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Lessons Learned: Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

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Pick a similar product that they do use, and ask them "who was the first person you know who started using [social networking, mobile phones, plasma TV, instant messaging.]? Lean Start-up SlideShare prez at Web 2.0 The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. can I talk to them?" October 1, 2008 2:53 PM Chris Hopf said.

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Lessons Learned: The App Store after the gold rush

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For example, if any of the mobile ad networks gets major traction, they may become a dominant way that people discover new apps. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Retention competition is how you get people to come back to your app.

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How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone

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So there is an opportunity to build new brands with attributes like "the most amazing mobile apps" but I think building a company around that strategy means really thinking through how to do it. No other mobile platform or carrier deck under the sun can offer the amount of user attention and time that the App Store does. Expo SF (May.

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Three decisions to make on virtual goods

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If you support mobile or prepaid cards for billing, they can even do it on their own, without approval, just using their discretionary income. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? November 5, 2008 8:28 AM Anonymoussaid. Expo SF (May.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

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Today, Syria shut down the Internet nationwide Sand are limiting the functionality of mobile services and land lines in some cities as well. Chinese mobile carrier China Telecom Corp. Blackberry has lost a case involving patents with Nokia, which may result in RIM not being able to produce or sell mobile devices. By Sarah Lacy.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

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And in fact, The Lean Startup is very much that. So I think at that point, in fact I've started looking into this and you actually can see the mobility in different Western countries dramatically go down after March 10th. First, the population was already reducing its mobility before there were official measures.