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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. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Amazon PostRank

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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. Amazon PostRank

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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. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

If she is, return the name of the hypothesis she was exposed to before. Return the name of the hypothesis chosen or assigned. From the point of view of the caller of the function, they just pass in the name of the experiment and its various hypotheses. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions.

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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. All I see is a name, an icon, a price, the developers name, and a review star-rating. There are other models, in other distribution channels.

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Lessons Learned: The App Store after the gold rush

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, October 7, 2008 The App Store after the gold rush I wrote earlier about the issue of distribution advantage on the iPhone. I think its helpful to think about two kinds of competition for distribution: acquisition competition and retention competition. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.