A new version of the Joel Test (draft) Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your c. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

Distribution 74

Distribution San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 74

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

SEM on five dollars a day Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences Marc Prensky's Weblog: Cell Phones in Class A new version of the Joel Test (draft) Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your c. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

San Francisco 60

San Francisco Continuous Deployment DC Lean 60

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I love Joels approach to usability, and I still recommend his free online book on UI design. Usability design is a highly iterative process, and the more customers who are involved (via in-person interview, split-test experiment, etc) the better. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers.

Software Review 144

Software Review Technical Review San Francisco Continuous Deployment 144

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

SEM on five dollars a day Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences Marc Prensky's Weblog: Cell Phones in Class A new version of the Joel Test (draft) Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your c. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

San Francisco 60

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC 60

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 6, 2008

SEM on five dollars a day Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences Marc Prensky's Weblog: Cell Phones in Class A new version of the Joel Test (draft) Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your c. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

San Francisco 60

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC 60

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

I originally thought I might get some development process tips (I manage developers), but I find that Im really enjoying your business tips (SEM, listening to customers, etc.). Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Like gmlk, I usually subscribe the first time I find something useful.

San Francisco 133

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 133

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

SEM on five dollars a day Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences Marc Prensky's Weblog: Cell Phones in Class A new version of the Joel Test (draft) Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your c. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

San Francisco 76

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC 76

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

SEM on five dollars a day Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences Marc Prensky's Weblog: Cell Phones in Class A new version of the Joel Test (draft) Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your c. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

San Francisco 60

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC 60

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

SEM on five dollars a day Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences Marc Prensky's Weblog: Cell Phones in Class A new version of the Joel Test (draft) Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your c. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

San Francisco 68

San Francisco Technology Continuous Deployment Lean 68

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Start with a five-dollar-a-day SEM campaign. I have wrestled with the way that companies use the "beta" designation to create an ostensible reason for a particular date being their "launch", even though the product has been publicly available for months. So dont combine your product launch with a marketing launch. Dont scale.

San Francisco 168

San Francisco PR Lean Early Stage 168

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 28, 2008

SEM on five dollars a day Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences Marc Prensky's Weblog: Cell Phones in Class A new version of the Joel Test (draft) Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your c. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. How did we combat this tendency?

Lean 68

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Startup 68

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

A second idea is that less is more in product design: A key tenet of the philosophy is that uncluttered products with fewer, better features are preferred to similar products with more features. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. How to listen to customers, and not just the loud.

Product Development 68

Product Development Developer San Francisco Product 68

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

SEM on five dollars a day Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences Marc Prensky's Weblog: Cell Phones in Class A new version of the Joel Test (draft) Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your c. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

San Francisco 68

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 68

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

On the web, we have many of these channels: SEM, SEO, world of mouth, PR and viral. If and when a good SEM solution shows up for iPhone, you may be able to use it to artificially drive your app into the Top 25, as a one-time event. Or if your lifetime value is high enough, you can just keep spending on SEM. Bring your questions.

San Francisco 68

San Francisco Lean Retention SEM 68