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JULY 26, 2016

Selling a product is a tough process, full of “no’s,” whether they come on the phone with a prospect or as a low conversion rate on your landing page. This is what our hiring landscape looked like over the past year: Pre-2015, we hired three founders: 1x hustler in charge of strategic growth hacking. Display ads (cheap).

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Its inspired by the classic OODA Loop and is really just a simplified version of that concept, applied specifically to creating a software product development team. There are three stages: We start with ideas about what our product could be. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Dont worry about selecting particularly good keywords, if youre new to SEM. SEM only gets at one segment of users, and for a brand new product, you presumably need some skill at marketing in general and adsense in particular to get any useful info. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 1, 2008 Test-Driven Development as andon cord You cannot control what you cannot see, and the hardest part of managing software projects is that the final product is so intangible. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

So one of the first things we did was to hire an Oracle expert and get to work. So did I when I finally found myself building an app with real scalability, a few years later, but a combination of our just-in-time scalability technique and great open source scaling tools, made it manageable. Were in a new wave of platform evolution.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

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. In a mature company with a mature product, the goal is to pay for lots of people to come to your website.

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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.). Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? More of the same.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

but its really about how to manage your effort between what he calls the frontlist and backlist. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

This gets me into trouble, because it conjures up for some the idea that product development is simply a rote mechanical exercise of linear optimization. You just constantly test little micro-changes and follow a hill-climbing algorithm to build your product. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2008

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 Thoughts on scientific product development I enjoyed reading a post today from Laserlike (Mike Speiser), on Scientific product development. I agree with the less is more product development approach, but for a different reason. Now that is fun.

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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.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 28, 2009

We picked those numbers by counting up the numbers of friends, family, and relatives we thought we could cajole into buying our early product. Ive told the story of how this desperation turned us on to Google AdWords in SEM on five dollars a day. Labels: product development 4comments: Doug said. Thank you Eric.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

If you sell an online service that solves a defined problem, you can compete in SEO or SEM. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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MARCH 13, 2009

So dont combine your product launch with a marketing launch. Instead, do your product launch first. Start with a five-dollar-a-day SEM campaign. We didnt manage todo that yet. It is wise to make that distinction between a marketing launch and a product launch. I think it comes down to managing risk.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

We built and are refining a communications and productivity Web 2.0 It solves the problem of communicating between a small group of managers, say twenty and a large group of users, say ten thousand. Were looking to metrics to determine how users interact with our product. tool for a large public Utility.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Accurate - if youve ever been managed by task-tracking software, youll relate to the feeling that you either have to spend ludicrous amounts of time posting updates or the information goes stale. While simple, it is easy to manage. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2008

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